Library IdealsOpen Court Publishing Company, 1918 - 78 páginas 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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... attention , and the lower and baser life seems to have absorbed all the sympathy and care of the authorities . But we have touched the fringe of better days , and soon no municipality or local governing body will be con- sidered ...
... attention , and the lower and baser life seems to have absorbed all the sympathy and care of the authorities . But we have touched the fringe of better days , and soon no municipality or local governing body will be con- sidered ...
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... attention . It is a new expression of an old impulse . Eighty years ago the working people and artisan classes of Great Britain took part in a simi- lar movement . Its beginning was prompted by a wish for technical instruction . Soon ...
... attention . It is a new expression of an old impulse . Eighty years ago the working people and artisan classes of Great Britain took part in a simi- lar movement . Its beginning was prompted by a wish for technical instruction . Soon ...
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... attention which libraries have given to the needs of young people as a distinct contribution to society . Another generation must come before material evi- dence for good or ill becomes apparent . That the work is well worth the thought ...
... attention which libraries have given to the needs of young people as a distinct contribution to society . Another generation must come before material evi- dence for good or ill becomes apparent . That the work is well worth the thought ...
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... attention of thoughful men and enlisted the cordial aid of public - spirited indi- viduals . Philanthropists have found therein an ave- nue for their benefactions yielding undoubted results . Many wealthy men , instead of rearing to ...
... attention of thoughful men and enlisted the cordial aid of public - spirited indi- viduals . Philanthropists have found therein an ave- nue for their benefactions yielding undoubted results . Many wealthy men , instead of rearing to ...
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... attention pointedly to the above penalty of failure ; and I remember how concerned the mother was , and how quickly she got the book and dragging me along after her , speedily returned it to the library , and thus es- caped the sentence ...
... attention pointedly to the above penalty of failure ; and I remember how concerned the mother was , and how quickly she got the book and dragging me along after her , speedily returned it to the library , and thus es- caped the sentence ...
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