33 Enryō was thus able to enter the prep school as a student in the first intake. He studied there for three years. The curriculum at the time had just been decided the year Enryō entered. The core subjects were English, mathematics, art, and Japanese/Chinese studies, with differ-ent additional subjects for each grade year. According to the course graduation certificates that remain from the school, minor subjects also commonly studied included: in the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, physiology, botany, and zoology; and, in the humanities, geography, history, and finance. Enryō’s systematic study of the prin-ciples of the natural sciences would play a major role in his later stud-ies of philosophy, Buddhism, psychology, and mystery studies. A classmate, HŌJŌ Tokiyuki, commented as follows. (Hōjō be-came a mathematician and later took on roles such president of Ga-kushuin University.) addition to being very studious. Naturally, during my time at the preparatory school I was in a different class from Mr. Enryō, the others… In addition to his academic achievements, he was proactively engaged in many other activities as a student so… his creative insights, the wealth of knowledge he gained from reading, and his eloquence made him conspicuously unique among his peers. According to the available materials when Enryō entered the school he had 124 classmates, but by the time he graduated as a fourth year student, there were forty-eight. There was fierce competition at the During his time as a student Mr. Inoue was a brilliant mind in who was always taking first place, standing out one rank above
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