Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth General Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at St. Louis, Mo., October 17-22, 1904 But 15 it worth while to consider a uni versity without a library? Can there be such an institution? In higher education, then, the library is a necessity. In elementary and secondary edu cation it is no less essential, if the most is to be made of the few years that the average child spends in school and if he is to be started on a path of self-culture. On this point Stanley Jevons says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.