A Library Represents The Mind Of Its

Few Diseases Present Greater Difficulties In The Way Of Diagnosis Than Malignant Endocarditis, Difficulties Which In Many Cases Are Practi- Cally Insurmountable. It Is No Disparagement To The Many Skilled Physicians Who Have Put Their Cases Upon Record To Say That, In Fully One-half The Diagnosis Was Made Post Mortem.

Gentlemen, I Have A Confession To Make. Half Of What We Have Taught You Is In Error, And Furthermore We Cannot Tell You Which Half It Is

Medicine Is Learned By The Bedside And Not In The Classroom. Let Not Your Conceptions Of Disease Come From Words Heard In The Lecture Room Or Read From The Book. See, And Then Reason And Compare And Control. But See First.

The Librarian Of Today, And It Will Be True Still More Of The Librarians Of Tomorrow, Are Not Fiery Dragons Interposed Between The People And The Books. They Are Useful Public Servants, Who Manage Libraries In The Interest Of The Public . . . Many Still Think That A Great Reader, Or A Writer Of Books, Will Make An Excellent Librarian. This Is Pure Fallacy.

The True Poetry Of Life: The Poetry Of The Commonplace, Of The Ordinary Man, Of The Plain, Toil-worn Woman, With Their Loves And Their Joys, Their Sorrows And Their Griefs.