Opening of the State MuseumUniversity of the State of New York, 1917 - 44 pages |
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Page 25 - Students receive from the state library staff, in return for services rendered to the library during their two years' course, careful training in library economy, bibliography, cataloguing, classification and other duties of professional librarianship. 5 State museum — including all scientific specimens and collections, works of art, objects of historic interest and similar property appropriate to a general museum, if owned by the state and not placed in other custody by a specific law...
Page 12 - For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 14 - But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of the soul.
Page 17 - If you wish your schools of Science and Art to be effective, your health, the air, and your food to be wholesome, your life to be long, your manufactures to improve, your trade to increase, and your people to be civilized, you must have Museums of Science and Art, to illustrate the principle! of life, health, nature, science, art and beauty...
Page 16 - An efficient educational museum may be described as a collection of instructive labels, each illustrated by a well-selected specimen.
Page 17 - A thorough education and a knowledge of science and art are vital to the nation and to the place it holds at present in the civilized world. Science and art are the life-blood of successful production.
Page 18 - ... refer to the Bureau of Mines whose foundation he laid by many feats of exacting labor and fruitful work, and who, by masterful generalship and arguments, as he only could use, carried the bill to establish the Bureau of Mines successfully through an unsympathetic Congress. To Dr. Charles D. Walcott...
Page 34 - Moreover, it must aid in the study of nature — that is in the study of soils, insects, plants, birds and mammals — from the utilitarian standpoint. Again, it must aid the growing army of nature students, the men and women who love nature, or love science, for the sake of nature or science, without any set and immediate utilitarian purpose. This museum should keep aloft the standard of those who delight in all knowledge and all wisdom that can not be reduced to, or measured by, any money scale....
Page 41 - ... facts. But I do mean that there should be an equally clear recognition that the accumulation of facts is only the beginning; that it is only laying the foundation on which the man of high ability must rear the superstructure. I also mean that from now on...
Page 33 - It should be a museum of arts and letters as well as a museum of natural history. . . . "There should be here a representation of all our colonial and revolutionary life. There should be in this Museum for the instruction and inspiration of our people, a full representation of American history since the time when New York cast off its provincial character and became an integral portion of the American Republic.