Yenching university was first split, and the most important college of arts and sciences was merged by Peking University, and then Peking University moved to a teaching building in yenching university. Today's Peking University is actually a nest of birds.
Yenching university is a hacked university, which is the saddest page in the history of education in China.
Yenching university was founded on 19 19. It was originally formed by the merger of several North China Christian universities, such as Beijing Huiwen University, Tongzhou North China United University and Beijing North China Women's United University. These missionary universities are jointly organized by American Presbyterian Church, American-Israeli-American Association, American Women's Association, Congregation and London Church. 19 19, these church organizations reached an understanding and decided to merge these schools to form an excellent university.
Due to different school-running ideas and belonging to different churches, the management was very chaotic at the beginning of the merger until Si Tuleideng became the principal.
Si Tuleideng is one of the famous missionaries in China. His parents were missionaries in China, and Si Tuleideng was born in Hangzhou, where his parents preached. Si Tuleideng grew up in Hangzhou and speaks fluent Hangzhou dialect, Suzhou dialect and Shanghai dialect.
1887,1/Si Tuleideng returned to his hometown of Virginia to study, 1899 was admitted to the theological seminary, 1904 returned to Hangzhou with his new wife to preach and learn Chinese with his father in China. 1906, his only son was born in Hangzhou. 1908, Si Tuleideng went to Jinling Theological Seminary to teach Greek, and began his vocational education career.
After Si Tuleideng became the president of yenching university, he quickly reversed the chaotic management situation and made yenching university a first-class and world-famous university in China in a short time.
The motto of Yanda University was very famous at that time: to be free through the service of truth. This school motto comes from the Bible and was drafted by Si Tuleideng himself.
After Si Tuleideng took office, he bought a large area of land in eastern Tsinghua University, such as Yanyuan Garden, Longrun Garden and Lombardi, from Belle Zai Tao with the donations raised, and hired the famous American architect Murphy to design the school building in yenching university according to the style of the ancient palace in China, which formed the architectural style of Peking University today.
Yanda also employs a wide range of famous teachers, including famous professors edgar snow and Xia Rende. Educators Lin Maike and Lu Zhiwei; Sociologists Lei Jieqiong and Xu Shilian; Anthropologist Wu Wenzao; Archaeologist Rong Geng; Theologian Zhao; Jurists Zhang Youyu and Jiang Ping; Philosophers Feng Youlan, Zhang,,; Historians Qian Mu, Gu Jiegang, Zhicheng Deng and Han Rulin; Cultural relics appraiser Wang; Political scientist Hsiao Kung chuan; There are famous writers and scholars in the College of Literature, such as Zhou Zuoren, Zheng Zhenduo, Bing Xin, Feng,, and Lu Kanru. There are famous people such as Wu Mi and Hua in the Department of Western Language and Literature.
Therefore, yenching university gained a high academic reputation in a short period of twenty or thirty years. She also established the Harvard Yanjing Society with Harvard University, which was the most prestigious traditional research institution in China at that time. Yanda University is also the first China University recognized by Harvard for its teaching quality, and the course credits of Yanda University and Harvard University can be universal.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Si Tuleideng actively participated in the transfer and rescue of students, and stayed in Yanda University to look after the school property. 1941February, when the Pacific War broke out, Si Tuleideng was arrested and imprisoned by the Japanese garrison in North China, and spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp. From 65438 to 0945, Si Tuleideng was transferred as the American ambassador to China.
1950, the State Council decided not to allow any foreigners and organizations to run schools in China, and all existing universities were abolished.
1952 65438+February, yenching university split. Universities directly separated from yenching university are: China University of Political Science and Law (yenching university Law School), Central University of Finance and Economics (yenching university Department of Economics) and Central University for Nationalities (yenching university Department of History and Ethnology). Part of it was split by yenching university, including Tsinghua University Institute of Technology.
Specifically, the departments of ethnology, sociology, Chinese (national language) and history in yenching university were merged into the Law School of the Central University for Nationalities (now the Central University for Nationalities) and the Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law (now China University of Political Science and Law), the Department of Economics was merged into the Central University of Finance and Economics (now the Central University of Finance and Economics), the Department of Engineering was merged into Tsinghua University, and the arts and sciences were merged into Peking University.