This paper is a summary of a paper, “A Study on the Students' Scribbles during the Foundation Phase of the Faculty of Business Administration,” the authors published in the Journal of Business Management, No.48. The paper analyzes students' scribbles written in Keieigaku Nyumon (1932) and Keieigaku Tsuron (1935), which are published by Yasutaro Hirai and kept in the collection of the Kobe University Library for Social Sciences. The scribbles, written during the period from the educational system reform to around 1950, bring the voices of the students back to life. The voices included encouragement for Hirai, who had been advocating the significance of management studies since the pre-war era, whereas others showed criticism toward Hirai as well as adverse comments by the students who had been relying on the commerce studies. In this paper, the authors consider these scribbles as historical documents and discuss the emotional history of the students who went through the process of foundation of the new faculties and academic disciplines. For the students of that time, the scribbles were a means of anonymously expressing their “voices of the heart”, as is the SNS in contemporary society.
