Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the Cty of BostonJ. H. Eastburn, 1852 |
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Página 17 - ... numbers that many persons, if they desire it, can be reading the same work at the same moment, and so render the pleasant and healthy literature of the day accessible to the whole people at the only time they care for it, — that is, when it is living, fresh and new. Additional copies, therefore, of any book of this class should continue to be bought almost as long as they are urgently demanded, and thus, by following the popular taste, — unless it should ask for something unhealthy...
Página 66 - In witness whereof, the said City of Boston, by Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., its Mayor, who is duly authorized to execute these presents by the City Council of said City, and the said Deacons of the Old South Church, have hereto set their hands the day and year first above written. United States Government Bump. CHARLES STODDAKD,' LORING LOTHROP, AVERY PLUMER, Deacons of the Old South Church.
Página 44 - The Committee on the Purchase of Books, to whom was referred the communication of Mr. Ticknor, of the 23d September, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following Report : The aforesaid communication contains a perspicuous account of Mr. Ticknor's proceedings in Europe, in execution of the trusts confided to him by several votes of the Trustees. The most important of these related to the purchase of books...
Página 6 - Although the school and even the college and the university are, as all thoughtful persons are well aware, but the first stages in education, the public makes no provision for carrying on the great work. It imparts, with a noble equality of privilege, a knowledge of the elements of learning to all its children, but it affords them no aid in going beyond the elements. It awakens a taste for reading, but it furnishes to the public nothing to be read.
Página 15 - It has been rightly judged that — under political, social and religious institutions like ours — it is of paramount importance that the means of general information should be so diffused that the largest possible number of persons should be induced to read and understand questions going down to the very foundations of social order, which are constantly presenting themselves, and which we, as a people, are constantly required to decide, and do decide, either ignorantly or wisely. That this can...
Página 17 - ... and when such a taste for books has once been formed by these lighter publications, then the older and more settled works in Biography, in History, and in the graver departments of knowledge will be demanded.
Página 16 - I am quite willing to do, — leaving to the city to provide the building and take care of the expenses. The only condition that I ask is, that the building shall be such as to be an ornament to the city, — that there shall be a room for one hundred to one hundred and fifty persons to sit at reading-tables, — that it shall be perfectly free to all, with no other restrictions than may be necessary for the preservation of the books.
Página 6 - ... work. It imparts, with a noble equality of privilege, a knowledge of the elements of learning to all its children, but it affords them no aid in going beyond the elements. It awakens a taste for reading, but it furnishes to the public nothing to be read. It conducts our young men and women to that point, where they are qualified to acquire from books the various knowledge in the arts and sciences which books contain; but it does nothing to put those books within their reach.
Página 20 - Library, and their desire to awaken "a general interest in it, as a City Institution, important to the whole people, as a part of their education, an element of their happiness and prosperity;" regarding that course as being "the surest way to make it at last a great and rich Library for men of science, statesmen, and scholars, as well as for the great body of the people, many of whom are always successfully struggling up to honourable distinctions, and all of whom should be encouraged to do it.
Página 65 - Treaty of cession and indemnity concluded at the city of Washington on the fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by and between the United States, represented by Dennis N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Elija Sells, superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern superintendency, and Col. Ely S. Parker, special commissioner, and the Creek Nation of Indians, represented by Ok-tars-sars-harjo, or Sands; Cowe-to-me-co and...