胡适在《四十自述》中曾写到他父亲的一个朋友一一上海的张焕纶先生。张先生是提倡新教育最早的人,他自己办了一个梅溪书院,后来改为梅溪学堂。胡适的二哥三哥都在梅溪书院住过,所以胡适到了上海也就进了梅溪学堂。张先生去世22年之后,胡适在巴黎见着赵颂南先 Hu Shi wrote “Zhang Shi Lun”, a friend of one of his father and one of Shanghai’s Mr. Zhang Huanlun, in “The 40th Commencement.” Mr. Zhang is the earliest advocate of new education, he did a Meixi College, and later changed to Meixi school. Hu Shi’s eldest brother and brother lived in Meixi College, so Hu Shi went to Shanghai and entered Meixi School. Twenty-two years after Mr. Zhang’s death, Hu Shih met Zhao Chung-nam in Paris