In 1932 China's Minister of Industry Kung Ta, a 72nd generation descendant of Confucius, presented them as a gift to the school of journalism. And since the lions crossed the wide ocean and settled down in this foreign land, new arrivals who set their eyes on them usually gain the warm feeling of bumping into old friends in a strange place.
在民國廿年，由當時的工業部長，也是孔子第七十五代的孫子，送給了新聞學院，於是它們就這麼飄洋過海在他鄉異地住下，剛到密大的學生見到它們，總有一種他鄉遇故知的親切感。