Coincidentally, when Luo Jialun was the president of Tsinghua University, one candidate did well in Chinese and English, but failed in math. He personally called the candidate to the principal's office to talk, and then he was admitted to school. This candidate is Qian Zhongshu.
1930 national college entrance examination, Wen Yiduo, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, gave two essay questions: First, "Why did you apply for Qingdao University"; The first is "miscellaneous feeling". Choose one of the two questions, and one candidate has done both. In the second article, there are only three sentences. Wen Yiduo praised the case many times and made an exception and gave him a high score of 98 points. That year, he got a zero in mathematics, but he was admitted to the College of Literature of Qingdao University. He is the famous poet Cang Kejia.
1930 When I applied for Peking University, I got full marks in Chinese and English and zero in mathematics, and Peking University refused to admit me. Reluctantly, he transferred to Tsinghua University. As a result, I got 100 in Chinese and English, but still got zero in math. After careful consideration, Tsinghua University resolutely decided to make an exception. He lived up to expectations and later became a famous historian and expert in Ming history in China. This is Wu Han.
When Professor Qian Wenzhong was writing My Teacher Ji Xianlin's Schooldays, he knew that Ji Lao had serious prejudice when he was a child. First, I asked Ji Lao how many points he scored in the college entrance examination mathematics. Ji Lao only said "very low" and didn't say much else. Qian Wenzhong checked Tsinghua University's file and found that Ji Lao got only 4 points in the math exam, but his first choice was actually the math department. It's hard to imagine.