He left seisokuka in his second year of the school partly because the school had no class for English, which was a compulsory subject of entrance examination of Preparatory School of the University of Tokyo (Daigaku Yobimon), and partly because he desired to study the Chinese classics and literature.
しかし、大学予備門受験に必須であった英語の授業が行われていない正則科に入学したことと、また漢学・文学を志すため2年ほどで中退した。