HU SHI, CORNELL CLASS OF 1914, may be counted among the most important alumni Cornell University has ever produced; some say he is the most important of all. Yet there still remains a discrepancy between name and recognition, between historical impact and local Ithaca lore.
A brief sketch of Hu Shi (or Su Hu, as he styled himself here for a while) must include his birth, which can be safely assumed to have taken place in Shanghai on Dec. 17, 1891.
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