Abstract: This paper probes into the cultivating talents in the first-class universities from three aspects, i.e. the tradition of top universities,undergraduate research and teaching,and points out that as invisible spiritual factors,the tradition is more important than the visible factors in cultivating talents. By anticipating research activity, the undergraduate can gain the ability of thinking and creating; And teaching based on research is helpful to improving the teaching quality. These are the key factors to cultivating talents.