Oshkosh High School - Index Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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APRIL I X IJ 1 . X FOR NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN The Easter Bells Hear! Hear! tlie Easter Bells! O ' er hill and dale their music swells; Filling the morn with its tidings of love, Greeting the sun and the earliest dove. List! List! the melodious tone! Note its sweet accents of joy, all its own ; How it swells upward! How it expands! How it leaps higher from the toller ' s hand! Still they peal upward! Still they ascend! How all their shrieking notes beautifully blend! Hush! It grows softer! The ringing notes die! Leaving behind them their wondrous cry. Now all is calmness, now all is peace. Their tales ' been told and their harmonies cease. They ' ve awakened the joy of Easter day As ever they will for aye and for aye! S. E. S. Great Book Centers of the World ONEITA WEST EGYPT was the first great hook center, but the libraries were private collections of the l ings and dynasties. Although these books were collected for use, they were also a means of adding to the rulers renown. The collecting was extremely difficult, for the copying was slow and expensive. As far as history shows, Osymandyas was the first king of Egypt to own a library of any renown, but there had been libraries in temples under the care of priests before this. Osymandyas established a library of sacred literature and had inscribed over the entrance, Here is Medicine for the Mind. However, the most is known of the library of Ptolemy Philadelphus, which he founded at Alexandria. He collected books of all kinds and from all parts of the world. He included the sacred books of the Hebrews as well as books from the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Romans, and others until the number of volumes reached seven hundred thousand. During the war between Caesar and Pompey, Caesar set fire to the ships in the harbor of Alexandria. This fire spread to the land and soon destroyed the library, Page eighteen

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APRIL INDEX FOR NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN The Call of the Wild — for its being just dog. Harvard Stories — for humorous mischief and good times. Melting of Molly — for pathetic himior. Amateur Gentleman — for the heroine ' s charm. Lady of the Decoration — for its Japanese background. Prisoner of Zenda — for its thrilling fights. Rupert of Hentzau — for the same reason. Pollyanna — for the glad game. St. Elmo — for mystery and fascination. The Crisis — for its general tone and portrayal of Lincoln. Treasure Island — for mystery and excitement. Song of the Cardinal — for its nature pictures. The Shuttle — for its heroine. Tom Brown ' s School Days — because of the boxing match. Coniston — for its political thread. Concerning Sally — for its naturalness. How the Other Half Live — for its representation of life. Satan Sanderson — because of the hero. Ben Hur — for the strife between Messala ' and Ben Hur and for the chariot race. First Violin — for mystery. Doctor Luke of the Labrador — for its pathos and love. Valley of the Moon — for its novel plot. Bambi — for youth and love. Eight Cousins — for its portrayal of children. Rose in Bloom — for its good sense. Helen ' s Babies — for humorous situations. Reveries of a Bachelor — for its dreams. , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — for the shivers it gives one. Still Jim — for love and its hero. Tom Sawyer — for adventure, superstitution, and humor. The Clansman — for thrill and pathos. Girl of the Limberlost — for its instructive nature element. Hans Brinker — for its portrayal of Dutch life. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch — for its humor and optimism. Brewster ' s Millions — for plot and humor. All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Carlyle. Page seventeen

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APRIL INDEX FOR NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN which had at that time been in existence for two hundred and twenty-four years. Cleopatra later reestablished the library on the same site. From Antony, she received the Attalic. or Pergamene, library as a foundation. She increased the collection and at the time of the Christian Fathers, it was widely known and much used. It was also called the Ptolemaic library, and it is reported by certain writers that during the reign of Theodosius the Great, it was destroyed by Christians, who regarded it as a monument of superstition. Pisistratus, the Tyrant, was probably the first to establish a public library in Athens. To him we owe the text of Homer, collected and arranged as we now have it. He began with a collection of books on the liberal arts and it was added to from time to time by the . ' Athenians until it was carried off by Xer.xes when he captured .Athens. Years later, it was returned by Seleucus Nicanor of Syria and remained there until Sulla captured and plundered the city. Aristotle also had a library and Strabo says the books were left to Neleus, who in turn left them to his descendants. These descendants seem to have been extremely ignorant, for they finally buried the books in the ground, where they moulded and became worm-eaten. They were at last purchased by . pellicon of Teos. who had them transcribed. At his death, they were seized by Sulla and sent to Rome, and it is undoubtedly true that the conquering Romans took many books from Greece. Other authorities say that Neleus left Aristotle ' s books to Philadelphus. The library of Byzantium contained twenty thousand volumes. These were destroyed by fire, and with them the skin of a great dragon one hun- dred and twenty feet long, on which was written in letters of gold the whole of the Iliad and the Odyssey. In Asia, the Attalic or Pergamene library was almost as famous as the Alexandrian. Strabo, Pliny, and others say the founder of this library was Eumenes. As mentioned above, the collection was given to Cleopatra by Antony, and its two hundred thousand volumes were the foundation of the second .Alexandrian library. It is thought by some that Augustus brought them back to Pergamum or caused it to be copied and reestablished in its old home. At Rome, interest in literature developed slowly. Aemilius Paulus was the first to bring to Rome any large number of books. He brought his collection from conquered Macedonia. After conquering Pontus, LucuIIus followed his example, and his library, although private, was open to all. With a large number of books brought from Athens, Cornelius Sulla estab- lished a library. The idea of a public library is supposed to have originated with Julius Caesar, whose death prevented him from carrying out his plans. Augustus, Page nineteen