Benefactors
Waseda University has had numerous benefactors, including:
- Eiichi Shibusawa, businessman and philanthropist
- Ichizaemon Morimura, businessman
- Koichiro Kagami, businessman
- Kenkichi Kodera, presenter of over thirty-six thousand foreign books to the Library
- Kisaku Maekawa, businessman and philanthropist
- Masaru Ibuka, after whom Masaru Ibuka Auditorium (Hall) is named.
- Robert J. Shillman, founder & CEO of Cognex Corporation, namesake of Robert Shillman Hall
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“Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab’s or the Indian’s? When I think of the benefactors of the race, whom we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, I do not see in my mind any retinue at their heels, any carload of fashionable furniture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)