Selecting the eight big and small changes in Beida's history and describing them in chronological order provides the needed background for today's discussions on the Beida reform. I have already amply commented on the hundred years' of successes and failures of China's universities in my book "Ten Discourses on China's Universities" (Zhongguo daxue shi jiang [Fudan University Publishing House, 2002]) and my article "Three Queries About Universities" ("Daxue san wen," Shu cheng, no. 7, 2003), so I here concentrate mainly on a narrative of events.