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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... sort of non- sense , and keep breaking their hearts to get up into the mountains . And let me tell you , those who go down into the plains are a very short while there before they wish themselves heartily back again . The air is not so ...
... sort of non- sense , and keep breaking their hearts to get up into the mountains . And let me tell you , those who go down into the plains are a very short while there before they wish themselves heartily back again . The air is not so ...
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... sort of book that he could lay his hands on ; if it were Rasselas or Gulliver , so much the better , but Bailey's Dictionary would do , or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it . Something he must read when he was not riding the pony , or ...
... sort of book that he could lay his hands on ; if it were Rasselas or Gulliver , so much the better , but Bailey's Dictionary would do , or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it . Something he must read when he was not riding the pony , or ...
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... sort , but he knew that valvæ were folding doors , and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely - adjusted mechanism in the human frame . A liberal education had , of course , left him ...
... sort , but he knew that valvæ were folding doors , and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely - adjusted mechanism in the human frame . A liberal education had , of course , left him ...
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... sort of people , doing every sort of work . " When some of the foremost leaders in education leave out of a list of desiderata for the high school what the universities have come to regard as the very heart of the institution — the ...
... sort of people , doing every sort of work . " When some of the foremost leaders in education leave out of a list of desiderata for the high school what the universities have come to regard as the very heart of the institution — the ...
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... sort of vaccination to prevent their taking literature seri- ously . " Most teachers of English have had at times the experience holding open a volume of Shakespeare with one hand , while with the other they waved some sort of ...
... sort of vaccination to prevent their taking literature seri- ously . " Most teachers of English have had at times the experience holding open a volume of Shakespeare with one hand , while with the other they waved some sort of ...
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