Alphonsus Chong's Personal Wiki

by William Osler

• Occasion of the opening of new building of Boston Medical Library
• “Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast” (German) “Without haste, but without rest” Goethe – Chadwick's favourite quote
• “Too often, the reaper is not the sower”
• “It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practise medicine, but it is not astonishing how badly he may do it”
• Quoting James Lowell: “The past is a good nurse” – provides food for “Higher education” Plato
• Types of people who appreciate the library:
  • Teachers, practitioners
  • GPs
  • Bibliomaniacs
• “A library after all is a great catalyser”
• “home for your books, this workshop for your members”
• Suggests archive of contributions by greats of each country - not just books but journals
• “This higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself.”

• 2017-06-27 created
• 2020-08-23 transcribed to dokuwiki