Then the community’s private schools, mostly to make money, Nankai is also private, but it is a money-losing schools. Nankai University to maintain normal operation, mainly by Zhang Boling to go abroad to raise. He went to the U.S. fund-raising, raising the total to bring the goldfish Nankai, donations of more than a million dollars to send a goldfish. Spending in the school on account of his ten goldfish, must make up the more than 100,000 U.S. dollars. Zhang Boling Nankai life at home and abroad to raise tens of millions of money, but mostly personal behavior, he put some into the pockets remain, others will not know that it will not interfere; but he never refused, nor bothered to do so, and is not nothing bad to income Nankai account. Is because many people admire his perseverance and pure and noble school of character and generosity. Zhang Boling never like to take Nankai career and fortune, he often tells students: “Do not love money, enough on the line.”
Zhang Boling and his life as man, always plain. Lao She and Cao Yu praised his “do not smoke, do not drink, do not touch the mahjong and Pai Gow life” and always lived a life of commoner plant-based diets. He knew Kim could Honesty, married Ms. Zeng Dui said: “The cause of education, live in poverty, the income is no more equivalent into that out, things learned in the home tired Ru.” Therefore, all home cooking by his wife personally, but it has never servant . Zhang Boling to Beijing work, never sit third-class carriages, each living in a dollar a day, Guanchiguanzhu shop. Zhang Boling likes the quiet, but living is not deliberately seeking the comfort and ease, his fame was already great, but still living in the southwest corner of the shabby house in civilian areas. Time, Chang Hsueh-liang attracted visitors, car dirt road running a few times did not find “principal apartment.” Zhang exclaimed afterwards: “This huge home University shabby homes, non-material for the beginning, admirable!”
In 1951, Zhang Boling died in Tianjin, to remain in his body, ready to train only a few dollars of pocket money.
(Xiaobin From “Reading Times”)