Not content simply to have the new university founded and carrying out education, he set his long-term sights on building up graduate and professional schools for exploratory research, which was considered a rather experimental concept at the time.
不同於一般大學，芝大在創始之初，就不以成立大學部、辦好教育為滿足；而把目標放在發展探究學術的研究所及專業學院，這在當時算是相當「實驗性」的觀念。首創「季期」學制