... collection of books. In this place, in this spacious building, they offer one of the best assurances a university can have of strength and fame and numbers, for a great library draws men and women in search of education as a garden of flowers draws... The Yale Review - Página 445editado por - 1905Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 640 páginas
...from Rome to Stockholm, and purchased in all, about fifty thousand additional volumes. It has been said, " the true university of these days is a collection of books." If so, the Astor Library, with its hundred thousand volumes, is one of the few universities in America.... | |
| Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 650 páginas
...from Rome to Stockholm, and purchased in all, about fifty thousand additional volumes. It has been said, " the true university of these days is a collection of books." If so, the Astor Library, with its hundred thousand volumes, is one of the few universities in America.... | |
| Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 614 páginas
...from Home to Stockholm, and purchased in all, about fifty thousand additional volumes. It has been said, " the true university of these days is a collection of books." . If so, the Astor Library, with its hundred thousand volumes, is one of the few universities in America.... | |
| Minnesota Historical Society - 1881 - 730 páginas
...true value than in this. Their educational value is becoming appreciated more and more. Carlyle well said, ' 'The true university of these days, is a collection of books." The public library is open to all. The burning of the Alexandrian library has been called ' 'The paralysis... | |
| 1887 - 196 páginas
...present in the infancy of the science of properly utilizing the treasures to be found in books. Carlyle said " the true university of these days is a collection of books," but there is no university I know of which requires more and better professors. Nothing is more helpless... | |
| 1902 - 220 páginas
...SMALL LIRRARIES. ' The library ranks second only to the school as an educational institution. Carlyle said, "The true university of these days is a collection of books." The moral and educational value of a library is hard to estimate but depends largely upon the kind... | |
| 1903 - 886 páginas
...ideal, with a full collection of books well housed, the university may fail of its purpose. Carlyle said "the true university of these days is a collection of books," but this dictum is true only for the trained scholar, like Carlyle, who knows how to make use of them.... | |
| 1914 - 750 páginas
...search of education as a garden of flowers draws the bees. Carlyle indeed went even further when he said "the true university of these days is a collection of books." Such a library as this is not only a pillar of support to learning but it is a university in itself.... | |
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