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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... realize the rate of urban growth . In spite of the opening of vast tracts of land to be had almost for the asking , the total town population has multiplied in the last hundred years from 3 to approxi- mately 50 per cent . For the third ...
... realize the rate of urban growth . In spite of the opening of vast tracts of land to be had almost for the asking , the total town population has multiplied in the last hundred years from 3 to approxi- mately 50 per cent . For the third ...
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... realized populations in excess of that which New York City had when they were boys . Vast numbers of immigrants differing radically in intelligence and in education from earlier comers are pouring into the country annually . It has been ...
... realized populations in excess of that which New York City had when they were boys . Vast numbers of immigrants differing radically in intelligence and in education from earlier comers are pouring into the country annually . It has been ...
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... realized , under happier con- ditions . Every librarian of experience , every adminis- trator of traveling libraries , will recall such instances . One boy comes upon the right book , and the current of his life is changed ; another ...
... realized , under happier con- ditions . Every librarian of experience , every adminis- trator of traveling libraries , will recall such instances . One boy comes upon the right book , and the current of his life is changed ; another ...
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... realize your resources . To get this matter before you definitely , pardon my using my own case as illustration . " From beginning to end of my common school education from the first grade through eighth - I never saw a school or a ...
... realize your resources . To get this matter before you definitely , pardon my using my own case as illustration . " From beginning to end of my common school education from the first grade through eighth - I never saw a school or a ...
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... realize our needs . " In the relatively few instances where co - operation between school and library administration has led to installation of modern library equipment in elemen- tary schools , the difficulties have been experienced ...
... realize our needs . " In the relatively few instances where co - operation between school and library administration has led to installation of modern library equipment in elemen- tary schools , the difficulties have been experienced ...
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