| Freeman Hunt - 1858 - Liczba stron: 650
...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 - Liczba stron: 640
...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 - Liczba stron: 614
...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 - Liczba stron: 730
...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 - Liczba stron: 196
...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... | |
| Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - 1893 - Liczba stron: 568
...momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books," and that other assertion of his, " The true university of these days Is a collection of books." Such books, I suppose he means, as Milton called " The precious life-blood of a master-spirit." Surely Carlyle... | |
| 1902 - Liczba stron: 220
...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 - Liczba stron: 886
...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.... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1905 - Liczba stron: 522
...monthly. Years ago a wise man who knew from personal experience what universities and books can do, said: "The true university of these days is a collection of books." We are to-day publishing the books Carlyle had in mind. One of toe many students who regularly buy... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1906 - Liczba stron: 522
...monthly. Years ago a wise man who knew from personal experience what universities and books can do, said : "The true university of these days is a collection of books." We are to-day publishing the books Carlyle had in mind. One of tne many students who regularly buy... | |
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