On December thirteenth the yearly Philosophy Academy Memo-rial Meeting took place at the Ueno Seiyoken banquet rooms. At this meeting there were speeches by ISHIGURO Chikanori, in whose pri-vate tutoring school Enryō had studied as a child, and ŌUCHI Seiran, who had played a major role in reforming Buddhism in the Meiji era. After listening to these speeches Enryō returned home and gave a great deal of thought to all that had transpired. Then, as a solution to the many problems he was facing, he made up his mind to retire from all of the schools. Thus, Enryō brought to a close an era that had seen him creating the Philosophy Academy and the Philosophy Academy University. Founding Toyo University and Retiring from the School December thirteenth 1905 was the day Enryō decided to retire. His successor was tentatively decided within two weeks and on the twenty-eighth a contract was signed to hand over the office. The contract covered, first, a timetable for the change of president (from January of the following year), second, the continuation and management of the private school culture, and third, the determina-tion of Enryō’s property holdings. Regarding the first item of the contract, his successor was chosen from among the lecturers. MAEDA Eun was chosen as the second president of the university Maeda was a doctor of literature from the True Pure Land Honganji School (Nishi Honganji) who was known as the leading authority on Tendai Studies and who had also taught at Tokyo Imperial University. 151
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