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able to (Mit(M' on thv anant^criKMit of \\\v uvw exhibit ion halls 

 with a feeling that the old exhibition halls are all up to the 

 concert pitch of their pul)li(' educational value. 



The Administration of the City of N(nv \ ork has re- 

 cently sliown its confidence and even enthusiasm for the 

 great educational work which the Museum is doing in the 

 public schools. We have won the" confidence and esteem of 

 the entire present nmnicipal administration, not through 

 political means, but through a cleai- and straightforward 

 exposition of what we are actually doing; not through prom- 

 ises, but through })erformance. We believe that this offers 

 the l)rightest augur}' for the long-delayed extension of our 

 building, for which we have now been waiting for fifteen 

 3^ears. In the next number of The Museologist we shall 

 say something about new building plans. 



In the meantime let every one of our small army of 330 

 workers consider ever}^ morning what is the most important 

 thing and proceed to do it with all his might. I.et us work 

 together with good-will. Let us work as rapidly as is con- 

 sistent with perfect results. Let us produce each day as 

 much as it is possible to produce. 



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President 



Who of us could endure a world, although cut up into five- 

 acre lots and having no man upon it who was not well fed and well 

 housed, without the divine folly of honor, without the senseless 

 passion of knowledge outreaching the flaming bounds of the 

 passion, without ideals the essence of which is that they never 

 can be achieved. 



Oliver Wendell Holmes 



