每星期总有三四个晚上，负债的农民拿着酒肉到学堂里请校长吃席，求他不要没收他们典出的土地。
About three or four nights every week, peasant debtors, bearing gifts of meat and wine, would feast the principal in the school rooms, trying to persuade him not to foreclose on their land.
他一生主要担任两所大学的校长，1907 - 1920年任上海高等实业学堂监督(即校长)，1920 - 1950任无锡国学专修学校校长。
From 1907 to 1920, he served as the President of Shanghai Higher School of Science and Engineering, and from 1920 to 1950 the President of Wuxi Academy of the Traditional Chinese Culture.
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