Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York (1907) (14760747651)

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Title: Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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the blind childrenof that city. The Commission, however, has had neither time noropportunity to study the system there with sufficient fullness tomake a report on the plan at this time. BAT A VI A, NEW YORK. Li connection with the work at Batavia, arrangements havebeen made in a number of instances during the past five yearswhich have proven that it is entirely practicable under certainconditions, for blind pupils to secure an education in the publicschools. These illustrations will be in point. One young man, totally blind, while living at the school wentdaily to the high school in the village to recite with a class inGreek, reading in this way with the class the Anabasis and theIliad. He did work equal in grade to that done by the othermembers of the class, took part in the recitations and passed theState examinations with a good standing. BUFFALO, NEW YORK. A second young man with microphthalmic eyes registered in oneof the high schools in the city of Buffalo for a few weeks in the
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Commission on the Blind. 33 fall of 1905, when repairs delayed the opening of the school. Theprincipal of the high school, writing the superintendent at Ba-tavia later, said regarding his work, * We are delighted to havehim, and the teachers find him a splendid inspiration in the class-room * * * I congratulate you on this splendid product ofyour school. KOCHESTER, NEW YORK. A third illustration is that of a young man, totally blind, whohad gTaduated from the school after having taken the full collegepreparatory course in Latin and two years in German, but, de-.siring to offer Greek for admission to college, as his home was inRochester he was advised by the superintendent of the school atBatavia to register in a high school of that city. For two yearshe did his work in Greek, advanced work in both German andEnglish and, reviewing Latin and algebra side by side with seeingpupils, maintained a satisfactory standing and graduated withhigh honors. Such was this young mans ability in argum