Athletes can be said to be the highest-status group among the students at Cambridge University.
The University of Cambridge, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, has a set of complicated and complicated school rules, which involve all aspects of a student's daily study and life.
A student's first priority is naturally to study, and being late to class is a serious crime, except for athletes.
Every day, these athletes in rowing, rugby and track and field always rush to the classroom just before classes are about to start. Their faces are red and their clothes are soaked with sweat.
But the teachers and professors on the podium had no complaints about this. After all, being able to suppress Oxford University in various projects was one of the most important goals of the entire Cambridge University.
Among these athletes, the rowers are undoubtedly the ones with the highest status. The rowing battle between the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge started in 1829 and has been nearly a hundred years today.
Every year on race day, a large number of tourists come to watch the race on both sides of the nearly seven-mile race section of the Thames River in London. The crowds of people and thunderous cheers have made it one of the biggest festivals in London every summer.
Walking along the Cam River, Chen Muwu not only saw these impressive rowers, but also saw several swimming enthusiasts approaching.
Regardless of men and women in this era, their swimsuit styles adhered to the ethics of men and women. Even the part above the navel cannot be exposed to the air.
So when Chen Muwu saw the one-piece men's swimsuits worn by several male students, he couldn't help but be surprised.
His first reaction was that he had met a group of transvestites, and he thought, how come the British guys in the 1920s were so open-minded?
It wasn't until he saw their damp clothes and the water droplets sliding down their hair and skin that Chen Muwu realized that he was overthinking it at first.
Chen Muwu himself was a swimming enthusiast, so he stepped forward and asked: "Gentlemen, have you just finished swimming?"
When several students saw that the person blocking the road was an East Asian, they couldn't help but feel a little unhappy.
Because the Lincheng robbery on the Jinpu Railway half a month ago not only caused an uproar in China, but also appeared in newspapers in Europe and the United States.
It was just because the robbers accidentally kidnapped a few foreigners and released the old, weak, sick, disabled and women among them, but the Chinese fear in the hearts of white people has recurred again, and some newspapers even wrote This train robbery was exaggeratedly called the second "Boxer Rebellion".
In addition, a silent film was released in the UK this year, which is also the first film adapted from the Fu Manchu series of novels, "The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu".
College students, who are easily receptive to new things, are now the main audience for movies.
Whenever a new movie is released, they will rush to the cinema as soon as possible. After watching it, they will also comment on the plot and chat with their friends and classmates at tea parties and bars.
Therefore, these students were very discriminatory towards the East Asian in front of them, and it even showed in their eyes and facial expressions.
No one was willing to answer his question. Only one of them, who felt somewhat sympathetic, told him with compassion: "Yes, we just finished swimming."
Of course, Chen Muwu could also see the disgusted expressions on their faces.
He was not wearing the college robe today, and the suit he was wearing was wrinkled from doing experiments in the laboratory all day.
In the eyes of the other party, he most likely regards himself as a tourist from other places, and he is also a sloppy Chinese, right?
It has been half a year since he traveled back in time, but he has never been in the water. Seeing the swimsuit and water drops on the other person's body made Chen Muwu, a duck, feel very itchy.
He originally wanted to ask further where they swam, but it seemed that the student opposite him had no intention of answering him properly, so why bother humiliating himself?
It would be better to ask Blackett later. After all, he had come to Cambridge a few years before me and should be much more familiar with the environment around the school than he was.
A group of people passed by one person, and before they walked out a few steps, Chen Muwu heard laughter coming from behind.
Needless to say, the target of this ridicule, if nothing else, should be himself.
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Friday afternoon, June 1, 1923.
On the train from Cambridgeshire to London, Chen Muwu mentioned to Blackett what happened by the River Cam a few days ago.
Blackett finally invited two partners from foreign countries, Chen Muwu and Kapitsa, to spend the three-day holiday for the King's birthday at his home in London to take a break from the repeated experiments that lasted for more than a month. Change your brain.
He and Kapitsa had taken enough recoil neutron photos and planned to start writing the paper after the vacation was over.
And Chen Muwu has already stuffed the third paper into the mailbox and mailed it out. Calculating the time, it is 100% too late to be published in the June issue of "Proceedings of the Natural Science" published today. If nothing else, it should be in next month's issue. published on.
This time, Chen Muwu did not translate the paper into German and sent it to Planck.
He was a little embarrassed to be doing experiments in British laboratories with British money.
The above sentence is a joke. In fact, the "Annals of Physics" is more theoretical. A purely experimental paper like Chen Muwu's was published in the "Transactions of the Natural Sciences".
In addition, he also followed suit. Like Rutherford, he wrote a short communication and sent it to the magazine "Nature". Although it was impossible for neither Raman nor Sulian physicists to do so. This experiment was carried out nearly five years in advance.
Chen Muwu, who had just finished writing a paper, rarely had a few days of leisure. Not only did he agree to Blackett's invitation, but he also brought his new little brother Ye Gongchao with him after obtaining the owner's permission.
After listening to Chen Muwu's description of what happened that day by the Cam River, Blackett felt a little ashamed and couldn't help but feel ashamed and blushing at what several of his compatriots had done.
He was so nervous that he spoke incoherently: "Chen, that's not the case, that's not the case. They, they only represent a small group of ignorant British people. The vast majority of us British people are still very friendly."
Seeing Blackett's anxious look, Chen Muwu was both amused and helpless.
Perhaps Blackett himself had no ill intentions towards Chen Muwu because of his talent, but that does not mean that the majority of British people are the same as Blackett.
Anyway, his landlady, Mrs. Brown, was always cautious when greeting Chen Muwu every day, for fear that one of her actions would offend this Chinese who was born with a barbaric nature.
"Patrick, don't worry about these details. I don't want to complain to you about those people. I just want to ask you if there are any swimming pools around Cambridge. Summer is coming soon. You always have to go to the water to cool down, right?"
