Chiang Meng-lin was chairman of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Hu Shih headed Academia Sinica, and Fu Ssu-nien was president of National Taiwan University (NTU) and director of Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology. These scholars 'advocacy of the scientific spirit and academic freedom is still well remembered today.
蔣夢麟擔任農復會主委，胡適主持中研院，傅斯年擔任史語所所長、台大校長，提倡科學精神、自由學風，至今仍膾炙人口。