INTRODUCTION
the greatest contribution to popular education of any man of his time) but he has given few libraries in the sense of book collections. The John Crerar Library of Chicago, on the other hand, is a superb library which existed for many years in the Field building before it decided on a building of its own. It was the John Crerar Library, but there was no John Crerar library building at all. In the same way thousands of public at all. In the same way thousands of public libraries have no buildings to their names, although of course they are housed somewhere — in a city hall, school building, church.
One of the commonest ways of using a perfectly right word so as to mislead is the verbal pose especially using a word to give a larger or smaller idea than the fact warrants. Why men care to pose will always be a mystery, but there always are those who, on the one hand, like to speak of their palaces as shooting boxes, cottages and camps and those who, on the
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