What university? Beijing was the capital, and had a very conservative atmosphere. In the five-and-a-half years during which Tsai Yuan-pei was in charge of Beida, he changed it from a place reeking of bureaucratism to a center of lively, progressive thinking.
北京貴為首都，保守氣息瀰漫，但是在蔡元培實際辦學的五年半時間內，就把官氣十足的北京大學變成思潮活潑的中心。