First-Rate Students: First-time visitors to the Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences are inevitably awed by its well-planned, state-of-the-art and downright luxurious design. Unfortunately, judging by how deserted the large computer room is on Saturday afternoons, the popular saying on campus that "the students are first rate, the equipment is second rate and the professors are third rate" may need to be slightly revised.
朝日新聞、每日新聞、讀賣新聞及國營電視台 NHK 中，早大人都身居要津。對早大來說，媒體是行政、立法、司法以外的「第四權」，也算監控政府的在野勢力。