The deputy chief didn't expect that someone would snatch his words, but when he turned his head and saw that it was Zhang Boling who spoke, he was relieved.

Modern educators can be said to be as brilliant as the stars, but whether it is qualifications and achievements, Zhang Boling is one of the best, looking at the education circle of the Republic of China at that time, I am afraid that only Cai Yuanpei can be compared with Zhang Boling.

Although the official position of the deputy minister of the Ministry of Education is big enough, in front of Zhang Boling, he can only be regarded as a junior.

Zhang Boling's face was naturally to be given, so the deputy chief said with a smile; "Chen Qiang, President Zhang also asked for you, so let's go to Nankai University or National Central University, or choose for yourself!"

"I'm going to Nankai University!" Chen Qiang replied without hesitation.

To choose between National Central University and Nankai University, Chen Qiang must of course choose Nankai University. If nothing else, just because Zhang Boling is the president of Nankai University, Chen Qiang will not hesitate to choose Nankai University.

The main reason, of course, is the Los Angeles Olympics two years later.

In China in the thirties, there were only two people who had connections in the IOC, one was Wang Zhengting and the other was Zhang Boling.

Wang Zhengting is only the first member of the International Olympic Committee in China's history, but his main work is still on foreign affairs, and his contribution to diplomacy is greater than his contribution to sports. At this time, Wang Zhengting was the foreign minister of the Republic of China, but after "918", Wang Zhengting lost his position and gradually faded out of the core of the foreign affairs of the Republic of China.

It is certainly not enough for a disgraced diplomat to support his participation in the Olympics.

Zhang Boling is different, Zhang Boling is a relatively pure educator, he did not start to participate in politics until he was in his 60s, and he was forced to hold an official position. With Zhang Boling's qualifications and status in the education sector, it is obviously impossible not to be co-opted by the government and not to hold a position in the government.

Historically, Liu Changchun's participation in the Los Angeles Olympics was strongly supported by Zhang Boling. Originally, Liu Changchun missed the registration time for the Olympic Games, but it was because of Zhang Boling's operation in the International Olympic Organizing Committee that Liu Changchun successfully signed up for the competition.

In order to be able to participate in the Olympic Games, Chen Qiang of course had to go to Zhang Boling. Once Chen Qiang became a student at Nankai University, then during the 1932 Olympic Games, Zhang Boling would definitely support Chen Qiang to participate.

In addition, Nankai University's reputation and qualifications are not inferior to that of National Central University in Nanjing.

Another reason is that in the early thirties, the National Central University experienced a turmoil of change and succession, and there were seven presidents in two years, during which the management of the National Central University was very chaotic, and it was not conducive to Chen Qiang's normal training.

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Chen Qiang packed his luggage, then refunded the deposit of rent, and went straight to the pier to buy a ticket to Tianjin.

At that time, there was no direct train from Shanghai to Tianjin, and if he took the land route, Chen Qiang had to take a train to Nanjing first, then cross the river by boat, and then take a train to Tianjin, which would take a lot of time to go down, and the price of train tickets was very expensive.

If you take the water, you can get to Tianjin directly from Shanghai, although the journey is also time-consuming, but there is a bed in the cabin, and Chen Qiang can lie on the bed to sleep.

For Chen Qiang, sleeping is to enter the training space to train, and Chen Qiang would rather choose to take the waterway, so that he can also train on the way.

After arriving in Tianjin, Chen Qiang went straight to Nankai University.

At this time, Nankai University was still private, and Mr. Zhang Boling raised donations everywhere in order to prepare for the establishment of Nankai University, and even got the nickname of "Huayuan Monk".

The number of students in Nankai University is not large, only three or four hundred, but the faculty is very strong, there are nearly 100 faculty members in the school, and the school has postgraduate education, which can be said to be a research university at that time.

And because President Zhang Boling attaches great importance to physical education, Nankai University has a large sports field, although it is not high-end, but it is also well-equipped.

After Chen Qiang reported, he lived in the dormitory of Nankai University, and then was arranged in the preparatory class of Nankai University.

Preparatory courses were a kind of education system in Western colleges and universities in the 18th century, and universities in China before liberation also implemented a one-year preparatory system. For example, Peking University, Tsinghua University and other famous schools have preparatory classes.

At that time, there were many big bulls in the Republic of China, and they also attended preparatory classes, especially those who received old-style education, such as those who studied in private schools and old schools, in order to be able to adapt to the new education from the West, they would start with preparatory classes.

According to the school's arrangement, Chen Qiang will first study for a year of preparatory courses, take the exam after one year, and then apply for relevant majors according to the results of the exam.

Chen Qiang does not plan to wait another year, it is now June, and when the end of August and the beginning of September, the preparatory class will hold an exam, Chen Qiang feels that he has been studying for more than two months, and he should be able to pass the exam of the preparatory class.

So Chen Qiang found textbooks, as well as past pre-university exam questions, and began to sprint before the exam.

Chen Qiang used to be a professor at the University of Physical Education, and those who can become professors must be people who are good at learning, whether it is rote memorization or inferences, they are better than ordinary people.

Even in sports universities, there is no need for professors to go to competitions or training, and the physical work of labor is the business of athletes and coaches, and professors are mainly teaching and doing scientific research.

Chen Qiang is not worried about his learning ability, coupled with the knowledge reserve of his previous life, Chen Qiang passed the exam of the preparatory class through more than two months of sprint study.

According to the norms formulated by the Ministry of Education, there were seven main subjects in the university entrance examination at that time, the first of which was the civics subject, which was similar to the ideology and politics of later generations. Then there are Bahasa Malaysia, English and Mathematics, which are the three main subjects of Language, Mathematics and English. After that, there are Chinese and foreign history and geography, physics and chemistry, and biology. The subject set is similar to that of modern times. If you want to apply for art majors, you also need to take courses such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and musical instruments.

Chen Qiang took a look at the test questions of previous years, and the exams of civics subjects were all rote memorization, such as the last words of the prime minister, and some programmatic things, all of which were fixed answers, and they could be passed by memorization.

The Chinese language test questions are not difficult, and the vernacular language has been implemented after the May Fourth Movement, so the test questions are mainly in the vernacular, and the essay questions are classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese. Of course, there are also some titles where classical Chinese is translated into vernacular. In addition, such as explaining idioms or punctuating a paragraph, it is also a required type of question.

The mathematics test is relatively simple for Chen Qiang, and the content of the exam is limited to elementary algebra, analytic geometry and trigonometric functions, and there is no advanced algebra and calculus, which is much less difficult at once.

As for English, Chen Qiang didn't have to review it at all. However, English is not only used in English exam papers, but also in English for questions such as history and geography.

The questions in history and geography are very simple, and most of them are common sense questions, such as which country won the First World War, which country lost, which country was ceded land, and so on.

These problems are in later generations, everyone knows the attempt, but in this era, information is not smooth, most Chinese do not understand the world, many people do not know the United States, Britain, France and Germany at all, so foreign history and geography is a major difficulty for Chinese students at that time.

Physics, Organisms, and Chemistry are even simpler.

Before Einstein proposed the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics did not exist. Electromagnetism, optics and thermodynamics were still very esoteric sciences at this time, and Newtonian mechanics was the most learned in Chinese physics textbooks, which was roughly equivalent to the content of junior high school.

In terms of chemistry, Mendeleev's periodic table is still being perfected, and the chemistry test at this time is not theoretical knowledge, but gives some common phenomena in life, and then asks candidates to explain it with chemical principles, such as why iron pots rust.

As for biology, the biological sciences at that time were much more backward than physics and chemistry, in 1930, Landsteiner had just won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of human blood type, and the biological sciences of this era were still in the stage of exploration and discovery, such as Mendelian heredity, which was a difficult content for people who were admitted to universities at that time.

The superiority of the times is once again reflected, in the twenties and thirties, many things that only intellectuals can grasp, in later generations are just the most basic common sense, any public account, the content published may be more professional than the university professors in this era.

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After two months of revision, Chen Qiang applied for the exam for the preparatory class.

Seeing Chen Qiang fill out the registration form for the exam, the teacher in charge of the preparatory class exam was surprised.

As the holder of the Asian record in the 100-meter sprint, Chen Qiang was specially recruited to Nankai University, which is something that the whole school knows, and the teachers also know Chen Qiang and know that he has only been here for more than two months.

Many people stay in the preparatory class for a whole year, but they may not be able to pass the preparatory class exam, and Chen Qiang has only been here for two months and can't wait to apply for the preparatory class exam, which in the teacher's opinion, is simply a self-defeating behavior.

"Chen Qiang, I think you should wait until next year to sign up, after all, you have only been here for two months, and you are not very familiar with the school environment, so you don't need to rush for a while." The teacher continued, "Besides, even if you are in a preparatory class, the school will still give you a stipend. ”

"Thank you, teacher, but I want to try." Chen Qiang replied.

The teacher couldn't persuade him, so he had to say, "Okay, let's take the exam once this year, and I can be regarded as having an understanding of the content of the exam." If you work hard next year, you may be able to pass the test. ”

Faced with the teacher's statement, Chen Qiang just smiled and did not refute.

Anyway, the day of the exam is just around the corner, so whether you can pass it or not, you will know immediately.

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