Peru State College - Peruvian Yearbook (Peru, NE)

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PERU NORMAL LIBRARY Among; tin golden advantages of IVru is the largi' library of carefully selected volumes. In the libratu the student may consult the hest authorities on the subject of his choice, or mav browse at random amidst the writings and philosophies of all ages. Students soon learn that knowledge is an infinite something of which thc can acquire but the minutest portion. I hey find that their future usefulness is to he determined not so much by what tliev know, as bv what they know about and are able to Intel, tine who expects to climb to the lofty heights in the world of scholarship cannot begin too carle to acquire case and facility in the proper use of the library. 1 lie I ’em library has grown rapidly and covers a broad field oi knowledge. In the last live years over seven thousand volumes have been added, giving a total of about eighteen thousand volumes. There are also a large number of pamphlets. The sections on educa- tion. literature, history and pltilosophv are especially strong. I he library takes regularly about one hundred and title periodicals. The reading-rooms, which are furnished with heave oak tables ami comfortable chairs, seat about two hundred students, and are often used by many more than . that. The students have unlimited access to all hooks and periodicals and are helped in as many ways as possible to get the most good from the library.

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