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 37 - The scientific student is justified because he studies science, if he studies for a serious purpose, exactly as is true of the man of arts, or the man of letters. Mere addition to the sum of the interesting knowledge of nature is in itself a good thing ; exactly as the writing of a beautiful poem, or the chiseling of a beautiful statue is in itself a good thing. A nation that does not understand this is not wholly civilized ; and a democracy that does not understand this can not claim to stand abreast...
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 38 - ... never be produced by such collaboration. The really great works must be produced by an individual great man, who is able to use to the utmost advantage the indispensable work of a multitude of other observers and investigators. He will be the first to recognize the debt he is under to these other observers and investigators; if he does not do so, he will show himself a poor creature. On the other hand, if they are worth their salt they will be proud to have the great architect use all the results...