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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... average books on education issued since 1870 yields but scant encourage- ment to those who seek association of school and library . Six of the fifty writers give at least passing consideration to the subject . Two cyclopedias of edu ...
... average books on education issued since 1870 yields but scant encourage- ment to those who seek association of school and library . Six of the fifty writers give at least passing consideration to the subject . Two cyclopedias of edu ...
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... average can be struck , but when it is applied to children it is a hypothetical and not a real quantity . There is not , and never will be , an average child ; hence , a school system planned to meet the needs of the average child fits ...
... average can be struck , but when it is applied to children it is a hypothetical and not a real quantity . There is not , and never will be , an average child ; hence , a school system planned to meet the needs of the average child fits ...
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... average man and woman than in all the time that went before . Without the instrumentality of the printed page , without the reproductive processes that give to all the world in myriad tongues the thought of all the centuries , slavery ...
... average man and woman than in all the time that went before . Without the instrumentality of the printed page , without the reproductive processes that give to all the world in myriad tongues the thought of all the centuries , slavery ...
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... average daily attendance of 300,000 children , and scarce a hamlet in all this wide country that does not foster one or two of them , a large proportion of them supplied with pictures of doubtful propriety . The average penny arcade is ...
... average daily attendance of 300,000 children , and scarce a hamlet in all this wide country that does not foster one or two of them , a large proportion of them supplied with pictures of doubtful propriety . The average penny arcade is ...
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... average com- munity as determined by experience . The Wisconsin Commission also sends to communities where there are many persons of foreign birth , the best literature in their own tongues . In some sections of the state , peo- ple go ...
... average com- munity as determined by experience . The Wisconsin Commission also sends to communities where there are many persons of foreign birth , the best literature in their own tongues . In some sections of the state , peo- ple go ...
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