In order to enable young students to resist social depravity after leaving university, Hu Shi gave them three doses of "self-defense prescription":

First, "always look for one or two problems worth studying"; After leaving school, I left the learning environment. If you don't have one or two questions worth answering in your mind, it's hard to keep your enthusiasm for learning and asking questions.

Second, "cultivate more non-professional interests"; It is difficult to maintain the idealism of life by doing jobs that are not "close and beyond my power" for a living. The best remedy is to develop more legitimate interests and activities outside the profession.

Third, "always have a little confidence." Born in this unfortunate era, what I see in my eyes and hear in my ears is nothing but pessimism and disappointment. Especially those of you who graduated this year, you see that your country and nation have sunk to this stage, that the world is only a world of power, and that you can't see a glimmer of light when you look at the horizon, so it's time to cultivate your self-confidence. As long as you have confidence, we can still be saved.

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Maxima is common, but Bole is not. Universities often have them, but good presidents don't. The glory of Peking University in the history of modern education in China is closely related to the fact that he once had more than one great president-Hu Shi was more widely known than Cai Yuanpei.

This (referring to the article "For Fresh College Graduates") is a "self-defense prescription" he prescribed at 1932 for graduates who are about to embark on the society. Others may not accept it all, but in Hu Shi, this is his eternal belief. Two years later, he wrote another article with the same name, repeating the previous content.

Twenty-eight years later, in June of 1960, he gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of Tainan National national cheng kung university. He still popularized this "three medicines for self-defense" and officially named the old medicine of Sanwei Hujiapu as Problem Dan, Xisan and Confidence Hall. He has made it clear that he hopes that college graduates will not forget that they "went to college" and "always keep a bright mark".