One newspaper made fun of him, saying, “Mr. Inoue Enryō’s shoes make a ‘gimme gimme’ sound [when he walks].” His daughter was indignant when she read this and asked him why it was necessary for them to say such things. Her father replied: created through donations, those donors will lovingly think of it as their own school. That is why I ask people to give donations. Apparently convinced, his daughter later said to her maid, “You can’t create a school unless people hate you enough to write about it in the newspaper.” Enryō’s family understood him well. A university is not something you can make by yourself. If it is 116
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