北大成立后,百余年间的往事不可胜数。于此从教、读书的人写下的回忆文章,常有可驻足久观者。像知堂、胡适、张中行等人的著作,已成了研究现代文化史难得的资料。老北大人有一点个性的东西,那是后来的人往往不及的。仅学识的丰厚至今仍让人神往。新北大与前辈比,好像总缺少了些什么,虽然也自称是红楼的后代,但状态终有了一些区别。这一新一旧,并非辈分上的事,而是社会结构发生了变化,文化心态也有了差异。就人文学科而言,鲁迅、陈独秀那样的人,如今可有么?但新北大人有许多是保持了五四那么一点遗风的。我想这与有季羡林、王瑶等老一代学者的影响有关。季先生那本《牛棚杂忆》,王瑶的《中古文人史论》就有独立的精神在,所谓颇 Peking University was founded, more than a hundred years of past incalculable. Here from teaching, reading people who write down the memory article, often have to stop long-term viewers. Books like Zhitang, Hu Shih, Zhang Zhonghang and others have become rare materials for studying the history of modern culture. Old North adults have a little personality, it is often later than the people. Only rich in knowledge is still fascinating. New Peking University compared with predecessors, it seems that the total lack of what, although claiming to be the descendants of the Red House, but the status there are some differences. This new and old is not a matter of seniority, but a change of social structure and a difference of cultural mentality. As far as the humanities are concerned, how can people such as Lu Xun and Chen Duxiu now have it? However, many of New Taipei’s adults retained the legacy of the May Fourth Movement. I think this is related to the influence of older scholars such as Ji Xianlin and Wang Yao. Mr. Quarter that “bullpen miscellaneous memory”, Wang Yao’s “History of the Middle Ancestors” has an independent spirit in the so-called quite