Among them was Fu Ssu-nien, who became the first president of National Taiwan University. Relying on his passion as an educator and his character as a scholar, Fu helped NTU emerge from the colonial era-in which the school was meant to serve Japanese imperial aims-and create a new climate emphasizing reason, knowledge, and scholarship.
其中臨危出任台大校長的傅斯年，以教育家的熱情、知識份子的風骨，帶著台大走出治學嚴謹但器識不足的殖民大學格局，為台大開創出一個獻身學術，為求真理真知捨身也在所不惜的新氣象。