The details of establishment of Imperial University in this period were complicated due to the relationship between Imperial Diet and the government, problem of funding and constructing school buildings, and the relations between the predecessor institutions of high education and newly established Imperial Universities; and it was associated with the relationships with Shosuke SATO (last master of Sapporo Agricultural School, first president of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, first president of Hokkaido Imperial University), who was from Morioka Domain like Takashi HARA and a class mate in hanko Sakujinkan Shubunjo (domain school, Sakujinkan Shubunjo).
帝国議会と政府との関係、資金面の問題、校舎建設の問題、前身となる高等教育機関と新設各帝国大学との関係から、この時期の帝国大学の設立経緯は複雑であり、原敬と同じ盛岡藩出身で藩校作人館修文所で同級生だった佐藤昌介（札幌農学校最後の校長、東北帝国大学農科大学初代学長、北海道帝国大学初代総長）も関係している。