The story in the textbooks goes like this: As a foreign student in the United States during the early part of the century, Hu Shih had originally wanted to study agriculture. One day he and his classmates went out to an orchard to sort apples.
書上的故事是這樣的：清末的留美學生胡適原本念農，有一天他和同學上實習課，在蘋果園作蘋果的分類。