At the time of the Philosophy Academy Incident the Ministry had been receiving severe criticism from the public due to this major bribery scandal. Even the Minister of Education ended up being rep-rimanded. The Ministry of Education’s association with yet another incident during this time period likely meant increased public scrutiny. In March the Ministry dispatched Kumamoto, the inspector who was involved in the incident, to Europe under the guise of having him research higher education. On March tenth 1903 a group of ethics researchers called the “Teiyū Ethics Society” published “An Opinion on the Philosophy Academy Incident,” which helped to bring the Incident to a close. In the case of the problem at hand, the Philosophy Academy Incident, we do not accept that Mr. M’s [Muirhead’s] theory of ticularly reprehensible due to his having provided quotations as they stand [without commentary]. Immediately after the incident, in the absence of its director, the Academy decided to “show restraint and be cautious.” In January it simply posted a notice of the event, withholding any opinion. The revoking of accreditation was a problem that not only affected the graduates of the ethics studies course. It also applied to students of the Chinese classics course that had already graduated. It effected three academic years of the education department, in Course One (Cultivation of Character/Education) and Course Two (Japanese motive is dangerous from the standpoint of education, nor do we accept that, in the role of an instructor in ethics studies, Mr. Nakajima is guilty of negligence that should be considered par-133
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