Because Lin Yutang was very corrupt in his later years, Gao Xiaosong described him as "unsafe in his later years."

When Lin Yutang served as the president of Nanyang University in his later years, he assigned all his relatives to important positions in the school.

When he fell out with the school, he hired a lawyer to sue the school board. As a result, the lawyer felt that Lin Yutang had gone too far.

Lin Yutang was born in 1895, when he was 59 years old, that is, in 1954.

In August of that year, Lin Yutang came to Nanyang University by invitation.

Tan Lark Sye is the nephew of Chinese overseas Chinese Tan Kah Kee. He is a Malaysian rich man who controls rubber reserves throughout Southeast Asia.

This university was established by overseas Chinese with US$4 million raised by overseas Chinese. At that time, Chen Liushi donated US$5 million.

The Board of Trustees of Nanyang University arranged for Mei Yiqi, the former president of Tsinghua University, to serve as president.

After Lin Yutang came, he asked me to be the principal.

At that time, the Chinese community in Singapore was mainly composed of Hokkien people. Lin Yutang was a Fujianese and a well-known international master at that time.

The school board finally decided to appoint Lin Yutang as principal.

However, after Lin Yutang became the principal, he brought his daughter, son-in-law, and nephew over, and they all held important positions, such as vice principal, finance minister, and office director.

When the new official took office, he requested that the newly built teaching building at that time be demolished, saying that a world-class teaching building would be built so that Nanyang would become a world-class university.

Nanyang University was founded not long ago by the Chinese in Singapore, with the hard-earned money from overseas Chinese.

While making this request, Mr. Lin also proposed a salary increase. The salary of faculty and staff should be the highest in the world.

Even the presidents of Harvard and Yale at that time were not that tall.

Because Lin Yutang is an international master, the school board agreed.

Originally, every school had fund management, which was the responsibility of the school board of directors.

Lin Yutang said he would use it to manage it.

However, the school board relies on these funds to allow Chinese in Singapore to receive Chinese education. It can be seen that Lin Yutang's management is very broad.

It is said that these funds amount to more than 20 million, but the school board did not agree.

Lin Yutang sued the school board of directors and faced Bo in court.

Lin Yutang hired a lawyer. When the lawyer heard that it was too much, he planned to persuade him to make peace.

At the meeting, Lin Yutang pointed at Mr. Chen Liushi, who had donated the largest amount, and said that he had betrayed his trust.

People at the meeting could not sit still and criticized Lin Yutang one after another.

Later, everyone asked him how he could compromise, and Lin Yutang said that he should be compensated.

At the reconciliation meeting, Lin Yutang began to calculate, including the cost of gas for driving and meals, and he calculated it to the decimal point, which was more than 300,000 yuan.

At that time, more than 300,000 yuan was very valuable, and the school library building was only more than 300,000 yuan. After studying it, the school board of directors said that this is it, if I give you the money, you can go to the United States.

At that time, Chen Liushi was also present. He said that the fund was everyone’s hard-earned money and the school could not suffer losses. He would pay for it.

Later, Chen Liushi took out the check and gave Lin Yutang more than 300,000 yuan.

Lin Yutang was controversial in the Chinese community in Singapore. The incident at Nanyang University had some impact on Lin Yutang's reputation in his later years.

In his later years, Lin Yutang settled in Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan, and died on March 26, 1976.

Extended information: Lin Yutang is known as the master of humor. He talks witty and is passionate about humor.

It played a role in the sudden rise of Chinese humor literature.

He has always maintained his childlike innocence.

Lin Yutang often wrote articles to explain humor. Lin Yutang and his colleagues actively advocated humorous literature and advocated a "light", "meaningful" and "sweet" writing style. His works were characterized by "spiritual" and "leisurely", and gradually formed a genre of essays of their own.

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Because their children could not receive a Chinese university education in China during the Cold War and they were worried that their children and grandchildren would be separated from Chinese culture, Singapore's overseas leaders organized the establishment of Nanyang University in early 1952.

The donors of Nanyang University include not only wealthy businessmen such as Tan Liu Sye and Lee Kong Chian, but also countless workers, citizens, tricycle drivers, prostitutes and other grassroots people from various industries.

At that time, 1,770 tricycle drivers performed a "charity ride" for Nanyang University, and the Paramount Ballroom dancers performed a "charity dance" for Nanyang University, which became a legend.