Fudan University, formerly romanized as Fuh Tan, was founded as Fudan Public School in 1905, by Ma Xiangbo, SJ, who had resigned from Aurora University. The two Chinese characters "Fu" (, means "again") and "Dan" (, means "morning", "light" ), meaning both "(heavenly light shines) day after day" and "Aurora Revived", were chosen by Ma on the recommendation of Yu Youren, from the Confucian Classic "Shangshu Dazhuan" (): "Itinerant as the twilight, sun glows and moon luminesces" (). The university motto "Scientia et studium, quaestīo et cogitatio" comes from Analects Book 19.6 (), which means "rich in knowledge and tenacious of purposes, inquiring with earnestness and reflecting with self-practice".