 | Aleida Assmann - 1998 - 420 pages
...cited by Mr. Lewis in his autobiography, that a university is distinguished by three essential factors: a group of students, a corps of instructors and a collection of books. And that the most important of these three is the collection of books. That statement was made in 1924... | |
 | Bernice Pescosolido, Ronald Aminzade - 1999 - 692 pages
...of Yale summarized this outlook. He declared, "There are three distinguishing marks of a university: a group of students, a corps of instructors, and a collection of books. And of these, the most important is the collection of books" (quoted in Schiff 1996:88). My argument is that, as... | |
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three distinguishing marks of a university — a group of students, a corps of instructors, and a collection of books; and of these three the most important is the collection of books.'1 These are heartening words but any university librarian worth his... 