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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... opportunities, but it was for Mr. Legler to illumine their knowledge and opportunity with the live spark of inspiration. The dream was in his eye, inspiration was in his speech and manner. Library work was the means in his power of ...
... opportunities, but it was for Mr. Legler to illumine their knowledge and opportunity with the live spark of inspiration. The dream was in his eye, inspiration was in his speech and manner. Library work was the means in his power of ...
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... opportunities , but it was for Mr. Legler to illumine their knowledge and oppor- tunity with the live spark of inspiration . The dream was in his eye , inspiration was in his speech and manner . Library work was the means in his power ...
... opportunities , but it was for Mr. Legler to illumine their knowledge and oppor- tunity with the live spark of inspiration . The dream was in his eye , inspiration was in his speech and manner . Library work was the means in his power ...
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... opportunities are no less than those to be secured in larger cities of pulsing life . How wretch- edly as yet this want has been met in most states , those charged with the supervision of educational activities . can testify . There are ...
... opportunities are no less than those to be secured in larger cities of pulsing life . How wretch- edly as yet this want has been met in most states , those charged with the supervision of educational activities . can testify . There are ...
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... opportunity for self - help in the public libraries , in night schools , and in other agencies ; the same opportunities are not provided to any appreciable extent in the country regions . In the present stage of educational development ...
... opportunity for self - help in the public libraries , in night schools , and in other agencies ; the same opportunities are not provided to any appreciable extent in the country regions . In the present stage of educational development ...
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... opportunity in life that yields to no individual as a birthright chances denied to his fellow . And surely if there is any institution that represents this fundamental prin- ciple and carries out a policy in consonance , it is the ...
... opportunity in life that yields to no individual as a birthright chances denied to his fellow . And surely if there is any institution that represents this fundamental prin- ciple and carries out a policy in consonance , it is the ...
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