1928 In the first half of the year, Liu Shangqing resigned as the president of Northeastern University. In August, entrusted by the Northeast Security Conference, General Zhang Xueliang concurrently served as the president of Northeastern University. Zhang Xueliang, who knows that university education is the foundation of prosperity, has devoted a lot of efforts to the development of Northeastern University.
President Zhang Xueliang's aim and purpose of running a school is very clear, "to study profound knowledge, cultivate specialized talents, meet social needs and seek cultural development." 1933, he made the purpose of running a school more clear: "to cultivate practical talents and build a new northeast, so as to promote national modernization and eliminate the ambitions of neighboring countries."
In order to ensure the quality of personnel training, the school not only strictly selects new students, but also carefully absorbs the experience of famous universities in Europe and America in curriculum design. For example, northeastern university
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The curriculum of the Institute of Technology is based on the standards of MIT.
For the choice of teaching materials, it is generally the original foreign teaching materials. The course schedule is very full, and the weekly class hours are generally as high as 30 hours. The school pays special attention to foreign language teaching and application. Answers, questions, experiments and practice reports are written in English.
During the school period, students will be eliminated, and monthly exams, mid-term exams and academic year exams will be conducted. The dean will personally inspect the examination room, and violators will be severely punished. Students who fail will be demoted, suspended or dropped out of school. After many exams, students were eliminated, and only more than half of them graduated.
The school has formulated various rules and regulations. Such as general principles of educational administration, scholarship, punishment, classroom rules, dormitory rules, student assembly rules and so on. While making reward rules, we have also made disciplinary rules. At the same time, the school strengthens administrative management and forms a school affairs meeting attended by the principal, vice principal, presidents of colleges and directors of affiliated middle schools to deal with various school affairs. In addition, the rules for academic affairs meetings and general affairs meetings have been formulated.
President Zhang Xueliang not only respects knowledge, talents, is eager for talents, and is polite to men and women, but also can accept it with an open mind, follow good advice and strictly ask teachers to be role models. For some professors whose teaching effect is not good, it is difficult to make up for them even if their academic qualifications are higher. If he is incompetent, he will be fired. Even the principal who misbehaved and made things difficult for the teacher was dismissed.
President Zhang Xueliang's idea of strictly administering the school and cultivating senior academic talents shines brilliantly in Northeastern University. So as to ensure the rapid development of Northeastern University, and soon enter its heyday and become a veritable highest institution of higher learning in Northeast China.
Donate to expand the campus
At the beginning of school, the new school building has not yet been established, and the university office and student classroom temporarily occupy the school building of Shenyang Normal University. The location is prajna temple Hutong in Da Nanguan. Due to the development of the school, the old school site can no longer meet the needs of university science. So the Fengtian Governor's Office helped to run the school, and specially sent a letter to the Qing Dynasty to donate more than 300 mu of land outside the white pile in front of Zhaoling, and bought more than 200 mu of land adjacent to the People's Field as the new school site. The new science and technology building of the school was built by the Architectural Engineering Department of Xinyi Company and completed in the autumn of 1925. It is beautiful in appearance, magnificent in momentum and solid in architecture, which was rarely compared with it in university buildings all over the country at that time. After the building of science and engineering, professor's residence and students' dormitory and corresponding ancillary facilities were completed, science and engineering moved to the new campus, while the school of law, politics and law was still in Da 'nanguan, so it was called South School and North School.
The new campus of Northeastern University is located near Shenyang Beiling, with Xinkai River in front and Zhaoling in the back. The ancient forest is towering and quiet. The new campus covers an area of 1000 mu, and its scale is quite magnificent. In addition, 265,438+00 mu of official land of Changning Temple near Beiling was also allocated to Northeastern University to build a university factory as an internship and experiment place for engineering students to undertake foreign locomotive maintenance business.
After General Zhang Xueliang served as the president of Northeastern University, due to the distance between the two universities and the inconvenience of management, after several discussions, he put the expansion plan of Northeastern University into practice and decided to concentrate on the new campus of Beiling. However, the funds needed to expand the school building are so basic that Toyota cannot afford it. President Zhang Xueliang generously donated 6,543,800 yuan to build the teaching building of Law School. In memory of President Zhang's donation to develop the school, two teaching buildings of Law School of Fada were named Hanqing South Building and Hanqing North Building respectively. 1March 930, the south and north buildings of Hanqing were completed, and the law school and the affiliated middle school moved into the new building.
From 65438 to 0928, President Zhang Xueliang donated 300,000 yuan to build a modern Roman gymnasium for Northeastern University, which can accommodate more than 1 10,000 people. That year, President Zhang Xueliang donated another 500,000 yuan to build more libraries, chemistry halls and experimental halls.
From 1925 to 193 1, especially after General Zhang Xueliang became the president, the main buildings built by Northeastern University successively include: two reinforced concrete four-story buildings in Law School (namely the south and north buildings of Hanqing), four-story reinforced concrete buildings in Engineering College/kloc-0, and education college/kloc-0. Professors' Club 1 multiple on the second floor, Faculty of Law 100, Polytechnic 100, and Education College's 60 "I" dormitories. In addition, there are about 50 new-style foreign buildings 1 in the dormitory of the Third Hospital. The three villages of workers' houses are all new-style houses or buildings. There are 1 radio station, 1 Rome Stadium and 1 office building on the third floor of the university factory. The newly-built Chemistry Museum 1 seat and the newly-built Library 1 seat have three floors in total. In this way, a complete building complex is formed.
Appoint talents and build a first-class institution.
In order to ensure the continuous improvement of teaching quality, Northeastern University insists on people-oriented and people-oriented. At the beginning of its establishment, it hired Wang Zhaokun, a bachelor from the University of Michigan and president of Toyota School of Public Literature, as the head of grammar science. Dr. Zhao Houda, German Engineering Doctor, Senior of Science and Engineering; Feng Zuxun, a bachelor of mathematics from Kyoto Imperial University and a senior science student in Peking University, is the chief professor of science. Zhuang Changgong, Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chief Professor of Engineering, Columbia University, USA.
After General Zhang Xueliang became the principal, he "implemented professor governance". After concurrently serving as the president, Liu, a doctor of law from the University of Michigan who was the vice president of Beijing National University and the director of the Department of Special Education of Beijing Ministry of Education, was elected as the vice president. Later, the vice-principal system was abolished and changed to the secretarial system, and Mr. Ning Encheng, who graduated from Oxford University in England, was appointed as the Secretary-General.
Zhang Xueliang will always be a corporal of courtesy, and all academic leaders and celebrities from all walks of life who are beneficial to the development of Northeastern University are willing to pay a lot of money to teach at Northeastern University.
It is a common phenomenon to run education with financial difficulties and insufficient funds, even in famous universities, such as Peking University and Tsinghua. At that time, the annual expenditure at Peking University was 900,000 silver dollars. Although Tsinghua University was subsidized by boxer indemnity, it was only 6.5438+0.2 million silver dollars, while Northeastern University was as high as 6.5438+0.6 million silver dollars. According to Fengtian Tongzhi, the funds allocated by Fengtian to Northeastern University have also increased year by year, especially after Zhang Xueliang became president. "1923,439,000 yuan, ...1926,517000 yuan,1927,7910000 yuan,1928,
Adequate funds and high salaries for teachers are an obvious feature of Northeastern University. The salary of professors in Northeastern University is generally 360 silver dollars, with a maximum of 800 silver dollars. At that time, Professor Gong Xinjin from Nankai University earned 240 silver dollars, while professors from Peking University and Tsinghua earned 300 silver dollars. Northeastern University has always insisted on high investment, no default, no deduction, no misappropriation, and generous treatment, such as returning to Beijing to explore new things, and reimbursement of round-trip travel expenses. Elegant environment and generous remuneration make some universities in China envious.
Due to the abundant funds of the school, the teaching equipment and instruments are the highest in domestic universities, with elegant environment and superior living conditions. Many famous people, experts and scholars from the customs joined hands to enter the customs, so that outstanding talents from Sanjiang, Hubei, Fujian, Sichuan and other places poured in.
Since Zhang Xueliang became the president of Northeastern University, he has hired some experts and scholars. Mainly include: mathematician Professor Feng Zuxun, chemist Professor Zhuang Changgong, architects Liang Sicheng, Tong Juan and Lin, mechanical engineers and Professor Pan, American chemistry doctors Yu Zelan and Ji Yuli, etc. Famous professors employed by the College of Liberal Arts include: grammarian Zhang, linguist Huang Kan, Liang Shuming, former Beijing government procurator-general Tan Gan, Lin Shu, Yu Qichang, Wu Guanying (private secretary of Liang Qichao and vice president of Beiping North China University), Li Guangzhong, etc. There are psychologists Professor Ping, China scholar Professor Ma Zongxiang, statistician Professor Sun and historian Professor Zhou Chuanru who have studied in the United States and Britain for ten years. In sports, there are professors Hao Gengsheng, Wu, Shen and Song.
1929, all subjects of Northeastern University were changed into colleges, and the deans appointed by Zhang Xueliang were all selected from experts and scholars who had studied abroad: Zhou, dean of the College of Arts, holds a bachelor's degree in education from Olkin University in the United States, and served as vice president of the University of the Republic of China in Beiping; Sun Guofeng, Dean of the School of Science, is a doctor of science from Cornell University. Zang Qifang, Dean of Law School, studied in the United States; Gao Xibing, an engineer from Institute of Technology, holds a bachelor's degree in textile engineering from Massachusetts University. Li Shutang, Dean of College of Education, Ph.D. in Education, new york University.
1929, the whole school has 120 teachers, including 94 professors, 7 teaching assistants, 5 teachers and 0 physics assistants. Degree: doctor 12, master 26, bachelor 24, various degrees 62. Of the 0/25 deans and teachers in the whole school/KLOC-,48 are studying in the United States, 4 in Britain, 3 in France, 3 in Germany and 6 in Japan. These scholars are knowledgeable, well-managed, rigorous in their studies and excellent in their style of study, which helped Zhang Xueliang quickly build Northeastern University into a well-known first-class institution. However, due to the "September 18th Incident", Northeastern University was forced into exile and was severely devastated. However, President Zhang Xueliang's precious spirit of respecting knowledge and talents has far-reaching influence.