Library IdealsOpen Court Publishing Company, 1918 - Počet stran: 78 WISCONSIN, a true cradle of freedom and successful government, has fostered several librarians who were true humanists. Dr. Peckham was one. Dr. Thwaites was another. Henry E. Legler was unlike either of these, but greater than either in his continued and unabated activity for the good of the people. Once, on being complimented for his splendid work in natural history and his persistence in the pursuit of scientific facts, Dr. Peckham remarked: "Oh, yes, but the facts have no value in themselves. They merely build up the groundwork of the ideas, and help you climb to the point of view where the deeper aspects of the subject spread out before you like a landscape beneath a mountain-top." Mr. Legler's activity in behalf of libraries will support the same explanation. He seemed always immersed in detail, always planning some movement and carrying it into effect by his peculiar, dynamic persistence. But he who observed the man kindly and closely cannot have failed to have noticed that there was a distinct Beyond illumining and overshadowing it all. There was a dream to come true, a vision to be unfolded. The dream and vision were in the man's speech and eye. He lived under a prophecy. |
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... heart flow out after it , in an ecstacy of longing . " One day , when Will was about sixteen , a young man arrived at sunset to pass the night . He was a contented - looking fellow , with a jolly eye , and carried a knapsack . While ...
... heart flow out after it , in an ecstacy of longing . " One day , when Will was about sixteen , a young man arrived at sunset to pass the night . He was a contented - looking fellow , with a jolly eye , and carried a knapsack . While ...
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... heart was young and vigorous , and if his pulses kept a sober time , they still beat strong and steady in his wrists . He stooped a little , but his step was firm , and his sinewy hands were reached out to all men with a friendly ...
... heart was young and vigorous , and if his pulses kept a sober time , they still beat strong and steady in his wrists . He stooped a little , but his step was firm , and his sinewy hands were reached out to all men with a friendly ...
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... heart with the writer's fervor of renunciation . " Her new inward life shone out in her face with a tender , soft light that mingled itself as added loveliness with the enriched color and outline of her blossoming youth . Maggie was ...
... heart with the writer's fervor of renunciation . " Her new inward life shone out in her face with a tender , soft light that mingled itself as added loveliness with the enriched color and outline of her blossoming youth . Maggie was ...
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... heart . He was not much acquainted with valves of any sort , but he knew that valvæ were folding doors , and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely - adjusted mechanism in the human ...
... heart . He was not much acquainted with valves of any sort , but he knew that valvæ were folding doors , and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely - adjusted mechanism in the human ...
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... heart of the institution — the library is there marvel that the love of literature is being strangled in the schools ? Required reading of classics , and the use of literary masterpieces for classroom dissection has taken . away the ...
... heart of the institution — the library is there marvel that the love of literature is being strangled in the schools ? Required reading of classics , and the use of literary masterpieces for classroom dissection has taken . away the ...
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