He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage (救援) workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave (墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.

    But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula,42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.

    Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer, "They've taken care of him for 90 years."

    Adapted from People, November 25, 2002

对健康人来说，原尿流经肾小管时，被全部吸收的物质是（　　）

儒者之豪迈

徐百柯

    蒙文通一生治经史之学，著作颇丰，但他曾说自己学问最深处，恰恰是不著一字的宋明理学。蒙先生指导研究生，上来先是两句话。第一句引陆象山言：“我这里纵不识一个字，亦须还我堂堂地做个人。”第二句是他自己的信条：“ 一个心术不正的人，做学问不可能有什么大成就。”

    蒙文通以教书为业，却曾两次遭遇未被大学续聘的尴尬。一次是上世纪30年代在北京大学。他在历史系任教年余，却始终未去院长家拜访过一次，因而被同事称为“此亦稀有之事也”。据说此事弄得院长非常难堪，以致置北大隋唐史无人授课一事于不顾，也不再续聘蒙文通，而蒙文通也处之泰然，仍我行我素。后转至天津一女师任教，与“领导”交往依然如故。

    另一次是上世纪40年代在四川大学，由于学阀玩弄手腕，蒙文通未被文学院续聘。但一干学生倾倒于他的学识，请求他继续授课。他说：“我可以不拿钱，但我是四川人，不能不教四川子弟。”于是让愿意上课的学生到自己家里，继续传授。

    曾经有川大学生回忆蒙先生：“先生身材不高，体态丰益，美髯垂胸，两眼炯炯有神，持一根二尺来长的叶子烟杆，满面笑容，从容潇洒地走上讲台，大有学者、长者、尊者之风。”

    他讲课有两个特点，第一是不带讲稿，有时仅携一纸数十字的提要放在讲台上，但从来不看，遇风吹走了也不管；第二是不理会下课钟，听而不闻，照讲不误，每每等到下堂课的教师到了教室门口，才哈哈大笑而去。

    他的考试也颇有趣味，不是先生出题考学生，而是由学生出题问先生，往往考生的题目一出口，先生就能知道学生的学识程度。如学生的题目出得好，蒙先生总是大笑不已，然后点燃叶子烟猛吸一口，才开始详加评论。考场不在教室，而在川大旁边望江楼公园竹丛中的茶铺里，学生按指定分组去品茗应试，由蒙先生掏钱招待吃茶。

    蒙文通曾对儿子蒙默讲，自己对问学者一向是知无不言，就像钟，“大叩之则大鸣，小叩之则小鸣”。他的学生常晚上登门问学，他总是热情接待，有问必答，侃侃而谈。夜深，学生告辞，他常不准走，非等他燃过两根抽水烟的纸捻后才放行。

    他的学生吴天墀说：“先生豁达大度，不拘小节，行乎自然，喜交朋友，社会上三教九流，一视同仁，所以有不少和尚、道士跟他有交情。喜欢上街坐茶馆，和人作海阔天空的闲谈，也爱邀熟人上餐馆小吃一顿。”

    另一位学生隗瀛涛回忆说，一次，遇见蒙先生坐三轮车去学校。蒙先生一眼看见他后高声喊道：“隗先生（对他的戏称），我家有四川近代史资料，你快来看了写文章。我的文章发表了可以上耀华餐厅（成都著名的西餐厅），你的发表了也可以吃一顿回锅肉嘛！”

    许多学者都曾慕名到成都拜访蒙文通，交往过后，他们往往发出这样的感叹：“读先生的书，以为只是一个恂恂^注儒者，没想到先生还这么豪迈。”

【注】恂恂：恭谨温顺的样子。