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The title of Kogakushi (licentiate of engineering) is granted to the student who has successfully passed one of these nine courses. Much importance is laid on practical training, the object of which is to give to students the knowledge for the practical application of scientific principles. For this purpose students are trained either in the college or else they are sent out to see various establishments or institutions of industry related to their respective studies. The laboratories are all provided with machines, tools, apparatus, instruments, etc., and are under the control of the various professors. Original investigations are much encouraged. The museums of the college are seven in number—for Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Electric Engineering, Architecture, Applied Chemistry, and for Mining and Metallurgy. The collections in the above comprise models, samples, specimens, instruments, etc. The Engineering College is one of the most popular among Japanese students, and sometimes the number of applications for admission exceeds that which the college is prepared to receive; and it is evident that increased facilities for the University study of Engineering are an urgent necessity.
In the College of Literature the following nine courses, each extending over a period of three years, have been established:
- Philosophy.
- Japanese Literature.
- Chinese Literature.
- Japanese History.
- History.
- Comparative Philology.
- English Literature.
- German Literature.
- French Literature.
The title of Bungakushi (licentiate of literature) is granted to the student who has successfully finished one of the courses. Attached to this college there is a committee for the compilation of materials for the history of Japan, presided over by one of the professors of the college. It has collected ancient documents and records, copied from old originals kept in old Buddhist and Shinto temples, or preserved for generations by certain ancient families. Of such ancient documents the total number is about 100,000, while there are nearly 2,000 volumes of old records. It has already published four volumes of the ‘Materials’ and two of ‘Ancient Documents.’