With funding coming mainly from the provincial government, the president of Taida had to face questioning in the provincial assembly. At the end of 1950, after Fu finished responding to questions from provincial assemblymen about equipment that had been brought over by the Ministry of Education and deposited at Taida, and about increasing admissions to university, he died from a brain hemorrhage.
台大經費來自省府，校長必須到省議會備詢，一九五○年底，傅斯年在省議會回答完省議員詢問有關教育部搶運來台存放台大的器材，和放寬台大招生尺度等問題後，突然血壓上升，因腦溢血去逝。