摘要：T HERE is innate in each of us the desire to transfer our personal enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact. To be sure, the fertile field offered for such a process is the greatest compensation of the academic way of life; if that attitude were entirely suppressed in us, we as educators and librarians should certainly soon desert our chosen professions for other callings. It is no small satisfaction to know that in an associate we have been responsible for igniting a faggot of interest or of fanning into flame a spark of enthusiasm in an area of our own participation. On the other hand, it is no small discouragement to realize at times that we do not, or cannot, elicit the same responses in every young person subject to our tuition, and we are at those times somewhat inclined to exaggerate the conditions as we see them.
