Hung Chin-fu, a researcher in the Department of History and Languages at Academia Sinica and an expert in Yuan dynasty history, came to fully appreciate the breadth and detail of the university's academic offerings during his five years of study there.
因此，哈佛的冷門科系、冷門課程很多。目前在中研院歷史語言研究所擔任研究員的洪金富，是國內的「元史」專家，而在哈佛五年，他就充分見識了哈佛治學的廣博、精微。洪金富在哈佛的老師是位研究元朝蒙漢碑文的學者，以嚴謹的考據方式來推衍當時蒙漢兩族的文化交流狀況。