Many of the pioneers whose names figure in the annals of Taiwan humanities, science and medicine pored over their books and formulated their thoughts beneath the eaves of these buildings and conversed with their students as they reclined against the huge rocks set out in the garden.
許多留名台灣學術史上的人文、科學、醫學先驅，都曾在屋簷下展書凝思，倚著園中大石與學生對談。