91 year the undergraduate department of Keio University was born, making it the first private institution to be named a university. As mentioned above, under the system at that time the Imperial University was the only university. So, in the case of Keio it was clas-sified under the non-standard name “undergraduate university.” It was composed of the three departments of literature, law, and eco-nomics. For private schools, this represented a historic first step. In September Enryō revealed the specifics of his plan to turn the Philosophy Academy into a private liberal arts university. According to the “Prospectus for the Establishment of a Specialized Depart-ment at the Philosophy Academy,” this plan called for the establish-ment of a three-year general education course, which would combine the present one year of general education with the upper two-year course. This would be in addition to a two-year specialized course made up of the four departments for the study of Japanese, Chinese, Buddhism, and Western studies. The full course would take five years. Each of the four specialized departments was to have a regular and an auxiliary course, with the regular one based on Japanese schol-arship and the auxiliary based on Western scholarship. The depart-ment of Western studies would first provide students with a course of study unique to Japan before moving on to specializations in Western philosophy, literature, and history. Part of this plan was to solicit 100,000 yen in donations. When the money collected reached the level of fifty thousand yen the school would establish one specialized course (of two years) and would then gradually establish the other departments. If the donations surpassed
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