Although school president Chien Ssu-liang, who succeeded Fu Ssu-nien, lobbied heavily at the highest political levels for 19 years in hopes of getting political interference out of the campus, one scholar could only do so much. After the Yin Hai-kuang affair, then came the firing of 13 professors from the Department of Philosophy.
雖然繼傅斯年之後，主持校政長達十九年的錢思亮努力周旋於政治高層，希望免除政治的干預，不過一介文人畢竟能力有限，殷海光事件之後，台大又發生了十三位老師被解聘的「哲學系事件」。