当年日本帝国主义的侵华战争,曾表现出极端的疯狂性和野蛮性。天津人民至今不会忘记“七七”事变后我市沦陷期间,南开大学,北洋大学、女子师范学院、南开中学和中国第一水工试验所相继遭受日寇破坏和狂轰滥炸的惨状。南开大学具有光荣的革命传统,“九·一八”事变后,在抗日救亡运动中,师生们深入工厂、农村、士兵中,以各种方式宣讲抗日救亡的道理。他们的爱国行动,遭受日本侵略者的嫉恨。“七七”事变后,日寇即对该校师生进行疯狂报复。一九三七年七月二十八日下午,日寇从海光寺兵营用密集炮火向南大轰击,致使大部分教学楼中弹起火。二十九日日寇又派飞机轰炸。三十日百名日寇骑兵,携带煤油冲进南大,到处放火,使校园顿时成为一片 The war of aggression against China by Japanese imperialism showed extreme madness and brutality. The people of Tianjin will never forget the tragedies of Nankai University, Beiyang University, Women’s Normal College, Nankai Middle School and China’s First Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory during the fall of our city since the “July 7 Incident”. Nankai University has a glorious revolutionary tradition. After the “September 18 Incident”, during the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement, teachers and students went deep into factories, villages and soldiers to preach anti-Japanese national salvation through various means. Their patriotic actions were hated by the Japanese invaders. After the “Seventy-Seven” Incident, the Japanese invaders made a mad revenge on the teachers and students in the school. On the afternoon of July 28, 1937, the Japanese invaders bombarded the south with intensive artillery fire from the sea Kwang Monastery, causing fire to hit most of the teaching buildings. On the 29th Japanese aggressors also sent aircraft bombed. Thirty Japanese cavalry on the 30th, carrying kerosene rushed into the Nanda, arson everywhere, to suddenly become a campus