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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... literature that permeates every hamlet . Civic intelligence has thriven upon the mere haphazard and desultory reading of the people . Correspondence studies will put their scat- tered material into shape for them and systematize their ...
... literature that permeates every hamlet . Civic intelligence has thriven upon the mere haphazard and desultory reading of the people . Correspondence studies will put their scat- tered material into shape for them and systematize their ...
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... literature . And how is this to be done if genius and talent are allowed to die unborn for lack of opportunity to grow ? Wonderful as has been the progress of the world's knowledge during the last century of scientific research , who ...
... literature . And how is this to be done if genius and talent are allowed to die unborn for lack of opportunity to grow ? Wonderful as has been the progress of the world's knowledge during the last century of scientific research , who ...
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... literature con- sisted in 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 ...
... literature con- sisted in 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 ...
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... literature is a result of culti- vation more often than a gift of nature , and that the years of the elementary school seem to be the time in which the taste takes deepest root . Dr. Scott Nearing points out that the old education ...
... literature is a result of culti- vation more often than a gift of nature , and that the years of the elementary school seem to be the time in which the taste takes deepest root . Dr. Scott Nearing points out that the old education ...
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... literature is being strangled in the schools ? Required reading of classics , and the use of literary masterpieces for classroom dissection has taken . away the pure joy of reading and made the study of literature a mere literary ...
... literature is being strangled in the schools ? Required reading of classics , and the use of literary masterpieces for classroom dissection has taken . away the pure joy of reading and made the study of literature a mere literary ...
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