Many interested people were there that day. In the second issue of Biographical Literature, NTNU professor Tu Cheng-hsiang analyzed the difference between biography and biographical literature. Tu summarized Hu's speech and called on the school to transcribe and publish it in its entirety.
那天聽眾中有心人不少，「傳記文學」創刊第二期中就有師大教授杜呈祥為文詳釋「傳記與傳記文學」的不同，文中述及當天胡適演講的大要，還呼籲主辦單位師大重新聽演講錄音帶，逐字錄出這場重要的演說。