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large enough for baseball ! " The latter bids fair to become the national 

 game of Japan as it is of the United States, young Nippon taking to it 

 as readily as does young America. In adopting the game the Japanese 

 have also adopted the American nomenclature so that cries of " Ball 

 two, Strike one " and " Out at first " are heard on campus and sand-lot 

 on both sides of the Pacific. Military drill, compulsory through middle 

 and higher schools is not, I believe, required of university students, 

 though they show in their bearing the effects of their previous training. 

 Those who, while in the university, become subject for military duty are 

 excused until they complete their studies. They are also required to 

 serve but one year and become eligible for positions as officers. 



In equipment the imperial universities are excellently provided, but 

 in lands and buildings, judged by lavish American standards, they are 

 not so well fixed. At Tokyo the university stands within the grounds of 

 Kaga Yashiki, the former residence of the Daimyo of Kaga, who gave 

 the property to the government for the founding of the school. The 

 club house is one of the old residence buildings of the Daimyo and is 

 surrounded by a bit of landscape gardening that no art or money could 

 reproduce without the element of time that entered into its making. 

 Adjacent to the university is the home of the present Marquis, a part 

 of the original holdings having been retained by the family. The build- 

 ings of the university are unpretentious, but well-planned and well- 

 built brick structures. There is a central power station, water and 

 sanitation have been well cared for, and for working plant the univer- 

 sity is well provided. The same is true at Kyoto, though at both places 

 money has been spent on men, books and apparatus rather than on 

 buildings. The library at Kyoto consists of 255,000 volumes and that 

 at Tokyo of about 240,000 Japanese and Chinese books, and 189,300 

 European and American. As Tokyo University is charged with the 

 duty of compiling the historical records of Japan, the collection of 

 native material is certain to increase rapidly in amount and value. 



Both Kyoto and Tokyo universities support learned publications in 

 literature, science and arts. The publications of the Medical School at 

 Tokyo are in German, those of the Observatory in French, and the 

 others in English, except the republication of documents relating to 

 Japanese history, a monumental work in Japanese. The list of titles at 

 Kyoto and at Tokyo reads not unlike similar lists from Johns Hopkins, 

 Columbia or Chicago. As for doctor's theses, they read alike around the 

 world, but one wonders what Shinjo Sogo, who obtained the coveted 

 Hogakushi by investigating the subject, found to be the " Fundamental 

 Ideas of Political Economy," and also what ISTaoji Oshina, Bungakushi, 

 resolved on as the " Theory of the Moral Ideal." The study of the 

 " Development of Pure Philosophy in India," by Taiken Kimura, should 

 also be of interest. With the abundant materials available and the 

 insight given by favorable historical background those who devote them- 



