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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... hundred years from 3 to approxi- mately 50 per cent . For the third or fourth time , the city is becoming the dominant factor in the world's history . The city- states of Greece rose and fell . Some of them became spoils of conquerors ...
... hundred years from 3 to approxi- mately 50 per cent . For the third or fourth time , the city is becoming the dominant factor in the world's history . The city- states of Greece rose and fell . Some of them became spoils of conquerors ...
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... hundred cities have realized populations in excess of that which New York City had when they were boys . Vast numbers of immigrants differing radically in intelligence and in education from earlier comers are pouring into the country ...
... hundred cities have realized populations in excess of that which New York City had when they were boys . Vast numbers of immigrants differing radically in intelligence and in education from earlier comers are pouring into the country ...
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... hundred pages in a choice . shelf collection of library books , takes and submits notes , writes brief themes and prepares for weekly quizzes wherein the members of his class section help- fully interchange ideas and information . The ...
... hundred pages in a choice . shelf collection of library books , takes and submits notes , writes brief themes and prepares for weekly quizzes wherein the members of his class section help- fully interchange ideas and information . The ...
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... hundred years from that preceding , marked that world development whose ultimate meaning is not equality of station or possession , but equality of oppor- tunity . Not without stress and strife have these yet frag- mentary results been ...
... hundred years from that preceding , marked that world development whose ultimate meaning is not equality of station or possession , but equality of oppor- tunity . Not without stress and strife have these yet frag- mentary results been ...
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... hundred years ago . In the six- teenth century , it took a flock of sheep to furnish the vellum for one edition of a book , and the product was for the very few ; in the twentieth , a forest is felled to supply the paper for an edition ...
... hundred years ago . In the six- teenth century , it took a flock of sheep to furnish the vellum for one edition of a book , and the product was for the very few ; in the twentieth , a forest is felled to supply the paper for an edition ...
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