Address of the Trustees, Ausgaben 15-24Reports for 1832 and 1874/75 accompanied by 2d and 3d editions respectively, of the By-laws, rules and regulations of the school. |
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advantage amount Atlas Bank balance of indebtedness become blind blind children bodily born blind Boston boys capital Cash character charity CHARLES SUMNER child committee common schools Concord Railroad condition considered Corporation cost course Dairyman's Daughter deaf mutes Deed of Land desirable dollars duty earn EDWARD BROOKS employment establishment evil exercise expenses favor feel friends furnish give happiness Howe's hundred increase infirmity inmates INSTITUTION AND MASSACHUSETTS instruction interest January JOSEPH LYMAN knowledge labor Laura Laura Bridgman less live Massachusetts Asylum means ment mental METCALF AND COMPANY mind moral nature number of blind objects ordinary paid parents Perkins Institution printed profit pupils received RICHARD FLETCHER ROBERT RANTOUL SAMUEL SAMUEL G scrofula sense sight society South Boston STEPHEN FAIRBANKS T. B. WALES taught teach teachers thing tion Treasurer TREASURER'S REPORT vigor wages workmen workshop youth
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Seite 25 - This sum covers all expenses, except for clothing; namely, board, washing, the use of books, musical instruments, &c. The pupils must furnish their own clothing, and pay their own fares to and from the Institution. The friends of the pupils can visit them whenever they choose. Indigent blind persons of suitable age and character, belonging to Massachusetts, can be admitted gratuitously, by application to the Governor for a warrant. The...
Seite 2 - SKCT. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said asylum shall be under the direction and management of twelve trustees, who shall be chosen annually, and shall remain in office until others are chosen and qualified in their stead ; four of which trustees shall be chosen by the board of visitors hereinafter mentioned, and the remaining eight by the corporation aforesaid. SECT. 5. Be it...
Seite 34 - A man is not an idiot if he hath any glimmering of reason (/), so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters.
Seite 46 - ... thread, and feeling her way along, has advanced with faith and courage towards those who awaited her with trembling hope. Nothing shows more than her case the importance which, despite their useless waste of human life and human capacity, men really attach to a human soul. They owe to her something for furnishing an opportunity of showing how much of goodness there is in them ; for surely the way in which she has been regarded is creditable to humanity. Perhaps there are not three living women...
Seite 46 - Perhaps there are not three living women whose names are more widely known than hers; and there is not one who has excited so much sympathy and interest. There are thousands of women in the world who are striving to attract its notice and gain its admiration, — some by the natural magic of beauty and grace, some by the high nobility of talent, some by the lower nobility of rank and title, some by the vulgar show of wealth; but none of them has done it so effectually as this poor blind, deaf, and...
Seite 7 - Treasurer. — It shall be the duty of the treasurer to receive and have the custody of all moneys and securities belonging to the corporation, which he shall keep and manage under the direction of the trustees. He shall pay no moneys but by their order, or the order of the committees, duly authorized. His books shall be open to the inspection of the trustees. He shall make up his accounts to the...
Seite 32 - ... obedience to God. I shall explain to her the Bible as I understand it; I shall try to make her believe, as I do, that it contains a revelation of God's attributes, and that it points out to us all the way to happiness through the path of duty. It is already something more to her than a cold and barren 32 abstraction.
Seite 33 - ... 1835 he printed in relief the whole of the New Testament for the first time in any language, in four handsome quarto volumes, comprising 624 pages, for four dollars. These were published together in 1836. The alphabet thus contrived by Dr. Howe in 1833, it appears, has never since been changed. " As the Boston books can now be obtained in London at a price cheaper than any of the five different systems of books printed in Great Britain, it is to be hoped that they will come into general use here.
Seite 83 - have been, in some respects, disappointed ; but that is clearly because they were unreasonable. Some important considerations were overlooked ; such as the hereditary disposition, the deranged constitution, the undue development of the nervous system. The result, however, has been to give an increase of faith, amounting to conviction, in the efficacy of wise measures for moulding and shaping character. Native dispositions and tendencies and peculiarities may never be eradicated or entirely changed...
Seite 61 - ... things, that she lives in consciousness of his protecting presence and loving care. His laws are his angelic messengers, ever hovering over us, — not armed with whips and scorpions, to avenge themselves, but charged to win us upward by love and persuasion. Laura begins to understand and revere these laws, and thus her religious nature is developed without the aid of catechism. More than once it has been seen that the thought of God's presence and love, occurring in moments of irritation and...