文华图书科首班“流失”学生考

Study on the Two“Missing”Students in the First Class of the Boone Library School

图书馆学界长期普遍认为文华图书科首班学生仅有裘开明、黄伟楞、陈宗登、桂质柏、许达聪、查修6名。2013年后开始出现文华图书科首班招收8名学生的说法。由于缺乏充分证据,这一说法尚不能得到公认。文章通过对"六人说""八人说"的分别考察,认为文华图书科"首届六人说"是可靠的,而"首班六人说"虽在某种程度上并不为过,却因容易引发文华图书科始终是6名学生的误解,而使得文华图书科首班招收8名学生的事实被隐藏。文章通过对文华大学校刊《文华温故集》中多篇文献分析,结合相关史料,论证了"八人说"的可靠性,查证出"流失"的2名学生分别为田洪都和胡正支。文章对这2名学生未能如期毕业的原因进行探究,发现是文华图书科为满足当时中国图书馆界对专业人才的迫切需求而作的特殊安排,这也是文华图书科比原计划提前开办的重要原因。由于学界对田洪都已有一定认识,文章最后仅在附录部分对胡正支的图书馆生涯和著作予以简单介绍。

For a long time,it has been generally believed that the first class of the Boone Library School has 6 students,i.e.,Alfred K’aiming Ch’iu,William Hwang,Henry Tsong-Dun Chen,John Chih-Ber Kwei,Coleman Ta-Tsung Hsu and Lincoln Hsiu Tsa.A different saying that the first class of the Boone Library School consisted of eight students appeared in 2013,and it has been noticed by several library scholars since then.However,this finding has not been widely accepted due to a lack of sufficient evidences.Based on a thorough investigation into the above two different opinions,this article draws a conclusion that it is indubitable to say that there were six students graduating from the first class of the Boone Library School,while it is wrong to say that there were only six students enrolled in the first class of the Boone Library School.The latter saying could easily cause a misunderstanding that the first class of the Boone Library School had only six students from beginning to end,and it might veil the truth that eight students in total were enrolled in the first class of the Boone Library School.Based on the Boone Review,a journal edited by Boone University students,together with other historical materials,this article justifies the reliability of the"eight students"opinion and proves that the two missing students were HungTu Tien and Francis Hu.It also shows that due to the urgent need of trained librarians in China at that time,the Boone Library School opened in the spring of 1920 in advance,and later both Tien and Hu were assigned by the Boone Library School to be a librarian respectively in Peiping and Shanghai,so that they didn’t graduate as scheduled.Since Tien has been somewhat well known by most scholars,a brief introduction to Hu’s library career and academic works is given in the end.