When he personally set eyes on China's first modern university, the situation was as follows: The imperial examination system had been eliminated only 10 years before. The mind-set of simply muddling through--to get diplomas that would serve as the entree to officialdom, and thus to wealth--was still very deeply entrenched.
蔡元培終究去了北京，親眼看到中國第一所現代大學，情形是這樣的：科舉制度才廢除十年，學生只想混文憑，做為升官發財的敲門磚的心態，仍然濃厚。