英千里教授英文介紹（轉載自 The Pioneer 創刊號 Taipei March 1959）：
SPOTLIGHTS ON PROFESSOR IGNATIUS YING
Many of our native Chinese professors have had their higher education abroad; but rarely do we meet one who has received a complete foreign education, from primary school to university. Professor Ying, however, happens to be one.
He was born in 1900 in Shanghai, though both his parents came from Peiping. He was barely 13 years old when his father, Mr. Vincent Ying (英斂之), entrusted him to the care of a Catholic missionary named Vincent Lebbe (雷鳴遠) who took him to Europe. At that time, he had just completed one year's middle school at Nankai (南開) in Tientsin.
It was only by an accident that Professor Ying learned English. When Father Lebbe took him to Europe, he placed him in a French school in Holland, intending to have him enter a French college in Belgium or France a few years later. But the First World War came and continental Europe became a battlefield. In 1915, he left Holland for England and joined Father Lebbe's parents who were war refugees there. For the following nine years he studied in England and by the time he graduated from the University of London he had already mastered four foreign languages: English, French, Spanish and Latin, with a smattering of Greek.
After having spent 12 years abroad, he came back in 1924 to China to help his father in the establishment of a Catholic University. The plan for such an institution had been proposed by Mr. Vincent Ying to the Holy See (羅馬教庭) as early as in 1912, but it was shelved owing to the First World War and the subsequent troubled years. Twelve years had to pass before Rome decided to act; but when she did, she did so swiftly. She entrusted the whole project and its execution to an American Catholic religious society, the American Cassinese Congregation. The latter appointed Mr. Vincent Ying president of the new “Catholic University of Peiping” whose official Chinese name is Fujen Tahsueh (輔仁大學). Mr. Vincent Ying died in 1926; but just before his death, the Holy See honored him by conferring on him a knighthood.
The Fujen received official recognition from the Northern Government in 1927, and from the Nationa1 Government in 1929. By that time, Mr. Ignatius Ying was already made a full professor and concurrently the Secretary-Genera1 of that university. From 1930, he was a1so invited to teach a course in English literature at the National University of Peking and the National Normal University. In 1932, he was appointed to another concurrent position at Fujen, and that was, Head of the Department of Western Literature.
In 1938, the Holy See, in recognition of Prof. Ying's contribution to Catholic higher education, made him a Knight-Commander of Saint Sylvester. It was to him a signal honor and rare distinction. By strict protocol, one should address Prof. Ying as “Sir Ignatius.”
When Peiping fell to the Japanese invaders in 1937, the Catholic University was left unmolested because of its international character. Taking advantage of this condition, Prof. Ying and his colleagues became busily though secretly engaged in underground anti-Japanese activities in the field of culture and education. Soon the Catholic University became, in the eye of the enemy, “a hotbed of intrigue and subversion.” In 1940, Prof. Ying became the Secretary-General and acting Chairman of the underground Peiping Kuomintang Party, and he had them to fight against two enemies: the traitors and the Communists. In the long run, the odds were against Prof. Ying and his comrades. After six years of playing this dangerous game, they were arrested by the Japanese, and Prof. Ying was condemned by the Japanese military court to 15 years of imprisonment.
We know Prof. Ying had suffered a great deal of torture and humiliation at the hand of his captors. But he doesn't like to speak about it. “The Japanese,” he would say “did things according to their light, and in the interest of their own country.” What he heartily detests and despises are the Chinese traitors who sell their honor and soul, either to the Japanese as then or to the Russians as now.
When he was liberated after the war, he was an honored recipient of a Victory Medal from the Government and of a Diploma of Merit from his own Party, the Kuomintang.
He was appointed Commissioner for Education (教育局局長) of Peiping immediately after the Victory, and later, in 1946, he was transferred to the Ministry of Education where he held the post of Director for Social Education (社會教育司司長). In 1948, he was appointed to the concurrent post of Director of the China Educational Film Studio (中華教育電影製片廠廠長).
In 1948, he was elected by the citizens of Peiping to be their representative in the National Assembly. (國民大會代表).
In January 1949, he came to Taiwan with the late President Fu Sze-nien, and joined the academic staff of Taiwan National University. It is now almost ten years to a day since he became our revered professor and the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
This year, on Teacher's Day, the Ministry of Education presented him an Honorific Tablet in recognition and appreciation of his thirty years of unremitting service to the cause of our country's higher education.
By S.K.
（轉貼自 The Pioneer 創刊號 Taipei March 1959）