A large portion of those finances came from either donations or loans from Tan's relatives, or from selling off rubber tree plantations or properties of Xiamen University, even villas owned under the names of his sons.
而這些經費，不少是陳嘉庚向兒女親家募捐、賒借，或是變賣橡膠園、廈大校產、甚至兒子名下的別墅才湊來的。