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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... municipalities is earnestly urged the need of giving the fullest and best attention to this question . The fact should be emphasized that the municipality can do for the people in the way of libraries and museums what cannot possibly be ...
... municipalities is earnestly urged the need of giving the fullest and best attention to this question . The fact should be emphasized that the municipality can do for the people in the way of libraries and museums what cannot possibly be ...
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... municipality to give to every individual absolutely without cost an education embracing sixteen years of life , there are retarding circumstances that prevent all but a mere fraction of the population from enjoying these advan- tages in ...
... municipality to give to every individual absolutely without cost an education embracing sixteen years of life , there are retarding circumstances that prevent all but a mere fraction of the population from enjoying these advan- tages in ...
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... municipalities has brought new and impor- tant problems . Within the lifetime of men today a hundred cities have realized populations in excess of that which New York City had when they were boys . Vast numbers of immigrants differing ...
... municipalities has brought new and impor- tant problems . Within the lifetime of men today a hundred cities have realized populations in excess of that which New York City had when they were boys . Vast numbers of immigrants differing ...
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... municipalities have shown an increasing conception of educational values . The figures make an imposing statistical array . In the United States there are 1,222 incorporated places of 5,000 or more inhabitants , and their libraries ...
... municipalities have shown an increasing conception of educational values . The figures make an imposing statistical array . In the United States there are 1,222 incorporated places of 5,000 or more inhabitants , and their libraries ...
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... municipalities , politically and industrially and socially . These are the awful problems of congestion and festering slums , of corrup- tion in public life , of the exploitation of womanhood , of terrible struggle with wretchedness and ...
... municipalities , politically and industrially and socially . These are the awful problems of congestion and festering slums , of corrup- tion in public life , of the exploitation of womanhood , of terrible struggle with wretchedness and ...
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