Ichiro MIKUNI, an essayist who graduated from the Eighth Higher School, he saw the students of Tokyo Imperial University who were graduates of the seven-year high schools upon entering the university, and he described them as 'a group of eccentric type of the students of Tokyo Imperial University.'
八高出身のエッセイスト・三國一朗は東京帝大に入学したさい、七年制高等学校出身の東大生を目撃し、「異様なタイプの東大生の一群」とひょうしている。