Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 16 16 American Minister Schulman

Almost all of the newspapers published in various places are local news and news.

A few wealthy newspapers may station professional reporters in several important cities, or hire part-timers locally. When encountering extremely important news, they will send it back to the editorial department by telegram.

In order to save money, the text on the news telegram is only a few words.

As for other countries and regions in the world, the expenses of expatriate journalists are not directly proportional to their income, and the price of international telegrams is even more unaffordable, so they can only be purchased from various foreign news agencies in China.

However, there is another way to disseminate news, just like the aforementioned "Miller's Review", although its distribution department is in Qihai, there are still many people who are overseas but want to learn about Qihai and Chinese culture. Foreigners, send money to the distribution department to subscribe.

After each issue of the newspaper is published, the distribution department will send it to readers in other cities by mail.

Although this approach loses part of the timeliness of the news, the advantage is that the price is still relatively low.

People in Beijing who want to see the news of Qihai can subscribe to the distribution department of "Shenbao" in Beijing.

After each issue of "Declaration" is issued, a part of it will be loaded at the North Railway Station. Following the train going north that day, it will first take the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway to Beijing, then cross the Yangtze River by ship, and then arrive at Tianjin along the Jinpu Railway. When the Beijing-Feng Railway arrived at Zhengyangmen Railway Station in Beijing, it was picked up by the distribution department of Beijing waiting here, and finally distributed to the subscribers.

Although it took two days on the road, the speed of this news was fully one day faster than the 100-mile express that the emperor Laozi exhausted countless horses [-] years ago.

Similarly, people in the sea can also "conveniently" see Beijing's "Morning News" and Tianyi's "Yishi Bao".

Cai Yuanpei relied on this method to read the news that Einstein would not come to Bei University to give lectures in Shenbao.

But Shenbao was not the only newspaper that was loaded from the North Railway Station and sent to the north.

Also on January [-]th, when Cai Yuanpei was still complaining about the school newspaper, Dr. Jacob Schulman, the US ambassador to China, who was also in Beijing, also got the "Gaohai Times" published two days ago. ", and naturally read the news report that Einstein held a seminar at the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry.

In fact, as early as the second day after the symposium ended, Schulman received a daily news briefing from the US Consul General in Shanghai, Ke Yinhan, to the embassy by telegram.

On the evening of New Year's Day, Ke Yinhan also attended the seminar on relativity in the auditorium of the Ministry of Industry and Engineering, so he focused a lot on the situation at the meeting in the briefing.

It mentioned that before the end of the meeting, a young Chinese person asked Einstein a question about time travel, which aroused the latter's interest and invited him to the stage for discussion.

The news in the newspaper and the briefing from Ke Yinhan confirmed each other, and Schulman, like Thiel, had a great understanding of this Chinese man whom Einstein called the "Ramanujan" of physics. interested.

But unlike Till, a diplomat who has been engaged in diplomatic work all his life, Schulman had another identity before he was appointed as the ambassador to China, that is, an educator.

Schulman served as president of Cornell University for 1892 years, from 1920 to 28.

As the third principal of the school, he doesn't need to be troubled by all kinds of trivial matters in the initial period, and can devote all his energy to the school construction.

Therefore, during the years of Schulman's tenure, Cornell University has developed rapidly and welcomed many Chinese students.

Today, there are two most famous Cornell alumni in China. One is Shi Zhaoji, the Minister of the Republic of China to the United States at this time, and the other is none other than Dr. Hu who wrote to Chen Muwu.

After Hu Shi returned to China, he always regarded himself as a disciple of Dr. Dewey at Columbia University. In fact, he first entered Cornell University when he stayed in the United States. big.

At this time, Schulman was very interested in Chen Muwu, and wanted to know more about the situation of this young Chinese man. His first reaction was to ask his lover Hu Shi.

There was no need for Shulman to visit in person, he just made a phone call to Beida, and Dr. Hu asked for leave the next day and visited the legation in Dongjiaominxiang in person.

After a few polite words, Schulman cut to the chase and asked Hu Shi directly if he knew the specific situation of this young man named Chen Muwu.

It was such a coincidence that everything in the world was so coincidental. On the foreign car coming to the legation, Hu Shi happened to see the news published in "Shen Bao".

Hu Shi, who is also a professor of Bei University, didn't feel dissatisfied at all that the professor of Bei University mentioned in Zhao Junhao's speech was not as good as the university student.

He came to Bei University to teach just to earn money and fame, and now he has far less affection for the school than Mr. Cai and Li.

Hearing the question raised by Schulman, Hu Shi didn't dare to be negligent. He quickly got up and went to the inner pocket of the coat hanging on the hanger, took out the rolled up newspaper, smoothed it on the table, pushed it in front of the old principal, and pointed to the tenth place. The tofu block on the board said: "Mr. Minister, this is the new "Shenbao" that arrived today, and it has a very detailed introduction to the Chen Muwu you mentioned."

Knowing that Schulman could not understand Chinese, Dr. Hu also thoughtfully translated word by word in English: "The newspaper said that Chen Muwu graduated from the Ministry of Communications with a bachelor's degree in engineering and is now working as an engineer in the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway Bureaus. ..."

"Wait," Shulman interrupted Hu Shi's introduction, "Qianshan University, is that the Wushan Technical School that Mao graduated from?"

"Exactly that one, Mr. Minister."

Mao Yisheng, an expert in bridge studies, graduated from the National Academy of Sciences in 1916, and was admitted to study at Cornell University with the Gengzi Fund of Tsinghua University.

The school didn't know what kind of sacred school he had graduated from in the enrollment registration form, nor did he know what the teaching level of the school was, so he proposed to take an entrance examination for him, and he could only be admitted if he passed the score.

When the test results came out, the teachers at Cornell University were very surprised. The Chinese student's scores were almost perfect in all subjects.

At that time, the principal of Cornell was Shulman. On behalf of the school, he announced that all students from the school would be exempted from entrance examination.

"The predecessors plant trees, and the descendants enjoy the shade." Since then, the graduates of the school have received benefits from Brother Mao, and they have gone to Cornell to study after graduation, and the school has gradually gained the reputation of "Oriental Cornell". Good name.

Hearing Hu Shi say that this young man who had talked with Einstein and was very optimistic about him also graduated from a high school, Schulman felt very strange.

Since he is so good, why didn't he go to Cornell to continue his studies after graduation?
(End of this chapter)