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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... learning , specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us , it is a return to romance , poetry , imagination , fancy , and the gen- eral culture we are now taught to despise . Of all ...
... learning , specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us , it is a return to romance , poetry , imagination , fancy , and the gen- eral culture we are now taught to despise . Of all ...
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... learning . " " No cost nor pains , " he urged in the concluding pages of his letter to the mayors of Germany , " should be spared to procure good libraries in suitable build- ings , especially in the large cities which are able to ...
... learning . " " No cost nor pains , " he urged in the concluding pages of his letter to the mayors of Germany , " should be spared to procure good libraries in suitable build- ings , especially in the large cities which are able to ...
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... learning by rote ; text - book learning alone . One devotes thereto a column and a half of 1736 columns in the volume , and the other devotes 37 columns to the subject of the 1480 columns contained in one of the five volumes of the work ...
... learning by rote ; text - book learning alone . One devotes thereto a column and a half of 1736 columns in the volume , and the other devotes 37 columns to the subject of the 1480 columns contained in one of the five volumes of the work ...
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... learning to keep my toes on a crack and my voice from falling on a question mark ! " In high school I had very little but the regular text . Again memory work was the test . I remember well a boy who was my ideal . He learned his geog ...
... learning to keep my toes on a crack and my voice from falling on a question mark ! " In high school I had very little but the regular text . Again memory work was the test . I remember well a boy who was my ideal . He learned his geog ...
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... learning has been more widely dissemi- nated . As more people have become educated , the demand for books has increased enormously . The multiplication of books has stimulated the writing of them , and the inevitable result has been a ...
... learning has been more widely dissemi- nated . As more people have become educated , the demand for books has increased enormously . The multiplication of books has stimulated the writing of them , and the inevitable result has been a ...
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