The Wilson Bulletin, Band 2

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H.W. Wilson Company, 1922
 

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Seite 4 - The school system that does not make liberal provision for training in the use of libraries fails to do its full duty in the way of revealing to all future citizens the opportunity to know and to use the resources of the public library as a means of education.
Seite 3 - All pupils In both elementary and secondary schools should have ready access to books to the end that they may be trained (a) to love to read that which is worth while...
Seite 316 - A good story has created many an oasis in many an otherwise arid life. Many-sidedness of interest makes for good morals, and millions of our fellows step through the pages of a story book into a broader world than their nature and their circumstances ever permit them to visit. If anything is to stay the narrowing and hardening process which specialization of learning, specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us, it is a return to romance, poetry,...
Seite 315 - Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them — almost all women;— a vast number of clever hard-headed men. Why, one of the most learned physicians in England said to me only yesterday, " I have just read So-and-so for the second time" (naming one of Jones's exquisite fictions).
Seite 350 - For although a Poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him...
Seite 477 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, "See, this is new?" it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Seite 421 - You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head - Do you think, at your age, it is right?
Seite 4 - ... which are otherwise exceptional. Small communities may often obtain increased library service for the same expenditure per capita by enlarging the area of administration. The situation in large communities is often modified by the presence of good endowed libraries free for public use. Communities desiring their libraries to supply these needs extensively and with the highest grade of trained service, will find it necessary to provide a support much larger than the minimum of one dollar per capita.
Seite 286 - The book which degrades our intellect, vulgarizes our emotions, kills our faith in our kind, is an immoral book; the book which stimulates thought, quickens our sense of humor, gives us a deeper insight into men and women and a finer sympathy with them, is a moral book, let its subject-matter have as wide a range as life itself.
Seite 271 - To meet this situation, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the American Legion, the National Education Association and the United States Bureau of Education more than a year ago called a conference in Washington of persons interested in the reduction of illiteracy.

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