Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemned for a single passage out of its context. In one fell stroke this clause would outlaw the Bible, Shakespeare, the Greek and Roman classics, Swift, Chaucer, the whole of Restoration comedy, Milton, Fielding, Voltaire, Flaubert, Goethe, Balzac, the writings of the early Christian fathers, Martin Luther, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the dictionary...
...have your library waterproofed. The recent excitement in connection with the answers of various prominent men to the question, " What books would you like to have with you on a desert island?" has begun to quiet down. The chief impression left is one of bulk. Everything from the Encyclopedia to the Presbyterian Hymnal, the complete works of Shakespeare, and the dictionary have been proposed. Will Rogers favors the telephone directory...
...forced to go to the encyclopedia or its equivalent for our facts, as Shakespeare did. Nothing need be said about that long line of Hamlets of the century after Garrick. People went to the theatre for the joy of it. No clever criticism wrinkled the brow, and no tongue was stuck in the cheek over any performance. A jovial mob lounged in the theatre and awaited the actors. If they liked the play they broke out a clapping and a-yelling; if they did not like it they let fly any bric-a-brac that came to hand...
...them. It tells him where headquarters is, and how to get there to find out from the best authorities what he needs to know. It goes, and should go, to the roots of the classification and efficiency of knowledge as a whole. It should include a broad purview of Encyclopedia and Bibliography, the general scope of literature and learning, and above all an understanding of library resources and classification and of how to gain access to them. It should give the student, as he begins his work here and makes his choices of roads to follow, a fair notion...
...thought processes, and anyone who has argued with a stubborn and illogical opponent will hesitate to say that such clarity is universal. And the last point, that of knowing how to get the facts, is not open to controversy; this knowledge, and the faculty of being a walking encyclopedia, have been the opponents in the recent discussion of Mr. Edison's questionnaires. Ability to remember a large mass of unrelated facts, which Mr. Edison regards as important, is not so valuable as knowing where such facts...