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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... institutions of this nature . It is some forty years since Carlyle asked the ques- tion , " Why is there not a Majesty's library in every county town ? There is a Majesty's gaol and gallows in every one , " and it is as long since the ...
... institutions of this nature . It is some forty years since Carlyle asked the ques- tion , " Why is there not a Majesty's library in every county town ? There is a Majesty's gaol and gallows in every one , " and it is as long since the ...
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... institution that represents this fundamental prin- ciple and carries out a policy in consonance , it is the public library . Neither condition nor place of birth , nor age , nor sex , nor social position , serves as bar of exclusion ...
... institution that represents this fundamental prin- ciple and carries out a policy in consonance , it is the public library . Neither condition nor place of birth , nor age , nor sex , nor social position , serves as bar of exclusion ...
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... institutions , through the education given to the younger generation , is doubtless one of the most remarkable exhibitions of vitality that the world has ever seen , " says Dr. John Dewey in an address on " The School as a Social Center ...
... institutions , through the education given to the younger generation , is doubtless one of the most remarkable exhibitions of vitality that the world has ever seen , " says Dr. John Dewey in an address on " The School as a Social Center ...
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... institutions , with collections of books as a secondary interest . The institutes increased enormously in number , until through their medium more than a million volumes a year were circulated . Charles Knight issued his penny ...
... institutions , with collections of books as a secondary interest . The institutes increased enormously in number , until through their medium more than a million volumes a year were circulated . Charles Knight issued his penny ...
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... The form this combination will assume need give us no concern - whether its local physical expression shall be as in Boston a group of buildings maintained as separate institutions ; or as in Pittsburgh PHASES OF LIBRARY EXTENSION 19.
... The form this combination will assume need give us no concern - whether its local physical expression shall be as in Boston a group of buildings maintained as separate institutions ; or as in Pittsburgh PHASES OF LIBRARY EXTENSION 19.
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