"Spring is like the sea" and "Prosperity is like a flower" 1962. In March, in Tong Yuan, the spring city of Kunming, begonia flowers and cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Flowers in spring are romantic, and spring is everywhere. Li Guangtian, a famous poet, writer and former president of Yunnan University, used the rhyme "Flower Tide" to praise the peaceful and prosperous times and express his joy. Li Guangtian was transferred from Tsinghua University to the vice president of Yunnan University to take charge of the daily work of the school in the early stage of the adjustment of colleges and departments in China from 65438 to 0952. Zhou Baozhong, then vice chairman of Yunnan Provincial Ethnic Affairs Commission, served as the principal. Although complicated administrative affairs occupy most of Li Guangtian's time and energy, he still pays close attention to teaching and scientific research and strives to improve the quality of teaching. He conscientiously implemented the party's principles and policies, United the broad masses of intellectuals and colleagues in the school, led the ideological reform movement and teaching reform in the school with pure heart and enthusiasm, and successfully completed the adjustment of departments and colleges in the later stage of ideological reform. Li Guangtian once said: "I am not tired of education and literature, and I am willing to devote my life to it."
(1) Is it possible to "live in the valley under the tree"?
From 1952 to 1968, Li Guangtian never left Yunnan University. In the 1940s, someone said, "Dayun is a place where you can live". Li Guangtian came to Dayun not for settlement, but for academic progress and development, for civilization, for the accumulation of cultural spirit and the exploration of human mind. In order to improve the quality of teaching, he first paid attention to the construction of teaching staff, appointed old teachers with knowledge and rich teaching experience to "take apprentices" personally, supplemented young teachers with basic professional knowledge, foreign languages and ancient Chinese, sent young teachers to study outside the school, and personally presided over the "palace examination" of their training effect. Although he was wrongly labeled as a "right opportunist", he was willing to take the risk of "upgrading" his hat and help the students who failed to learn to use their counterparts for a long time after graduation, and resolutely wrote to the secretary of the provincial party Committee. At the same time, he transferred several students to write back to school to talk about their grievances and suggested that the provincial party Committee transfer them back for redistribution. He personally checked the strict admission standards for students, praised the virtue of respecting teachers and attaching importance to morality, cultivated a good style of study, held his head high for people with mediocre lives, and praised students who created their studies. ..... In order to resist the improper activities such as criticizing "white experts", wrongly opposing "legal rights", wrongly singing "anti-Taiwan" and broadcasting "burning the middle reaches", Li Guangtian did not avoid risks, so he was wrongly dismissed from the post of principal, decentralized to the canteen, and even patrolled the campus with a black card. He selected cadres to improve work efficiency, and selected talents to improve teachers' quality and academic level, even outstanding or eclectic. He carefully filtered and did everything himself. There are also fresh examples of teaching in physical education class. He will personally go deep into the stadium. First of all, he will check the written materials such as teaching syllabus and teaching plan, ask the teacher to demonstrate the movements in public, explain the essentials, and even ask the teacher to interpret them to complete the whole practice process. After 10 years of hard work and pragmatism, Li Guangtian's actions deeply aroused a generation of literati's conscience, courage and courage to persist in pursuing progress and stay away from blind obedience and ignorance. Master Yun has the motto of "Self-esteem, Knowledge, Righteousness and Action" of Donglu University, and inherits the school-running idea of Xiong Qing's coming to Yunnan University (his song says: "Taihua majestic, pulling thousands of miles out of the sea; Dianchi Lake is Vivi and Wanshan Mountain is the front. It is outstanding in our school, as profound as it is. The Arctic is low-lying, close to the equator, and the season and climate are suitable for things and pleasant. Study hard at four o'clock, explore the boundless realm, and strive to innovate and be my person; Struggle for truth and civilization; Being our people, civilization is allowed. " ), in teaching and scientific research, knowledge and practice are integrated and continuous progress is made.
(2) Diligent and pragmatic, and create a famous garden.
Li Guangtian is a famous writer and poet in New China with profound literary talent, but he also knows the importance of researching and developing natural science for enriching the people and strengthening the country. He attached great importance to the construction and development of science, engineering, medicine and agriculture. He firmly believes that mathematics and physics are the cornerstones and pillars of natural science. If the cornerstone is not firm, how can high-rise buildings rise from the ground? He is determined to train talents in mathematics and science. In 1950s, he founded Yunnan University, and six young teachers, including Yuan Jifu, Wang, Li and so on, were successively promoted to lecturers. They originally came from the departments of science, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Li Guangtian actively supports the Department of Physics to research and manufacture physical testing instruments by itself, and funds the establishment of metalworking workshops with technicians. The success of Dayun's self-made high-precision instruments has aroused great repercussions in universities across the country. 1953 During the summer vacation, Yang Xiufeng, Minister of Higher Education, and Huang Songling, Vice Minister, personally led the principals and secretaries of 10 famous schools (including Peking University, Tsinghua, Nankai University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, etc.) to hold an on-site study and observation meeting at Huize Hospital of Dayun University. In the two laboratories of physics department at the west end of the first floor of Huize Hospital (that is, the first and second conference rooms at the west end of the first floor of Huize Hospital today), hundreds of new instruments covering force, heat, sound, light, electricity, electronics, radio and nuclear physics are displayed for all the guests to enjoy. The distinguished guests from major brother colleges and universities have sent thousands of praises and encouragements from afar, inspiring our teachers and students to guard against arrogance and rashness, make unremitting efforts and create new achievements. Minister Yang Xiufeng announced in his speech: "The Ministry of Higher Education has decided that the Southwest Higher Education Bureau will immediately allocate funds to build a comprehensive teaching and experimental building for Yunnan University in recognition." (The comprehensive building is now the Mathematical Science Museum, which started construction and was completed on 1954. )
In 1960s, an expert investigation team from the former Soviet Union visited Kunming, and they especially praised Dayun Museum of Mathematics and Physics, saying, "We didn't expect to see such beautiful and novel buildings in Yunnan, a remote place in China. You can imagine the level of designers from this building. Such a building is not outdated in the present Soviet Union, and it will not be outdated even after thirty or forty years. "
1953, the Ministry of Higher Education directly organized the unified final examination of four basic theoretical courses (theoretical mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics and statistical physics) in advance. When the results of the unified examination are known, the physics department of Yunnan University has excellent results, ranking in the top three (that is, two courses first, one course second and one course third). The result is a double happiness: the first research and development of manufacturing instruments, Jintian unified examination results outstanding. The Department of Dayun Physics suddenly became "well-known" and became famous all over the country. After decades, elites continued to emerge.
Li Guangtian lives in Dayun and is more familiar with Yunnan's natural environment and resources. Yunnan, known as the "plant kingdom" and "animal kingdom", has a unique climate and geographical location, forming a unique favorable condition for setting up corresponding disciplines and majors. He actively helped the biology department to summarize, improve, expand and refine the profound connotation of the original school-running and scientific research; Under the continuous "follow-up" attention of Li Guangtian, after the unremitting efforts of the teachers and students of the Department of Biology, another science department of the Museum of Mathematics and Science, Biology Department, ranked second in Yunnan University. To be exact; Precisely
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(3) the characteristics of the times that guide the construction of a harmonious natural treasure house
During the period of 1956, learning from the former Soviet Union became more and more popular throughout the country. After Li Guangtian took over as the president of Yunnan University, he continued to choose the Department of Physics to build the first discipline major of Yunnan University, namely the major of metal physics. Mr. Yang Guigong (Shi Yang is the head of the Department of Physics of Dayun University, then vice president), Mr. Gu Jianzhong and Mr. Hu Weijing, the older generation of scholars and the "pillars" of teaching with profound attainments, naturally become the backbone of the teaching and scientific research field of this first major.
Li Guangtian is far-sighted, and the setting of "Metal Physics" in Yunnan University takes the lead in enjoying the mineral resources conditions in Yunnan, which really reconciles the development aspirations of Sancha people and the people of the whole country for the reputation of "Metal Kingdom" in Yunnan. During the 16 years in Li Guangtian, Dayun's major in metal physics delivered a large number of metal metallurgy, design, quality inspection and application of metal materials, purification, synthesis (alloying) of precious metals and their alloys, preparation of single crystals, crystal defects and even ultra-microstructure materials to the whole province and the whole country. Comprehensive talents in vacuum metallurgy, purification, sputtering, low-temperature superconductivity, high-temperature metallography, nanotechnology, laser holography, shock wave, heat treatment, nuclear radiation, ultrasound, electromagnetic radiation, microwave and ray nondestructive testing (including CT, PET and neutron rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, etc.). ) and their comprehensive applications.
As the principal of a school, Li Guangtian is an excellent "housekeeper". Under his strict requirements, the science students of Yunnan University have learned professional knowledge, laid a solid foundation in mathematics and physics, and developed excellent skills. After graduation, it is distributed all over the country and is well received by employers. Mr. Guo Peishan, Party Secretary and Executive Director of Beijing Institute of Physics, China Academy of Sciences, Professor of Aviation Department of former National Yunnan University, and Chairman of the Fifth Student Union of the University, said: "The Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences requires Yunnan University to allocate a group of science graduates every year, whether they are graduates from physics department, mathematics department or chemistry department. Their common characteristics are: solid foundation, hard work, decent style and enterprising spirit." Therefore, in a few years, their business will go up and become the business backbone of each research room of the institute.
(4) Make good use of books to inherit the university spirit.
Yunnan university library is one of the libraries with more books in domestic universities. All along, there are many kinds of books, periodicals and magazines inside and outside the library, such as English, Russian, German, Japanese, French, Arabic and Latin, and Thai, Korean and Vietnamese are not uncommon. Li Guangtian encourages libraries to make full use of foreign periodicals. He stressed: "Universities must make great efforts in scientific research. The research results and information of foreigners can inspire us in scientific research, so we must read them. A foreign language is a tool for reading and must be fully mastered. " From the 1940s to 1950s, most science teachers taught in English, basically did their homework in English, and sometimes used a second foreign language, such as French or German. In the late 1950s, when studying in the former Soviet Union, Li Guangtian actively mobilized teachers to master Russian in the shortest time, and personally organized a crash course in Russian. Some teachers (especially young teachers) were transferred to participate in surprise Russian training, which was stipulated to be completed within four weeks, and then passed the examination (translating several pages of Russian series popular science in class, totaling thousands of words) and was awarded a certificate (the author later did scientific research, read Russian periodicals and translated and published Russian versions, thanks to Guangguang).
1955, Yunnan university natural science magazine "Dayun scientific research newsletter" was published, which should be regarded as the predecessor of Yunnan university natural science journal after the founding of the people's Republic of China. Li Guangtian hired Professor Zhang Qizhuo, then dean of the Faculty of Science and vice provost in charge of scientific research, as the editor-in-chief of the magazine, and made it a bimonthly magazine, mainly publishing scientific research achievements of natural sciences. Once the paper is published, the remuneration is relatively high; According to Li Guangtian's explanation, Zhang Qizhuo said: "This not only encourages everyone to engage in scientific research, but also has the nature of reward."
When Mr. Yun walks in front of the Museum of Mathematics and Physics of Yunnan University, he will surely see what Einstein said: "Pursuing truth and knowledge and striving for it is one of the highest qualities of human beings." Li Guangtian is such a person of the highest quality.