Therefore, although it only offered opportunities for peaceful poem meetings when it was established, as talk of the academy spread nationwide, many young people gathered, and it became to offer opportunities to discuss domestic and international current events, and eventually grew, adding an additional building ("Autobiography of Kinmochi SAIONJI" edited by Ki KIMURA).
そのため、開設当初は平穏な詩会の場に過ぎなかったのが、塾の噂が各地に広がるにつれ、多くの若者が集まって内外の時事問題を議論する場へと変化、ついには校舎を増築する程までに成長している（木村毅編『西園寺公望自伝』）。