The whole generation from the post-war period started to retire during the 1980s and that meant a lot of the leaders started to disappear and were not replaced because of the government cuts.
八○年代初政府大量削減大學經費，是明顯的打擊，不過在此之前很長一段時間，其實學校已經逢缺不補，預算緊縮了。