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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... supply of good books ? You might as well teach a man the use of his knife and fork and then not give him any meat . Public libraries are the natural and legitimate out- come of compulsory education . CERTAIN PHASES OF LIBRARY EXTENSION1 ...
... supply of good books ? You might as well teach a man the use of his knife and fork and then not give him any meat . Public libraries are the natural and legitimate out- come of compulsory education . CERTAIN PHASES OF LIBRARY EXTENSION1 ...
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... supply of political 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 ...
... supply of political 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 ...
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... supplies what forethought neglects to include . Quarters are ordi- narily unsuitable and insufficient . Adequate provision should be made when school buildings are planned , for library quarters that are ample as to size and strat- egic ...
... supplies what forethought neglects to include . Quarters are ordi- narily unsuitable and insufficient . Adequate provision should be made when school buildings are planned , for library quarters that are ample as to size and strat- egic ...
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... supply the paper for an edition , and the output goes to many hundred thousand readers . As books have multiplied , learning has been more widely dissemi- nated . As more people have become educated , the demand for books has increased ...
... supply the paper for an edition , and the output goes to many hundred thousand readers . As books have multiplied , learning has been more widely dissemi- nated . As more people have become educated , the demand for books has increased ...
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... supply is practically negligible . Even the hundreds of itinerating libraries but meagerly meet the want . All the traveling libra- ries in all the United States have a total issue annually less than that of any one twenty municipal ...
... supply is practically negligible . Even the hundreds of itinerating libraries but meagerly meet the want . All the traveling libra- ries in all the United States have a total issue annually less than that of any one twenty municipal ...
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