Under such circumstances, the president of the university, Sawayanagi, was driven into a corner and was forced to resign from his post in April of the same year (Kenjiro YAMAKAWA, the president of Tokyo Imperial University, was concurrently appointed as a successor).
このため同年4月、進退窮まった沢柳総長は辞職に追い込まれた（後任総長は山川健次郎東京帝大総長が兼任した）。