The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote And think they grow immortal as they quote.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration and all the fair examples of renown out of distress and misery are grown.