"Custodianship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with which these treasures are surrounded, suggests the reflection that the old country has something to learn from the new in the matter of distinguished custodianship. We have no place of national pilgrimage in England that is so perfect a model as Washington's home at Mount Vernon. It is perhaps through lack of a figure of the Washington type that we have nothing to compare with it; for any parallel ...
— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas
... extreme peril. Hugh Peters, successor to Young, although he belonged to the iconoclastic faction, practically saved the books, but was unable to protect the unique collection of medals and coins. After a few months the custodianship was transferred to Ireton, and ultimately a permanent librarian was appointed in the person of Bulstrode Whitelocke, first commissioner of the Great Seal. He accepted the office from patriotism and reverence for the antiquities which ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone
... guess at what you intend doing. But it will be my privilege in court to testify concerning your conduct of custodianship—" ...
— The Women-Stealers of Thrayx • Fox B. Holden
... terms of practical application? Simply that the custodianship of esprit must ever be in the hands of the officer corps. When the heart of the organization is sound, officership is able to see its own reflection in the eyes of the enlisted man. For this simple reason: insofar as his ability to mould the character of troops is concerned, the qualifying ...
— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense |
