About his relation with NARUSE, he said that 'when I was serving as the executive secretary at Ministry of Education, at my house I was often visited by a person called Jinzo NARUSE, who scrambled to establish a women's university at today's Mejiro, and a person called Shozo ASO' which was representative of the fact that NARUSE and another person visited NAKAGAWA to discuss an idea to establish a school ('Nakagawa Socho Kowa (II)' (Nakagawa Headmaster's talk), "Nakagawa-ke Bunsho" (Document of the Nakagawa Family).
成瀬との関係について中川は、「吾輩が文部省で秘書官をしていた時分、現在の目白にある女子大学を創立しやうとして色々奔走していた成瀬仁蔵といふ人と麻生正蔵といふ人とが吾輩の家に寄寓していた」と述べており、成瀬らが中川を訪れ学校設立について具体的に協議を行っていたことを窺わせる（「中川総長講話（二）」『中川家文書』）。