As a result, even though "belonging to the grassroots" and being "a school for the rural poor from around the country" are still touted as the Waseda school spirit, in actual fact, two out of every three students last year came from the Kanto region around Tokyo.
因此「草根性」、「來自全日本鄉下窮孩子念的學校」儘管還是眾人朗朗上口的早大精神，但事實上，以一九九一年度為例，每三個早大學生中就有兩個出身東京周遭的「關東區」。