蔡元培于1917年1月初出任北京大学校长。当时的北大,正处于“晦雾时期”。虽然经历了辛亥革命的洗礼,但校园里封建官僚习气依旧,腐败生活作风如前。蔡元培以革命家和教育家的气魄大力整顿创新,其中的一项举措便是组织“进德会”以挽奔竞游荡之恶习。 Cai Yuanpei in early January 1917 as president of Peking University. Peking University at the time, is in the “dark fog”. Although experienced the baptism of the Revolution of 1911, but the feudal bureaucracy in the campus still ethos, corrupt life style as before. One of the measures taken by Cai Yuan-pei to rectify and innovate vigorously with the courage of revolutionaries and educators is to organize the “virtuous society” to rid himself of the vanguard of competition.