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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... importance of the subject with some ful- ness of treatment . Perhaps this sweeping characteriza- tion of stolid school - room self - sufficiency should be modified by crediting to Horace Mann a vision that scarcely survived his passing ...
... importance of the subject with some ful- ness of treatment . Perhaps this sweeping characteriza- tion of stolid school - room self - sufficiency should be modified by crediting to Horace Mann a vision that scarcely survived his passing ...
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... importance of the subject.3 Forty - two books issued between the years men- tioned , and about equally divided between the decades . represented are wholly barren of such mention . On the other hand , two are notable for vital grasp and ...
... importance of the subject.3 Forty - two books issued between the years men- tioned , and about equally divided between the decades . represented are wholly barren of such mention . On the other hand , two are notable for vital grasp and ...
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... importance warrant special library facilities for children , cer- tainly the same reasons underlie the special library work with foreigners which has within recent years been carried on extensively in the larger cities . Last month the ...
... importance warrant special library facilities for children , cer- tainly the same reasons underlie the special library work with foreigners which has within recent years been carried on extensively in the larger cities . Last month the ...
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... importance . Statute books are heavily cum- bered with laws that are unenforced because public opinion goes counter to them . Nonenforcement breeds disrespect for law , and unscientific making of laws leads to their disregard . So the ...
... importance . Statute books are heavily cum- bered with laws that are unenforced because public opinion goes counter to them . Nonenforcement breeds disrespect for law , and unscientific making of laws leads to their disregard . So the ...
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... importance cannot be overestimated . What they ac- complish is not wholly reducible to statistics , nor can their influence be readily traced , perhaps , to the great undertakings of today which overshadow the seven wonders of antiquity ...
... importance cannot be overestimated . What they ac- complish is not wholly reducible to statistics , nor can their influence be readily traced , perhaps , to the great undertakings of today which overshadow the seven wonders of antiquity ...
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