philosophical movements of world renown. Naturally, at present, Humboldtism in Kyoto is in contemporary guise. Students’ career paths are highly diversifi ed, and the way professors think is signifi cantly diff erent from what it used to be when I was a student here. Th e Faculty, even the Graduate School as well, is becoming more and more like a place where students learn to make use of their knowledge in humanities and social sciences in various prospective spheres of life, rather than a place of narrowly specialized studies. Each professor is now aiming to be an accompanying runner, as it were, seeing to the needs of each student, rather than an all-too-severe training coach. Currently we may be living in a world of control and supervision, a kind of Orwellian dystopia where everyone is watching everyone else via smart phones. Th ere are some tendencies in which established values are regarded as absolute, and attempts are made to tie people closely to these values by monitoring and mutual surveillance. Such tendencies affect institutions of higher education, and Kyoto University is no exception. And yet, in our Faculty and Graduate School, still breathing is the “Humboldtian spirit” that has been engaged in timeless pursuit of academic excellence without paying heed to present interests, and has been proposing new senses of value to society. Here we have an aspiration to defend to the end the Humboldtian tradition which was established here for the first time in Asia. Let me cordially invite all of you to participate in the “Humboldtian spirit” of the Faculty and Graduate School and thereby gain strength enough to repel the dystopian pressures of supervision and mutual surveillance.Dean of the Faculty and Graduate School of LettersDEGUCHI, YasuoBooks and articles consulted:Ushiogi, Morikazu. Th e Challenge of Kyoto Imperial University: a Chapter in the History of Imperial Universities. 1984（『京都帝国大学の挑戦帝国大学史のひとこま』）-----. Th e End of Humboldtian Idea?: New Dimension of the University at the Present Time. 2008. Kyoto Imperial University. Th irty Years of Kyoto Imperial University. 1935.Kobayashi, Yoshifumi. A Study of Growth and Reform in Chinese Modern Education. 2002. Booth, C. G. “Clinical Research.” W. F. Bynum and R. Porter eds., Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. 1993Lawrence, S. “Medical Education.” W. F. Bynum and R. Porter eds., Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. 1993 （『フンボルト理念の終焉？現代大学の新次元』）（『京都帝國大學文學部三十周年史』）（『中国近代教育の普及と改革に関する研究』）1
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