Wei remembers clearly that the topic that time was Yuan Shih-kai, the first ROC president. He collected all of the documents related to Yuan that were published in Biographical Literature, grouped them in categories and then gave them to his superior Chen. Chen later wrote a very substantive paper, the sources of which he admitted were largely drawn from Biographical Literature.
魏蔭駒清楚地記得那次的主題是袁世凱，他把「傳記文學」中所有相關資料都收齊，分類後交給長官，結果陳宗堯寫了一篇很有分量的論文與會，資料中最齊全的就來自「傳記文學」。