SEVENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT

THE TRUSTEES

Perkins Institution

Massachusetts School for the Blind,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING

August 31, 1904.

BOSTON Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 272 Congress Street

1905

CommontDealti^ of QpasJjsaci^ujsett^,

Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Bund, South Boston, October 17, 1904.

To the Hon. Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of State, Boston.

Dear Sir: — I have the honor to transmit to you, for the use of the legislature, a copy of the seventy-third annual report of the trustees of this institution to the corporation thereof, together with that of the treasurer and the usual accompanying documents.

Respectfully, MICHAEL ANAGNOS,

Secretary. OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION

I 904- I 905.

FRANCIS H. APPLETON, President. AMORY A. LAWRENCE, Vice-President.

WILLIAM ENDICOTT, Jr., Treasurer. MICHAEL ANAGNOS, Secretary.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

FRANCIS H. APPLETON. J. THEODORE HEARD, M.D. WM. LEONARD BENEDICT. EDWARD JACKSON. WILLIAM ENDICOTT. GEORGE H. RICHARDS. Rev. PAUL REVERE FROTHINGHAM. WILLIAM L. RICHARDSON, M.D. CHARLES P. GARDINER. RICHARD M. SALTONSTALL. N. P. HALLOWELL. S. LOTHROP THORNDIKE, Chairman.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

Monthly Visiting Committee,

whose duty it is to visit and inspect the Institution at least once in each month.

1905. 1905.

January, . Francis H. Appleton. July, ... J. Theodore Heard.

February, . Wm. L. Benedict. .\ugust, . . Edward Jackson.

March, . William Endicott. September. . George H. Richards.

April, . . Paul R. Froth incham October, . . William L. Richardson.

May, . . Charles P. Gardiner. November, . Richard M. Saltonstall.

June, . . N. P. Hallowell. December, . S. Lothrop Thorndike.

Committee on Education. House Committee. George H. Richards. William L. Richardson, M.D. Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. Charles P. Gardiner. William L. Richardson, M.D. George H. Richards.

Committee on Finance. Committee on Health.

S. Lothrop Thorndike. J. Theodore Heard, M.D. William Endicott. William L. Richardson, M.D. Wm. Leonard Benedict. Richard M. Saltonstall. N. P. Hallowell.

Auditors of Accounts.

J. Theodore Heard, M.D. S. Lothrop Thorndike. OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND TEACHERS.

MICHAEL ANAGNOS, Director.

TEACHERS OF THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT. Boys' Section. Girls' Section. ALMORIN O. CASWELL. Miss GAZELLA BENNETT. Miss CAROLINE E. McMASTER. Miss SARAH M. LILLEY. Miss JULIA A. BOYLAN. Miss FRANCES S. MARRETT. Miss JESSICA L. LANGWORTHY. Miss IRENE MASON. JAMES W. DYSON. Miss HELEN L. SMITH. EDWARD K. HARVEY. Miss JULIA E. BURNHAM. Miss ALTA M. REED. Miss EUGENIA LOCKE.

Special Teachers to Blind Deaf-Mutes.

Miss VINA C. BADGER. I Miss ABBY G. POTTLE. L. Miss ELIZABETH HOXIE. | Miss RUTH THOMAS. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL TRAINING. JOHN H. WRIGHT. Miss EUGENIA LOCKE. Miss LENNA D. SWINERTON. Miss IRENE MASON. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC. Boys' Section. AUGUST© VANNINL AUGUST DAMM. EDWIN L. GARDINER. Miss FREDA A. BLACK. Girls' Section. Miss HELEN M. ABBOTT. Miss MARY E. BURBECK. Miss LILA P. COLE. W. LUTHER STOVER. Miss MARY E. RILEY. JOHN F. HARTWELL. Miss LOUISA L. FERNALD. JOHN M. FLOCKTON. Miss HELEN M. KELTON. Miss BLANCHE A. BARDIN. W. WANT, Voice. GEORGE to both sections. EDWIN A. SABIN, Violin. DEPARTMENT OF MANUAL TRAINING. Boys' Section. Girls' Section. JOHN H. W'RIGHT. Miss ANNA S. HANNGREN, Sloyd. JULIAN H. MABEY. Miss FRANCES M. LANGWORTHY. ELWYN C. SMITH. Miss M. ELIZABETH ROBBINS. Miss MARY B. KNOWLTON, Slovd. Miss GRACE E. SNOW. DEPARTMENT OF TUNING PIANOFORTES. GEORGE E. HART, Manager and Inslructor. LIBRARIANS. CLERK AND BOOKKEEPERS.

Miss SARAH E. LANE, Librarian. I Miss ANNA GARDNER FISH, Clerk. Miss LAURA M. SAWYER, Librarian. Miss MAYBEL J. KING, Bookkeeper. Miss ISABEL C. WIGHT, Assistant. Miss EDITH M. GRIFFIN, Assistant. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. ELISHA S. BOLAND, M.D., Housekeepers in the Cottages Attending Physician. Mrs. M. a. KNOWLTON. FREDERICK A. FLANDERS, Steward. Mrs. CORA L. GLE.\SON. Mrs. FRANCES E. CARLTON, Matron. Miss CLARA E. STEVENS. Miss ALICE MERRILL, Assistant. Mrs. L. R. SMITH. Miss FLORENCE E. STOWE. PRINTING DEPARTMENT. DENNIS A. REARDON, Manager. Miss LOUISE CHISHOLM, Printer. Mrs. ELIZABETH L. BOWDEN. Miss ISABELLA G. MEALEY, " WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS. Manager. Clerk. EUGENE C. HOWARD, \ Miss ESTELLE M. MENDUM, MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION.

Abbott, Mrs. M. T., Cambridge. Beebe, Mrs. J. Arthur, Boston. Adams, John A., Pawtuck^t, R.I. Benedict, Wm. Leonard, Boston. Adams, Melvin O., Boston. Bigelow, Mrs. Prescott, Brookline. Agassiz, Mrs. E. C, Cambridge. Binney, William, Providence. Ahl, Mrs. Daniel, Boston. Black, George N., Boston. Alger, Rev. William R., Boston. Boardman, Mrs. Edwin A., Boston. Amory, Charles W., Boston. Bourn, Hon. A. O., Providence. Anagnos, Michael, Boston. Bowditch, Alfred, Boston. Anderson, Mrs. John F., Boston. Bowditch, Dr. H. P., Jamaica Plain. Appleton, Hon. Francis H., Boston. Boyden, Mrs. Charles, Boston. Appleton, Mrs. R. M., New York. Brimmer, Mrs. Martin, Boston. Appleton, Dr. William, Boston. Brooke, Rev. Stopford W., London. Appleton, Mrs. WiUiam, Boston. Brooks, Edward, Hyde Park. Apthorp, William F., Boston. Brooks, Rev. G. W., Dorchester. Atkinson, Edward, Boston. Brooks, Peter C, Boston. Bacon, Edwin M., Boston. Brooks, Mrs. Peter C, Boston. Baker, Mrs. Ezra H., Boston. Brooks, Shepherd, Boston. Baker, Miss M. K., Boston. Brown, Mrs. John C, Providence.

Baldwin, S. E., New Haven, Conn. Browne, A. Parker, Boston. Baldwin, William H., Boston. BrA-ant, Mrs. A. B. M., Boston. Ballard, Miss E., Boston. BuUard, Mrs. William S., Boston. Barbour, Edmund D., Boston. Bullock, George A., Worcester.

Barrett, William E., Boston. Bumstead, Mrs. F. J., Cambridge. Providence. Barrows, Hon. S. J., New York. Bundy, James J., E., Lowell. Barrows, Mrs. S. J., New York. Bumham, Miss Julia Bartlett, Francis, Boston. Bumham, William A., Boston.

Bartlett, Miss F., Boston. Burton, Dr. J. W., Flushing, N.Y. Bartlett, Mrs. John, Cambridge. Cabot, Mrs. Joseph S., Boston. Bartlett, Mrs. Marj^ E., Boston. Cabot, Mrs. Samuel, Boston. Bartlett, Miss Mar}' F., Boston. Callahan, Miss Mar\' G., Boston. Bates, Arlo, Boston. Callender, Walter, Providence. Baylies, Mrs. Charlotte U., Boston. Carpenter, Charles E., Providence.

Beach, Rev. D. N., Bangor, Me. Carter, Mrs. J. W., West Newton Beach, Mrs. Edwin H., Springiield. Car}', Miss E. F., Cambridge. Beebe, E. Pierson, Boston. Car}', Miss Ellen G., Boston. Laura L., Boston. Beebe, J. Arthur, Boston. Case, Mrs. Chace, James H., Valley Falls, R.I. Doliber, Thomas, Boston.

Chace, Hon. J., Valley Falls, R.I. Dow, Miss Jane F., Milton. Chadwick, Mrs. C. C, Boston. Draper, Eben S., Boston. Chamberlin, E. D., Boston. Draper, George A., Boston. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, N.Y. Dunklee, Mrs. John W., Boston. Chapin, E. P., Providence. Duryea, Mrs. Herman, New York. Cheever, Dr. David W., Boston. Earle, Mrs. T. K., Boston. Cheever, Miss M. E., Boston. Eliot, Rev. Christopher R., Boston. Claflin, Hon. William, Boston. Elliott, Mrs. Maud Howe, Boston.

Clark, Miss S. W., Beverly. Ellis, George H., Boston. Clement, Edward H., Boston. Endicott, Miss Clara T., Boston. Coates, James, Providence. Endicott, Henry, Boston. Cochrane, Alexander, Boston. Endicott, Miss Mary E., Beverly. Coffin, Mrs. W. E., Boston. Endicott, William, Boston.

Coh, Samuel P., Bristol, R.I. Endicott, William, Jr., Boston.

Cook, Charles T., Detroit, Mich. Endicott, William C, Jr., Boston. Cook, Mrs. C. T., Detroit, Mich. Ernst, C. W., Boston. Coolidge, Dr. A., Boston. Evans, Mrs. Glendower, Boston.

Coolidge, J. Randolph, Boston. Fairbanks, Miss C. L., Boston.

Coolidge, Mrs. J. R., Boston. Faulkner, Miss Fannie M., Boston. Coolidge, John T., Boston. Fay, Mrs. Dudley B., Boston. Coolidge, T. Jefferson, Boston. Fay, H. H., Boston. Cowing, Miss Grace G., Brookline. Fay, Mrs. H. H., Boston.

Cowing, Mrs. M. W., Brookline. Fay, Mrs. Joseph S., Boston.

Crafts, Mrs. J. M., Boston. Fay, Miss Sarah B., Boston. Crane, Mrs. Zenas M., Dalton. Fay, Miss S. M., Boston. Crosby, Sumner, Brookline. Fenno, Mrs. L. C, Boston.

Crosby, William S., BrookHne. Ferguson, Mrs. C. H., Dorchester. Cross, Mrs. F. B., Cincinnati, Ohio. Ferris, Mrs. M. E., Brookline. Cruft, Miss Harriet O., Boston. Ferris, Miss Mary E., Brookline. Cummings, Mrs. A. L., Portland, Me. Fields, Mrs. James T., Boston. Cummings, Charles A., Boston. Fiske, Mrs. Joseph N., Boston. Cunniff, Hon. M. M., Boston. Fitz, Mrs. W. Scott, Boston. Curtis, Mrs. Charles P., Boston. Folsom, Charles F., M.D., Boston.

Curtis, Mrs. Greeley S., Boston. Foote, Miss M. B., Cambridge.

Curtis, Mrs. Mary S., Boston. Foster, Miss C. P., Cambridge. Dalton, C. H., Boston. Foster, Mrs. E. W., Hartford, Conn. Dalton, Mrs. C. H., Boston. Foster, Francis C, Cambridge. Darling, Cortes A., Providence. Foster, Mrs. Francis C, Cambridge. Davis, Miss A. W., Boston. Freeman, Miss Harriet E., Boston. Davis, Mrs. Edward L., Boston. Frothingham, Rev. P. R., Boston. Dexter, Mrs. F. G., Boston. Fry, Mrs. Charles, Boston. Dillaway, W. E. L., Boston. Fuller, Mrs. Samuel R., Boston. 8

Gammans, Hon. George H., Boston. Hoar, Gen. Rockwood, Worcester. Gardiner, Charles P., Boston. Hodgkins, Frank E., Somerville. Gardiner, Robert H., Boston. Hodgkins, William H., Somerville Gardner, George A., Boston. Hogg, John, Boston.

Gardner, Mrs. John L., Boston. Hollis, Mrs. S. J., Lynn. George, Charles H., Providence. Holmes, Charles W., Canada. Gill, Mrs. Francis A., Boston. Holmes, John H., Boston. Glidden, W. T., Boston. Horton, Mrs. William H., Boston. Goddard, William, Providence. Hovey, William A., Boston. Goff, Darius L., Pawlucket, R.I. Howard, Hon. A. C, Boston. Goff, Lyman B., Pawtucket, R.I. Howard, Hon. Henry, Providence. Goldthwait, Mrs. John, Boston. Howe, Henry Marion, N.Y. Gooding, Rev. A., Portsmouth, N.H. Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward, Boston. Goodwin, Miss A. M., Cambridge. Howe, Mrs. Virginia A., Boston. Gordon, Rev. G. A., D.D., Boston. Howland, Mrs. O. O., Boston. Gray, Mrs. Ellen, New York City. Hunnewell, Francis W., Boston.

Green, Charles G., Boston. Hunnewell, Mrs. H. S., Boston. Grew, Edward W., Boston. Hutchins, Mrs. C. F., Boston,

Grifl&n, S. B., Springfield. lasigi. Miss Mary V., Boston. Hale, Rev. Edward E., Boston. Ingraham, Mrs. E. T., Wellesley. Hall, Mrs. F. Howe, Plainfield,N.J. Jackson, Charles C, Boston. Hall, Miss L. E., Boston. Jackson, Edward, Boston.

Hall, Miss Minna B., Longwood. Jackson, Mrs. J. B. S., Boston. Hallowell, Col. N. P., Boston. Jackson, Patrick T., Cambridge.

Hammond, Mrs. G. G., Jr., Boston. James, Mrs. C. D., Brookline. Hammond, Mrs. G. W., Boston. Jenks, Miss C. E., Boston. Hanscom, Dr. Sanford, Somerville. Johnson, Edward C, Boston. Haskell, Edwin B., Aubumdale. Jones, Mrs. E. C, New Bedford. Haskell, Mrs. E. B., Aubumdale. Joy, Mrs. Charles H., Boston. Head, Charles, Boston. Kasson, Rev. F. H., Boston. Head, Mrs. Charles, Boston. Kellogg, Mrs. Eva D., Boston.

Heard, J. T., M.D., Boston. Kendall, Miss H. W., Boston. Hearst, Mrs. Phebe A. Kent, Mrs. Helena M., Boston. Hemenway, Mrs. Augustus, Boston. Kidder, Mrs. Henr}- P., Boston. Hemenway, Mrs. Chas. P., Boston. Kilmer, Frederick M., Somerville. Henshaw, Mrs. Harriet A., Boston. Kimball, Mrs. David P., Boston. Hersey, Charles H., Boston. Kimball, Edward P., Maiden. Higginson, Frederick, Brookline. Knapp, George B., Boston.

Higginson, Henry Lee, Boston. Knowlton, Daniel S., Boston. Higginson, Mrs. Henry L., Boston. Kramer, Henry C, Boston.

Hill, Dr. A. S., Somerville. Lamb, Mrs. Annie L., Boston. England. Hill, J. E. R., Boston. Lamson, Miss C. W., Boston. Hill, Mrs. T. J., Providence. Lang, B. J., Lang, Mrs. B. J., Boston. Mixter, Miss Madeleine C, Boston. Lawrence, Amory A., Boston. Morgan, Eustis P., Saco, Me. Lawrence, James, Groton. Morgan, Mrs. Eustis P., Saco, Me. Lawrence, Mrs. James, Groton. Morison, John H., Boston. Lawrence, Rt. Rev. \Vm., Boston. Morison, Mrs. John H., Boston. Lee, George C, Boston. Morse, Mrs. Leopold, Boston. Lee, Mrs. George C, Boston. Morse, Miss M. F., Jamaica Plain. Lillie, Mrs. A. H., Richmond, Eng. Moseley, Charles H., Boston.

Lincoln, L. J. B., Hingham. Motley, Mrs. E. Preble, Boston.

Linzee, J. T., Boston. Nichols, Mrs. Frederick S., Boston.

Littell, Miss S. G., Boston. Nichols, J. Howard, Boston. Livermore, Thomas L., Boston. Nickerson, Andrew, Boston. Lodge, Hon. Henry C, Boston. Nickerson, Miss Priscilla, Boston.

Longfellow, Miss Alice M. Nickerson, S. D., Boston. Lord, Rev. A. M.. Providence, R.I. Norcross, Grenville H., Boston.

Loring, Mrs. W. Caleb, Boston. Norcross, Mrs. Otis, Jr., Boston.

Lothrop, John, Auburndale. Noyes, Hon. Charles J., Boston. Lothrop, Mrs. T. K., Boston. Oliver, Dr. Henry K., Boston. Lovering, Mrs. Charles T., Boston. Paine, Robert Treat, Boston.

Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, Boston. Palfrey, J. C, Boston. Lowell, Miss Amy, Brookline. Palmer, John S., Providence. Lowell, Charles, Boston. Parkinson, John, Boston. Lowell, Francis C, Boston. Parkman, George F., Boston. Lowell, Mrs. George G., Boston. Peabody, Rev. Endicott, Groton. Lowell, Miss Georgina, Boston. Peabody, Francis H., Boston. Lowell, Miss Lucy, Boston. Peabody, Frederick W., Boston.

Lyman, Arthur T., Boston. Peabody, Mrs. R. S., Boston.

Lyman, J. P., Boston. Peabody, S. E., Boston. Manning, Mrs. M. W., Brooklyn. Perkins, Charles Bruen, Boston. Marrett, Miss H. M., Standish, Me. Perkins, Mrs. C. E., Boston. Marrs, Mrs. Kingsmill, Wayland. Phillips, Mrs. John C, Boston. Marvin, Mrs. E. C, Boston. Pickman, D. L., Boston, Mason, Miss E. F., Boston. Pickman, Mrs. D. L., Boston. Mason, Miss Ida M., Boston. Pierce, Mrs. M. V., MiUon.

Mason, I. B., Providence. Pope, Mrs. A. A., Boston. Matchett, Mrs. W. F., Boston. Porter, Charles H., Quincy. Matthews, Mrs. A. B., Boston. Potter, Isaac M., Providence. Merriam, Charles, Boston. Powars, Miss Mary A., Boston. Merriman, Mrs. D., Boston. Pratt, Elliott W., Boston.

Merritt, Edward P., Boston. Prendergast, J. M., Boston. Meyer, Mrs. George von L., Boston. Proctor, James H., Boston.

Minot, J. Grafton, Boston. Proctor, Mrs. T. E., Boston. Minot, The Misses, Boston. Quimby, Mrs. A. K., Boston. lO

Rand, Arnold A., Boston. Sherwood, W. H., Boston.

Rantoul, Robert S., Sakm. Shippen, Rev. R. R., Brockton. Reardon, Dennis A., Boston. Sigourney, Henry, Boston. Reed, Mrs. Wm. Homer, Boston. Slafter, Rev. Edmund F., Boston. Reynolds, Walter H., Boston. Slater, Mrs. H. N., Boston.

Rice, Mrs. Henrj' A., Boston. Slater, H. N., Jr., Providence. Richards, Miss Elise, Boston. Snelling, Samuel G., Boston. Richards, George H., Boston. Sohier, Miss E. D., Boston. Richards, Mrs. H., Gardiner, Me. Sohier, Miss Emily L., Boston. Richardson, John, Boston. Sohier, Miss M. D., Boston. Richardson, Miss M.G., New York. Sorchan, Mrs. Victor, New York. Richardson, Mrs. M. R., Boston. Spaulding, Mrs. Mahlon D., Boston. Richardson, W. L., M.D., Boston. Spencer, Henry F., Boston. Roberts, Mrs. A. W., Boston. Sprague, F. P., M.D., Boston. Robinson, Henr}-, Reading. Stanwood, Edward, Brookline.

Rodman, S. W., Boston. Steams, Charles H., Brookline.

Rodocanachi, J. M., Boston. Stearns, Mrs. Charles H., Brookline. Rogers, Miss Clara B., Boston. Stevens, Miss C. Augusta, N.Y.

Rogers, Miss Flora E., New York. Stewart, ISIrs. C. B., Boston.

Rogers, Henry M., Boston. Sturgis, Francis S., Boston. Rogers, Mrs. William B., Boston. Sullivan, Richard, Boston.

Ropes, Mrs. Joseph A.', Boston. Swan, Mrs. Sarah H., Cambridge. Russell, Mrs. Henry G., Providence. Taggard, Mrs. B. W., Boston.

Russell, Henr)' S., Boston. Talbot, Mrs. Isabella W., Boston. Russell, Miss Marian, Boston. Tapley, Mrs. Amos P., Boston.

Russell, Mrs. Robert S., Boston. Temple, Thomas F., Boston. Russell, Mrs. William A., Boston. Thaw, Mrs. Wm., Pittsburg, Pa. Sabine, Mrs. G. K., Brookline. Thayer, Miss Adele G., Boston. Saltonstall, Richard M., Newton. Thayer, E. V. R., Boston. Sanborn, Frank B., Concord. Thayer, Rev. George A., Cincinnati. Schaff, Capt. Morris, Pittsfield. Thayer, Mrs. Nathaniel, Boston. Schlesinger, Sebastian B., Boston. Thomas, Mrs. Joseph B., Boston. Sears, David, Boston. Thorndike, S. Lothrop, Boston. Sears, Frederick R., Boston. Tilden, Miss Alice Foster, Milton.

Sears, Mrs. Fred. R., Jr., Boston. Tilden, Miss Edith S., Milton. Sears, Mrs. Knyvet W., Boston. Tilden, Mrs. M. Louise, Milton. Sears, Mrs. P. H., Boston. Tingley, S. H., Providence. Sears, Willard T., Boston. Tompkins, Eugene, Boston. Shaw, Mrs. G. Howland, Boston. Torrey, Miss A. D., Boston.

Shaw, Henry S., Boston. Tower, Col. William A., Boston. Shaw, Quincy A., Boston. Tuckerman, Mrs. C. S., Boston. Shepard, Han'ey N., Boston. Turner, Miss Abby W., Randolph. Shepard, Mrs. T. P., Providence. Underwood, Herbert S., Boston. II

Villard, Mrs. Henry, New York. White, George A., Boston.

Vose, Miss Caroline C , Milton. Whitehead, Miss Mary, Roxbury. Wales, Joseph H., Boston. Whitford, George W., Providence. Warden, Erskine, Waltham. Whiting, Albert T., Boston. Ware, Miss M. L., Boston. Whitney, Miss Anne, Boston.

Warren, J. G., Providence. Whitney, Henry M., Brookline. Warren, Mrs. Wni. W., Boston. Wigglesworth, Thomas, Boston. Watson, Thomas A., Weymouth. Wightman, W. D., Providence. Watson, Mrs. T. A., Weymouth. Williams, Mrs. H., Boston. Weld, R. H., Boston. Winslow, Mrs. George, Roxbury. Weld, Mrs. William F., Boston. Winsor, Mrs. E., Chestnut Hill:

Wesson, J. L., Boston. Winsor, J. B., Providence. Wheelock, Miss Lucy, Boston. Winthrop, Mrs. John, Stockbridge. Wheelwright, A. C, Boston. Winthrop, Mrs. Thos. L., Boston. Wheelwright, John W., Boston. Woodruff, Thomas T., Boston.

White, C. J., Cambridge. Young, Mrs. Benjamin L., Boston. White, Mrs. Charles T., Boston. —

SYNOPSIS OF THE PROCEEDINGS

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CORPORATION.

South Boston, October 12, 1904.

The annual meeting of the corporation, duly summoned, was held today at the institution, and was called to order by the president,

Hon. Francis H. Appleton, at 3 p.m.

The proceedings of the last meeting were read by the secretary and declared approved.

The annual report of the trustees was presented, read, accepted and ordered to be printed with the usual accompanying documents.

The report of the treasurer was read, accepted and ordered to be printed.

The corporation then proceeded to ballot for officers for the en- suing year, and the following persons were unanimously elected:

President—Hon. Francis H. Appleton.

Vue-President—Amory A. Lawrence.

Treasurer—William Endicott, Jr.

Secretary^-'Micu\EL Anagnos.

Trustees—Francis H. Appleton, William Leonard Benedict, William Endi- cott, Charles P. Gardiner, J. Theodore Heard, M.D., George H. Richards,

Richard M. Saltonstall and S. Lothrop Thorndike.

The meeting was then dissolved. MICHAEL ANAGNOS,

Secretary. REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES.

Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind,

South Boston, October 12, 1904.

To the Members of the Corporation.

Ladies and Gentlemen: — Conforming to the requirements of the law and to custom, we have the honor to present to the corporation a concise account of the administration of the affairs of the institution for the financial year ending on the 31st day of August, 1904. We are glad to be able to state that during the period of time covered by this report the school has been man- aged with assiduous care and commendable efficiency and that the objects for which it was established have been pursued with constant diligence and gratifying success. The teachers and other officers have performed their respective duties with zeal and ability and have worked sedulously and harmoniously to promote the interests of the institution. The pupils have been industrious, attentive to their studies and other tasks and obedient to the rules and regulations. They have moved forward from day to day throughout the year with steady step and in perfect order. The register of admissions and discharges shows that at the beginning of the year which has just closed the number of blind persons recorded in the various de- 14

partments of the establishment, including the kinder- garten in Jamaica Plain, was 284. Since then 33 have entered and 32 have left, making the present number 285. The health of the school has been very good. With the exception of the measles, of which there have been eleven cases in the girls' department and one in that of the boys, no infectious disease has invaded the institu- tion. A promising young man, Frederick Joseph Carney, who was pursuing an advanced course in music, died suddenly of pulmonary affection at his home in Roxbury during the spring recess. He was greatly lamented both by his teachers and by his schoolmates. One of the pupils in the girls' department, Florence M. Wigley of Providence, Rhode Island, died at her home -on the twentieth of March, 1904, of spinal meningitis. In many respects the year under review has been one of the best and most satisfactory in the annals of the institution.

The Work of the School and its Effects.

The system of instruction and training pursued at the institution has been carefully readjusted and im- proved of late years, and, as it now stands, it is broader

in its scope and more comprehensive in its requirements

than it has been heretofore. Its main object is to develop the physical powers and cultivate the minds and hearts of the pupils and to bestow upon their intellectual, moral and aesthetic natures that attention which will conduce to their highest perfection.

The value of systematic physical training to all children and youth, but especially to those bereft of the visual sense, can hardly be overrated. It is universally 15 admitted that upon the amelioration of the condition of the body, secured by means of regular daily exercise, depends in a very large measure the progress of the pupils in the several departments of the school. Hence the gymnasium is one of the most important agencies in our plan of education. Here the pupils have been led under the direction of able and competent teachers to go through a series of exercises, which are calculated to develop their muscles, to deepen their respiration and to quicken their circulation. Health and strength are thus promoted, skill in the management of the body is increased, deformities and unseemly idiosyncrasies are corrected, functional defects, if any exist, are remedied and a permanent improvement in the grace and general carriage of the body are secured. The results gained through the work of this department are excellent and merit our unreserved commendation. Manual training has been pursued upon purely pedagogical principles with great diligence and with a thorough understanding of its educational value. It has been carried on for a higher purpose than the mere acquisition of mechanical dexterity. Its main object has been to aid in the development of the brain and in stim- ulating intelligence, to induce concentration of attention and to inculcate the love of industry and of accurate and purposeful work. It thus promotes systematic thinking by the adaptation of means to ends and culti- vates the habit of expressing ideas in a concrete, tangible

form, while it also exercises and strengthens the will, so that the latter may become the ruler and controller

of all human actions and movements. In the LITERARY DEPARTMENT of the institution in-

struction has been given in all branches of study, which are included in the curriculum of the primary, grammar i6

and high schools of Massachusetts. The best and most approved methods of teaching have been employed, and the principal object in view has been not to overload the minds of the pupils with memorized knowledge, but to cultivate their powers of keen observation, of research and of investigation; to develop in them the habit of quick and logical thinking; to cultivate the judgment and the imagination; and, in a word, to draw out the activities, the forces and the possibilities of the students. In order to facilitate the accomplishment of this purpose all the necessary apparatus and the auxiliary facilities and educational appliances have been readily and liberally supplied.

Music is a most potent factor in the education of the

blind, and as such it has continued to hold its rightful place in the curriculum of our school and to receive all

the attention which its importance demands. It has been

taught in a thoroughly scientific manner, and its worth as a means of chastening the sentiments, elevating the imagination and refining the taste, as well as of develop- ing the mind, the emotions and the aesthetic nature, has been fully realized. In the study and practice of this branch of education the fact has been constantly kept

in view that, unless music is more highly valued from

its artistic side than from that of technical excellence,

its disciplinary effect upon the students cannot possibly

be what it should. By going through this process of education our pupils become sound in body and brain, alert in mind and strong of purpose, positive in application, deft in the use of the hand and possessed of intellectual faculties fully developed and disciplined, of habits of industry firmly established and of judgment well matured. Of recent years the curriculum of the school has been —

17 so thoroughly revised and so completely rearranged and brought up to the standard of the requirements of the present day, that those of the students who finish satis- factorily the regular course of instruction and training are well prepared and adequately equipped to partici- pate in the active battle of life and to provide the neces- sary means of support both for themselves and for those who depend upon them. We take very great pleasure in being able to state that most of our graduates are steadily pressing to the front and are becoming useful and esti- mable members of the communities to which they belong.

Thus the institution is doing an admirable work in every one of its departments, educating and uplifting those who come under its immediate care and exerting a most powerful and beneficent influence over the blind throughout New England.

Finances.

The report of the treasurer, Mr. William Endicott, junior, which is herewith submitted, contains a detailed account of the receipts and expenditures and shows that the finances of the institution are in a healthy condition. The sum and substance of this document may be briefly given as follows:

Cash on hand September i, 1903, .... $46,000.92 Total receipts during the year, .'.... 276,770.42

$322,771,34

Total expenditures and investments, . . . 306,693.03

Balance in the treasury August 31, 1904, . . . $16,078.31

The financial affairs of the institution have been economically administered, and the expenses have been s

kept down to as small a figure as the requirements of the health and comfort of the pupils and the efficiency of the school would permit; but the high prices paid for coal and for other supplies have made the cost of main- tenance larger than in former years. Mr. Patrick T. Jackson, who was elected treasurer of

the corporation at its last annual meeting, to succeed his uncle, Mr. Edward Jackson, resigned his office soon

after he had taken possession of it, and Mr. William

Endicott, junior, was chosen to fill the vacancy. Like

all his predecessors, Mr. Endicott gives his services with- out any compensation. The finances of the institution

from the time of its establishment to the present day have been managed with exemplary fidelity and abso- lute disinterestedness. Two members of Mr. Endicott' honored family, his own father and his uncle, Mr. Henry Endicott, have preceded him in the office of treasurer.

Legacies and Gifts to the Institution.

During the past year the institution has been favored with several bequests and gifts, which have been already received and are to be preserved as permanent funds. Each of these will have the name of the legator or donor attached to it and will stand as a memorial to him or her for all time to come.

Miss Mary Louise Ruggles of Cambridge left to the institution a legacy of $3,000, which amount has been paid to the treasurer of the corporation by the executor of her will, Mr. Franklin Perrin. Miss Ruggles was a woman of public spirit, high ideals, tender feelings and noble sentiments, and her generous remembrance of the cause of the blind bears convincing testimony to the goodness of her heart and to the depth and breadth of 19

her sympathies with the afflicted members of the human family. We acknowledge with grateful appreciation the re- ceipt of $4,000 from the residue of the estate of the late Robert Charles Billings, which has been distributed by the surviving executor of his will, Mr. Thomas Minns, among a large number of educational, scientific, philan- thropic, religious and benevolent societies of various kinds. The amount given to this institution is to be invested and kept as a permanent fund, and only its

income is to be used for the benefit of children who are both blind and deaf and who are under the care either of this school or of the kindergarten department in Ja- maica Plain. Mr. George C. Lawrence of Worcester, administrator of the estate of Miss Lucy A. Barker, late of Millbury, Massachusetts, has paid to our treasurer the sum of $3,386. This amount is a part of Miss Barker's legacy of $5,953.21, which was duly acknowledged in our last annual report but had not been paid in full at the time of the publication of that document. Mr. Joseph H. Center, late of Boston, who died on the eleventh day of March, 1903, and of whose active interest in the cause of the blind a fitting recognition was made last year, bequeathed to the Howe memorial press the sum of $1,000, the income of which is to be applied to the printing of books in raised characters. This amount has already been received by the treasurer, and we desire to tender our thanks to the executor of the

will, Mr. Charles J. Simpson of Somerville, for his prompt-

ness in paying it. Mrs. F. H. Tompkins, widow of the late Dr. Orlando Tompkins, has added a gift of $100 to the numerous favors which the school has received from time to time —

20 at the hands of the members of her honored family. More than a generation ago, Dr. Orlando Tompkins be- came deeply interested in the cause of the blind, toward which he showed great generosity. This interest was fully shared and has been faithfully cherished by his devoted wife and their son, Mr. Eugene Tompkins, a son worthy of his parents.

Need of Additional Funds.

For reasons known to themselves but incomprehensible to us, some persons are laboring to create the impression that the institution is well provided for and that it has no need of further financial assistance. We sincerely wish that the statements made to this effect were abso- lutely true and that we might be in a position to cor- roborate them; but unfortunately we are obliged to say that they are entirely erroneous. Our accounts show clearly that the annual income, which we derive from state appropriations and from the endowment fund, is not large enough to cover the cost of carrying on the work of the various departments of the establishment in its present state of development. Although current ex- penses are reduced to the lowest possible figure, the reve- nue is far from being sufficient to meet them, as is shown by the following summary of the accounts:

Expenditures for maintenance, instruction and servnce, $76,619.75

Receipts from all ordinary sources during the year . 74,585.58

Deficit, $2,034.17

This comparison proves conclusively not only that there is no surplus left, which can be used for further improvements and additions, but that it becomes im- 21 peratively necessary for us to encroach upon the en- dowment fund to the amount of $2,034.17 for the purpose of paying the balance, which stands on the wrong side of the ledger. Hence, in order to be able to follow steadily the march of progress and to retain the privi- lege of the leadership, which the school has won by virtue of its achievements in the past, we must have an adequate increase in our financial resources, and this can be secured in no other way save by means of lega- cies and substantial gifts. Therefore, we most earnestly beseech the loyal friends of the blind to continue for years to come to bestow these favors upon the institution with the same thoughtful generosity which has charac- terized them heretofore, for without their help it will be impossible for us to keep abreast with the times and to adopt or initiate new lines of work.

The Howe Memorial Press.

The operations of the printing department have been carried on without interruption or much loss of time, and a fair amount of work has been therein accomplished. During the past year the fourth and last volume of

Duruy's General History of the World was published, four new works were printed, and of the books, which were so seriously damaged by the fire in the Howe build- ing in the winter of igoi as to be rendered entirely use- less, seven were replaced by new editions. In addition to this output there have been stereotyped and issued from the press eighty-five pieces of music for the piano- forte, the violin and the orchestra. The books published by the Howe memorial press are selected with great care and form a valuable treasury of information and a source of comfort and pleasure not 22

only to our pupils and graduates but to a large number of blind persons scattered all over the country. They are potent auxiliaries to the work of the school and exert a refining and uplifting influence upon the minds and characters of the students. They are placed free of

charge in the public libraries of some of the large cities and thus are made accessible to those who desire to profit by them. Owing to the lack of sufficient room and proper con-

veniences this department is still laboring under serious

disadvantages. Its work is performed with more delays

and at greater cost than it would be if additional me- chanical appliances and other facilities could be em-

ployed in its execution. May we hope that some one

of the many generous friends of the blind will find it in his heart to provide the means for the erection and equip- ment of a suitable building for our printing establish- ment?

Teaching the Adult Blind in their Homes.

The work of teaching the adult blind at their homes, which was placed by an act of the legislature under the control of the institution in the year 1900, has been pros- ecuted during the past twelve months with great care and regularity and has produced good results. Nearly

all parts of the state have been thoroughly canvassed, the number of applicants for lessons has steadily in- creased, and various ways and means have been em- ployed for instructing the learners and for bringing them out of the darkness of idleness into the light of activity, while the expenses have been kept strictly within the limits of the appropriation.

Whether it is considered from the standpoint of use- 23

fulness or from that of humanity and sociology, this en- terprise proves to be very beneficent to a number of men and women who have lost their sight after reaching years

of maturity. It has many features which commend it not only to serious consideration but for general adop- tion. It does not detach the blind from their homes nor from the communities to which they belong, thus

depriving them of all pleasant intercourse and social re-

lations with their neighbors and friends; nor does it brand them with the seal of pauperism, thereby lowering them both in their own estimation and in that of their fellowmen and rendering them abject in mind and soul.

Through it they are kept in the places where they have a legal right of domicile and are taught, trained, com- forted and assisted in a spirit which does not offend either their susceptibilities or their self-respect. Thus a

beneficent work is done for the adult blind in a simple

and economical way, and much valuable aid is afforded to them without hurting their feelings or lowering the dignity of their manhood.

The institution has continued to contribute its full share of assistance to the success of the enterprise. The supply of books from its extensive library, printed in all kinds of raised characters, the services of its librarians, bookkeepers and clerks and as much of the time of its director as has been required for the administrative su- pervision and proper management of the work, all these have been promptly and gladly given without cost to the state. Through this generous aid the increase of the teaching force and the enlargement of the field of opera- tions have been made possible, and as a consequence the returns obtained from the money appropriated by the legislature have been much greater than they could have been otherwise. 24

Workshop for Adults.

This department has done fairly well during the past year, and it affords us great pleasure to state that its accounts show again a small balance on the credit side of the ledger. The impetus, which was given to the business of the workshop by the removal of our salesrooms and office from Avon place to their present location in Boylston street, is still ascendant, and we earnestly hope that the change of situation will produce even better results in the future than those thus far obtained.

We have on our list the names of several meritorious blind persons, who are both capable and desirous of earning their living through their own exertions and who are eagerly seeking an opportunity to do so. In behalf of these men and women we entreat the public to favor our workshop with an increase of patronage, which will enable us to provide remunerative occupation for a larger number of applicants than we can employ now. In making this appeal we particularly wish it to be clearly understood and widely known, that we ask for an exten- sion of custom not as a matter of charity but on the ground of actual business merits and with the positive assurance that the articles manufactured in our shop are well made from carefully selected materials, that they

are w^arranted to be strictly such as they are represented and that the prices paid for them are even lower than those generally charged elsewhere for goods of the same grade.

The industrial department is doing its full share of service in furthering the plan of disposing advantage- ously of various articles made by blind women at their homes. This work was inaugurated several years ago 25

by the alumnae association of the school, and through the

earnest efforts of its projectors and promoters and the

support given to it by the institution, it has grown so rapidly that during the past twelve months there have been more than fifty consignors who live in different parts of New England and who have sent the products of their industry to our store and have received proper compensation for these. The members of the alumnae association, assisted by their friends, have arranged to

hold a fair, the proceeds of which are to be used for

employing the help which is absolutely needed to carry on this enterprise.

Commencement Exercises.

The commencement exercises of the Perkins Insti- tution, which took place in the Boston Theatre on Tues-

day afternoon, June 7, at three o'clock, were welcomed with unstinted enthusiasm, not only by the members of

the school, to whom this is indeed a red-letter day, but

also by a throng of the friends and patrons of the insti- tution, who did not fail to embrace eagerly this oppor-

tunity to witness the work of the pupils as it is exem- plified on this annual occasion. At the appointed hour a large concourse of friendly auditors had gathered in the splendid and historic edi-

fice, and, when the opening strains of the first orchestral

selection fell upon their ears, all became silent, listening^ with interest to the performance of the Finale from Haydn's symphony in D, which was well given by the young musicians, with depth of feeling, warmth of tone and considerable technical ekill. The Hon. Francis H. Appleton, president of the cor- poration, then stepped forward to greet the audience in 26 a few well-chosen words. He thanked the friends of the school for their constant remembrance of its needs, called the attention of his hearers to the appeal for further aid, which was printed on the last page of the programme, and announced the next number, the exercise by the kindergarten children, a full account of which is given in the section of the report, devoted to that department. President Appleton also expressed the thanks of the cor- poration to Mr. Lawrence McCarty, lessee and manager of Boston Theatre, for his courtesy and generosity in placing his magnificent auditorium, with all its appur- tenances, at the service of the school. The two girls of the graduating class, Myra Heap and Ellen Kennedy, presented a most interesting exercise in

English literature, the subject being Tennyson'' s Arthur- ian Legend. Their treatment of it was characterized by beauty of diction and thoughtful analysis and showed a deep consideration of the underlying motives of the poetical work and sensitiveness to the high ideals which it embodies. Boccherini's minuet in A was then beautifully rendered by the string orchestra, composed of both boys and girls, whose performance elicited the warm approbation of their auditors. The second part of the programme began with a very fine and highly pleasing exercise in educational gymnas- tics, executed by a group of young girls whose pretty costumes of red and white enlivened the scene, while their grace, freedom of motion, accuracy and prompt response to command were worthy of the enthusiastic applause which was accorded them. Some of the balance movements were very difficult, but all were as well performed as they could have been if the girls had had the aid of sight. As they made their exit at one side 27

of the stage, marching away with fine precision, a com- pany composed of some of the boys of the school ad- vanced from the opposite side and, wheeling into position at the word of command, went through the manual of arms with absolute correctness, presenting a most soldier- like appearance. The drill was conducted in true mili-

tary form, and it showed a band whose carriage, vigor, instantaneous obedience and unity of action might well be the envy of normal boys. The next number on the programme was an exercise in geography, in which some of the younger boys ap- peared. Their subject was Russia, and to the mere suggestion, offered to them through a question written

on a slip of paper in the Braille point system, each boy responded fully in his own words, presenting his topic clearly and forcibly in a way which proved a very thor- ough knowledge of the country under discussion. They gave a very delightful description of the Russian empire, as timely as it was interesting. At this point the culmination and reward of the un- remitting effort of many years was reached when the four graduates, Charles Black, Edward Francis Bradley, Myra Heap and Ellen Agnes Kennedy, stepped forward to receive, with justifiable pride, from the hand of Presi- dent Appleton, the diplomas which represented so much honest, painstaking endeavor. It was indeed a great moment in the lives of these young people who, in spite of limitations and deprivations, had steadfastly pressed forward to the goal of their ambitions.

With the performance of another selection by the full orchestra, Mozart's minuet in E flat, the entertainment reached a fitting and beautiful ending. Old-time friends of the school, who are familiar with these yearly occa- sions, pronounced this to be one of the most interesting —

28 programmes, from every point of view, that ever was given by the pupils of this institution.

Hn fIDemortam.

Members of the Corporation.

In giving an account of the events and happenings of the year, we cannot but advert with great sorrow to the severe losses, which the institution has sustained by the death of 26 valued members of the corporation. In the list of the deceased are included the following honored names : Miss AIary Devens Balfour died at her home No. 30 Union street, Charlestown, on the thirty-first day of March, 1904, at the age of eighty-four years and seven months. Although not born in the house where she died, Miss Balfour had the remarkable record of having lived for eighty-three years in it, having been taken there by her parents when she was about two years old. She was possessed of a very charitable disposition and gave financial aid to many good causes, among which that of the blind was included. She took an active interest in our school until the close of her long life, attending its graduating exercises regularly and showing great appre- ciation of its work. Faithful in the performance of all her duties, she was ever ready to help others and to lighten their burdens, her constant thought and pleasure being to assist the poor and the needy and to contribute to the happiness of those about her. James H. Beal died of paralysis at his summer home in Nahant on the twenty-fifth of June,. 1904. He was born in Boston in January, 1823, in the then fashionable —

29 north end of the city and received his education at the Chauncy Hall school. Immediately after his graduation therefrom he entered upon the active career of his life, in which he was eminently successful. It was in matters of finance that he early exhibited extraordinary ability. For more than half a century he was prominent in the business circles of Boston and vicinity. He ranked with our oldest, most conservative and most fortunate bankers. His strong constitution had withstood the ravages of time to a remarkable degree, so that he remained vigorous up to the time of his last illness in spite of his great age, eighty-one years. George Dana Boardman Blanchard died at his home in Maiden on the eighteenth day of December, 1903, at the age of eighty years. He was born in Cum- berland, Maine, in 1823, and was the son of Captain Andrews Blanchard, a noted sea-captain in his day, and Sarah Phipps Boardman Blanchard. He attended the public schools of Farmington and New Sharon in his native state, and afterwards of Boston. In 1840 he ac- companied his father to Antwerp, Belgium, and the next year he went to Lille, France, where he pursued his studies at the ecole evangelique. After his graduation from that school he returned to Boston and entered the business of wholesale woollens, with which he was long identified. Mr. Blanchard belonged to a number of his- torical societies and to other organizations. By a gift of money to this institution he became a member of its corporation. Since 1852 he had lived in Maiden, where he was highly esteemed for his kindness of heart, his charitable disposition and his manly bearing. Mrs. Sophia Kip Burgess, widow of the Rt. Rev.

George Burgess, D.D., who was the first episcopal Bishop of Maine, died at her home in Aspinwall avenue, Brook- 30

line, on the seventh of July, 1904, at the age of eighty- eight years. She was a native of New York and the daughter of the late Leonard Kip, prominent in that city in the early part of the last century. Mrs. Burgess was a gentle and kindly w^oman. Those who knew her best held her in high honor for her generosity, her integrity, her moral sensibility and her sense of justice. Of her

it may be said with strict sincerity *that she lived a long

life of stainless probity, of pure motives and of benefi- cent influences. Walter Channing Cabot died at his home in Heath street, Brookline, on the eighth day of May, 1904, at the age of seventy-five years. He was born in Boston and was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Perkins Cabot. His mother was a daughter of the distinguished benefac- tor of the blind, Col. Thomas H. Perkins, the great mer- chant of New England, after whom the institution was- named. Mr. Cabot had for many years lived a quiet and retired life in Brookline and was never actively en- gaged in commercial pursuits. Both through his own family and through that of his wife he was related to a large number of prominent people in his native city. He, his mother and several other members of his hon- ored family have always manifested a deep interest in the institution. He was good to his heart's core, ex-, ceedingly modest and courteous and absolutely inflexible in matters of honor and integrity. Nor did he ever give forth an uncertain sound on questions of justice and righteousness. Mrs. Helen E. Cary, wadow of Captain Richard Cary,. died at her home in Marlborough street on the twenty- fourth of September, 1904. She was of New England stock and represented a fine type of womanhood. She was a benevolent woman and a true friend to those who- 31 came within the sphere of her influence. She took an active part in various charitable works, gave freely of her time and means to every cause which she believed to be right and lived up to her ideals in more than com- mon measure. Mrs. Gary's interest in all that could ameliorate the condition of the blind, or make the world in any way better or happier, never flagged while con- sciousness was left to her. Her daughter, Miss G. S. Gary, shared this interest and was her mother's partner in many deeds of benevolence. James W. Glarke died at Jackson, New Hampshire, on Saturday, the tenth of September, 1904, at the age of fifty-two years. He was born in Lancashire, England, and his first work after leaving school was in a lawyer's office, which he entered early in life; he soon abandoned the law and espoused journalism as his profession. In this new field he achieved great success, and while still a youth he became known as one of the most accurate short-hand reporters on the English press. In 1872, when he was about twenty-one years of age, he came to Boston, where he found congenial employment at once. He was successively connected with several newspapers, serving first as reporter, then as managing editor and finally as editor-in-chief of the Globe. In the last-named capacity he proved to be one of the most forceful writers in the country on political and economical subjects. About twelve years ago he removed to New York, and his position in the journalism of that city was a command- ing one. Mr. Glarke was a man of genial personality, of decided independence of character and of generous impulses. He was deeply interested in the cause of the blind, and, in view of the valuable service which he ren- dered to it through his facile pen, he was elected a mem- ber of the corporation in 1884. 32

William Durant died at his home, No. 261 West Newton street, on the thirty-first day of December, 1903, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. He was born in Boston on the thirty-first day of December, 1816, and attended the Adams school, as it was then called, on Mason street, until he was twelve years of age when he was forced to give up regular study owing to the impair- ment of his eyesight, an affliction which followed and grew upon him to the end of his days. Upon leaving school he entered the law office of Mr. William Sohier, and later, in February, 1834, he joined the staff of the Evening Transcript, thus entering upon what proved to be the work of his life. For nearly seventy years he was the faithful employe, the guiding spirit and no small part of the strength and inspiration of that paper. About 1842 he became business manager and confidential ad- viser of the proprietors. In this position he invariably evinced commendable enterprise, although he was never sensational in his methods and always exhibited a wise conservatism. This was in harmony with the ideas of the patrons of the journal, who were progressive but still clung to those old Boston traditions, which in the past gave to this city a deserved reputation for refinement and culture. Mr. Durant won the confidence and esteem of those who came in contact with him either socially or in the way of business. He possessed a balance of character that is unusual. In it were hap- pily blended charity, a love of justice and vigorous com- mon sense. He was honored with the appreciative friend- ship not only of the best men of his day but also of some of the most prominent. His career was a suc- cessful one in every respect. He improved his oppor- tunities wisely and fulfilled exactly the measure of his duties. 33

Mrs. Emily Everett, widow of the Rev. Stephens Everett, died at her home in Cambridge, No. 23 Berke- ley street, on the twenty-third of September, 1904, at the advanced age of one hundred and five years, seven months and nineteen days. She was a woman of beau- tiful character and of many rare virtues. Sympathetic, conscientious, a friend of the poor and the lowly, she has

led a life of beneficence and has helped and cheered many people, who hold her in grateful remembrance. The blind of New England are among the recipients of her benefactions, and they, together with many others, will bless her name for generations to come. Mrs. Ann Sophia Whitman Farnam, widow of the late Henry Farnam, died at her home. No. 43 Hillhouse avenue. New Haven, Connecticut, on the sixth day of March, 1904, at the age of eighty-eight years. She was a woman of exceptional virtues, of exemplary modesty, of keen sympathies, of kindly disposition and of generous impulses. She loved to do good and contributed judi- ciously to the support of such benevolent and educational enterprises as seemed to her to be calculated to alleviate suffering, lessen the ills beneath the sun, promote intelli- gence and morality and ennoble human life. Her bene- factions were large and numerous; yet often her left hand did not know the deeds of the right one. Mr. and Mrs. Farnam became deeply interested in the cause of the blind nearly twenty-five years ago through their intimate friendship with Miss Anne Emilie Poulsson, who then entered our school as a student and who was after- wards trained as kindergartner by the Misses Garland and Weston and won distinction as an ardent advocate of Froebel's system of education and as authoress of charming books for children and editor-in-chief of the Kindergarten Review for five years. 34

Charles W. Galloupe died at the Hotel Vendome on the twenty-eighth of November, 1903, in the seventy- ninth year of his age. He was born in Beverly on the fifth of September, 1825, and was descended on both sides from the first settlers of Massachusetts Bay. In 1840, when he was in his fifteenth year, he entered a dry-goods store in his native town, as a clerk, but later he came to Boston and obtained a situation with a firm of dealers in wholesale clothing. Here in this city he achieved a high degree of financial success and through his industry, fidelity and uprightness gained the reputation of an honorable merchant and trust- worthy banker. After retiring from business he trav- elled extensively and enjoyed peacefully the fruits of his labors. Mr. Galloupe was a fine example of the self- made man, honest, candid, straight-forward, sympathetic and absolutely fair in all his dealings. To the end of his days he retained the confidence and commanded the respect of those who knew him. The education of the blind was one of the many beneficent causes upon which he put the seal of his approval and bestowed his bounty. The Rev. Brooke Herford, D.D., died in his native country on the twenty-first day of December, 1903, in the seventy-third year of his age. Born at Altrineham, near Manchester, England, in 1830, he received his early education in a private school and at the age of fourteen years was placed in a counting house as a clerk. Four years later he entered Manchester New College, of which the Rev. James Martineau, D.D., was president. By the aid of his studious habits and quickness of perception he finished the full course at that institution in three-

fifths of the regular time required for its completion and was ordained minister in 1851. His first pastorate was at Todmorden among the hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire; the second in Sheffield; and the third in Manchester. His ministrations in the latter city ex- tended from 1856 to 1875. During his ministry in Eng- land he wielded an excellent influence, and his ready comprehension of a situation, his common-sense views and his directness of speech never failed to achieve good results. In 1876 Dr. Herford came to America and settled in Chicago, where he won the respect and ad- miration of the most intelligent men and women who were the master spirits in all good works. In 1882 he accepted a call from the Unitarian church in Arlington street, Boston, and entered upon this new field with great enthusiasm in the full tide of his power. His various experiences had given him the wisdom of a ripe judg- ment, and he wrought with remarkable success for nine years. At the end of this time he determined to return to England, w^here at Hampstead he began in 1892 a ministry which lasted until 1901. There, as in Boston^ he was constantly tempted to labor beyond his strength. His health finally gave way and with some vicissitudes he steadily declined until the end came. Dr. Herford was a man of uncommon ability, of great versatility and of a remarkable pertinacity and vigor of character. His personality, while charming in its simplicity and unique in its geniality, was of a strength that caused him to be commonly called the "Unitarian Pope." He was a su- perior manager and a shining light in his denomination. He knew how to accomplish things. He had the dis- position to lead and the tact to make others follow. He was a hard worker and carried more than his full share of professional burdens and social obligations. He pos- sessed a wonderful power of drawing people toward him- self, of winning their sympathies, learning their needs 36 and speaking the proper word or performing the right action with rare judgment. Miss Ellen Marm Jones, daughter of the late Josiah M. and Maria Buckminster Jones, died in this city on Sunday, the fourteenth of August, 1904. She was a woman of high character and noble aspirations, fine in grain and full of gentleness and mellow sweetness. Ten- der-hearted, sympathetic, conscientious, eager to do good and to perform her part in the work of uplifting the lowly and ameliorating the condition of the unfortunate. Miss Jones responded always promptly to appeals from de- serving causes with a generosity which was only limited by the means at her disposal. The beginning of her active interest in the blind dated back to 1884 when her honored name was for the first time recorded in the list of the contributors to the fund for the establishment of the kindergarten. Martin Parry Kennard died at his .home on Ken- nard Road, Brookline, on the thirteenth day of November, 1903, in his eighty-SLxth year. He was a native of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, but came to Boston quite early in life. He applied himself to the business of a jeweller and was the founder of the widely known and successful firm of Bigelow and Kennard, from which he withdrew in 1868. Soon after his retirement he was appointed assistant treasurer of the United States in this city and filled this position for a long period to the great satisfac- tion of men of all parties. Of late years he led a quiet life. Mr. Kennard was catholic in his interests and broad and versatile in his tastes and talents, a true pa- triot and a loyal lover and defender of Boston and its institutions. His public spirit was ever alert and eager, and his death makes a vacancy in the ranks of our dis- tinguished citizens that will be widely felt, notwithstand- ing the fact that he had attained a ripe old age. Al- though a self-made man, he acquired rare culture and gained an unusually discriminating taste in art. He possessed a charming personality and even in his latest years his sympathies were fresh and warm, while his companionship was hardly less agreeable to the young than to men of his own generation. He was a gentleman of the old school but kept in active touch with the life about him in all its later developments. To know him once was to meet or remember him with pleasure ever after. Mrs. Lucy Buckminster Lowell, widow of Judge John Lowell and daughter of the late George B. Emerson, died, after a short illness, at the family residence on Hammond street. Chestnut Hill, on the twentieth of April, 1904. She was born on Chestnut street in Boston on the nineteenth of June, 1827, and was educated at her father's school for girls, which was the most fashion- able and best of its kind in the city. In May, 1853, she was married to John Lowell. With him she lived in the house in which she was born until 1858 when they purchased a large estate in Chestnut Hill. At this place their home formed an attractive centre not only for their relations and neighbors but for all their friends and ac- quaintances from Boston and the surrounding country. No one who has been in their house will ever forget the old-time atmosphere of comfort, serenity, kindness and peace, which permeated it even before the outer door was opened. Men and women, girls and boys, babies with their nurses, all came there, sure of their welcome, certain of receiving Mrs. Lowell's cordial greeting and enjoying her boundless hospitality. Here great and small, young and old met upon a common ground of equality without reference to their position and attainments. 38

Unlike the typical New Englander who sternly represses

all emotion and feelings even in his own home, INIrs. Lowell by her very presence and character created an atmosphere of ease and comfort, friendship and interest. She was outspoken, honest and frank, never, however, giving offence, because one was always sure of the motive and friendship which prompted her. She carried sun- shine to every place where she went. Her temperament was eminently buoyant, elastic and joyful. This enabled

her to rise above all misfortunes and to maintain not only her own cheerfulness but to contribute to the happiness of others. During the first seventeen years of her mar- ried life hardly a cloud shadowed her home, and then came the death of children, of relations, of her husband, her own accident, which left her partly paralyzed and helpless, and the loss of money; yet through it all her faith and courage sustained her unfalteringly, and her hopefulness and the happiness of her disposition never failed, nor did her sympathy for others ever flag. Al- ways charitable, she was for many years identified with many benevolent institutions and humane enterprises. No good cause ever appealed to her in vain. She always gave according to her means and sometimes far more than she could afford. Mrs. Lowell was happy by the highest right. She increased the joy of those who lived about her and of many friends dwelling in distant coun-

tries, and her death is a severe bereavement not only to her family and relatives but to her neighbors, her friends, her acquaintances and to the community to which she belonged. Each will mourn her with a keen sense of

personal loss. Frederick Warren Goddard May died at his home in Dorchester on the twenty-eighth of May, 1904, in his eighty-third year. He was the last of a number of re- markable men who made Dorchester what it was in its best days,—a town standing for good citizenship and clean government, for cultivation of mind and refinement of living, for unselfish patriotism and for genuine public spirit. He was in every fibre of his being a typical son of New England. He hated falsity and pretension and was fond of everything that was simple, natural and real. He had the true love of books, and his mind was richly stored with the best in English literature. Quick, alert and active, he was ready for any emergency and glad to devote his time to such good causes as needed his assist- ance. For many years he held the office of treasurer of the school for feeble-minded children and youth and rendered valuable service to that institution. He at- tended regularly the annual meetings of this corporation, and when we reflect that we shall see him no more among us, we are seized by a deep feeling of sadness. We shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the pro- found interest which he took in the institution and the great satisfaction which he showed at its progress and prosperity. The departure of Mr. May from among us is another conspicuous mark of a rapid transition to conditions far removed from those of the old New Eng- land. From his childhood he breathed an atmosphere of righteousness, uprightness, patriotism and humane views. Throughout his life he exemplified the love of freedom and of country, which constituted a highly valued part of his inheritance. He belonged to one of the most cultured, philanthropic, liberal and high-minded families of New England. He was the son of a distin- guished merchant and very benevolent citizen of Boston, Samuel May, and the youngest brother of the Rev. Samuel May, late of Leicester, who stood in the van of all moral and social reforms; of John Joseph May who 40 was prominent for his sterling integrity, his sacrifices for the preservation of the union, his exemplary gentleness and his kindly actions; and of Miss Abby W. May, one of the noblest, sanest and most intelligent women of Massachusetts, who labored assiduously for the common weal and against all forms of injustice and whose wise and benevolent deeds in behalf of her fellowmen were based on broad, generous, sound principles. This was truly a remarkable group of earnest, patriotic, unselfish and brave workers. As long as national honor, altru- istic aims, pure and undefiled patriotism, sincere devo- tion to the interests of humanity and consecration to high ideals are appreciated and cherished in America, so long the disappearance of these members of the May family from the arena of struggles pro bono publico will be deeply lamented. Mrs. Helen Mekriam, wife of Mr. Charles Merriam, died at her summer home in Nahant on the twelfth of September, 1904. She was a woman of tender heart, broad mind and public spirit, and her influence for good was widely felt. Hospitable and generous, benign and charitable, ready to counsel and to encourage, she re- sponded promptly to all reasonable appeals for assist- ance and never failed to give aid and comfort to those in need. Through all the varied phases of life she was true, gentle and helpful. Indeed, consideration for others and a love of doing good were the leading traits of her char- acter. For many years Mrs. Merriam and her bereaved husband have taken an active interest in the cause of the blind and have been regular contributors toward Ithe funds for its support.

Anthony S. Morss died suddenly at his home. No. 42 Harvard street, Charlestown, on the twenty-first of November, 1903, at the age of eighty years and seven 41 months. He was born in Newburyport in 1823, and his education was obtained in the public schools of that town. In 1844 he came to Boston, and soon after his arrival he opened a hardware store at No. 210 Commer- cial street, where he remained in business for almost sixty years. He was the oldest hardware dealer in this city. Mr. Morss had held several public offices of trust and was highly esteemed for his integrity and probity. Through his official connection with the state prison as an inspector, he became greatly interested in the dis- charged convicts and was for a long time vice-president of the society which was organized for the purpose of aiding them to lead better lives. At the suggestion of one of the friends of the institution he was elected a mem- ber of the corporation in 1889. Miss Maria Crosby Moulton died in Cambridge on the twenty-second of May, 1904, at the age of eighty- five years, nine months and four days. She was a woman of great ability, of broad intellectual power, of excep- tional moral worth and of uncommon beauty and force of character. She was born and reared among plain and strong people, and her views of life and of duty were greatly influenced by her early surroundings. Descended from a line of sturdy puritans, she inherited many of their striking characteristics; but the gentler, more ami- able and tolerant impulses, which appear to have been stifled in her ancestors, welled up in her case like a pure spring that will not be covered from the sight of men. She was independent in thought, utterly unselfish, singu- larly modest and intensely earnest of purpose. For nearly forty years she filled the position of principal matron at the institution with rare dignity, exemplary self-forgetfulness, unequalled fidelity and unexcelled efii- ciency. She certainly was an ideal matron,—one who 42 was eminently fitted both by nature and training to be the head of a large household, to create around it an ethical atmosphere and to administer its domestic affairs with brilliant success. She loved truth and justice and was strictly conscientious, absolutely reliable and hon- orable in all her relations. She attended to the minutest details of her work with scrupulous care, while her sense of honor was so lofty that she was never absent from her post save for imperative reasons, nor did she ever neg- lect to perform with precision any of the duties of her ofhce. Thus she rendered a most valuable service to the cause of humanity. In this noble and beneficent ministry there were no finer or more enduring and far- reaching elements than the beauty and womanliness of Miss Moulton's own character and her unswerving loyalty to the institution. Mrs. Gertrude Weld Parkinson, wife of the well- known banker of this city, Mr. John Parkinson, died at her summer home in Bourne, Massachusetts, on the eighteenth day of June, 1904, in the sLxty-first year of her age. She belonged to the old Weld family and was the daughter of one of its prominent members, Mr. Francis Minot Weld of Jamaica Plain. Her husband and one son, Mr. John Parkinson, jr., of Harvard Uni- versity, survive her. Mrs. Parkinson was heir to a noble heritage and proved herself worthy of her ancestors. She was a gracious presence in the community and a light in her home. She lived the life of a true, upright, benevolent, useful woman and was beloved by all who had the opportunity of becoming thoroughly acquainted with her. She was broad-minded and took an active interest in many good causes, among which that of the education of the blind was included. She was strictly honest and absolutely sincere in all her relations and 43

left behind her a large circle of friends to mourn her loss.

Now that she is no longer with them the best consolation that remains to all is the memory of a life singularly pure, beautiful and beneficent. Mrs. Sarah E. Potter, widow of Warren B. Potter, died at her summer residence in Neptune street, Beverly Cove, on the twenty-third of September, 1904, in the eightieth year of her age. She was born in New Bed- ford in October, 1824, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Kempton. She was married to Mr. Potter in 1848 at her native place, whence they removed to Boston in 1854. Through the death of Mrs. Potter the cause of the blind has sustained a very severe loss, as have also a large circle of friends by whom she was re- spected and admired for her unobtrusive benevolence and munificent generosity, for the simplicity and strength of her character, for the kindness of her heart and for

the purity and uprightness of her life. She was a noble woman, who loved to do good and who disposed of a great part of her ample income for the benefit of many educational enterprises and humane institutions and for the relief of a large number of unfortunate and distressed people. Mrs. Potter's charities were countless, wrought

secretly, as it were, that their purity of motive might re- main unsullied. The world is poorer for the departure of such a generous and wisely ministering spirit. Henry Grtnnell Russell, one of the widely known citizens of Providence, Rhode Island, died at his home on Potowomut Neck on the twenty-fourth day of Sep- tember, 1904, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on the twenty- fifth of October, 1829, and was the son of William Tall- man Russell and Sylvia Grinnell Russell. In 1850 he went to Europe and remained there until 1856, residing 44

in Liverpool the greater part of the time. From 1856 to 1864 he lived in New York, where he engaged in busi- ness as a commission merchant. In the year last named he married Miss Hope Brown Ives of Providence, where

he remained during the rest of his life. Mr. Russell had large interests in manufacturing enterprises and was considered one of the wealthiest men of Rhode Island. He was a gentleman of the old school and represented a fine type of manhood. He was very highly esteemed for his personal characteristics, for his sterling integrity, his public spirit and his never-failing courtesy and frank- ness. He held several positions of trust and rendered excellent service to a number of corporations and chari- table institutions. In 1882, when a movement was in- augurated in Providence for the purpose of raising six or seven thousand dollars, the sum necessary to complete the printing fund of the institution, Mr. Russell gladly consented to be a member of the citizens' committee which took charge of the matter. He sent to the treas- urer at the same time three liberal contributions, one from himself, another from Mrs. Russell and a third from his mother-in-law, Mrs. Moses Brown Ives. We avail our- selves of this opportunity to express to Mrs. Russell both our sympathy with her in her sad bereavement and our sense of gratitude to her for her unfailing interest in the cause of the blind, as shown through her annual contributions to the fund for the support of the kinder- garten.

After an illness of two months' duration, George Bruce Upton died on the seventh of February, 1904, at his fine estate in Milton, which he had beautified as perhaps few men are capable of doing unless possessed of his love and knowledge of flowers, trees and plants. He was the son of George B. Upton, another of the early 45

Boston merchants, and was born on the island of Nan- tucket on the fifteenth of July, 1829. He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1849, ^^^ after spending a few years in California he returned to Boston and be- came associated with his father in mercantile pursuits, remaining in the firm until the latter's death in 1874. During his business career he was identified prominently with trade in the far east, especially in the Philippine islands. He had two summer residences, one at Dublin, New Hampshire, and the other at his native place; in the latter years of his life he spent much of his time in Europe. Mr. Upton was noted for his sterling integrity and unobtrusive benevolence and enjoyed the confidence and high esteem of a large number of intelligent people. He was well informed and cultivated in so many direc- tions that one wondered how he had the leisure to gain so much knowledge. He was full of energy and anima- tion, a man among men, a very child among children, sympathetic, generous and charitable in ways that were unostentatious, but sure to reach those whom he desired to help. In 1869 a gift of money was received from him by our treasurer, and he has been ever since a faithful member of our corporation and a loyal friend of the

cause which is entrusted to our care. In disposing of a part of his property for educational and humane pur- poses, Mr. Upton kindly remembered this institution in his will with a generous legacy, which stands as a per- manent monument to his memory and as a striking tes- timonial of his appreciation of the value and beneficence

of the great work, which our school is doing for the blind of New England. Miss Charlotte Louise Ware died in Cambridge on the eighth of December, 1903, in the eighty-sixth year of her age. She was born in Cambridge and was the daugh- 46 ter of the late Rev. Henry Ware, sr. She was a true woman, pure in spirit, tender of heart, strong in her be- liefs, firm in her convictions, high-minded, thoughtful of others. Although well known and quite active within her own circle of friends, by whom she was highly es- teemed, Miss Ware did not take a prominent part in the social affairs of the city of her birth. She preferred to live apart from public notice and to labor quietly in fur- therance of the interests of humanity, performing faith- fully all her duties, doing as much good as she could, and giving assistance to such enterprises as were calcu- lated to be beneficial to her fellowmen.

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Whitten, widow of Charles V. Whitten, died suddenly on the twentieth of December, 1903, at the age of seventy-one years and five months. She was an unpretentious woman of quick intelligence, great ability and singular gentleness, candid, industri- ous, earnest and sincere, she made friends everywhere and won the confidence and affection of those with whom she came in contact. None knew her but to respect her and to admire her many noble traits of character. Many years ago Mrs. Whitten became deeply interested in the cause of the blind and rendered valuable service for its advancement. Samuel Horatio Whitwell died at his house. No. Ill Commonwealth avenue, on the twenty-third of March, 1904, in his eighty-first year. He was a native of Boston and made his home here all his life. In his younger days he was closely identified with the real es- tate business of this city but retired from it some years ago. He was a gentleman of the old school, kind, cour- teous, considerate, refined and charitable in word and deed. He possessed a genial disposition, a warm heart and a blameless character. Like his late sister. Miss 47

Sophia L, Whitwell, whose lamented death was noticed in our last annual report, he befriended the cause of the blind and was a contributor to the funds for its support. The names of the dear friends whose death has been recorded in the foregoing pages will be held in affection- ate remembrance not only in the institution but in every place where true benevolence is honored and public spirit is appreciated.

All which is respectfully submitted by FRANCIS H. APPLETON, WILLIAM L. BENEDICT, WILLIAM ENDICOTT, PAUL REVERE FROTHINGHAM, CHARLES P. GARDINER, N. P. HALLOWELL,

J. THEODORE HEARD, EDWARD JACKSON, GEORGE H. RICHARDS, WILLIAM L. RICHARDSON, RICHARD M. SALTONSTALL,

S. LOTHROP THORNDIKE,

Trustees. THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR.

Swift as the weaver's shuttle day by day

Fly \\'ith their bootless tasks the years away, But they whose days in blessings spend their length To youth immortal go from strength to strength. —Emily H. Miller.

To the Board of Trustees. Gentlemen:—At the termination of another period of twelve months it becomes incumbent upon me to pre- sent the report of the director and to give an account of what has been accompKshed at the institution during that time, adding to it such thoughts and reflections as come within the scope of a document of this sort. I take very great pleasure in reporting that the work of the school has been prosecuted with a high degree of success and that satisfactory progress has been made in every department. The teachers and other officers have labored faithfully to promote the welfare and advance the best interests of the pupils, and their efforts have been rewarded with ex- cellent results. The interest in the institution manifested by the public has been in no way diminished. On the contrary, in some respects it has been even stronger than heretofore. Our weekly concerts have been attended by the usual number of visitors, while our specif entertainments have invariably attracted large audiences, consisting of intelligent and broad-minded men and women, whose 49 appreciation of the performances of the pupils was un- mistakable and whose expressions of surprise at and ad- miration of the literary and musical achievements of the scholars were as numerous as they were emphatic. In carrying on the work of the school we have endeav- ored to keep out of the ruts of dull routine and to follow in the march of progress with steady step, discarding all mechanical ways and processes of instruction and train- ing and adopting such methods of developing and dis- ciplining the mental faculties of the pupils as are approved and recommended by eminent students of pedagogy and sanctioned by men of science. With the extension of its curriculum and with the improvements and the increase made last year in its accommodations and equipment, the school has entered upon an era of greatly augmented usefulness, and the work which it is doing now is of a higher order than that of former years. ,

Enrolment of Blind Persons.

That pupils lacks she none of noble race. —Shakespeare.

The record books contain the names of 284 blind per- sons who were connected with the various departments of the institution at the beginning of the year which has just closed as pupils, teachers, employes and work men and women. Since then t,t, have been admitted and ^2 have been discharged, making the total number at present 285. Of these 163 are at the parent school in South Boston, 106 at the kindergarten in Jamaica Plain and 16 at the workshop for adults.

The first division includes 150 pupils (74 boys and 76 girls), 10 teachers and other officers and three domestics; the second comprises 56 little boys and 50 little girls, 50 and the third i6 men and women employed in the work- shop for adults. The superior educational advantages which the in- stitution affords liberally to its students are w^idely recog- nized and justly valued every^vhere, and as a consequence we have received during the past twelve months, as in many previous years, applications for the admission of scholars from different parts of this country and from Canada. But, in order to avoid crowding our buildings or overtaxing in any way the capacity of our accommo- dations, we have usually refused to open our doors to pupils living outside of the New England states. Never- theless, from time to time we deem it expedient to make an exception in favor of certain cases.

The Record of Health.

Xuplc vyiEiag a^ioq (iioq, [Siog ciiiiuTog.

Without health life is not life, life is lifeless. —Ariphron.

Physicians, poets, prose writers, students of science, men of superior knowledge, all agree with Ariphron, the Sicyonian philosopher, in his statement that life is joy- less without the faculty of performing all actions proper to a human body in the most perfect manner. Common experience and daily observation convince us that free- dom from pain and sickness is an indispensable element of activity and happiness and that ill health, accompanied by insufficient strength, is not only a prolific source of misery and wretchedness, but a most serious hindrance to regular work and a formidable obstacle to important achievements. We are thankful to report that the general health of the school has been very good. Of the various conta- 51 gious diseases, which were unusually prevalent in Boston during the past winter, only the measles invaded our premises, attacking eleven girls, one of their teachers and one boy. There have also been the usual number of ailments, fortunately not of severe character, in both de- partments, and a single case of pneumonia at the girls' cottages. Before the opening of the spring term of the school we were saddened by the unexpected death of two of our pupils, Florence M. Wigley, an amiable and kind-hearted girl of good intentions and fair capacity for work, and Frederick Joseph Carney, a promising young man of humble antecedents but of superior character, who was pursuing a post graduate course in music and who was earnestly working to rise above his early surroundings and to secure a profitable vocation and make a place for himself among the active members of society. Both died at their own homes in the midst of their families, the former on the twentieth day of March of spinal menin- gitis, and the latter on the thirtieth of the same month of quickly developed tuberculosis. They have left be- hind them sweet and pleasant memories and noble ex- amples of patience and industry; they will be sincerely nfourned and greatly missed alike by their teachers, caretakers and schoolmates.

Liberal Education is the Need of the Blind.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil. —Goldsmith.

By reason of their infirmity the blind are seriously handicapped in the race of life. The visible world is annihilated for them, and they are plunged into per- 52 petual darkness, which Kmits the sphere of their activity within narrow bounds and disables them from the pur- suit of most of the occupations in which their fellowmen are engaged. They are cut off from some of the higher privileges of the race and are obliged to toil against a flood of difficulties. True, certain manual employments, in which the work of the human fingers is still in use, remain open to them; but these are few in number and eagerly appropriated by seeing competitors. Briefly stating their case, we may say that the blind meet with mighty obstacles in whatever they undertake to do with their hands, especially in those manufacturing enter- prises, in which machinery is extensively used. Conse- quently they are shut out entirely from the wide field of varied industries, into which innumerable clear-sighted reapers put their sickles under circumstances infinitely more favorable to themselves than those surrounding the sightless laborers.

These facts make it evident that it is worse than use- less to insist upon carrying on in our schools for the blind the plan of education, which was adopted for them at the time of their establishment and in which the learning of handicrafts and the ability to work at ordinary trades were among the principal features and formed the ob- jective point. We must bear in mind that a radical change has occurred in recent years in our industrial, economic, social and business arrangements. The old order of things has vanished and has been succeeded by a new one, which is altogether different from its prede- cessor. We have passed from an individualistic to a collective type of civilization and have entered upon an era in which sordid selfishness is conspicuous and the thought of others is buried in eternal oblivion. We live in a peculiar age in which an ardent devotion to un- 53 righteous mammon is transformed into a sort of idola- trous worship and the craving for the vulgar display of wealth and for keeping up with the procession of pleasure- seekers amounts to madness. We have entered upon a period of rapacity and absorption in the pursuit of gain, in which the moral sense is threatened with paralysis, while heartless operators and unscrupulous magnates of trusts carry on with impunity the sinister process of gaining absolute control of the sources of supplies that are indispensable to human life and com- fort. We are in the midst of merciless times, in which there is no solicitude nor charitable regard for the needs and rights of the weaker members of society and in which the strife for existence is made harder than ever. If we consider carefully how the different classes of society are affected by these unusual and, to some ex- tent, unnatural developments, we can easily see that the blind are placed at a greater disadvantage than those whose sight is unimpaired. Indeed, they are the prin- cipal sufferers; for while they are utterly unable to join any of the immense manuiacturing companies or finan- cial combinations for lack of capital or of assets of any kind, they are at the same time debarred from partici- pating in great industrial occupations and mechanical trades carried on upon a large scale on account of their inability to handle the complicated machinery, which constitutes the principal force and main feature of all such enterprises. Under these conditions they can hardly hope to succeed in obtaining remunerative employment in ordinary workshops; nor is it possible for them to come into competition anywhere with seeing craftsmen,

for, if they attempt to do so, they are liable to be pushed aside by the latter. 54

Thus the obstacles, which hinder almost all persons bereft of the visual sense from engaging advantageously in handicrafts or from seeking to obtain employment in factories, are insurmountable, and no expedients nor devices of any sort can remove or lessen them. Hence, in our efforts to uplift the blind and equip them ade- quately to fight the battle of life successfully, there is only one course left for us to pursue, and that is to change front and let "the bricks fall down and build with hewn stones." We must persist no longer in wasting our means and exhausting our forces by trying to sail our bark against strongly adverse winds or to penetrate im- penetrable barriers. We must follow the path indicated by reason and common sense and turn our attention in a direction which promises to produce better results and is more hopeful than the old one. In other words, all our efforts should be devoted to the development and cultivation of the brain. This should be made the prin- cipal object of our work. Instead of giving a prominent place to handicrafts and endeavoring to teach several of them at a great expense of both money and time, we must strive first and above all to increase the intelligence of our pupils, to awaken their insight and to strengthen their judgment, upon which their fortune depends. We must cultivate their minds in a thorough manner and make these batteries of thought, which, according to Emerson, is the seed of action and the means of shaping one's career. We must give them perfect knowledge and mas- tery of their own inner selves and inculcate in them the spirit of self-reliance and independence and those ele- ments of character, which are indispensable for success in life. All our energies should be brought to bear upon these points. It is only through the adoption of a broad scheme of education like this that we can hope to put —

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down the bars which separate the bhnd from ordinary society.

Hie est, aut nusquam, quod querimus.

The more we study the problem of success in any of the departments of human activity, the further we see into the general domain of intellect and the more clearly we recognize the fact that the mind is "the standard of the man" and the great lever of all things. As Ebenezer

Elliott puts it,

Mind, mind alone

Is light, and hope, and life and power!

This is particularly true in the present condition of society, and it will be so evermore. There is a deep meaning and sound philosophy in Bulwer's saying, ''while the world lasts, the sun will gild the mountain-tops before it shines upon the plain." These considerations have led us to pay increased at- tention to the cultivation of the mental faculties of our scholars and to make this the primary principle and basis of our work. Accordingly our plan of education has been entirely reorganized or reconstructed on a broader and firmer foundation than that of the past and has been brought up to such a degree of completeness as to keep abreast with the times and to meet fully the demands and special requirements of the children and youth who attend our school.

This system as it now stands is very comprehensive in its scope and far-reaching in its influence. It does not confine its work within the narrow limits of giving to the blind an elementary knowledge of the ordinary branches of study and of teaching them some music and one or more simple trades, but goes far beyond this. It aims to reach every faculty of the students and to develop 56 every side of their natures,—intellect, conscience as an active element of character, the sense of honor, the love of industry, the ability to devise and to do and the desire for independence. By this system of education we hope to produce men and women of a fine type, strong, hardy, self-reliant, brave, enterprising, discreet. We purpose to make them capable of reasoning and judging, of thinking and plan- ning, of deciding and executing. We trust to be able to inspire them with the ambition of becoming active, interesting, valuable members of society rather than re- cipients of charity, which in some instances might be dis- guised in the form of manual occupations or industrial opportunities. Lastly, we intend to train them to use their powers intelligently and skilfully and to enable them to put themselves in as many relations with their fellow- men as they possibly can. In devising or adopting ways and means for carrying on the work of the school in accordance with the best and most approved methods, we never lose sight of the fact that education is a dynamical and not a mechanical process and that it is of the utmost importance to make a close union between the intellectual life and the deeper foundations of the character of our scholars. Having become firmly convinced that the destiny of the blind rests entirely upon the breadth of their intelli- gence and the strength of their character, we are ear- nestly laboring to provide for our pupils such advantages and opportunities as will enable them to gain these in- estimable qualities. For the attainment of this end we leave nothing undone. While we pay due heed to the valuable lessons taught by the history of pedagogy and bring within the reach of the children and youth entrusted to our care the experience of the past and the best prod- 57 ucts of the human mind, so that they may profit by these^ we try at the same time to give them a broad view of the world about them and to make them responsive to all that is vital in the thought and life of today. For it is from the ranks of persons educated and trained in this way that will come the strong men and women, who will serve both as examples to their fellow-sufferers and as active agents in leading these to a higher plane of social dignity, moral excellence and economic success. A brief review of the work which has been done during the past year in the different departments of the institu- tion, in accordance with the above named principles, is in order here. This will show the results already ob- tained and the progress which has been thus far made.

Department of Physical Education.

Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong. —Shakespeare.

When a new pupil is sent to us we cannot always de- termine whether he be intelligent or stupid, clever or dull^ bright or stolid, apt to learn or incapable of improvement. Neither his looks nor his actions and movements are unmistakable or safe indicators of his mental status and organic soundness. He may appear languid, inert,, listless, devoid of energy and of quickness of appre- hension; yet all these unfavorable symptoms may be the result of lack of exercise and proper training, or of insufficient nutriment and unhealthy environment, rather than the effects of some latent disorder, to which the destruction or imperfection of the visual sense may be ascribed.

In the light of these facts it becomes imperatively neces- sary for us to pay special attention to the physical organ- 58 ism of all children and youth whose education is entrusted to our judgment and care and to rid it from such blem- ishes and weaknesses as are remediable, so that it may be able to perform freely its natural functions. Hence in the case of every newcomer we must first and above all provide him with wholesome food and pure air, keep him clean and comfortably clad, remove his adenoid growths and encourage him to move about unhesitatingly, to walk with a free step and to exercise his muscles volun- tarily, and then attempt to unfold his mind and discipline his faculties. In other words, we must improve his phys- ical condition and strengthen his entire being before we begin the serious task of educating him in the usual sense of the word. This is unquestionably the best course and the one most likely to produce satisfactory results in every instance.

In the education of all classes of children but especially in that of the blind, the healthiness of the body is of the utmost importance. It is a vital element and funda- mental principle—an indispensable necessity. It consti- tutes the firm substratum upon which alone a super- structure of intellectual and moral development can be safely reared. It is no more possible for our teachers to achieve great success or accomplish much permanent good with debilitated and enervated human organisms than it is for constructors of buildings to erect command- ing and enduring edifices upon shifting sands or marshy lands. For these reasons one of the principal objects of the work of this institution is to enable the pupils to gain robust physical health and to train them to become sturdy and vigorous. These conditions are absolutely necessary alike for a high standard of achievement in school and for the successful performance of duties which arise in 59 later life. Nothing of great and enduring value can be accomplished without these blessings. Knowledge itself is of very little use with a weak, attenuated, bloodless body, which robs the mind of the strength of thought and the will of the power of decision. Physical training has therefore been made the founda- tion stone of the curriculum of this school and ample facilities have been provided for its pursuance. A com- modious building, equipped with the most approved apparatus and with all the appliances usually found in modern structures of this kind, is open to our pupils and a rational system of educational gymnastics has been

adopted and is in constant use. These exercises, carefully arranged and intelligently conducted by able and earnest instructors, prove to be of invaluable benefit to our scholars. They develop the muscles, enlarge the chest, increase the depth of respira- tion, quicken the circulation, stimulate the growth and force of the heart, give tone and vigor to the digestion and facilitate the passage of a sufficient supply of oxygen across the diaphanous walls of the lungs into the blood

streams by which it is carried to every tissue of the or-

ganism and contributes to the nutrition of the cells. It is beyond question that through the agency of gymnastics

the pupils gain the rugged virtues of courage and self- control, acquire the power of acting in concert with others, become less liable to sickness and grow healthier and stronger, firmer of limb and more fleet of foot, quicker to think and readier to act. Moreover, they work harder, apply themselves more steadily to their studies, accom- plish more and are better prepared to perform the duties

of life. Among the ancient Greeks gymnastic exercises were employed not only for the preservation of health and for 6o enabling young people to grow up vigorous, hardy and well balanced, but also in the cure of diseases. Plato even complained that the teachers of the palaestra were altogether too successful in keeping alive many feeble folk that nature evidently intended should die. Con- trary to the views of the great philosopher, we have in these days ample cause to be heartily thankful for what the gymnasium does for the physical, intellectual and moral welfare of the blind by freeing their bodies of so many ills, which often shorten man's existence or make it miserable, and by rendering these fitting abodes for sound, active and alert minds.

Department of Manual Training.

That wonderful instrument the hand, was it made to be idle? —Berkeley.

Since the year 1891 the work of this department has ceased to be confined to the usual mechanical processes for giving the pupils instruction in several handicrafts or trades, more or less profitable in a pecuniary point of view, and has become an educational factor of immense value. After a careful study of the matter, manual training has been lifted up to its rightful place in the curriculum of our school and has been made an integral part thereof and not an adjunct or supplement thereto. It has been freed from all empirical and incongruous features and has assumed a definite aim or distinct purpose, which is to reach and influence the mind and the heart of the scholars through the action of their hands and to touch their lives at as many points as possible. Its significance as a prime branch of education, pure and simple, is thoroughly un- derstood and duly appreciated by our teachers. 6i

In estimating the different forms of manual training we have reached the conclusion that in the case of the blind sloyd has positive advantages over all other systems and is infinitely better adapted to the needs of our pupils than any of its rivals. It is admirably arranged to ex- ercise the hand and develop the brain simultaneously and to make the one contribute its full share to the im- provement of the other. It promotes the health and vigor of the body, as well as the growth of the mind, and stimulates the energy of the intellect. It gives flexibility and strength to the muscles and renders them obedient servants and efficient ministers of the will. It awakens the power of concentration in a greater degree than most of the literary studies and at the same time nurtures the inventive and creative or constructive faculties. It calls forth organized thinking by the adaptation of means to ends and acts as a tonic upon the mental and moral ac- tivities. Furthermore, it offers excellent opportunities and continuous occasions for fostering habits of patient industry and unyielding perseverance, of discriminating observation and accurate comparison, of order and ex- actness, of neatness and cleanliness, of rectitude and honesty. In the educational exhibit, which we have sent from this institution to the great international exposition in

Saint Louis, the work of the girls' section of ];he manual training department is adequately represented by a va- riety of articles which have been made by the pupils of the different classes and have been arranged in a syste- matic way. These articles form an interesting collection and are accompanied by an excellent descriptive state- ment, written by the teachers for the benefit of those who may be disposed to examine them with care. As this account tells concisely but in an admirable manner the 62 story of the course which we pursue in this branch of our scheme of education, we give it here in full.

Instruction is given in the girls' department in three distinct lines of manual training. The sloyd system is followed in all these branches, namely, knitting, wood-work and sewing. The course in knitting is four years, in wood-sloyd three years and in sewing eight years. The work in each line is graded, but the pupil at her entrance begins them all and advances as rapidly as her ability permits. With the exception of the preparatory work in learning stitches and patching, something useful is created at every step of the way. The result of the first clumsy attempt in knitting is made into a bag for rubbers; the tools in wood-sloyd are first handled in an effort to make a flower-pin or a ruler; and the piece of canvas used in practising stitches in sewing is a pretty mat when the work is finished. So the pupil produces something of positive value even in elementary exercises.

Training in knitting is begun with the use of coarse twine and heavy wooden needles, followed by finer cord and bone needles, and then by still finer twine and steel needles. The first worsted used is eight-fold Oermantown, then four-fold, and from this the work grades through Saxony and Shetland wool to fine thread. The size of the needles of course decreases correspondingly. Two or three articles are made at each step of the process.

After the first exercise with twine, the regular course begins.

First Year: plain knitting, casting on and binding off. The

worsted is held over the left hand in the German way, as this position gives a freer and more even exercise to both hands. Second Year: seaming, widening and narrowing. Third Year: using finer materials with both coarse and fine needles. The rainbow shawl belongs to this period and other shawls made with two kinds of worsted. Fourth Year: using four needles and knitting with thread. Mittens, stockings, some kinds of infants' socks, and sweaters are made

at this time. Crocheting comes in this last year of the course

but is not considered so good an exercise as knitting because

only one hand is actively engaged.

Wood-sloyd is given only to the younger girls or to new pupils who need especially to gain control of their hands. The course usually extends over the first three years of a girl's training at South 63

Boston. She begins with a knife and makes a flower-pin; then with a plane she makes a ruler and so on to tool-rack, coat-hanger, plant- stand, corner-shelf, paper-knife, knife-box and towel-roller, as she is learning to use the saw, awl, bores, dividers, spoke-shave, etc. She has the results of her labor and may keep her models or give them away, as she pleases.

The course in sewing is naturally the longest. Pupils can ad- vance from the first simple stitches to the stage where they can darn, patch, draft their own patterns and complete common articles of dress.

First Year. The pupil is taught to make stitches with heavy worsted on perforated leather. She repeats these on burlap-canvas.

The openings in this material make it possible for her to keep the stitches in a straight line. Second Year. She applies her knowledge of stitches to coarse cloth

by basting towels, dusters, etc. Third and Fourth Years. She bastes sheets, hems napkins and over- hands pillow-cases, puts two edges together with different stitches

in making bags, slipper-cases, aprons, over-sleeves, etc., besides measuring and cutting straight and curved edges, making but- tonholes, darning and patching. Fifth and Sixth Years. She gains a thorough knowledge of the sewing machine, and stitches towels, sheets, pillow-cases, and sometimes table-cloths. All the table hnen, sheets, pillow-cases

and towels for the five cottages of the girls' department are made by the pupils in class. Seventh and Eighth Years. Advanced work in taking measurements, drafting patterns for her own underwear, linen skirts, breakfast jackets, and shirt-waists, then fitting and completing these gar-

ments. The drafting is done by the help of a system with raised measurements and of a dress-maker's wheel to take the place of a pencil. The wheel leaves a line of perforations that can be easily followed by the fingers.

The order followed in the instruction in these different subjects is invariable ; but the length of time taken by individual pupils to com- plete satisfactorily each step of the course depends upon the capa- bility of each girl. At the completion of this course the pupil has gained skill and strength in her hands, and probably has clearer ideas of shape and proportion, a little keener intelligence and more self- reliance. It is certain that she finds satisfaction in being able to do. 64 to a great extent, what seeing girls of her own age are capable of ac- complishing in the line of repairing and dress-making.

Close observation has convinced us that manual train- ing, carried on in accordance with rational pedagogical principles, exerts a powerful influence on the various de- partments of school-work. It is generally admitted that pupils who are occupied with their tools during a single hour of each day advance with more than ordinary rapid- ity in their other studies. This gain is unquestionably due to the mental strength and power of application, which the scholars acquire through the exercise of their hands.

Literary Department.

Hunt knowledge as a lover woos a maid, And ever in the strife of your own thoughts Obey the nobler impulse. —Emerson.

While the physical and manual training of the pupils has received due attention, the improvement of their in- tellect and of the moral side of their character has not been neglected. On the contrary the operations of the literary department of the institution, which are en- tirely concerned with the development of the brain and the cultivation of the mind and heart of the students, have been prosecuted with great earnestness and strict regularity and have produced excellent results. Of recent years the school has undergone a complete reorganization and has increased in efficiency and useful- ness. It has been supplied with an adequate equipment and ample facilities for comprehensive teaching and thorough work, and the methods of training pursued herein have been so modified and improved as to embody the latest and most progressive educational ideas. In all 65

these points, as well as in regard to the zeal and skill of the teachers, there has been a steady advance and not a single backward step. The instruction in the different subjects taught in the school has been given to the pupils in such a way as to attract their attention, awaken their interest, appeal to their sympathies, foster their taste for scholarly attain- ments and discipline their mental faculties. No efforts

have been spared on the part of the teachers to lift the students out of themselves and bring them into contact with the world around them as much as possible, to supply them with means of gaining a knowledge of living things, and not to chain them to the contents of the text books, and to enable them to acquire information through their own exertions. The various branches of study, which form part of the curriculum of the school, have been coordinated in a rational manner and have been taught with a proper conception of their unity. Special stress has been laid not upon an accumula- tion of facts, nor on the mechanical process of gathering miscellaneous desultory information, but upon the in- crease of the power of volition and on a thorough devel- opment of the capacity for observing carefully and per- ceiving readily, for investigating diligently and choosing intelligently, for thinking rightly and judging correctly, for imagining sanely and acting efficiently. Briefly speaking, we have insisted upon opening for our pupUs a clear and wide outlook. The legitimate result pro- duced by this course is an open, eager and sympathetic mind with faculties sharpened and strengthened by ob- servation and experience, by literary discipline and scien- tific training.

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66 the amendment and readjustment of our methods and processes of instruction and training are inevitable, and we are obliged to make changes in them which are both radical and costly. In order to keep up with the times we must examine carefully all suggestions made by com- petent authorities and, guided by the light of the science of pedagogy, choose that which seems to be the best. Even the good must give place to the better. Progress is the law of life. In its name and under its auspices a great movement is carried on in these days, and we can- not afford to lag behind and to become dealers in old educational clothes eaten up by the moths of empiricism. To use Lowell's words

The world moves onward, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' davs were best.

Those of our graduates, who after leaving our school desire to carry their education further, are readily ad- mitted to the leading colleges and universities of New England for the purpose of pursuing higher academic and scientific studies. We were exceedingly glad to attend on the twenty-second day of June last the grad- uation exercises of the Boston college and to see that one of our former pupils, Mr. Neil Joseph Devlin of East Boston, occupied a prominent place among the members of the class of 1904. Aided by a devoted and sweet-spirited sister, this young man, although totally blind, went through the entire collegiate course with high honors and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the award of prizes he was given the gold medal in geology and an honorable mention in psychology and natural theology. The tender interest and delicate feel- ing, which were invariably manifested toward him by his —

67 classmates, were eminently creditable to themselves and exceedingly pleasing to him and to his friends. Three changes have occurred in the corps of teachers of this department. Miss Ethel M. Stickney, who served

in the girls' section of this school for five years with marked ability and great assiduity, resigned her situation last June and has since been married. The vacancy thus created was filled by the promotion of Miss Helen L. Smith, who had proved to be very efficient as special teacher to Cora Adelia Crocker. Miss Eugenia Locke has succeeded Miss Emily H. Esty who, after a year's faithful work, has decided to give up her position here in order to accept a more lucrative one elsewhere. Mr. Fred R. Faulkner, who served as teacher of science dur- ing the past twelve months, has declined a reappoint- ment, and his place has been supplied by the choice of Mr. James W. Dyson, a recent graduate of Brown Uni- versity.

Department of Music.

Through every pulse the music stole And held sublime communion with the soul, Wrung from the coyest breast the imprisoned sigh, And kindled rapture in the coldest eye. —James Montgomery.

Whether it is viewed from an educational or from an

aesthetic or ethical standpoint, music is of inestimable

value. It is one of the most important elements of cult- ure and one of the principal promoters of good morals.

It is both the nurse of the soul and the interpreter of its

emotions. It is the "harmonious voice of creation,"

an echo of the ideal world. Like poetry, its twin sister,

it has the power to sway the feelings and to spur men to lofty deeds. It softens the heart and refines the intel-

lect. It ushers its devotees into fields of Elysian beauty —

68 and peace. It develops the aesthetic taste of the student and ministers to his enjoyment. To the blind it is like a new sense. It reveals to them what they cannot see with the eyes or grasp with the hand or comprehend with the mind. It lights up the path which reason and logic have failed to illuminate. For this reason music holds a commanding place in our school curriculum, and the institution affords an un- surpassed combination of advantages for its study and practice. The work is carried on in the best of quarters under the supervision of a corps of well-trained and efficient teachers, in an atmosphere, which is preemi- nently artistic. The instruction given to the pupils in vocal and instrumental music is of the most thorough character. Our aim is to provide the blind of New Eng- land with the means and opportunities for that broad and substantial musical culture, which is much more than the mere ability to sing or to play on one or more instruments. The study of this art has been pursued with marked zeal and excellent results during the past year. Mr. Edwin L. Gardiner, the head master of the boys' section of the musical department, has written the following account of the work done by the pupils under his direc- tion :

During the year just closed tifty pupils were enrolled in the boys' section of the music department. With three exceptions, all of these have practised on the pianoforte; six have studied the pipe organ; ten, the vioHn; three, the violoncello; and one, the contra- bass. Of those who paid special attention to the wind instruments, two played the flute; two, the oboe; six, the clarinet; two, the bas- soon; four, the French horn; four, the cornet; and one, the trom- bone. One pupil received instruction in playing the tympani. The class in singing had ten members, all of whom received pri- vate lessons, and the chorus work of these pupils was fairly good. —

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Four classes have studied the theory of music. Two of these were composed of beginners who wxre occupied with the study of acoustics, musical rhythms, tempo marks and accents. The other classes consisted of more advanced students who studied musical form and analysis. Twenty-two pupils had special lessons in the study of harmony, and their work was, as a whole, very creditable. The regular Monday evening musical readings were continued throughout the year, the addition to our library of several new and valuable books serving to increase the interest of the pupils in these readings. Our orchestra made good progress and added a number of clas- sical pieces to its repertory. The list of the composers whose works we have studied this year contains the names of Beethoven, Boc- cherini, Godard, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Reinecke. We have given much time to the stereotyping of music in the Braille system, and there have been more than one hundred pieces added to our collection during the year. In this number are in- cluded important works by Beethoven, Chopin, Franz, Mendelssohn,

Schubert and Schumann. We think that our list of songs will be found timely and of especial excellence.

The following account, written by Miss Lila P. Cole, the head teacher in the girls' section of the music depart- ment, tells the story of the w^ork which has been accom- plished under her supervision:

During the past year there have been fifty-five pupils in the girls' section of the music department. All of these have received in- struction in playing on the pianoforte; eight, on the violin; one, on the violoncello; and one, on the pipe organ. Eight have taken les- sons in singing. A number of pupils have studied harmony and the history of music. These have received fundamental training, and the work done has been generally satisfactory. In the violin class great improvement has been made. The ensemble practice twice a week has been very helpful, and the girls have been able to learn many interesting compositions for strings. The chorus, being smaller than formerly, did not accomplish all that was desired. We hope, however, by forming a class of younger pupils during the coming term, to increase the member- ship in a short time. 70

On one evening of each week the girls have assembled to listen to readings relating to music. These consist usually of biography, reminiscences, criticisms of performances and current topics of in- terest from magazines and newspapers. The monthly recitals have been given regularly before the school, and in these all the pupils have taken part.

On the whole the results of the year's work have been very satis- factory, the pupils for the most part having applied themselves earn- estly and faithfully.

Great improvements have been made in recent years in this department both as to equipment and methods of teaching. Never before in its history has it stood as well as it does now, nor has it ever been in such a fine condi- tion as at the present time. It is conducted in a systematic and business-like way, and its work has attained an un- precedented degree of excellence in all the branches of study included in its curriculum, but most especially in that of ensemble playing, which is the surest test and the most convincing proof of high achievement. In corroboration of this statement we adduce the written testimony of one of the ablest musicians and best-known critics of this city. Prof. Louis C. Elson, of the New England conservatory, was so good as to attend our graduation exercises at the Boston Theatre on the seventh of June last, and on the following day he published in the Boston Daily Advertiser over his signature a fair and very discriminating criticism of the performances of our orchestra. This account we take very great pleasure in reprinting in full with grateful acknowledgments of the kind interest shown by its dis- tinguished author in our school. Here is Prof. Elson's article. PERKINS INSTITUTE ORCHESTRA.

The exhibition of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, at the Bos- ton Theatre yesterday afternoon, was a marvellous display of what — —

71 education can do even when handicapped by the loss of an impor- tant sense. Mr. Anagnos and his corps of assistants have accom- pHshed wonders in many directions, but nothing made a greater impression upon the present writer than the performance of the or- chestra of the institution, composed entirely of blind pupils. An orchestra of blind musicians performing classical music might

seem to be an impossibility, but it exists, and gave good evidence

of its existence in the exercises of yesterday. It played the finale of a Haydn symphony with smoothness and precision, the ensemble being more affected by the composition of the orchestra than by the lack of sight on the part of the performers. We suggested, at the first appearance of the band, last year, that the bass parts should be strengthened, and we are glad to see that

this has in some degree been accomplished. But a still further

addition to the lower parts would be advantageous. There is an- other make-shift in the orchestra, which seems unavoidable for the present—the substitution of bass-clarinettes for bassoons. But spite of these points, the performance was a worthy and creditable one. The orchestra has both male and female members, and consists

of 6 first violins, 5 second violins, 3 violas, 4 violoncellos, 2 contra- basses, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinettes, 2 bass-clarinettes, 3 horns, 2 trumpets and a pair of tympani. The following repertoire has been studied up to date:

Scherzo from symphony No. 2; Minuet from Septet, Op. 20 . . Beethoven

Minuet in A (strings) ; Minuet in A No. 2 (strings) Boccherini Symphony in C, first movement Dittersdorf Anitra's Tanz (strings); Gavotte from "Holberg" suite .... Grieg

Mihtary symphony; Symphony No. 2 in D, 3 movements . . . Haydn Serenade Op. 65, strings and flute H. Hofmann Capriccio, Op. 22, pianoforte and orchestra; Notturno-Sommer- nachtstraum, Op. 61 Mendelssohn Andante and minuet from E flat symphony; Minuet from " Jupi- ter" symphony; Minuet from symphony in G minor; Di- vertimento in D, first movement Mozart

Idylle, from 5 "Tonbilder" Reinecke

Pieces prepared for study next season:

Andante con moto, from symphony No. i; Scherzo from sym- phony No. 4 Beethoven

Symphony No. 5 in D, first movement; Symphony No. 13, largo. Haydn Andante, from concerto for violin Mendelssohn Unfinished symphony Schubert 72

Such an achievement on the part of blind musicians is well worth chronicling, and Boston may well be proud of having added such a leaf to her musical crown of laurels. Naturally, with this orchestra, the conductor works in a different manner from the ordinary system. Mr. Edwin L. Gardiner, who has formed this orchestra, has the orchestral parts printed in the

Braille point system, which is more easily followed by the blind than the note system would be. ISIr. Gardiner directs the orchestra, standing in the rear of the musicians, so that the sound of his tapping cannot reach the audience. With his baton he gently raps out the speed and then gives a couple of taps as a signal to begin. During the performance he indicates changes of tempo by this tapping, which, although heard by the keen-eared musicians, is not in the least audible in the auditorium. There has been a great advance of musical activity in the higher branches since the Braille point system has been adapted to nota- tion. Nevertheless the blind musicians are taught, even in the musical kindergarten (which also was heard in the programme), the shape and meaning of the regular musical notation, so that the music teachers of the institution need not be hampered in subse- quent explanations given to pupils who are to be trained in the regular way.

It is pleasant to be able to chronicle the fact that this foremost blind orchestra of America is advancing rapidly, and that loss of sight need henceforth be no bar to the performance of large con- certed works of moderate difficulty. The orchestra won much ap- plause at each appearance yesterday, and deserves the attention not only of musical critics but of all those who are interested in the advance of education.

It is hardly necessary for us to state in this connection that, with the exception of the Institution Nationale des jeunes Aveugles in Paris, no other school for the blind either on the continent of Europe or in this country has organized an orchestra equal in completeness to ours. Nor have in this particular direction any serious at- tempts ever been made either in London or in any other part of Great Britain. 7i

Our collection of wind and stringed instruments of dif- ferent kinds has been enriched by new and valuable additions, and no efforts have been spared on our part to secure the services of able and competent instructors and to supply the means which are required for the per- formance of the work of this department in the best pos- sible manner. Thus the facilities and resources for the study and practice of the various branches of music, with which the blind of New England are amply pro- vided at the institution, are unsurpassed elsewhere and form one of the most important factors in our system of education. But great and significant as are the unusual advan- tages which are afforded by the school, they are supple- mented and rendered even more fruitful by a series of others, which do not form a part of our own curric- ulum in the strictest sense of the word, since they come to us through the generosity of persons not connected with the institution. Thanks to the unfailing kindness of many thoughtful and loyal friends of the school, our pupils have been invited to attend a large number of the excellent concerts and recitals, for which Boston is so famous and in which the masterpieces of world-re- nowned composers are exquisitely interpreted by emi- nent artists and by orchestras and choruses of perfect organization and thorough training. We can hardly overrate the importance of these precious opportunities. Whether they are considered from an educational or from an artistic point of view, they are of inestimable worth to our scholars. They open to these a broad field of aesthetic refinement and musical culture, which can be secured in no other way. They enable them to perceive and judge what is fine and inspiring in art, to gain a taste for purely classical works and a dislike for mere sensa- 74 tional compositions, to enlarge the sphere of their tonal perceptions and to improve and sharpen their critical acumen. Finally, by the aid of these opportunities our advanced students are uplifted to the higher spheres of melody and harmony and led into the domain of the true and the beautiful so far as this can be depicted by means of sound. These rare privileges, as well as the concerts, lectures and other entertainments given in our own hall by musicians and literary people of high stand- ing in the community, are eagerly sought, heartily en- joyed and immensely valued by our scholars and teachers. In recognition of these benefits we desire to express our deep sense of gratitude to the liberal friends and con- stant benefactors of the blind, to whom we are indebted for them and whose names are recorded in the portion of this report devoted to acknowledgments.

Tuning Department.

Tuned in the self-same key. —Shakespeare.

The art of tuning and repairing pianofortes stands first on the list of the handicrafts, which are still avail- able to the blind and yield a fair remuneration to them. It gives them favorable opportunities for coming in con- tact with intelligent and refined people and at the same time brings to them greater returns for their labor than any other calling now open to them. Indeed, there is nothing in the line of manual occupations, which is su- perior or equal to it either in a financial or in a social point of view. In consideration of these facts our school pays even more attention to this art than it has in the past, and the department devoted to its study and practice is provided with ample accommodations and uncommon facilities. 75

During the past year twenty-five pupils have received instruction in tuning. The degree of progress achieved by each of them has been proportionate to his natural ability and to the number of hours which he has devoted €very day to this work. The course of instruction and training pursued in this department is comprehensive in its scope, scientific in

its methods and systematic in its arrangements. It com- prises the study of pitch and the relation of intervals, together with their application in tuning; regular exer- cise of the ear in order to render it keen and capable of receiving and distinguishing tones accurately, and musical acoustics, embracing the theory of scales, har- monics, beats and temperaments. It aims to give an accurate knowledge of the structure of the temperaments; perfect familiarity with the construction of the piano- forte in general and with the specific function of each

of its parts in particular; a thorough drill in repairing and adjusting the intricate mechanism of the action of an instrument, and absolute mastery of the method of attaching or placing strings and of setting up and regu- lating an action. Moreover, the scholars who desire to take up tuning and appear to have a natural inclina-

tion for it are required to be well grounded in the philos- ophy of sound and in the elements of the theory of music. For the proper study of these important branches ample

provision is made in the departments of science and music. The work of making ordinary repairs on pianofortes of various kinds has been prosecuted with great earnest- ness and efficiency. Under the untiring guidance of their able master, Mr. George E. Hart, the apprentices have restrung one pianoforte throughout and have over- hauled several others and put them in good condition.

Experience of this sort is especially helpful to them. It 76

broadens their technical knowledge, increases their me- chanical skill and strengthens their confidence in their own ability to overcome the difiiculties which they may meet in the practice of their art. The time which these young men spend in studying the mechanism of piano- fortes in its different forms and in learning to make re- pairs proves to be a period of beneficent recreation to them, when the sense of hearing obtains a rest from the arduous calls upon it, incident to this profession, and the other faculties are brought into action.

Those students, who go through the full course of instruction and training and receive a certificate of com- petence and blameless character, are well^ fitted to do good work and capable of competing on almost equal terms with their fellow craftsmen whose visual sense is not impaired. The pianofortes used in the public schools of Boston,

250 in number, are still entrusted to the care of our tun- ing department and receive the best possible attention. They are examined, tuned and cleaned at regular inter- vals, and the condition in which they are kept is so ex- cellent as to elicit the unqualified approval of the officials of the school board and the hearty commendation of the teachers. We have recently entered into agreement with another city, whereby we have assumed the respon- sibility of keeping the pianofortes used in its public schools in good working order at a reasonable cost. Further- more the work of our tuners is emphatically endorsed by a large number of intelligent and highly esteemed persons, who have given it a fair trial and who speak of it in most favorable terms. We earnestly hope that many new names will soon be added to the list of our patrons. 11

Entertainment on Washington's Birthday.

For this chill season now again

Brings, in its annual round, the morn When, greatest of the sons of men. Our glorious Washington was born. —Bryant.

Although the goal of the ambitions of the young sight- less actors, pupils of the Perkins Institution, who have put upon the stage several admirable performances in the past, has been far in advance of their most arduous attempts in this direction, it would seem as if the con- summation must have been reached with the presenta- tion of the entire play of Shakespeare's As You Like It, given on the afternoon of Washington's birthday by the boys' department of the school.

The renovated and beautiful hall, with its commodious auditorium, its ample and well-arranged stage and ante- rooms and its increased facilities for lighting, formed an excellent setting for the play, and additional improve- ments appeared in the stationary wings upon the stage, which made the entrances and exits of the actors more convenient than before. Although the weather was inclement an audience of goodly size was seated in the hall when, at three o'clock, trumpet calls heralded the approach of the mediaeval sentinels who, up to this point, had guarded the entrance but who now marched forward and took up their posi- tions at either side of the stage. A second trumpet call in the distance gave the signal for the raising of the cur- tain, disclosing the stage with its plain wings and simple setting, for the comedy was given in Elizabethan style, without the distractions of scenery or elaborate proper- ties. Scene followed scene and act succeeded act without intermission, save that at the end of the second act the —

7« lowering of the curtain offered a few minutes' respite to the participants and afforded an opportunity for a brief explanation of the motives of the actors and the results which they had been able to achieve. The few necessary articles of furniture upon the stage were placed in position and removed by two "blue-coat boys" who served as attendants. The costumes, which were well chosen in accordance with stage tradition, were furnished by Raymond, and as displayed against a sombre back- ground served to brighten the stage and to add a touch of realism to the acting of the boys.

The assignment of the parts was as follows :

The Duke, Charles H. Amadon. Duke Frederick, Richard Barnard. Amiens, Lyman K. Harvey. Jaques, William T. Clenon. Oliver, Edward Bradley. Orlando, Barnard Levin. Adam, Frederick V. Walsh. Charles, William E. Robenson. Jaques de Boys, Edward Ray. William, Patrick Osborne. Touchstone, Everett Davison. Dennis, Frank Ransom. Silvius, Frank Nilson. Corin, Edwin Stuart. Rosalind, Frederick Carney. Celia, Joseph Bartlett. Phcehe, Edward Ryan. Audrey, Alfred Heroux. Hymen, Francis Diamond. Heralds, Wilbur Dodge and Harry Rand, Guards, Charles Stamp, Henry Van Vliet. James Cunningham and John Wetherell. Courtiers, Frederick Viggers and Charles Black. Foresters, William Walsh, Wilbur Dodge, Richard Barnard, Edward Bradley, Edward Ryan and Alfred Heroux. ";aS you; like it."—;Act1I. Scenes.

'AS YOU LIKE IT."— Act V. Closing Scene.

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It may truly be said that on no previous occasion in the histrionic annals of the school have the characters been more admirably taken. The principal actors did splen- did work, but so too did those who assumed the minor parts. The scenes between Rosalind and Celia, and Rosalind and Orlando, were particularly pleasing; the quarrel between Orlando and Oliver was most real in its inten- sity; Touchstone enlivened the stage throughout with his jests and antics and, with Audrey and William, caused much merriment among the audience; the melancholy Jaques sustained weir his character; the wrestling match between Orlando and Charles was conducted with a vigor and determination which held all entranced, and awakened grave doubts as to the outcome of the contest; old Adam, following with tottering steps his master's fortunes in the forest, added a true note of deep pathos. But these are only a few of the noteworthy features of the performance where all was most deserving of the commendation which it received. The boys showed a fine appreciation of Shakespeare's lines and presented an excellent conception of their roles. They were '' letter perfect"; and not a moment's delay or an error of any kind- marred the superior quality of the performance which proceeded smoothly and gracefully from begin- ning to end. The three songs of the foresters were sung with fine spirit and rang forth so sonorously and so melodiously that they were warmly applauded by the audience and won a hearty encore. Great credit for the excellence of the entertainment

is due to the pupils themselves, to Miss J. L. Langworthy and Mr. Caswell, the instructors who drilled them in their parts, and to all the teachers and officers who will- So ingly and cheerfully contributed in greater or less degree to the success of the undertaking. The financial profits were gladly added to the much-needed funds for the kindergarten department at Jamaica Plain, but the in- trinsic value of these eftorts in dramatic portrayal to the young actors themselves cannot be over-estimated. They are thus, and only thus, permitted to appreciate and enjoy a form of art, which must otherwise be shut out from their comprehension by their great deprivation, the loss of sight, but which through this means becomes an added factor in the development of their aesthetic nature. The presentation of one of Shakespeare's plays must tend also to promote the love of poetry and rhythm. At the close of the performance the president of the boys' society, the Howe Memorial Club, thanked the audience in a few well-chosen words for having braved the elements in order to attend the entertainment and announced the intended repetition of the play for the benefit of their organization on the 13th of the following April. The entertainment was widely noticed and unstintedly praised by the press in a general way, whUe three of the leading newspapers of New England, the Evening Tran- script, the Boston Herald and the Spring-field Republi- can paid special attention to it. They published most favorable analytical criticisms of the performance, pre- pared by such experienced judges and eminent authors as Mr. Edward H. Clement, Rev. Francis Tiffany and Mr. Frank B. Sanborn. These gentlemen are most ac- complished scholars and life-long students of the dra- matic art and they speak with absolute authority about it. Hence the accounts written by them with great fair- ness and unquestionable discrimination, besides being exceedingly encouraging to our pupils and peculiarly 8i gratifying to their instructors, are so instructive and of such an absorbing general interest, that we cannot re- frain from reprinting them here. From the article published in the Evening Transcript on the 24th of February and written by its editor in chief, Mr. Clement, we quote as follows:—

Washington's birthday is so often spattered with snow or sleet or slush that out-of-door celebration is impossible. Hence we test in it what can be done in the way of patriotic commemoration without detonating explosions, without processions in the streets, and without even holiday trips to the country. We are forced to fall back upon the intellectual and spiritual elements, although the spirituous may also enter in by the way of one of those early big dinners such as make Thanksgiving and Christmas. If there is any atmosphere of idealism about one, any receptivity whatever for general ideas, any patriotism, aside from mere party zeal, rooted in the past of our country and our ancestry, W^ashington's birthday should bring them into full bearing.

It takes our so-called "foreigners," however, to appreciate nowa- days Washington and Lincoln and what America stands for after the fashion of "Liberty Enlightening the W^orld." There is no more fervent American patriot, for example, among the native born, and few to match him in that regard, than that youthful companion and protege of Dr. Howe's, his only successor at the Perkins Insti- tution in South Boston. It is long since Mr. Anagnos made Wash- ington's birthday the great saint 's-day at this institution, and one always looks for something significant on this red-letter day there.

This year it was a pious and worthy production of that Shakes- pearean gem of Enghsh literature, "As You Like It," by the elder youth of the college, for college Perkins virtually is to the blind. Here were young men who had never seen a play, or a picture even,

taking all the parts of the play that is redolent with traditions of

great artists of both sexes and rich in the peculiar fragrance of Shakes- peare's wit, fancy and beauty. Even the wrestling scene was con-

ducted with immense spirit, but who wonders at that after seeing the gymnasium at Perkins? That the rendering was intelligent goes

without saying; also that it was tasteful in artistic costuming, and as for the incidental music, music has always been the Perkins Insti- tution's strongest point. —

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But what leads us to think of this as a characteristic and fitting form of celebration for the day was the little speech of Sir. Anag- nos, between the acts, wherein he said, speaking as one especially proud of the achievements of Greece, that the drama was the thing to combine all the best of teachings of patriotism, of morality and of humanity, as well as of letters and the arts. Standing in front of the new drop curtain of the enlarged theatre of the institution, with his strong head outlined against the pictured heights of the Acropolis, he had right to speak of the drama as the mightiest of social engines when rightly used. In open-air amphitheatres, in the ranks of seats on the slopes of the hill represented in the picture at his back, were given to the world, for the entertainment of the

Athenian public, those • master-pieces embodying in the vernacular messages of morals and religion the loftiest and purest known to the world of their day, and in impressiveness and beauty, in pathos and in searching power, never since that ancient day surpassed or even equalled for solemn artistic effect. One could easily, under the circumstances, agree with Mr. Anagnos that such ennobling, enlarging and uplifting tasks as the reproduction of our own mother-

tongue's cla.ssics would be the best of all celebrations, by which race- honor and national piety could be cultivated.

From the Sunday Herald of the 28th of February, 1904, we reprint in full the following editorial article,

written by the facile pen of the Rev. Francis Tiffany :

ACTING IN A DARK C^VE.

Few parlor amusements set on more riotous laughter than, in

a brilliantly lighted room, a game of blind man's bufif. With a handkerchief so tightly bound round his eyes as to shut him up in total darkness, the actor-in-chief finds himself beset by a dozen or more lively young girls and young fellows, each eager to give him a light buff or buffet and then to slip away before the semi- helpless victim can know who touched him. Once he can lay so much as the tip of a linger on his assailant, the unhappy offender,

girl or spry young chap, has to surrender unconditionally and then take a turn at being blindfolded and fooled with himself.

All this is pretty much the same lively spectacle to witness as would be the desperate chances of an individual eyeless fish just escaped from the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky into^a^river where —

S3 he finds himself suddenly exposed to the attacks of a swarm of perch or pike, each fitted out with a pair of the sharpest of eyes, only that the odds in favor of the Mammoth Cave fish are far greater, seeing that he has enjoyed the advantage of age-long education in a geologic "Perkins Asylum for the Blind," where he has been taught how to handle himself, flipper and fin, in the pitchiest of pitch-black dark- ness. Indeed, it would hardly do to risk one's money too rashly on the question of which of the two parties will whip, so many dodges in the way of availing himself of his other senses is the sightless fish up to. Reflections like these came very natural to all who were favored on the afternoon of Washington's birthday last Monday to witness the performance at the Perkins Institution for the Blind in South Boston of Shakespeare's play of "As You Like It." There—though in an infinitely more serious and even pathetic sense—was the whole game of blind man's buff enacted over again; that is, there were the performers shut up to total darkness, and there the spectators sitting in the full light of day. It required a strenuous effort of imagination to take in the actual situation. There on the stage was the exciting play going on—Orlando, Rosalind, Touchstone, Audrey and Jaques making one laugh or cry as the plot thickened and there on the benches sat the frequent-applauding audience.

Was it possible to take it in that up there on the stage boards reigned midnight darkness, on which no glaze of glaring footlights could fling the faintest ray, while below on the seats and in the broad glare of day were visible each flower in the bonnets and each smile on the faces of the responsive audience, enjoying every feature of the play enacted in that blind cave? The full blaze of the sun on one side of the moon, total darkness of eclipse on the other—no more impressive an astronomical conception to grasp, the one than the other! Yet how admirably well did the blind actors acquit themselves.

They were some twenty or thirty in all, and, it is to be remembered, entirely amateurs. Rarely, however, does one see a troupe of ama- teurs averaging so well in evenness of playing, so up to everything that goes under the name of the "business" of a play, so perfect in memorizing, so skilful in effective grouping and in exits and en- trances. Indeed, in the purity of their English, in intelligent ap- preciation of the force of every word, in making it carry to the far- thest end of the hall, in swiftness and assurance of unflagging pace 84

through scene after scene, it would be the rarest thing to encounter any company of simple amateurs whose sight would enable them to average throughout as well as these sightless ones. The rendering of Touchstone and Audrey—not to speak of other parts—would have brought down again and again the audience of any theatre in Boston.

The play of "As You Like It" is one of such quick-shifting va- riety of situations that every kindly-natured spectator would stand ready with abundant excuses for any troupe of amateurs who should incontinently tumble over one another on a dozen occasions, or rush in three minutes behind time as bride at a wedding service, or precipitately announce a bloody death at the claws of a lion quite an interval before the lion scratched his victim. Besides, even with

the best of sight, it is always hard to dash in with headlong momen- tum and then bring up short as an express train at a station, before pitching into somebody, and he perhaps a duke, entirely unused to such uncourtly liberties. It was, then, a triumph of touch versus sight, of intellectual appreciation of time and space versus plain sense-perception, to note how these blind actors avoided collisions as deftly as so many delicately-winged bats guided by mere sense of atmospheric pressure from coUiding with ceiling or wall. The sympathy of the audience was completely won, as evidenced in rounds

of applause. And yet, be it repeated, ever and anon one had to stick a pin into his sluggish imagination to make it body forth the idea that here were actors, themselves in total darkness, evoking enthusiastic handclappings from an audience swallowed up, to their sightless eyes at least, in equal night of darkness. No visible

hands a-clapping, and still such a din! Yes, very interesting all this, no doubt, and a wonderful feat to

achieve, but of what possible use is the education of the bhnd ? many may unreflectingly ask. Such people should have listened to the admirable Httle address made on the spot by Mr. Anagnos, director of the institute. Born himself a Greek, and with all the instincts in his blood of the race

that had first Hfted the drama to world-wide recognition as the master educator of man, he clearly brought out what a quickener of the senses, stimulant to the imagination and vivifier of the tangible and palpable life of the world the drama must prove itself to the bUnd, cut off by defect of sight from one grand avenue of actual contact with so much of concrete life. It teaches the blind to act to- —

85 gether in subordination; it enlarges their range of appreciation of flesh and blood characters; it brings them into touch with the pas- sions, ambitions and heroisms of the grand characters of history, or with the grace, humor, charm and glancing wit of the choicest circles of the social world. Their own carriage, intonation of voice, ease of self-confidence, sense of reality in the action and reaction of human beings on one another are all immensely enhanced. The worst danger of the bhnd—so the speaker urged—is that of falling into recluse hermit habits—monotonous, formless, colorless and unhealthy. Shakespeare's world, so vivid, so humorous, so heroic, so tender and so sublime, summons them out of such brood- ings, and for vague, impalpable shapes gives them, distinct and clear-cut, Falstaff, Malvolio, Hamlet, Macbeth, Portia, Juliet. Al- together convincing was every word of Mr. Anagnos' short address, till actually impersonating the characters of "As You Like It" stood out to every eye as plain and practical a part of the education of the blind as handling tools at the sloyd workbench.

From Mr. Sanborn's weekly letter published in the Springfield Republican on the 27th of February 1904, we reprint the following extract:

While the larger theatres have had their manifold attractions this week, a more select and unusual pleasure was enjoyed by those who saw and heard in the fine new hall of the Perkins Institution at South Boston, Shakespeare's comedy, "As You Like It," performed by two dozen boys of that school for the blind. Many have seen blindness imitated on the stage by actors and actresses, and it is always pathetic, but here was actual blindness assuming the atti- tudes and playing the active parts of that beautiful drama. Two of the characters, Robinson, who played Charles the wrestler, and Everett Davison, who was Touchstone, have sight enough to guide them about the stage; but most of the others are quite blind. The wrestler had light enough to be properly overcome by Barnard Levin, who played Orlando; and Touchstone could dimly see to guide his dancing steps and show him Audrey munching apples; but the wonder was to see the others taking their positions properly and giving the effect of seeing what they were showing us. This was the result of long training, and surprisingly good w^as also their training in the elocution and spirit of the play, while their rendering of the songs, — —

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"Under the Greenwood Tree" and "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind," was much better than is commonly heard on the stage in this piece,—music, vocal and instrumental, being the specialty of this school ever since Dr. Howe established its system seventy years since. Mr. Anagnos, his son-in-law and successor, has enlarged this system, and now carries education some degrees higher, besides be- ginning earlier in the kindergarten, and so making the advanced

pupils more receptive of what they are to. learn. In a short and en- thusiastic speech between the acts he gave his view of how important dramatic literature is in the training of the young and the culture of the races, regretting that the Hebrews did not admit dramatic representation as a part of their wonderful religious literature. It did not need the compassion that we unavoidably feel for the blind

to make this play go off well; it was, in fact, given in greater aver-

age excellence than most companies render it in Boston; and Touch- stone was a genuine star. The fine part of old Adam was also per- fectly rendered by Frederick Walsh, with all that innocent generosity of the aged serving man, which brought out in this part some of the best verses that Shakespeare ever wrote. Such are the lines:

When service should in my old limbs lie lame, And unregarded age in corners thrown,

to say nothing of "All the world's a stage."

The Education of the Blind Deaf-mutes.

'Tis worth a wise man's best of life, 'Tis worth a thousand years of strife, If thou canst lessen but by one

The countless ills beneath the sun. —John Sterling.

The deliverance of Laura Bridgman from the fearful and most desolate imprisonment in everduring darkness and stillness, to which the destruction or impairment

of all her senses but that of touch had seemingly con- demned her, was one of the grandest and most benefi- cent achievements of the nineteenth century. It was a great triumph of patience and ingenuity over appal- THOMAS STRINGER. EDITH THOMAS. MARION ROSTRON. ELIZABETH ROBIN. CORA ADELIA CROCKER.

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ling difficulties, —a victory of keen insight and persever- ance over formidable obstacles. It was a marvellous proof of the power of hope and faith to break through the well-nigh impenetrable walls of triple affliction and to carrv light into the domain of intellectual darkness.

Through this achievement it was not a single human soul alone that was freed from its fetters, but the means of access to minds imprisoned by the closing of the gate- ways of sense were procured for all time to come, a fresh impulse was given to the science of education, a wide field for philosophical and psychological investigation and study was opened, and a new gem was added to the crown of philanthropy.

This marvellous discovery secured for its author a prominent place in the pantheon of the great benefac- tors of mankind, and, as the poet puts it,

Whenever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honor, and the greatness of his name, shall be.

But it did more than this; it illuminated the pathway of the successors and disciples of Dr. Howe and indi- cated the route to be traversed by them. The course of training, which he marked out for them and which has ever since been followed, is so straight and direct and so free from any shadow of ambiguity that there is no ground for serious apprehension of failure on their part. There are no uncertain problems to solve, no untried experiments to make, no doubtful ventures to undertake and no trackless forests to explore. Their task is simple, clear and well defined. The finger- boards pointing to the right way are visible everywhere. The methods and processes employed in Laura's case were so wisely devised and so skilfully arranged that thev have become the standard ones and are now 88 generally used in both hemispheres. As a matter of course they have undergone such modifications and im- provements as experience suggested or as the results of recent scientific investigations and the propagation of Froebel's rational ideas and views on education de- manded. Nevertheless the fundamental principles re- main unaltered. The records which have been preserved and transmitted to us by Dr. Howe prove that he had studied the matter in all its aspects so carefully and had covered the ground so thoroughly that the only thing which he left undone was the training of Laura to utter articulate sounds and to use oral speech. In one of his reports he expressed his firm conviction that this could be done, and his experiments with Laura, who was taught to pronounce more or less distinctly a number of words, justified this opinion. An effort was afterwards made in Lausanne, Switzerland, to teach articulation to a lad named Meystre, but with very limited success. Finally the feat was fully accomplished sixteen years ago by the superintendent of the school for the deaf in Christiania, Norway, Mr. Elias H. Hafgaard, to whom belongs the credit of having taught Ragnhild Kaata, a girl both blind and deaf, to speak very distinctly and also to understand what is said to her by touching with two fingers the mouth and teeth of those who con- verse with her. With this solitary exception no addition of any great consequence has been made to the discovery of Dr. Howe.

Where he fixed his heart he set his hand

To do the thing he willed, and bore it through.

Doubtless there are persons who, impelled by the thirst for notoriety and by eagerness to have their names linked with those of distinguished teachers, do not hesi- 89 tate to exaggerate the value of their service and over- praise their work and to go so far in their pretensions as to arrogate to themselves the credit of the invention of new ways and means unknown to their predecessors and contemporaries, and of having performed w^onders there- w^ith. But when we investigate their claims we find that they are not only without foundation, but that those who make them have by a singular coincidence borrowed bodily from Dr. Howe's reports many of the phrases in which they describe their achievements. In accordance with the decision made in the autumn of 1892, the blind and deaf children of whom we have charge were placed in the regular classes and subjected to the same rules as others, the only difference being the presence of their special teachers as interpreters. This arrangement continues to work admirably well, and the benefits which it confers upon the hapless victims of a double affliction are inestimable. It brings them out of dreary seclusion and enables them to participate in the exercises of the school, to enjoy the blessings of companionship, to come in contact with persons of dif- ferent temperaments and modes of thinking and acting, and to receive impressions and information from a vari- ety of desirable sources. Thus, by means of this asso- ciation and of these opportunities, their intellectual faculties are systematically developed, their views broad- ened and thir moral character and social nature culti- vated in a healthful manner. Experience and common sense both recommend

this plan. For obvious reasons a pupil who is plunged in the abyss of physical darkness and awful stillness needs more than any one else to have constant intercourse and to be in close communion with as many of his fellow

men and women as possible. This is indispe;nsable for 90 his mental and spiritual growth as well as for his social welfare. To keep him under the absolute control of a single teacher and apart from all other influences would be very detrimental to him in more ways than one. Even under favorable circumstances it may be questioned whether the effects of exclusiveness and isolation are not harmful.

Edith M. Thomas.

O me! come near me; now I am much ill. —Shakespeare,

Would you were not sick. —Idem.

We are sincerely grieved to be obliged to report that, owing to the precarious condition of her health, Edith Thomas, who has been under our care since 1888, has recently ceased to be a pupil of this school. More than eighteen or twenty months ago Edith began to show signs of lassitude and inertia and a lack of mental energy and of power to grasp ideas. In the course of the school year which ended in June, 1903, she became weary, listless, indifferent to her studies and uncon- cerned about her work in general.

A languor came Upon her, gentle sickness gradually

Weakening, till she could do no more.

It was evident that there was some striking change in Edith's mental condition and a decided diminution in her activity, but there seemed to be no visible nor direct cause to which these could be attributed. Hence at first we were inclined to believe that her apathy or dullness was the result of some temporary ailment or of a freak of feeling and not an indication of serious disorder. A 91 few weeks later, however, the symptoms of her trouble were so aggravated as to convince us that she was the victim of a deep-seated malady, which was rapidly de- veloping and which soon had reached such a degree of severity as to render it necessary for her family to place her in a hospital for treatment.

Thus Edith is no longer with us, having been unex- pectedly compelled to sever her relations with the insti- tution before she was prepared to graduate. Never- theless she is held in affectionate remembrance by her teachers and schoolmates and is greatly missed by each and all of them. She has left behind her a host of friends who think most highly of her and who are strongly at- tached to her on account of her candor and veracity, her womanly modesty and simplicity of manners, her unswerving loyalty to the school and her grateful appre- ciation of the benefits which she has derived from it. In some respects Edith has been one of the most force- ful and interesting deaf-blind students who have been under instruction since the time of Laura Bridgman.

Born and brought up in New England, she is well en- dowed with the moral and spiritual qualities, which distinguish the natives of this section of the country, namely strength of character and the love of truth and righteousness. She despises duplicity, loathes insin- cerity and hates hypocrisy. She is a rare type of self- relying personality. Her mind and heart were cast in puritanic moulds.' Without possessing in a marked degree either mental keenness or intellectual brilliancy, she has been a persevering worker and has overcome difficulties of various kinds by steady effort and unre-

mitting toil. Persistence is stamped on her frank, honest, open countenance. She has always been a brave, gen-

uine, sterling young woman, full of kindness and gener- 92 osity, with no streaks of falsity or meanness in her nature. She has been absolutely free from the craving for public notoriety, and from the odious sin of base ingratitude, which, as Sir R. L'Estrange justly remarks, "is abhorred both by God and man." Her head and hands have worked together in perfect harmony to conquer the con- ditions brought about by her affliction. In her studies she has accomplished all that could be reasonably ex- pected from a girl of average mental ability; but she has displayed great manual dexterity and has accomplished marvels with her nimble fingers. She is especially skil- ful with her needle and scissors and knows how to do everything in the line of sewing, from darning a pair of stockings neatly to measuring, cutting, fitting and mak- ing the daintiest dresses and nicest underclothing for handsomely attired dolls. The untimely departure of this dear girl from our midst is deeply lamented and sincerely mourned by every member of our school, and she has our best wishes for her speedy restoration to health.

Elizabeth Robin.

Her face betokened all things dear and good; The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers, would drift away. —Jean Ingelow.

This beautiful girl continues to be one of the most interesting pupils in our school. She has a striking per- sonality and a fine physique. She is tall and well formed with symmetrical features, erect carriage and fresh com- plexion. She is graceful and dignified in bearing, scrupu- lously neat in person and in dress, good at heart, cheer- ELIZABETH ROBIN.

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93 ful in disposition, gentle and refined in manner. She lives a busy, happy, loving life. Perfect purity, honesty and sincerity, these are the qualities, which she admires most and to which she tries unceasingly to attain. She is blessed with the jewel of content,

Which can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste.

The year which has just closed is regarded as an in- portant one in Elizabeth's intellectual development. It is characterized by a diligence and interest, which have been productive of significant results. Elizabeth has been thoroughly awake to every task that has been set before her and has not been easily daunted by obstacles. She is now so persistent in her efforts and has such power of concentrating her atten-

tion, that success in her studies is assured. She often turns with reluctance from a problem in geometry or from other study toward the pleasures of a recreation

hour. Her interest in the work is no longer momentary

and fleeting; it is genuine, and her teachers feel that

they can now rely upon it. The stimulus of pride, which a year ago urged her to attain equality with "the best pupil" in her class, has deepened into a delight in any work, which can bring the keen satisfaction of creditable achievement.

Elizabeth's mental growth is nowhere more evident than in her work in geometry. She tjegan to take an interest in this subject as soon as she was able to judge for herself of the correctness of her work. Since then she has gained steadily in logical power and in the ability to prove the theorems for herself, and as she has been unwilling to receive any assistance until she had tested the strength of a difficulty through her own efforts. 94

Although Elizabeth has become earnest and serious in the classroom, she has lost none of her lightsome merri- ment and sweet grace, which constitute in so generous a measure the charm of her attractive nature. She is full of spirit, enthusiasm and energy. Industry and self- reliance are salient traits in her character. She is so agreeable, so gracious and so winsome that she makes friends w^herever she goes and gains the confidence and affection of those with whom she becomes acquainted.

It is in accordance with her natural disposition to be kind, helpful and courteous to everybody. She is invariably sympathetic, thoughtful and joyous. The freshness of youth is upon her features, goodness is in her heart, and the light of happiness shines in her countenance. There is something singularly spiritiielle and charming in her appearance.

Her looks are full of peaceful dignity. They do argue her replete with modesty.

A full account of what Elizabeth has accomplished during the past twelve months is given below. This statement of facts, prepared with scrupulous care and good taste by Miss Anna Gardner Fish, who has per- formed a similar task in previous years, is correct in every particular. It is a resume of the journals kept with pains- taking accuracy by Miss Vina C. Badger, who has occu- pied the place of special teacher to Elizabeth since 1896 and who has been her efficient and indefatigable instruc- tor, devoted friend and wise guide. Here is the story of Elizabeth's work as told by Miss Fish.

The story of Elizabeth's progress during the past year shows an encouraging gain in every direction, —a strengthening of the finer qualities which have developed more and more in her always re- fined character, an added depth to her sunny nature and a firmer poise in her mental processes. This upward path has led not only 95 along sunny slopes, unvexed by stern conditions, but has at times been pursued under storm clouds, which fortunately were soon dis- persed, and over many obstacles, which, however, never proved to be insurmountable. Such a comparison is an especially appropriate one for Elizabeth who loves out-door sports and is never happier than when tramping through rough ways, heedless of detaining briars and intruding branches, or climbing to the top of rugged hills, untroubled by the rocks that beset her road if only she can emerge, rosy and laughing, at the goal toward which she has bent her way. Although her intellectual triumphs never produce in her the same fine elation, there is nevertheless a very real satisfaction to Elizabeth herself when her patient and earnest efforts have conquered tedious or difficult tasks. The most trying of these occurred in the study of geometry which was entered upon this year. In no other subject could her besetting sins of carelessness and inaccuracy be more apparent or an evidence of sequence in thought and of logical, methodical work be more

greatly needed. The fact that at first these latter qualities were absent in her case and that her most triumphant demonstration of

a theorem sometimes failed to prove its point might have been dis-

couraging to Elizabeth and to her teacher if such a feeling were ever admitted in connection with any classroom work. Instead of al- lowing these drawbacks to dominate the situation, some special and individual work was instituted for the purpose of ascertaining Eliza- beth's status in relation to the subject. It was thus evident that, although not quick in accomplishing her tasks, Eb'zabeth might secure a fair measure of success by paying careful attention to her work. As a result of this discovery, Elizabeth's responsibility for her own achievements was much increased by limiting her oppor- tunities for seeking assistance or for depending upon the repetition of helpful suggestion. In this way greater attention and more ear- nest thought in the classroom were secured as well as a corresponding gain in her grasp of the subject and in her ability to demonstrate a theorem clearly and logically.

At first Elizabeth was much exercised over the degree of her per- sonal accountability for her work and inclined to be cast down by the weight of her burdens. Although never rebellious against the

decrees of her teachers, she betrayed by many little remarks how wist- fully her thoughts turned to the freedom of her southern home and

how tempting it seemed to her to exchange close mental application 96 for a vigorous, out-door existence there, far from the restraint of lessons. But the natural buoyancy of her temperament soon lifted her out of her despondency and she fell to work in good earnest to prove her ability to labor independently accepting in full the re- sponsibility for what she did. The new rule worked well. Eliza- beth rose bravely to the requirements, and soon began to show that she appreciated how much can be achieved by steady systematic work. On one occasion she expressed this feeling by saying: "If you had not given me this first, we could not have done the other one. I think you have arranged it well." She became gradually more careful and painstaking, and her remark, "I find it hard to satisfy myself," shows well her attitude toward her lessons. She took pride in her own progress and, indeed, finally reached a degree of complacency which enabled her to say: "Geometry is easy for me now and I like it." She has studied angles, triangles, quadrilaterals and circles and completed the course with her class with fair success. In review she demonstrates a theorem from a mental conception of the figure, but in advance work she draws the diagram with great care in preparation for proving a proposition.

This study, with its demand for logical methods of thought, for concentration of mind and for painstaking work has proved to be a distinct advantage to Elizabeth, not only in the immediate further- ance of her knowledge of mathematics but also in its disciplinar}- influence upon her whole nature. In the stress of this mental training, the study of English literature came as daily refreshment to Elizabeth. "Nearly every hour gives pleasure because of Elizabeth's attention and intelligent interest," is her teacher's testimony to the excellence of her work. She has studied the works of the poets of the nineteenth century, and although they in their turn necessitated close application she acceded gladly to the demand upon her intellect and enjoyed for the most part the gems of imagery which were offered for her delight.

In view of her pronounced preference for simple narration, it was feared that she would find irksome the selections from the poems of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron and Tenny- son, which were chosen for her study; and an evidence of her dis- taste for "deep things" did appear in her comment on Wordsworth's Lines written above Tintern Abbey. Her study of this poem led her to say: "I shouldn't like him [Wordsworth] for a friend. I like the .

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confusion of the world,'' and then in clear, well-chosen language she gave excellent expression to her own love of action and human com- panionship as opposed to Wordsworth's delight in meditation and

solitude, adding in conclusion : "I shall never be like Wordsworth

I shall always be gay and happy and young—if I can." Yet in spite of her instinctive restlessness under an enforced con- sideration of a poet's underlying motive, her spontaneous remarks on several occasions showed that she was not oblivious of the weight of meaning with which the verse was freighted. In reading Tennyson's The Brook, she referred to the water as "stumbling" over the rocks. In response to a criticism of the use of that word she said: "I don't think of the water as graceful in getting over so many stones." At the conclusion of her study of The A ncient Mariner she showed her appreciation of the poem by saying thoughtfully: "I liked it.

He learned a lesson. It was like the Golden Rule: Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you; that he should not hurt a harmless creature." She chose as the part which she liked the best, "where he sees the church in his own country."

In the poems of Shelley Elizabeth seemed for the first time to be touched by the power of the purely lyrical form and to surrender herself willingly to a real enjoyment of the emotional in verse, with- out reference to the influence of narration, thus manifesting a de- cided advance in her ability to grasp the meaning of poetic expres- sion and to appreciate more fully the charm of word-painting in itself. Indeed in all her work in literature this year she has shown a surer comprehension of figurative language and a quicker response to its appeal to her intellect. She has found pleasure in comparing the characteristics of her book-friends of whom she has a list that lengthens with some rapidity, now that she is able to find delight in literature for her leisure hours as well as for periods of study. In English history Elizabeth has done excellent work and achieved satisfactory results. Her recitations have been good, and her written exercises have compared favorably- with those of the other members of her class. The stories of individuals who have contributed to the making of history awaken her personal interest and excite her warm admira- tion or condemnation. "It seems as if the bad kings were stronger than the good ones," she remarked mournfuUv when the roval will 98 was not in her opinion in accordance with the principles of right. WTien the commonweaUh was under discussion Elizabeth's sym- pathies were entirely enlisted in the cause of the Commons. "Par- liament was not to be treated as if it were a cat!" she exclaimed indignantly, being much affected by the attitude of Charles I. and his duplicity.

Upon reviewing the year's work it was evident that she had ac- quired a good understanding of the development of constitutional government in England. Her examination papers indicated a very desirable increase in mental control, and the final mark for the year granted her the percentage of eighty-six.

WTien it was proposed that Elizabeth should be assigned regular tasks in English composition she accepted the edict with her usual good grace but intimated plainly that there was little need of im- provement in her case. As the work proceeded it was interesting to note the gradual change in Elizabeth's sentiment, her conscious- ness of superiority giving place to a more scholarly attitude of ear- nest desire for better results. In this new-born humility she begged for an addition to the number of hours devoted to this subject, the need of which she had formerly flouted. As a direct consequence of this finer purpose, her efforts were crowned by an increasing meas- ure of success, until before the end of the year her papers showed a creditable gain in condensation,—a quality much to be desired in Elizabeth's compositions,—and she won well-deserved commenda- tion for her good work in this direction.

When the arrangement was first made, of which we have already spoken, that she should not seek assistance in her work, Elizabeth felt deeply the sense of responsibihty and was almost inclined to falter beneath the weight of her burden. She came to her teacher and said: "I feel as if I would like to give up English literature till we come to a poet more like Scott. I liked him better than Words- worth for I cannot understand deep things. And I would like to give up geometry till we come to something I can accomplish." It was explained to her that this attitude was not a courageous one, and the conclusion of the discussion left Elizabeth with a more hope- ful outlook upon her immediate duties and a more cheerful accept- ance of the situation. When Elizabeth had once begun to realize that the power to cope with each difficulty lay within herself she grew in intellectual strength to meet the exigency. Her hold upon a subject increased with her ..

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attention to it; her ambition with her mental grasp; her earnestness

of purpose with the stimulus to its exercise. Toward the close of the year there was a marked advance in the development of her power of reasoning, and she had grown in intelligence, independence and determination as in no corresponding period. Elizabeth has gained a clearer idea of the necessity for careful

preparation of her daily tasks and is better able to judge when she is not sufficiently grounded in a subject and to arrange her study- periods so as to meet the need. She has sometimes denied herself pleasures when she considered that her lessons presented a more pressing duty. Her principal relaxations from study have been occasional trips into the country where renewed vigor awaits her in the bright sun- shine and fresh air and in the unhampered out-door exercise which she so dearly loves and from which she returns in her happiest mood No less delightful are her frequent visits to Mr. and Mrs. Whiting who are as tender as ever in their truly parental care of this young girl. Thither, as to her own home, she was carried when an attack of measles broke in upon her school-life and made her isolation from the other pupils necessary. From these devoted friends she has continued to receive a weekly allowance which she uses for the small expenses of her life at school The principal items of expenditure are for presents for the beloved home-people apd for car-fares, but, although these demands make large inroads upon her resources, she has managed to save a little from week to week. She keeps a 'mental account of her financial afifairs and knows exactly how she stands in monetary matters. Ehzabeth has acted as treasurer of the secret society to which she belongs and has found that the position is not without its difficul- ties. As the transactions take place behind closed doors, it could only be surmised that at one time the treasury had become so de- pleted as to lead Elizabeth to advance money for its replenishment. The members were assessed to make up the deficiency, but as some failed to respond Elizabeth was temporarily embarrassed in her capacity as treasurer as well as in her private purse. Her reelec- tion to the treasurership was extended and accepted as a delicate compliment to the ability which she had exhibited in relieving the club from its embarrassment. Ehzabeth has enjoyed thoroughly the meetings and social gather- ings of the clubs of which she is a member and enters fullv into their lOO plans. On one occasion of festivity, which took the form of a fancy- dress party, she chose to go as a Puritan maiden and undertook with enthusiasm the necessary preparation of her costume, in the details of which, however, she was glad to receive assistance. When one of the societies gave A Midsummer NighVs Dream, EHzabeth took the part of Snug, the joiner, and although her roar, as lion, was not awe-inspiring, her merriment at least was contagious and her de- light in the performance was pleasant to behold.

Elizabeth has felt deeply the enforced absence of Edith Thomas from school and has missed the companionship which was such an enjoyable feature of the daily life of both of the girls. Toward the close of the school year Elizabeth went to see her friend, and the meeting was full of pathos in the intensity of feeling which the two girls displayed. Edith was the more demonstrative, but both were profoundly aflfected and, when the hour for parting came, each clung to the other as if loth to separate. Elizabeth spoke seriously of

Edith's ill health, which has been the cause of this interruption in their pleasant intercourse and seemed to realize the gravity of the unfortunate girl's condition. With the two younger deaf-blind pupils, Cora and Marion, Eliza- beth is on excellent terms, but they cannot fill the place left vacant by Edith's absence. At times Elizabeth seems to disapprove of their exuberance of spirits and feels called upon to assume the atti- tude of an elder sister towards them and to give them the benefit of her observations upon their actions and expressions. Fortunately the two girls take her advice in good part and are apparently always glad of an opportunity for a conversation with Elizabeth.

She is as fond as ever of entertaining and of being entertained and exerts herself to contribute to the enjoyment of those with whom she comes in contact, in the school, on the pleasant little journeys of Mr. and Mrs. Whiting's planning and on rarer visits to other friends, which come as diversions in the midst of the engrossing duties of her regular school-life. Formerly her tasks indicated to her mind merely the path leading to release from such labors when the successful completion of her course should have permitted her to return to her dearly loved family toward whom her affectionate thoughts are constantly winging their way. But this year, for the first time, she has suggested that she may continue her studies after the proud eminence of graduation has been reached. Indeed, her whole attitude toward her school- lOI work today is indicative of a desire to strive for higher ends than she has hitherto admitted into the plans for her future, and it is a satisfaction to note how her ambition keeps ever in advance of her attainments. In this broader, finer outlook upon the life which is before her may be found the brightest sign of promise for the school-days yet to come.

Cora Adelia Crocker.

Life is ordained to bear, like land,

Some fruit, be fallow as it will. —Richard Monckton Milnes.

The regular training, which Cora has received during the past year, has had a good effect upon her physical condition, her mental energy and her moral develop- ment. It has fostered in her a positive inclination to industry, has stimulated her power of thought and ac- tion and has strengthened her desire to improve her- self and to do that which is right and proper. Her mind has grown in some respects, and she has manifested greater readiness to learn than formerly was the case. Cora has striven to control her temper; to comply with the requirements of good conduct and to be docile and quiet, but she has not been entirely successful in her efforts. Although not so disobedient and boisterous as in the past, yet she continues to show now and then that she is more or less herself and that there has been no radical change in her disposition. The sparks of trouble are still there, which may at any time be fanned into a blaze, demanding some effort and skill for its extinguishment and to prevent it from doing harm. Miss Helen L. Smith, who has been Cora's special teacher during the past year, has written the following I02 account, which presents in a condensed form the story of her pupil's work and general improvement.

During the past year Cora has been a regular member of a class

in the third grade. The most important feature of her progress is a gain in the power of application. The stubborn resistance to disagreeable tasks has weakened as she has grown more familiar

with the requirements of school life. Arithmetic has been the cause of her hardest struggles. Her teachers have found it exceedingly difficult to present this subject to her mind in such a way as to awaken her active interest. The year's work has comprised practice in reading and writing numbers as high as tens of thousands, exercises in addition, subtraction, mul- tiplication by units, and short division, together with oral and writ- ten problems involving the use of these fundamental processes. Throughout the year Cora has been required to spend two hours of each day in the study of arithmetic ; but, even with this time for extra work, she failed to reach the class standard and at the end of the year she was not promoted. The reading lessons have been a source of evident pleasure to Cora. She has read in class, The King 0} the Golden River^ Little Lord Fauntleroy, selections from Hawthorne's Wonder Book and some fairy stories.

It was at first difficult to induce Cora to attempt the pronuncia- tion of unfamiliar words; but her reluctance was gradually overcome as confidence was gained through daily practice. Cora has always

manifested a desire to know the meaning of new words, but if they are not impressed by frequent repetition they pass quickly from her mind. Her own desire to have a firm grasp of "new words" has been happily evinced again and again in the course of her read- ing lessons. When her fingers have come upon a word which has once been explained to her she has asked her teacher to let her ''think

it out." In her recreation hours Cora has read a portion of the delightful story of Little Women. The books which have been read to her during the year are Little Miss Phoebe Gay, The Adventures of a Brownie, Five Little Mice in a Mousetrap and short stories selected from many sources. The basis of Cora's work in the writing class has been the con- struction of sentences requiring the use of the period, comma, apos- 103

trophe, hyphen and marks of quotation, interrogation and excla- mation. Much attention has also been given to the proper forma- tion of letters and figures and to the correct use of capitals. From time to time tales of American history have been reproduced by way of observing the anniversaries of the occurrence of important events in the history of our country. The first of these stories, which was given to the class, was a simple account of Thanksgiving Day. It was read to Cora three times before she was willing to make any attempt to reproduce it, and her final response was so listless as to show clearly her inability to perform the task with any degree of independence. A strong contrast to this helpless attitude came in June, when the class was asked to tell in written words the story of the battle of Bunker Hill. After the story had been read to Cora once, she immediately began to write it, and her earnest appHca- tion continued without any suggestion from her teacher until the task was finished. In every branch of manual training Cora has done her work with interest, intelligence and creditable skill. She has had daily prac- tice in knitting and sewing and has completed her third and last year of wood sloyd.

Of the time which Cora has spent in the gymnasium it may be said that she has joined with zest in the games, the apparatus work and the dancing, but in concerted work, where it has been necessary for her to receive and execute class orders promptly and in good form, her mark has been far below the class standard. In Cora's moral development considerable gain in self-control has been noted. At the beginning of the year any criticism of her conduct made her angry, but she has now reached the point where she receives correction in quite a docile spirit. She has often ac- knowledged that she was naughty and expressed a desire to do bet- ter. She appears to have genuine respect for goodness in other people. She says that she likes Beth best of all the characters in Little Women, "because she was good." She has grown less bois- terous in all her ways, and the effects of this change have been felt beyond the limits of the school. The people with whom Cora has spent her vacations have expressed their gratification at this marked improvement in her conduct. She has appeared to take pride in being a member of a class of girls and at times has seemed anxious to keep pace with her class- mates in their work. Unfortunately, however, her zeal, in most 104

instances, has not been sufficiently strong to insure the amount of appHcation necessary for the attainment of this end.

At the expiration of her term of service Miss Helen L. Smith, who has done excellent work for Cora during the past year, has been promoted to another department

of the school, and the vacancy thus created has been filled by the appointment of Miss Abby G. Pottle, a young woman of intelligence, ability and firmness of character.

Marion Rostron.

No sound, no sound! I dwell alone, alone. In silence such as reigns in deepest grave. —Angie Fui.lkr Fisher.

The record of the year's work of this unfortunate

girl is far from being satisfactory. It shows clearly that she has made slight progress in reading and in arith- metic and none whatever in sewing, Marion lacks lamentably the power of application and of concentrating her mental faculties on a given point

and indeed she takes little interest in work of any kind.

She dislikes exertion ; she is easily provoked and prone to become rebellious when urged with firmness to perform her simple tasks. Her sight is keener and stronger than it has heretofore been, but strange as this may appear, the improvement in her visual sense, instead of being helpful to her in her studies, is a positive hindrance to her advancement, because it diverts her attention from one thing to another and prevents it from being fixed upon a particular object. But while Marion has shown no signs of intellectual awakening, no indications of the slightest change in her mental and moral condition, she has on the other hand presented repeatedly emphatic evidence of unsatisfac- MARION ROSTRON.

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I05 tory conduct and of ungovernable temper. Apart from being habitually obstinate and constantly refractory, she is addicted to periodical violent outbursts of anger, which at times are so vehement and so tempestuous as to disturb the peace of the school and to upset the order of whole classes of students. These fits of rage have of late assumed such a serious character that they demand an effectual remedy. Under these circumstances it will be hardly possible for us to put off much longer the adop- tion of a final decision as to whether we can keep among our pupils an element of constant turbulence and dis- order. Both Marion's work during the past year and her attitude of indifference towards it are briefly described in the following statement written by her special teacher Miss Evelyn Rice:

Marion's progress during the past year has been somewhat re- tarded by the mental attitude which she often takes toward her work.

Though all her studies have been pursued in a class with other girls, the influence of her classmates has not given her the desired impulse to greater effort.

It was especially hard for her to become accustomed to reading aloud in the presence of others and frequently it was not until after showing much nervousness and irritability that she could be made to read. Later in the year she improved considerably in this respect, although she was occasionally obstinate if there were hard words in the lesson. She now learns the pronunciation of words more quickly than she did last year and remembers them better. She has for the last few months shown more interest in the reading lessons than during the first part of the year. She has read the Fourth Book, the second part of In the Child's World, Through the Farm- yard Gate, and several stories in the Sixth Book. Her vocabulary has been greatly increased through the reading lessons, as well as by other means,—notably the evening readings which were a source of much pleasure to her. In number work Marion has been slow, but she improved as the year advanced. She has learned the multiplication tables as far • io6 as six times six, but she finds some of them hard to remember and needs much drill in multiplying and dividing. She has also learned the Roman numerals as far as one hundred and has had some prac- tice in reading and writing fractions. Her work in problems, both oral and written, is usually good, if she really tries to think. Marion has generally done well in writing. She forms most of the letters well and her spacing is much better than it was at the beginning of the year, but she sometimes makes careless mistakes in copying. From time to time the girls have been required to write reproductions of stories which they have read or heard. At first this work was very hard for Marion, but she became able to do it much more easily. Marion enjoys some of the simpler gymnastic exercises, but she does not like the more difficult ones. Toward the end of the year she was transferred from the lowest class to a more advanced one, as it was thought that the more vigorous movements would utiUze some of her superfluous physical energy and that it would be good for her to have to conform to a higher standard. Marion was pleased with the change, and worked better than in the other class.

Her work in manual training is as yet elementary. She has done plain knitting and sewing, the latter consisting of basting and simple hemming. Her partial sight continues to be a hindrance in this work. While she has made some improvement this year, it has not been marked : she cannot be depended upon to do good work always. She has made several models in wood, but she is apt to make mis- takes in these as in other things.

Marion still has much to fight against in her hot temper and her innate dislike for hard work, especially that requiring mental effort. She has, in some instances, successfully struggled with her temper, but on many occasions she has either made no attempt to check an outburst, or has utterly failed in the attempt. She is still a child mentally and morally and has not learned to apply herself earnestly to her tasks, as we hope she will when she matures. Marion often shows the affectionate side of her nature, and takes pleasure in doing for others. By kindness to new pupils and by

various little thoughtful acts performed for her teachers and school- mates, she has made herself helpful. She has learned during the year to do some things for herself that were formerly done for her, and she has improved somewhat in her manners and general appear- ance. 107

After a year's earnest and faithful work, Miss Rice has declined to renew her engagement for another term of service, and Miss Elizabeth Hoxie has been appointed in her stead. Miss Hoxie is well fitted for the task both by professional attainments and force of will and is striving to do -for Marion as much as can be done in such a case.

Exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition.

It shows our spirit or it proves our strength. —Young.

In response to an official request, made by the proper authorities of the Louisiana purchase exposition, we sent last spring to Saint Louis an educational exhibit, which was shown in three cases and in the wall space above them, and which was the largest and most comprehen- sive of its kind. It expressed both the spirit of the school and the character of its work. We use no ex- aggerated form of speech in saying that its like was never presented in any of the world's great interna- tional fairs, which have been held since the middle of the nineteenth century, in either of the hemispheres of the globe. Although the display of the various articles was very imperfectly made, owing to the inadequacy or unfitness of the official cases, nevertheless it gave a correct idea of what the school is accomplishing along educational lines and of the continuity and definite purpose of its cur- riculum. All the grades of the school from the kindergarten to the highest were fairly represented in the exhibit.

We subjoin a partial list of the specimens of work sent to the exposition from the boys' and girls' depart- io8 ments of the high and grammar schools:—A number of bound books, written in Braille point and on the

type-writer . and containing exercises in English, history, geography, science and mathematics, the latter being supplemented by special papers on algebra and by geo- metrical diagrams; a series of letters in German, written also on the type-writer and in the Braille punctography; cushion maps and samples of writing in square hand; an induction coil constructed entirely from beginning to end by one of the students; about twenty models of sloyd made by the boys in plain and matched woods, together with a very large and interesting display of sewing, knitting and fancy work by the girls; two albums of photo- graphs of various sorts and also separate pictures of most of the classes and of the interior of the different rooms. The exhibit from the primary department contained written samples of the children's work in English and the elementary branches of study and models of sloyd in wood, while that from the kindergarten comprised a considerable number of specimens of paper weaving, ring designing, modelling in clay, making cushion maps, and of sewing and knitting. No person making a careful examination of the numerous articles representing different departments of the school, who should note their significance as legitimate products of a well organized system of educa-

tion, could help observing that there existed a close relationship between the work of the head and that of the hand. The entire exhibit filled ten large boxes and was for- warded to Saint Louis about the middle of March. It was unpacked and set up under the direction of our dear friend, Mr. Benjamin B. Huntoon, the superintendent of the school for the blind in Louisville, Kentucky, to —

I09 whom we owe a great debt of gratitude for his efficient help. Mr. Huntoon was very favorably impressed with the work of our school and exceedingly generous in his kind comments upon it, and we take the liberty of making the following extracts from his letters to us:

I was very much impressed with your exhibit and regret that the exhibition cases are utterly inadequate for any purpose, except for wing cases.

The kindergarten display was beautiful. The tiles showing ears of corn were remarkable. The articles were most admirably packed, and all with the exception of three small pieces of unbaked clay came

out intact. . . . I shall ask our board of trustees to send three or four of our teach- ers to Saint Louis just to study your exhibit. I think it will be worth the expense.

. . . The only thing I regret in connection with your wonderful exhibit is its practical burial in those contemptible official display cases. ... It will require determination and patience on the part of an interested investigator; but, if he will take the needed pains, his researches will be rewarded by finding before his eyes a most beautiful and astonishing record of what the teaching of the blind can accomplish and has accomplished in this country.

This testimony, coming as it does from a most com- petent judge and impartial critic, carries with it far greater value than any formal official recognition.

Conclusion.

Hoc quoque quam volui plus est. —Ovid.

In looking over what I have written in the foregoing pages in review of the history of the past twelve months, I am forcibly reminded by the quotation from the great

Roman poet that I have already said enough, if not "more than I wished to say." Hence I must here close 1 lO this account of another year's work. There is in this record a great deal to call for thanksgiving and rejoic- ing and not a little to strengthen our hope and increase our aspirations for better results in the future.

We deem it a great privilege to be able to state that the school is in an excellent condition. Its material equipment has never been so good nor so well adapted to meet the requirements of a system of liberal education as it is now. The improvements and repairs in the buildings made a year ago provide ample accommodations and facilities for the health, comfort, safety and thorough training of the pupils. The teachers, forty-four in num- ber, are exceptionally able and admirably fitted for their respective duties; they work harmoniously together under the leadership of the heads of the different departments and in genuine loyalty to the best interests of the estab- lishment. The students are industrious, docile and generally obedient to the rules and regulations of the households. The officers of administration are faith- ful to their trust, and peace and prosperity prevail within our walls. We need scarcely say that the institution, despite the assistance which it receives from the state of Massachu- setts, needs additional funds to enable it not only to carry on its beneficent work successfully on the present scale, without encroaching upon its endowment for paying current expenses, but to enlarge the field of its operations and to open new avenues of happiness and usefulness to the blind of New England. The needs of the school are unquestionably very pressing; but our faith in the gen- erosity and goodness of our benefactors is also very great and abiding. Our financial burdens are constantly in- creasing; so are our friends and helpers, and their hands are sure to bestow the means and the power that will 1

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sustain the institution and make it a public blessing in the future as it has been in the past. Grateful for the confidence reposed in me by the trustees and for the sympathy and benefactions of friends of the establishment, I pledge myself to bear the respon- sibilities of my office for another year with full measure of earnestness and devotion.

All which is respectfully submitted by MICHAEL ANAGNOS. LIST OF PUPILS.

Allen, Mary K. Keegan, Margaret M. Anderson, Elizabeth D. Kennedy, Annie M. Bailey, Minnie. Kennedy, NeUie A.

Browne, Mary I. Knap, Mary G. Burke, Norah. Landregan, Annie. Burns, Nellie. Langdon, Margarita. Crocker, Cora A. LawTence, Anna. Crockett, Marion S. Lee, Sarah B. K.

Cross, Ida. Lewis, Jessie. Dart, M. Fernette. McClintock, Mary. Deveau, Evelyn M. McKenzie, Ethel. Dodd, E. Elizabeth. McKenzie, ^largaret. Dolan, Ellen F. McVay, Catherine. Dubreuil, Maria. Miller, A. IVIarion. Durant, Rose M. Miller, Mildred H. Elmer, Edith M. Montgomery, Ethel A. Elwell, Gertrude. Morris, Mary E.

Fisher, Annie J. Muldoon, Sophia J. Flaherty, Margaret ^I. Murphy, Frances A. Forbush, V'innie F. Norton, Agnes E. Foss, Jessie E. Ovens, Emily A. Gavaghen, Annie. Paine, Elsie G. Gavin, Ellen A. Perella, Julia. Gilman, Lura. Puffer, Mildred E. Goullaud, E. Edna. Reed, Nellie Edna. Grifl5n, Martha. Robin, EHzabeth. Hamlet, Ethel. Rostron, Marion. Harvey, Ida M. Ryan, Margaret.

Healey, Mary J. Sheehy, Margaret M.

Hilgenberg, Johanna. Sheffield, Emma J. Hill, Ethel S. Skinner, Maggie.

Hinckley, Gussie P. Smith, Nellie J. Howard, Lily B. Spring, Genevra S. Ingham, Beatrice E. Stearns, Gladys L. Jones, Louise. Stewart, Margaret C. Jones, Maud E. Traynor, Rose. 113

Velandre, Corinna. Hickey, Bernard.

Viles, Alison P. Hurd, Harrison J. Wells, M. Esther. lerardi, Francesco. Wilde, Agnes. Kettlewell, Gabriel. Aberg, George H. Kirshen, Morris. Adler, Morris. Levin, Barnard. Amadon, Charles H. Lombard, Horace V. Bardsley, William E. Lucier, George.

Barnard, Richard J. C. Lund, Olaf H. Bartlett, Joseph. McQueeney, William. Bates, Harold W. Mills, George. Bixby, Charles A. Muldoon, Henry M. Black, Charles. Muldoon, Robert D. Bradley, Edward F. Nelson, Ralph. Butters, Albert W. Nilson, Frank. Clark, George H. Osborne, Patrick. Cotton, Chesley L. Pierce, Charles F. Crandall, Daniel L. Pratt, William. Cummings, Edwin. Rand, Henry. Cunningham, James H. Ransom, Francis. Curran, John. Ray, Edward R. Davison, Everett H. Robinson, William E. Deming, Harold B. Ryan, Edward D. De Roche, Gilbert H. Sacco, Nicola. Diamond, Francis. Stamp, Charles. Dodge, Wilbur. Sticher, Frank W. Drew, Francis. Stover, Alfred. Farley, Charles E. Stringer, Thomas. Furrow, George. Stuart, Edwin. Fyrberg, Oscar A. Thompson, Robert.

Gibson, Leon S. Van Vliet, Henry. Gordon, Allen G. Vaughn, William M. Gosselin, Napoleon. Velandre, Daniel. Govereau, Edward. Viggers, Frederick. Graham, William. Walsh, Frederick V. Hagopian, Krikor D. Walsh, William.

Hamlett, Clarence S. Wetherell, John. Harvey, Lyman K. White, Thomas E. Heroux, Alfred N. Wolpe, Aaron D. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Among the pleasant duties incident to the close of the year is that of expressing our heartfelt thanks and grateful acknowledgments to the following artists, litterateurs, societies, proprietors, managers, editors, and publishers, for concerts and various musical enter- tainments, for operas, oratorios, lectures, readings, and for an ex- cellent supply of periodicals and weekly papers, books, and speci- mens of various kinds. As we have said in previous reports, these favors are not only a source of pleasure and happiness to our pupils, but also a valuable means of aesthetic culture, of social intercourse, and of mental stimu- lus and improvement. So far as we know, there is no community in the world which does half so much for the gratification and im- provement of its unfortunate members as that of Boston does for our pupils.

I.—Acknowledgments for Concerts, Recitals and Lectures.

To Major Henry Lee Higginson, through Mr. Fred R. Comee, for thirty tickets for the course of symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. To Mr. Richard Newman, for an average of twenty-five tickets to each of a series of recitals and concerts in Steinert Hall, and to Mr. Richard Piatt, who shared his beneficence on one occasion.

Mr. Newman's great kindness to our school is gratefully appreciated. To Prof. Carl Faelten, for an average of ten tickets to each of a series of six recitals by him in Huntington Chambers Hall. We owe a debt of deep gratitude to Prof. Faelten for his constant remem- brance of our pupils.

To the Cecilia Society, through its secretary, Mr. Edward A. Studley, for eighteen tickets to each of two concerts. To Mr. Georg Longy, through Mr. Lenom, for eighteen tickets to each of three concerts by the Longy Club. To Mr. John M. Flockton, for an average of sixteen tickets to each of three concerts by the Verdi Orchestral Club. To Mr. Ralph Flanders, for an average of thirty-five tickets 115 to each of a series of recitals in Jordan Hall, New England Con- servatory. To the Boston Singing Club, through its conductor, Mr. Hii;am

G. Tucker, and its secretaries, Mr. Charles Delmont and Mr. George H. Weale, for seventy-two tickets to each of its two "forenight" concerts.

To the Apollo Club, through its secretary, Mr. Horace J. Phipp^^ for eight tickets to one of its concerts. To Mr. Ernst Perabo, for ten tickets to one of his recitals, through Messrs. Chickering and Sons, and for fifty tickets to another, and for a general invitation, through Mr. R. H. Oliver, to a concert for the benefit of Mr. Claude Fisher at Chickering Hall. To Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, for seven tickets to the concert at Sym- phony Hall in honor of Signor Rotoli. , , To Miss Edith E. Torrey, for fifty tickets to a concert of modern songs at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory.

To Mr. J. Wallace Goodrich, for a general invitation to tjje pupils to attend a concert by the Choral Art Society. To Miss Jessie Davis, for seventeen tickets to a recital in Chick- ering Hall. To the Music Department of Boston, for thirty-six tickets to the municipal concert at the South Boston High School. ^ To Dr. Ralph M. Cole, for thirty tickets to an entertaininent at Phillips Church, South Boston.

To Mrs. J. Carleton Nichols, for sixty-six tickets to a lecture the Rev. Charles Fleischer at the Hawes Church, South Boston. by ,

To the Rev. J. R. Cltshing, for ten tickets to a song recital at the City Point Methodist Episcopal Church, South Boston. To Mrs. John H. Morison, for the use of two tickets to a public rehearsal by the Boston Symphon}- Orchestra. To the Band of the Gordon Highlanders, for a general invita- tion to the pupils to attend a concert in Tremont Temple.

To the Swedish Glee Club, through its secretary, Mr. Elmer Sanden, for a general invitation to the pupils to attend a concert in Parker Memorial Hall. To the managers of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Exposition, for a general invitation to the pupils to attend the fair in Mechanics Hall. To Mrs. Clarke, through Miss Mary E. Watson, for a ticket to a performance at the Castle Square Theatre. — — —

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//. Acknowledgments for Recitals and Lectures given in our Hall.

To Mr. William Leonard Benedict, who very kindly arranged for an organ recital by Mr. B.J. Whelpley. To Prof. Arlo Bates, for a lectvire on "Charles Dickens." Our teachers and pupils listen with very great pleasure to the lectures of Prof. Bates, which they class among the most delightful events of the year. To Mrs. H. B. Gushing, Mrs. Farrar and Miss Const.a.nce Gushing, for an entertainment. To Miss McQuesten, reader, and Miss White, harpist, for an entertainment.

To Mr. J. Dudley Hall, organist, assisted by Mr. J. Chester White, tenor, and Mr. A. F. Palmer, bass, for a recital. To Mr. Charles P. Scott, organist, assisted by Mr. David Newland, tenor, and Miss Violet Irene Wellington and Miss Fanny Webb, readers, for an entertainment.

///. Acknowledgments for Books, Specimens, etc.

For various books, specimens, and the like, we are indebted to the following friends: To Miss Harriet Robb, New York City, Mr. Joeln F. Twombly, Miss Frances E. Pope, Miss Emilie S. Perry, Mrs. Augustus R. KiEFFER, Bradford, Penn., Messrs. Houghton and Dutton and the Xavier Free Publication Society for the Blind, New York.

IV.—Acknowledgments for Periodicals and Newspapers.

The editors and pubhshers of the following reviews, magazines and semi-monthly and weekly papers continue to be very kind and liberal in sending us their pubhcations gratuitously, which are

always cordially welcomed and perused with interest :

The N.E. Journal of Education, Boston, Mass.

The Atlantic, . Boston Home Journal, Youth's Companion, Our Dumb Animals, The Christian Register, 117

The Missionary Herald, Boston, Mass. The Well- Spring,

Woman's Journal, . St. Nicholas, New York, N. Y. Collier's Weekly, American Annals of the Deaf Washington, D.C The Etude, Philadelphia, Pa.

The Mentor, . . Inst. }or Deaj-Mutes, Malone, N. Y. Daily Advocate, Inst, for Deaf-Mutes, Rochester, N. Y.

The Silent Worker, . Inst, for the Deaf-Mutes, Trenton, N.J. The News, Inst, for Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Berkeley, Cal. The Ohio Chronicle, Inst, for the Deaf-Mutes, Columhils, O. The Web-Foot, School for Deaf-Mutes, Salem, Ore.

The Messenger, . Ala. Academy for the Blind. The Tablet, West Va. School for Deaf-Mutes and Blind.

The Washingtonian, School for the Deaf, etc., Vancouver. The Colorado Index, Colorado School for Deaf and Blind. The Sunday-School Weekly (embossed). Philadelphia, Pa. 1

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Meats, 37,100 pounds, $3,636.20 Fish, 5,228 pounds, 262.91 Butter, 5,370 pounds 1,069.77 Bread, flour, meal, etc., 774-46 Potatoes and other vegetables, 1,241.65 Fruit, fresh and dried, 402.84 Milk, 40,351 quarts, 2,190.60 Sugar, 10,804 pounds, 523-52 Tea and coflfee, 1,534 pounds, 391-5° Groceries, 1,406.52

Gas and oil, 593-33

Coal and wood, ' 7,979.27 Sundry articles of consumption, 1,064.44 Wages, domestic service, 8,629.26 Salaries, superintendence and instruction, 32,902.88 Medicines and medical sundries, 85.67 Furniture and bedding, 1,887.40 Expense of stable, 347-47 Musical instruments, 698.26 Manual training suppUes, 258.24

Stationery, printing, etc., 1,601.37 Construction and repairs, 4,3°i-Si Taxes and insurance, 2,061.10 Travelling expenses, 183.02 Sundries, 634.06

$75>i27-25 WORK DEPARTMENT.

Statement for the Year ending August 31, 1904.

Receipts.

Cash received from sales, $22,461.90 _^'> Stock on hand and bills re-

ceivable August 31, 1904, . $9,269.04 Stock on hand and bills re-

ceivable August 31, 1903, . 8,540.58 728.46 $23,190.36

Expenditures.

Cash paid for salaries and wages, . . . $10,784.83

Cash paid for rent, stock and sundries, . 11,342.74 22,127.57

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The following account exhibits the state of property as en- tered upon the books of the institution, September i, 1904 :

Building, 288-290 Devonshire street, $69,800.00

Building, 250-252 Purchase street, . 76,800.00

Building, 174-178 Congress street, . 97,200.00

Building, 205-207 Congress street, . 74,100.00

Building, 150-152 Boylston street, . 115,000.00

Building, 363 Boylston street, . . 40,000.00

Building, 379-385 Boylston street, . 90,000.00 House, 1 1 Oxford street, .... 8,500.00 House, 402 Fifth street, 4,300.00

Houses, 412, 414, 416 Fifth street, . 9,300.00

Houses, 424, 426, 428 Fifth street, . 15,300.00 Houses, 430-440 Fifth street and 103- 105 H street, 47,200.00 Building, 442 Fifth street to 1 1 1 H street 21,300.00 House, 537 Fourth street, .... 3,900.00

Houses, 541, 543 Fourth street, . . 7,800.00 House, 542 Fourth street, .... 7,800.00 House, 555 Fourth street, .... 2,000.00

Houses, 557, 559 Fourth street, . . 14,900.00 Houses, 583, 585, 587, 589 Fourth street. 18,700.00 Houses, 591, 593, 595 Fourth street, 15,400.00 Houses, 99-101 H street, .... 3,000.00 House, 527 Broadway, 8,400.00 House, 132 Hudson street, Somerville, 2,900.00

Building, 383-385- Centre street, . . 5,400.00 Real estate, corner Day and Centre street s, 22,500.00 $781,500.00 Real estate, St. Paul, Minnesota, 33,328.00 Real estate at Wachusett street, Foresi Hills, left to the kindergarten by tht will of the late Ezra S. Jackson, sub ject to a life annuity to Mrs. Jackson 7,600.00

Real Estate used by the Institution. Real estate, Broadway and Fourth street $345,000.00 House, 418 Fifth street, 3,100.00 House, 422 Fifth street, .... 3,700.00 351,800.00 Real estate used for school purposes Jamaica Plain, 279,000.00 Unimproved land, South Boston, 5,196.00 Mortgage notes, 92,500.00-

Railroad Stock. Boston & Providence R.R., 100 shares cost, $25,048.75

Amounts carried forward, . . . $25,048.75 $1,550,924.00- 127

Amounts brought forward, . . . 1525,048.75 $1,550,924.00 Fitchburg R.R., preferred, 250 shares, cost, 23.973-33

Boston & Maine R.R., 31 shares, cost, . 3,938-96 Boston & Albany R.R., 209 shares, cost, 43,540.08

Old Colony R.R., 70 shares, cost, . . 14,630.00 West End Street Railway, 200 shares, cost, 17,987-50 Consolidated R.R. of Vermont, 4 shares. 400.00 New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R., 5 shares, 130,518.62 Railroad Bonds.

Eastern R.R., one 6% bond, cost, . . $1,270.00 New York Central & Hudson River

(Lake Shore) R.R., 20 bonds, . . . 18,875.00 New York Central & Hudson River R.R., 25 4s, cost, 24,438.89

Central Vermont R.R., 5 4s, cost, . . 4,006.25 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R., 22 4s, cost, 21,190.00 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R.,

Illinois division, 2 bonds, cost, . . . 2,000.00 Northern Pacific & Great Northern R.R., 46 4s, cost, 37,36388 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R.R., 10 4s, cost, 5,277.01 Kansas City, Chnton & Springfield R.R., 3 5s, cost, 3,051-25 Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs R.R., 5 7s, cost, 6,375-oo

Chesapeake & Ohio R.R., 20 5s, cost, . 23,628.60 St. Paul, Minnesota & Manitoba R.R., 10 4s, cost, 8,800.00 156,275.88 Sundry Stocks and Bonds. United States Hotel Company, 68 shares, $10,840.50

Ground Rent Trust, one share, . . . 900.00 Suffolk Real Estate Trust, 15 shares, 15,480.00 Albany Trust, 100 shares, 10,000.00

ScoUay Building Trust, 200 shares, . . 20,000.00 Calumet & Hecla Mining Company, 5 shares, 2,625.00 Louisville & Jeffersonville Bridge Com- pany, 5 4S, cost, 4,950.00 Illinois Steel Company, 35 5s, cost, . . 36,360.26 American Bell Telephone Company, 15 4s, cost, 14,801.25

Amounts carried forward, .... $115,957.01 $1,837,718.50 ——

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Amounts brought forward, . . . $115,957.01 $1,837,718.50 American Telephone & Telegraph Com- pany, $50,000, 5% notes, .... 51,472.50 167,429.51 Cash, 16,078.31

Household furniture, South Boston, . . $17,900.00 Household furniture, Jamaica Plain, 17,600.00 35,500.00

Provisions and supplies. South Boston, . $1,480.00 Provisions and supplies, Jamaica Plain, 800.00 2,280.00 Coal, South Boston, $3,918-75 Coal, Jamaica Plain, 1,812.25 S»73i-oo Work Department. Stock and bills receivable, 9,269.04

Musical Department. Instruments at South Boston: Fifty-seven pianofortes, $9,400.00 Tuning pianofortes, 300.00

One three manual pipe organ, . . . 9,000.00 Four small reed organs, 100.00 Eighty-two orchestral instruments. 2,588.00 Musical library, 1,350.00 Instruments at Jamaica Plain: Nineteen pianofortes, 3,800.00

Twenty orchestral instruments, . . 200.00 26,738.00 Printing Department. Stock and machinerj', $2,100.00 Books, 12,200.00

Electrotype and stereotype plates, . . 27,154.00 41,454.00 Miscellaneous.

School furniture and apparatus, . . . 14,000.00

Library of books in common print, . . $7,300.00 Library of books in embossed print. 23,300.00 Special library, 6,000.00 36,600.00 Boys' shop, 132.00 Stable and tools, 400.00

$2,193,330.36 — 1

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The foregoing property represents the following funds and balances and is answerable for the same: —

INSTITUTION FUNDS. General fund of the institution 5113,444.80 Stephen Fairbanks fund 10,000.00 Harris fund, 80,000.00 Richard Perkins fund, 20,000.00 Stoddard Capen fund 13,770.00

In memoriam Mortimer C. Ferris, . . . 1,000.00

Legacies :

Mrs. Eleanor J. W. Baker, 2,500.00 Miss Lucy A. Barker, ...... 5-953 2 Thompson Baxter, 322.50

J. Putnam Bradlee 100,000.00 Robert C. Billings, 25,000.00 Robert C Billings (deaf, dumb and blind), 4,000 00 T. O. H. P. Burnham 5,000.00 Miss Mary Bartol 300.00 Mrs. Eliza Ann Colburn 5,000.00 I. W. Danforth 2,500 CO John N. Dix, 10,000.00 Albert Glover, 1,000.00 Joseph B. Glover, 5,000 00 Joseph B. Glover (deaf, dumb and blind), 5,000.00 Benjamin Humphrey, 25,000.00 Mrs. Susan B. Lyman, 4,809.78 The Maria Spear Legacy for the Blind, 15 000.00 Stephen W. Marston, 5,000.00 Edward D. Peters, 500.00 Henry L. Pierce, 20,000.00 Mrs. Elizabeth P. Putnam I,COO.OO

Mrs. Charlotte B. Richardson, . . . . 40,507.00 Mrs. Matilda B. Richardson 300.00 Miss Mary L. Ruggles, 3,000.00 Samuel E. Sawyer, 2.17477 Joseph Scholfield, 2,500.00 Mary F. Swift, 1,391 00 Alfred T. Turner, 1,000.00 Mrs. Ann White Vose, 12,994.00 Joseph K. Wait, 3,00000 Mrs. Mary Ann P. Weld, 2, GOO. 00 Thomas ^A/yman, 20,000.00 Charles L. Young, 5,000.00 $574,967.06 Cash 9,619.84 PRINTING FUND. Capital 5108,500.00 Legacy, Joseph H. Center, 1,000.00 Additions 55,512.18 165,012.18 KINDERGARTEN FUNDS. Mrs. William Appleton fund, $13,000.00 Nancy Bartlett fund, 500.00

Amounts car7'ied forward, $13,500.00 $749,599-08 I30

Amounts brought forward, $13,500.00 )f749.S99o8

Miss Helen C. Bradlee fund, 140,000.00 In memory of William Leonard Bene-

dict. Jr., 1 ,000.00 Miss Harriet Otis Cruft fund, 6,ooo.co Mrs. M. Jane Wellington Danforth fund, 1 1,000.00

Mrs. Helen Atkins Edmands fund, . . . 5,000.00

Miss Sarah M. Fay fund, 1 ,000.00 1

Mrs. Eugenia F. Farnham fund, . . . 1,015.00

Albert Glover fund 1 ,000.00 In memoriam "A. A. C," 500.00 Moses Kimball fund, 1,00000

Mrs. Emeline Morse Lane fund, . . . 500.00

Mrs. Annie B. Matthews fund, . . . . 1 1,000.00 Mrs. Warren B. Potter fund, 30,000.00 Georpe F. Parkman fund, 3,000.00

Miss Jeannie Paine . . . ,000.00 Warren fund, 1

Mrs. Benjamin S. Rotch fund, . . . . 8,500.00 John M. Rodocanachi fund, 1,250.00

Memorial to Frank Davison Rust, . . . 5,000.00 Mary Lowell Stone fund, 1,500.00 Mrs. Harriet Taber fund, 500.00 Transcript ten dollar fund, 5.666.95 Mrs. George W. Wales fund, 10,000.00 In memory of Ralph Watson, 237-92

Legacies : —

Mrs. Harriet T. Andrew, 5,000.00 Mrs. Eleanor J. W. Baker, 2,500.00 Mrs. Ellen M. Baker, 13,040.65 Sidney Bartlett 10,000.00 Thompson Baxter, 322.50 Miss Harriet Tilden Browne, 2,000.00 Robert C. Billings 10,000.00 Samuel A. Borden 4,675.00 Mrs. Sarah Bradford, 100.00 John W^. Carter 500.00 Mrs. Adaline M. Chapin, 400.00 Benjamin P. Cheney, 5,000.00

Charles H. Colburn 1 ,000.00 Miss Susan T. Crosby, 100.00 Miss Sarah Silver Cox, 5,000.00 George E. Downes, 3,000.00 Miss Caroline T. Downes, ...... 12.350.00 Mrs. Lucy A. Dwight, 4,000.00

Mary B. Emmons, 1 ,000.00

Miss Mary Eveleth 1 ,000.00 Mrs. Susan W. Farwell 500.00 John Foster, 5,000.00 Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gay, 7,931.00 Mrs. Ellen M. Gifford, 5,000.00 Joseph B. Glover, 5,000.00 Miss Matilda Goddard 300.00 Mrs. Mary L. Greenleaf, 3,000 00 Mrs. Jane H. Hodge 300.00 Mrs. Josephine S. Hall, 3,000.00

Amounts carried forward, 50,109.02 )?749. 599-08 131

Amounts brought forward, $380,189.02 )i^749.S99-o8

Mrs. Olive E. Hayden, 4,622.45 Mrs. Ann E. Lambert, 700.00 Elisha T. Loring, 5,000.00 Miss Rebecca S. Melvin, 23.S45-5S Augustus D. Manson, 8,134.00 Miss Sarah L. Marsh, 1,000.00 Miss Helen M. Parsons, 500.00 Mrs. Richard Perkins, 10,000.00 Edward D. Peters, 500.00 Mrs. Mary J. Phipps, 2,000.00 Mrs. Caroline S. Pickman, 1,000.00 Francis S. Pratt 100.00 Mrs. Mary S. C. Reed, 5,000 00 Miss Dorothy Roffe, 500.00 Miss Rhoda Rogers, 500.00 Miss Edith Rotch 10,000.00 Miss Rebecca Salisbury, 200.00 Joseph Scholfield, 3,000.00 Mrs. Eliza B. Seymour 5,000.00 Benjamin Sweetzer, 2,000.00 Mrs. Cornelia V. R. Thayer 10,000.00 Mrs. Delia D. Thorndike, 5,000.06 Mrs Elizabeth L. Tilton 300.00 Mrs. Betsey B. Tolman, 500.00 Royal W. Turner, 24,082.00 Mrs. Mary B. Turner, 7,582.90 George W. Wales 5,000.00 Mrs Charles E. Ware 4,000.00 Miss Rebecca P. Wainwright, .... 1,00000 Mary H. Watson, 100.00 Mrs. Julia A. Whitney, 100.00 Miss Betsey S. Wilder, 500.00

Mrs. Jennie A. (Shaw) Waterhouse, . . 565-84 Miss Mary W. Wiley, 150.00 Miss Mary Williams, 5,000.00 Almira F. Winslow 306.80 Funds from other donations, 93,894.21 621,572.77 Real estate subject to annuity, 7,600.00 Cash in the treasury, 6,458.47 Buildings, unimproved real estate and per- sonal property in use of the institution. South Boston, 504,887.79 Land, buildings and personal property in

use of the kindergarten, Jamaica Plain, . . 303,212.25

$2,193,330.36

Whole amount of property belonging to the kindergarten, «5938.84349 Whole amount of property belonging to the institution proper, 1,254,486.87

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LIST OF EMBOSSED BOOKS

Printed at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for THE Blind, Boston, 1904.

No. Title of Book. of Vols.

JUVENILE BOOKS.

Alcott, L. M. Little Women, Andersen, Hans. Stories and Tales,

Arabian Nights, six selections by Samuel Eliot, . . . Arnold's Primer, Baldwin, James. Story of Siegfried, Burnett, F. H. Little Lord Fauntleroy, Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Child's Book, first to seventh,

Children's Fairy Book, arranged by M. Anagnos, . . Chittenden, L. E. Sleeping Sentinel, Coolidge, Susan. What Katy Did,

Cyr, E. M. Interstate Primer and First Reader, . . Eclectic Primer,

Ewing, J. H. Story of a Short Life, Greene, Homer. Blind Brother, Pickett's Gap, Harte, Bret. Queen of the Pirate Isle, Kingsley, Charles. Greek Heroes, Water Babies, Little Ones' Story Book, Poulsson, Emilie. Bible Stories in Bible Language,

In the Child's World, Part I., . . .

In the Child's World, Part II., . .

In the Child's World, Part III., . . Stories for Little Readers, ....

Through the Farmyard Gate, . . .

Richards, L. E. Captain January and other stories, . . Ruskin, John. King of the Golden River, Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty,

Spyri, Johanna. Heidi, translated by Mrs. Brooks, . . Standard Braille Primer, revised, Thompson, Ernest Seton. Wild Animals I Have Known, Turner's First Reader,

Twelve Popular Tales, selected by H. C. Lodge, . . . Wiggin, K. D. Christmas Dinner, Story of Patsy, 133

No. Trice Title of Book. of per Vols. Set.

Youth's Library, arranged by M. Anagnos, 8 $12. CO Script and point alphabet sheets, per hundred, 5.00

GENERAL LITERATURE.

American Prose, 2 6.50 Longfellow's Birthday, I Anagnos, J. R. •35 Burt,M.E. Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca, I 2-75 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quixote, .... 3 8.25 Cooke, R.T. Deacon's Week, I 35 I Cooper, J. F. Pilot, 3-25 Dickens, Charles. Christmas Carol, with extracts from Pickwick Papers, I 3-25 David Copperfield, 5 16.25 Old Curiosity Shop, 3 12.75 Don't; or, Directions for Conduct and Speech, I .60 Eliot, George. Adam Bede, 3 9-75 Janet's Repentance, I 3-25 Silas Marner, I 3-75 Emerson, R. W. Essays, I 3-25 Extracts from British and American Literature, .... 2 5-5.© Francillon, R. E. Gods and Heroes, I 3-25 Goldsmith, Oliver. Vicar of Wakefield, I 3-25 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Scarlet Letter, 2 5-50 Tanglewood Tales, 2 450 Twice Told Tales, I 3-25 Irv'ing, Washington. Alhambra, 2 5-5° Sketch Book, 2 6.50

Johnson, Samuel. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, . . . I 2.75 Kingsley, Charles. Hypatia, 3 9-75 Lubbock, Sir John. Beauties of Nature, I 2.75

Lytton, Edward Bulwer. Last Days of Pompeii, . . . 3 9-75

Macaulay, T. B. Essays on Milton and Hastings, . . . I 3-25 Martineau, Harriet. Peasant and the Prince, I 325

Most Celebrated Diamonds, translated by J. R. Anagnos, . I .60 Ruskin, John. Selections by Edwin Ginn, I 2-75 Sesame and Lilies, I 2-75

Saint Pierre, J. H. B. de. Paul and Virginia, I 2-75 Scott, Sir Walter. Quentin Durward, 2 6.50 Talisman, 2 6.50 Thackeray, W. M. Henry Esmond, 3 9-75

POETRY.

Anagnos, J. R. Stray Chords, I 2.25 Bryant, W. C. Poems, I 3-25

Byron, Lord. Hebrew Melodies and Childe Harold, . . I 3-25 134

No. Title of Book. of Vols.

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Byron,: Lord. Poems selected by Matthew Arnold, . . . Holmes, O. W. Poems, Homer. Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, .... Longfellow, H. W. Evangeline,

Evangeline, and other poems, . . .

' Hiawatha,

Lowell, J. R. Poems, Milton, John. Paradise Lost,

Paradise Regained, and other poems, . .

Pope, Alexander. Essay on Man, and other poems, . . . Scott, Sir Walter. Lay of the Last Ministrel, and other poerns, Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, Caesar, ; Julius King Henry Fifth, Merchant of Venice,

, Romeo and JuUet, Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King,

In Memoriam, and other poems, . .

Whittier, J. G. Poems, 2 Wordsworth, William. Poems, i

BIOGRAPHY.

Biographical Sketches arranged by M. Anagnos,

Eliot, George. Biographical Sketch, . . . Howe, S. G. Memoir,

HISTORY.

Constitution of the United States, i Dickens, Charles. Child's History of England, .... 2 Duruy, Victor. General History of the World, 4 Fiske, John. War of Independence, i Washington and his Country, 3 Freeman, E. A. History of Europe, i

Green, J. R. Short History of the English People, . . . | 6 Higginson, T. W. Young Folks' History of the United States, I Schmitz, Leonhard. History of Greece, i History of Rome, i

RELIGION.

Book of Common Prayer, .... 135

No. Price Title of Book. of per Vols. Set.

Book of Psalms, I $2.75 Combe, George. Constitution of Man, I 425 Hymn Book, I 2.25

'. New Testament, 3 8.25 Paley, William. Natural Theology, I 4-25 Swedenborg, Emanuel. Selections,*

TEXT BOOKS.

Buckley, A. B. Life and Her Children, a reader of natural history, 3-25 Caesar. Commentaries on the Gallic War, 3-25 Cicero. Orations, 3-25 Collar and Daniell. Beginner's Latin Book, 5-5° Latin-English Vocabulary, .... 1-75

Cutter, Calvin. Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene, . . . 325 English-Greek Vocabulary (Braille), 1. 00

Eysenbach, William. German-English Vocabulary, . . . 2.25 German Grammar, 550 Geometrical Diagrams, 1.25 Gleason, C. D. Handbook of Crochet, .50 Handbook of Knitting, •50 Goodwin, W. W. Greek Grammar (Braille), S-50

Guyot, A. H. Geography, ' 325 Harper and Wallace. Vocabulary to Xenophon's Anabasis, ,8.25

Homer. Iliad, Books 1-3 (Braille). R. P. Keep, . . . , .2.25 Howe, S. G. Cyclopaedia, 34.00 Huxley, T. H. Introductory Science Primer, 2.25 Latin-English Lexicon, vol. I., 325 Latin Selections, 2.25 Riehl, W. H. Der Fluch der Schonheit, 1-75 Scribner, Charles. Geographical Reader, 2-75

Seymour, J. O. Vocabulary to Keep's Iliad of Homer (Braille), 5-50 Townsend, Mabel. Elementary Arithmetic, 50 Walsh, John H. Problems and Exercises, •50 Wentworth, G. A. Grammar-school Arithmetic, .... 3-25 White, J. W. Beginner's Greek Book (Braille), .... 4 11.00 Xenophon. Anabasis (Braille), 2 4-5°

MUSIC.

Pianoforte.

Bach, J. S. Fifteen Two-voiced Inventions. (Peters), . .60

Fifteen Three-voiced Inventions. (Peters), . ;6o French Suite, No. 6. (Peters), •35

Printed by donor for free distribution. 136

No. Price Title of Book. of per Vols. Set.

Bach, J. S. Gavotte in G minor, $0.06 Six Little Preludes, .20 Bach-Saint-Saens. Gavotte in B minor, .12 Bach, C. P. E. Solfeggietto, .06 Bargiel W Album Leaf, .06 Idylle, Op. 32, No. i, .12 Barilli Dance Caprice, .12 Baumfelder. Good Humor, .06 Beethoven. Farewell to the Pianoforte, .06 Fur Elise, .06

Sonata, Op. 2, No. i, : . . •50 Sonata, Op. 2, No. 3, .85 Sonata, Op. 10, No. 2, 25 Sonatina (F major), .12 Sonatina (G major), .06 Six Little Variations (G), 25

Six Variations on a theme by Paisiello, . . . •25

Nine Variations on a theme by Paisiello, . . •25 Behr, F. Think of Me, Op. 575, No. 11, .06 Berens. School of Velocity, Op. 61, 2.40 Bertini. Study in A, .06 Blakeslee. May Party Dance, Op. g, .12 Crystal Fountain Waltz, Op. 25, .06 Brauer, Fr. Twelve Studies, Op. 15. (Litolff), .... •25 Burgmiiller. fitudes. Op. 100 (new edition), .60 Chopin, fitude, Op. 10, No. i, .12 fitude, Op. 10, No. 2, .12 £tude, Op. 10, No. 3, .20 Etude, Op. 10, No. 4, .20 fitude. Op. 10, No. 5, .12 £tude. Op. 10, No. 7, .12 fitude. Op. 10, No. 8, .20 £tude. Op. 10, No. 12, .12 Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66, .12 Polonaise, Op. 40, No. i, .12 Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4, .06

Prelude, Op. 28, No. 7, .06 Prelude, Op. 28, No. II, .06 Prelude, Op. 28, No. 13, .12 Prelude, Op. 28, No. 21, .12 .06 Chwatal, F. The Merry Postilion, Op. 228, No. 8, . . . Sonatina in F, Op. 245, No. 2, .12 Conservatory, N. E. 35 Easy Pieces (N. E. Conservatory edition) .60

Cramer-Biilow. Fifty Selected Studies, Books i and 2, . 1.70 Czerny. Six Octave Studies, .20 Dennee. Scherzino, Op. 15, No. 6, .12 '

No. Price Title of Book. of per Vols. Set.

De Wilm. Canzonetta, i $0.12 Durand. Pastorale, i .06 Chaconne, i .06 Dussek. La Matinee Rondo, i .12 Duvernoy. Studies, Op. 176, i .60 Egghard. Tender Flower, i .06 Fontaine. Swing Song, i .06 Foote, A. Sarabande, Op. 6, No. 3, i .06

Gade. Capriccio, Op. 19, No. 2, . i .12 In the Woods, Op. 41, i .12 Godard, B. 2d Valse, Op. 56, i " .12 Goldner. Gavotte Mignonne, i .06 Grieg. Albumblatt, Op. 12, i .06 Album Leaf, Op. 28, No. i, i .06 Album Leaf, Op. 28, No. 3, i .06 Erotic, Op. 43, No. 5, i .06 Gavotte (from Holberg Suite), i .12 In the Home (In der Heimath), i .06 Lonely Wanderer (Einsamer Wanderer), ... i .06 Lyric Pieces, Op. 12, i .35 Papillon, Op. 43, No. i, i .12 Rigaudon (from Holberg Suite), i .12 To the Spring, Op. 43, No. 6, i .20 Voglein, Op. 43, No. 4, i .12 Gurlitt. Hunting Song, i .12 Morning Prayer, Op. loi, No. 2, i .12

Studies, Op. 50, •. i .85 The Festive Dance, i .06 The Hunt, i .06 Haberbier. A Flower of Spring, i .06 Handel. AUemande, Courante, Minuetto No. i, Minuetto No. 2, Preludio. Above numbers are from "Twelve Easy Pieces, i .25 Handel. Air a la Bourree, i .12 Haydn. Minuet Giocoso, i .06 Heller, St. Etudes, Op. 45, Book i, i .60 Etudes, Op. 45, Book 2, i .60 fitudes. Op. 46, I .85 Etudes, Op. 47, I .85

Promenades d'un Solitaire, Op. 78, No. i, . . i .12 Tarantelle (Napoli), i .12 Wanderstunden, Op. 80, No. 6, i .20 Henselt. If I were a Bird, i .15 Hiller, P. The Lonely Rose, Op. 66, i .06 Little Rider, Op. '66, i .06

Hofmann, H. Along the Brook, i .12

At Evening, i .06 138

Title of Book.

Hofmann, H. Gestaendnis, Op. 52,

Gavotte from "Donna Diana," . . . In the Month of May, MinneHed, On the Rivulet, The Nightingale Sings, Zur Laute, Jadassohn, S. Scherzo, Op. 35, Jensen, A. Berceuse in A, Barcarole, Op. 33, Canzonetta, Op. 42,

Erster Walzer and Zweiter Walzer, Op. ^;^, Irrlichter, Op. 17, Polonaise, Op. ^^y Reigen, Op. 33,

Reiterlied, Op. ;}^,

Trompeterstiicklein, Op. 33, ... . Widmung, Op. ^^, Jungmann, A. Will o' the Wisp, Op. 217, .... Kirchner, Th. Album Leaf, Op. 7, Valse Impromptu, Kohler. Coming from School, Op. 210, Kuhlau. Sonatina, Op. 20, No. i, Sonatina, Op. 20, No. 3, Kullak, Th. From Flower to Flower (octave study), Im Gruenen, Op. 105, Scherzo, The Little Huntsman,

Twelve Pieces, Op. 62, vol. i, . . . . Landon. Pianoforte Method, Lange. In Rank and File, Playfulness, Dressed for the Ball, ' Meadow Dance, Valse Champetre, Happy Meeting, Lavall^e. Caprice (The Butterfly), Lichner. Waltz, Op. 270, Morning Song, Op. 174, Liszt. La Regal a Veneziana, Loeschhom. Arabeske No. i,

Arabeske No. 3, fitudes, Op. 65, Book i, £tudes, Op. 65, Book 2, £tudes, Op. 66, Book i, Hungarian, Lysberg. The Thrashers, Op. 71, 139

No. Price Title of Book. of per Vols. Set.

Mason, Wm. Touch and Technic. Vol. i, 52.25 Mathews, W. S. B. Standard Graded Course of Studies, Vol. I, •85 Mendelssohn. Christmas Gift, Op. 72, •25 Prelude in E minor, .06 Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14, .60 Scherzo, Op. 16, No. 2, .12

Song without Words, Op. 19, No. 4, . . . .06

Song without Words, Op. 30, No. 9, . . . .06

Song without Words, Op. 38, No. 14, . . .12

Song without Words, Op. 67, No. 34, . . .20

Song without Words, Op. 102, No. 45, . . .12

Song without Words, Op. 102, No. 47, . . .12

Song without Words, Op. 102, No. 48, . . .12 Merkel. Fnihlingsbotschaft, Op. 27, .12 Impromptu, Op. 18, .12 In the Beautiful Month of May, .12 Jolly Huntsman, 06 Pleasures of May, Op. 81, .06 Spring Song, .06 The Hunter's Call, .12 Moszkowski. Waltz in A flat, •25 Mozart. Sonata No. 2 in F (A. P. Schmidt), .20 Sonata No. 8 in C (A. P. Schmidt), •30 .12 Nicode, J. L. Barcarolle, Op. 13, Oesten, Th. White Roses, Op. 276, .20 No. I. In the Spring. No. 2. A Little Story. No. 5. In the Summer. No. 6. Rural Pleasures. Parker, H. W. £tude Melodieuse, Op. 19, .12 Nocturne, Op. 19, .12 Romanza, Op. 19, .12 Scherzino, Op. 19, .12 Porter, F. A. "In the Springtime," Book i, .20 "In the Springtime," Book 2, .... •25 .12 Raflf, J. The Echo, Op. 75, Ravina. Arabeske, .06 Reinecke. Gondoliera, .20 Minuetto, .06 30 Pianoforte pieces for young people. Op. 107 (Litolff edition), .60 Reinhold. Suite Mignonne, Op. 45, •25 Impromptu, Op. 28, .20

Rheinberger. Ballade, Op. 7, .12 Impromptu, Op. 183, .20 Roeske. Capitol March, .06 140

No. Title of Book. of Vols.

Roeske. Dover Galop, Electric Polka, Happy Thoughts Polka, The Hub Waltz, / Rosenhain. Andante and Rondo, Rummel. Little March, Little Waltz,

Saran. Phantasie Stuck, Op. 2, Scharwenka, P. Tanz Vergniigen, Op. 68, Schubert. Impromptu, Op. 142, Schumann. Album for yoimg Pianists, Cradle Song, Novellette, in F,

Valse Noble, Op. 9, Op. 15, No. 2, Op. 15, No. 3, Schytte. Bird-trills in the Wood, Hide and Seek, Playing Ball, Op. 66, Youth and Joy, Op. 66, Strong, T. Danse des Sabots, Thoma. Polish Dance, Twenty-three Select Pieces (First Grade), Urbach. Prize Piano School, WoUenhaupt. fitude in A flat,

Organ.

Allen, N. H. Themes with varied basses,

Vocal.

Songs for Solo Voice.

Beach, Mrs. June, Bischoff. Marguerite, Brahms. Cradle Song,* Chadwick. I said to the W^ind of the South,* O let Night Speak of Me,* Sweetheart thy Lips are Touched with Flame,* Cowen. To a Flower, Franz. Dearest Friend,* From Grief I cannot Measure,* In Autumn,* Marie,* Oh! why so soon,* The Mourner,* Grieg. A Swan,*

Songs marked thus (*) are for low voice, all others are for sop. or tenor. 141

No. Price Title of Book. of Vols.

Grieg. Departed,* $0.06 Strolling Minstrel's Song,* .12 Mendelssohn. Afar,* .12 O God have Mercy,* .20 Moir. Best of All, .12 Schubert. Songs in the original keys, Augener & Co. ed. By the Sea, .12

Hark, hark! the Lark (high voice), . . . . .20

Hark, hark ! the Lark (low voice), . . . . .06 Hedge Roses, .12 Her Portrait, .12

Huntsman's Even Song, . .06 Impatience, .20 Morning Greeting, .20 My Sweet Repose, .12 To be Sung on the Waters, .20 Wanderer's Night Song, .12 Wandering, .12 Who is Sylvia? .12 Schumann. Ah Sweet, when in thine Eyes, .06

Beside the Rhine's Sacred Waters, . . . . .12

My Soul will I Steep with Longing, . . . . .06 The Rose and the Lily, .06 When May shed Loveliness around, .06 Where'er my Tears have Fallen, .06

Woman's Life and Love, Nos. i-8, . . . . .60 Sibley. When Dreaming,* .06 Storace. My Native Land I bade Adieu,* .12

Wagner. Prize Song from "Die Meistersinger," . . . . •25

Whelply. The Nightingale has a Lyre of Gold, . . . . .12

Duets.

Smart, Henry. The Fairy Haunted Spring,

Part Songs for Male Voices. Abt. Night Song, .12 The Parting Day, .12 Bank, C. Evening Song, .06 Becker. Vocal March, 25 Boieldieu. Praise of the Soldier, .12 Chwatal, F. X. Lovely Night, .06 Cramer. How Can I Leave Thee, .06 Gounod, Ch. The Chase, .20

Hatton, J. L. Tar's Song, .20 Bugle Song, .20 Sailor's Song, .12

Songs marked thus (*) are for low voice, all others are for sop. or tenor. 142

No. Title of Book. of Vols.

Knowles. Our Flag, Kreutzer. Serenade, Kiicken. O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast,

The Banner's Wave, . _ The Rhine,

Macfarren, G. A. Now the Sun has Mounted High, . . . Mendelssohn. The Huntsman's Farewell, Farewell, The Cheerful Wanderer, Parting Song, Rhine, Serenade, Pflueger, Carl. The Bugler. Song for medium voice with male chorus, Weber. Bright Sword of Liberty, Champagne Song, A Nation's Day is Breaking, O How Lovely the Face of the Deep, Werner. Two Roses,

Part Songs for Female Voices.

Gumbert. Maidens' Spring Song (trio),

Hiller. Dame Cuckoo (trio), .

Mendelssohn. Hearts Feel that Love Thee (trio), . . .

O Vales with Sunlight Smiling (trio), . . Wagner, R. Spinning-wheel Chorus (trio), Wiegand. A Meadow Song,

Mixed Voices.

Hatton, J. L. Let All with Merry Voices Sing, .... Mendelssohn. On the Sea, .' Smart, Henry. Wake to the Hunting,

Chorals, Anthems, Hymns.

Bach, J. S. Sixteen German Chorals edited by John S. Dwight, Gounod. Praise be to the Father (anthem), Hymns. Collection of Forty-five Hymn Tunes, .... Selected. Words and music, Weber. God of the Fatherless (anthem),

Vocal Exercises.

Concone. Fifty exercises. Op. 9 (medium voice), . . . Scala. Twenty-five Concise Vocal Exercises, 143

No. Price Title of Book. of per Vols. Set.

Music for Children.

Children's Souvenir Song Book, Selections from. Arr. by William L. Tomlins: $0.06 Chadwick, J. W. The Brook, Faning, Eaton. Boat Song, .06 Foote, A. Land to the Leeward, .12 Foster. Every Night, .06 Johns, Clayton. The Fountain, .06 Osgood, G. L. Happy Spring Waltz, .12 Parker, H. W. Even Song, .12

Roeske, C. C. Collection of Songs, Duets, and Trios, . . .60

Orchestra.

Bach. Adagio (Quintet for Strings and Clarinet), . . . •30

Beethoven. Andante con moto, from Symphony No. i, . . .70 Menuetto from Septet, Op. 20, •25 Scherzo from Septet, Op. 20, •25 Bendix. Cradle Song, .20 Boccherini. Minuet in A,* Minuet No. 2 in A,* Eichberg. Andante, Eilenberg. The Mill in the Forest, •35 Fahrbach. Mazurka, In the Forest, •30 Godard. Berceuse, •30 Oregh, L. Joyous Serenade, .40 Passacale, •50

Grieg, E. Anitra's Tanz from Peer Gynt Suite,* . . . . •25

Gavotte from Holberg Suite,* ...... •25 Rigaudon from Holberg Suite,* •25 Haydn. Symphony No. 5, First Movement, .80 Symphony No. 11, First Movement, .80 Symphony No. 11, Allegretto, .70 Symphony No. 11, Minuet, .40 Symphony No. 11, Finale, .80 Symphony No. 13, Largo, .60 Hoffmann, H. Serenade, Op. 65, First Movement (Flute and Strings), •50 Hoffman, R. No. i from Suite, Op. 60,* .20 Jungmann. Will 0' the Wisp (Quintet for Strings and Harp), •25

Mascagni. Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana," . . .20 Mendelssohn. Festival March, .40 Priests' March from "Athalie," .... 50

Mozart, W. A. Andante from E-flat Symphony, . . . 50

Andante from the 8th Quartette, . . . .20

* For string orchestra. 144

No. Title of Book. of Vols.

Mozart, W. A. Divertimento, No. 2, D major (First Movement), Magic Flute Overture,

Menuetto from the Jupiter Symphony, . Menuetto from E flat Symphony (com- posed 1788), Reinecke. Pastoral,* Marchen Vorspiel,* Aus Tausend und eine Nacht,* Frieden der Nacht,* Ballet Music,* (The above numbers from Zwolf Tonbilder). Schubert, F. March Militaire, Moment Musical,

Symphony, B minor, First Movement, . . Schumann, R. Traumerei, Strauss. Light and Shade Waltzes, Wagner. Vorspiel from Lohengrin,* Waldteufel. Invitation a la Gavotte,

Violin.

Accolay. Concerto, Bach. Concerto for Two Violins, Dancla, C. First Air Varie, Op. 89, De Beriot. Fantasie Ballet, Op. 100, Method for the Violin, Part L, 2d and 3d Po- sitions,

Eichberg, J. Complete Method for the Violin, .... Godard, B. Canzonetta, Berceuse from "Jocelyn," Hauser. Longing (Le Desir), Mendelssohn. Concerto, Op. 64 (Andante), Mlynarski. Mazur, Moffat. Sarabanda (Leclare Album, No. 5), Schradieck. Technical Studies, Book i, Sitt. £legie. Op. 73, Preludium, Op. 73, Tarantelle, Op. 73, Spring Song, Op. 73, Wieniawski. Chanson Polonaise, Op. 12,

Violoncello.

Bruch. Kol Nidrei, Romberg. Concertino, Schumann. Stuck im Volkston,

For string orchestra. 145

No. Price Title of Book. of per Vols. Set.

String Quartet.

Haydn. Quartet No. 12 (Adagio), Peters Edition, . . . $0.25

Military Band.

Bach, Charles. Twelfth Andante and Waltz, 30 Balfe. Fantasia from "Satanella," 50 Balfe-Claus. Selection, " Bohemian Girl," 25

Balfe-Wiegand. Selection, "Puritan's Daughter," . . . 60

Beyer, E. Fantasia from "Le Val d'Amour." Arr., . . 35

Bizet. Selection from "Carmen." Arr. by Beyer, . . . 70 Toreador's song from " Carmen," 80 Catlin, E. N. Overture, "Welcome," 70 Donizetti. Nocturne from "Don Pasquale,"* Ringleben. Polka Mazurka,* 30 Sponholtz. Peace of Mind,* Donizetti. Sextette and Finale from "Lucia," 85 Flotow. Selection from "Martha," 80

Fantasia from "Stradella." Arr. by Heinicke, . SO Gilmore, P. S. 22d Regiment March, 35 Gotmod-Heinicke. Selection from "Faust," 60

Halevy-Heinicke. Selection from "The Jewess," . . . 60 Heinicke. Grand National Melody Potpourri, .... 60 Military Prize Quickstep, 50 Hungarian Quickstep. Arr., 50 Reminiscences of Verdi, 90 Herman, A. Overture, "L'Espoir de I'Alsace." Arr. by Claus, 90 Laurendeau. Overture, "Lilliput," 70 Lavallee, C. Overture, "The Bridal Rose," 85

Mendelssohn. Priests' War March from "Athalie," . . 35

Meyerbeer-Heinicke. Selection from "Les Huguenots," . 70 Meyerbeer-Meyrelles. Coronation March from "Le Pro- phete," 40 Mozart. Overture, "The Magic Flute," 60 Prendiville, H. Little Rose Waltz, 30 Rollinson, T. H. The Color Guard March, 30 Day Dreams, 60 Schubert-Vaughan. Arr. of Serenade, 35 Sousa. Semper Fidelis March, 35 Suppe. Banditenstreiche, overture, 50 Supp^-Wiegand. Overture, "Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna," 85

Troop-Heinicke. Arr. of Second Andante and Waltz, . . 30 Verdi. Scene and Aria from "Emani." Arr. by Claus, 60

Selection from "Emani." Arr. by Heinicke, . . 90

* Sextette for brass instruments. 146

No. Price Title of Book. of Vols.

Viviani. The Silver Trumpets. (Grand Processional March), I $.070

Wagner. Selection from "The Flying Dutchman," . . . I .85

Weber-Heinicke. Selection from "Der Freischutz," . . I .60

Clarinet.

Klose. Conservatory Method for the Clarinet, Part I., . . 1-75

Cornet.

Arban. Fantasie Brillante, .12 Method for the Cornet and Saxhorn, 6.50

French Horn and Pianoforte.

Beethoven. Sonata, Op. 17 (First Movement), .... •30

Miscellaneous.

Braille's Musical Notation, Key to, .60

Bridge, J. F. Counterpoint, 2.25 Double Counterpoint, 2-75

Cole, S. W. N. E. Conservatory Course on Sight Singing, . •SO Fillmore, John C. Lessons in Musical History, .... 2.25

Musical Characters used by the Seeing, . .40 Norris, Homer A. Practical Harmony, 4-5° RoUinson, T. H. Popular Collection for Comet and Piano, .60 Streatfeild, R. A. The Opera, 2.75 Webster, M. P. Preparation for Harmony, •50 —

LIST OF APPLIANCES AND TANGIBLE APPARATUS

Made at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for THE Blind.

Geography.

I.—Wall Maps. The Hemisphere, size, 42 by 52 inches.

United States, Mexico and Canada, . . " North America, South America, Europe,

. . 41 U U Asia, Africa, " " The World on Mercator's Projection, . . " Each, $37; or the set, $296.

//. Dissected Maps. Eastern Hemisphere, size, 30 by 36 inches. Western Hemisphere, North America, United States, South America, Europe,

. . it a <( Asia, Africa, Each, $25; or the set, $200.

III.—Pin Maps. Cushions for pin maps and diagrams, each $1.00

Arithmetic. Ciphering-boards made of brass strips, nickle-plated, each, $3.00 Ciphering-type, nickel-plated, per hundred, " i-oo

Writing. Grooved writing-cards, aluminum, each, $0.18 " " " leatherboard, " -oS

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

Kindergarten for the Blind

AUGUST 31, 1904

BOSTON

PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS CO.

1905 ¥omml, lasst uns ben Tinbtru Itbnt

FRIEDRICH FROEREL. OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION.

1904-1905.

FRANCIS H. APPLETON, President. AMORY A. LAWRENCE, Vice-President.

WILLIAM ENDICOTT, Jr., Treasurer. MICHAEL ANAGNOS, Secretary.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

FRAN'CIS H. APPLETON. J. THEODORE HEARD, M.D. \VM. LEONARD BENEDICT. EDWARD JACKSON. WILLIAM ENDICOTT. GEORGE H. RICHARDS. Rev. p. R. FROTHINGHAM. WM. L. RICHARDSON, M.D. CHARLES P. GARDINER. RICHARD M. SALTONSTALL. N. P. HALLOWELL. S. LOTHROP THORNDIKE.

LADIES' VISITING COMMITTEE.

Mrs. WILLIAM APPLETON, President. Mrs. ELIZABETH C. AGASSIZ, Vice-President.

Janicary, . . . Miss Constance G. Lee July, . . . Mrs. E. Winchester Donald

Febritary Mrs. Thomas Mack August, . . . Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott

March, . . . Mrs. John Chipman Gray September,. . . . Mrs. E. Preble Motley April, Miss Agnes Brooks October, .... Miss Annie C. Warren May, Mrs. Larz Anderson November, Mrs. George Howard Monks

June, Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs December, . . Mrs. George A. Draper

OFFICERS OF THE KINDERGARTEN.

MICHAEL ANAGNOS, Director. HENRY W. BROUGHTON, M.D., Attending Physician.

FRANCIS I. PROCTOR, M.D., Ophthalmic Surgeon.

Boys' Section. Girls' Section.

Miss Nettie B. Vose, Matron. Mrs. J. M. Hill, Matron. Miss Flora C. Fountain, Assistant. Miss Cornelia M. Loring, Assistant. Miss Ellen Reed Mead, Kindergartner. Miss W. Humbert, Kindergartner. Miss L. Henrietta Stratton, Teacher. Miss Alice M. Lane, Teacher. Miss Minnie C. Tucker, Music Teacher. Miss Helen M. Hinolf, Music Teacher' Miss Laura A. Brown, Teacher of Manual Training.

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.

Boys' Section. Girls' Section.

Miss Mary J. Jones, Matron. Miss Blanche Barrett, Matron. Miss Katherine Sweeney, Teacher. Miss Ada S. Bartlett, .Assistant. Miss Isabelle C. Bixby, Teacher. Miss Bertina Dyer, Teacher. Miss Lydia Howes, Music Teacher. Miss Maria L. Church, Teacher. Miss Sigrid Sjolander, Sloyd. Miss B. C. Chamberlain, Music Teacher. Miss Kittie I. Fish, Music Teacher. Miss Inger Wuk, .Sloyd. 152

GIFTS IN LIFE AS WELL AS IN DEATH.

Dear Friend:—^Are you thinking of making your \vill and of disposing of the whole or a part of your estate for educational and benevolent purposes? If so, do not forget the Kindergarten for the Blind in Jamaica Plain. Pray bear in mind the fact that this institution is doing a holy work for the needy little sightless children, its object being to mitigate the sad effects of their affliction, to im- prove their condition physicall}-, intellectually and morally, and to free them from the fetters of helplessness and dependence.

FORM OF BEQUEST.

I give, devise and bequeath to the corporation of the Perkins In- stitution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, Boston, Mass., for the sole use and benefit of the Kindergarten for the Blind, the sum of dollars.

FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE.

I give, devise and bequeath to the corporation of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, Boston, Mass., for the sole use and benefit of the Kindergarten for the Blind (here describe the real estate accurately), with full power to sell, mort- gage and convey the same, free of all trusts. KINDERGARTEN FOR THE BLIND.

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES.

To the Members of the Corporation.

Ladies and Gentlemen :—We beg leave to present for your consideration the eighteenth annual report of the kindergarten for the financial year ending on the 31st day of August, 1904. It gives us great pleasure to state that the little school

is in a highly satisfactory condition in all its departments and that the tendency towards improvement, which has

marked its course in the past, is as strong now as ever. In reviewing the work which has been done for the

benefit of the little pupils since the publication of our last annual report, we believe that the friends and bene- factors of the kindergarten have ample reason to feel

that progress has been made fully equal to if not beyond that of any previous year. The children have been placed under the most favor- able conditions for development and growth. They have

been kindly treated and lovingly cared for, while the quickening of their intelligence, the unfolding of their mental faculties and the training of their muscles have been prosecuted with praiseworthy diligence and admir- able results. The kindergarten was established in the spirit of benevolence and with the distinct purpose of doing

justice to the little blind children by providing for them 154

the opportunity and the means for an early and systematic

education. Through the generosity of its benefactors

it has prospered and has become a fountain of blessings and a source of intellectual and moral light to those who

have been committed to its care; without it most of these would probably have remained "like the heath in the desert" wild and untrained.

Need of Early Training for Blind Children.

Every child, born into the world, comes with a full supply of instincts, inclinations, propensities, disposi- tions and passions, which are stored in his brain, nerves, muscles and vital organs. Some of these prepossessions and proclivities are of the right kind and should be nurtured and cultivated, while others are very detri- mental and should be repressed and nipped in the bud. Both experience and reflection show that this course of educational treatment or pruning process is impera- tively needed in the case of all children, but, for reasons which can be easily explained and clearly understood, it is especially necessary in that of the blind.

The loss of the visual sense is no ordinary depriva- tion or unimportant mishap; it is a grievous bereave- ment and a severe calamity. It acts injuriously upon all living creatures and interferes most seriously with the natural development and normal growth of little human beings. It affects them physically, intellectu- ally, morally and spiritually, and its effect is some- what like that of light coming upon a plant from one

side only and causing it to grow crooked. It circum- scribes the movements and restricts the action of its victims and disturbs more or less the usual order and regularity of mental development. By shutting off 155 the whole of the visible world from their view or by rendering it a black mass to them, it diminishes the force of their sensuous impressions, limits the extent of their perceptions, narrows the channels of their objective knowledge and lessens the sources of its variety.

Finally it tends to modify their organic or primary tendencies of temper and temperament, to foster whims, increase oddities and intensify peculiar idiosyncrasies. In order to obviate these effects as far as possible and to supplant them by such conditions as are favor- able to a normal development, early rational training, pursued in a systematic and judicious manner, and a salutary environment are indispensable. Indeed, they constitute the only agency that can be employed with a strong hope of success to redeem and fit for future usefulness a large number of helpless children. They are calculated to prevent or remedy some of the ills which are engendered by the destruction of the sense of sight and to invigorate the victims of this infirmity and render them well prepared and capable of receiving a good education and of becoming active and independent. We are very glad to be able to state that for the achieve- ment of this great purpose the kindergarten for the blind at Jamaica Plain affords ample means and rare oppor- tunities.

In this beneficent institution the little boys and girls live in bright and well-ordered homes, which abound in uplifting and civilizing influences and in which love is the rule and kindness the school-mistress. Here the tiny pupils are placed under the supervision and guidance of able and faithful tutors and caretakers and are brought up by these in the best possible way. Here they are provided with a wholesome regimen and have ample grounds for play and uncommon facilities for physical ^56

exercise, which make them grow hale, strong and healthy. Here they receive at the most plastic period of their lives a training of the hand, the ear, the voice and the mind,

that tells powerfully in the subsequent years of their course at school, while a most profound and lasting im-

pression is stamped upon the social, moral and aesthetic sides of their nature. Here their powers of invention are quickened and their muscles, brain and soul are de- veloped by action. Here they are imbued w^ith the spirit of truthfulness and uprightness and are taught lessons of sympathy and cooperation, of self-reliance and useful- ness, of obedience and exertion. Altruism and gentle- ness, helpfulness and interest in the workings of nature, self-activity and spontaneity, these form the sum and substance of Froebel's educational philosophy and are earnestly fostered and wisely cultivated at this juvenile school, which has been not inappropriately called by Dr. Alexander McKenzie of Cambridge a ''university of humanity." Broadly speaking, we venture the opinion that the work of the kindergarten is so delicate and intimate, so large in aggregate and so admirably effective that nowhere is there an educational and humane force in operation greater in interest, more rational in methods, more sound in principle or better adapted to the benefi- cent purpose of obliterating or at least reducing to their minimum the results of blindness and of enabling its victims to grow and expand in accordance with the laws of their being, than is the juvenile school in Jamaica Plain.

Condition and Work of the Kindergarten.

The kindergarten is thoroughly organized and well equipped in all its appointments, and the school year 157 has begun with excellent prospects for good work and for the achievement of even better results than those heretofore attained. The new building which was opened in the autumn of 1903 has been a valuable addition to our accommo- dations and has enabled us to receive all applicants for ad- mission promptly and without loss of time tcr any of them. The children in attendance, instead of living together under one roof, are divided into families, each of which lives separately by itself and is entirely independent of the others. They occupy four houses, and these, together with the music hall and gymnasium, form a group of buildings, which are peculiarly adapted to the purposes of a school like ours and are kept in perfect condition. Moreover, in order to meet the demands created by the enlargement of the capacity of the kindergarten and by the increase in number of the recipients of its benefits, the collections of appliances and apparatus and of tools and instruments of every kind have been correspondingly augmented. This outward material growth of the school has been accompanied by a corresponding development on the intellectual and spiritual side, showing itself in the form of order, discipline, intelligence and enthusiasm. These alone give value to the machinery of education. Considering the facts placed before us we feel per- fectly justified in saying that the educational advantages provided for our little scholars with a liberal hand are productive of admirable results and that it would be hardly possible to find in any boarding school a class of children more thoroughly trained, better behaved, hap- pier or more contented and peaceful than those who live in the kindergarten and grow under its beneficent in- fluence. —

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Exercises at the Boston Theatre.

On the occasion of the commencement exercises of the Perkins Institution, at the Boston Theatre, June

7, 1904, the little people from the kindergarten presented a most attractive appearance, clustered upon the stage,

in rows upon rows of white-clad little figures, with bright faces, full of the happiness of the day and conscious of

their important relations to it. As soon as the opening orchestral number had ceased

and released them from the enchantment of its strains,

two little girls and two little boys, the excellence of whose daily work in the occupations of the kindergarten had won for them this proud distinction, took their places at the low tables in the foreground of the stage and be- came speedily engrossed in their allotted tasks. While their tiny fingers were busily flying to and fro in the ac- complishment of their mission. President Francis H. Appleton introduced the speaker of the day, the Rev. George L. Perin, to whose eloquent words the attention of the audience was gladly accorded. His address was as follows:

Address or Rev. George L. Perix.

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:—I suppose that every thoughtful and earnest man has times when he wonders whether he has ever been able or ever shall be able to do anything really worth while. No doubt there are many reasons for this, but one

reason is because we often compare ourselves with people who have made some conspicuous success, whose deeds may be isolated and who stand out conspicuously before the world and ourselves, and in comparison it seems to us that we have done very little. I used to be sorry in reading the story of Isaac for the place he occu- pied in history. He was sandwiched in between Abraham on the one side and Jacob on the other side; both of these great men stood moun- tain-high, and he seemed Httle in comparison; and when I have 159 thought of Isaac, I have been reminded sometimes of what

WiUiam Lloyd Garrison 2d is said once to have uttered humor- ously concerning his own situation. He said that he had the mis- fortune to be sandwiched between WilHam Lloyd Garrison,—the great anti-slavery leader, his father,—and his own son, who was a Harvard athlete, and he did not know just where he came in. Now, in the case of Isaac, we need to remember that he did dig wells, and, considering the land he lived in, he was engaged in a good business, for wells were needed, and in the case of Mr. Gar- rison we have the satisfaction to know that he is grappling with the problems of his own time. Now, I suppose every one of us raises this question: Shall we be able to do anything worth while? And in the last analysis I think the answer will always come, if it is a true answer, in terms of life. Jesus Himself justified His mission by the declaration that He came that men might have life and have it more abundantly; and every man who is doing anything worth while in this world is making some contribution to life, either for the enrichment of Hfe or to make life more productive. We honor the man who loves trees and is trying to make better trees and save the trees that are. We honor the man who loves the flowers and is trying to develop a better rose or a better pink or a better chrysanthemum, and many a man has thought it worth while to give his own name to a rose or a pink.

We honor the man who loves the fruits and is trying to make better fruits, better strawberries, better peaches and better apples, and many a man has thought it worth while to give his own name to some luscious fruit. How much more, then, should we honor the man who is trying to contribute to life, whether it is to make life richer or to make it more productive.

Here the profession of medicine stands justified. A man is try- ing to contribute something to make a healthier life, to preserve it in its normal conditions, to make men stronger. Here the profes- sion of the ministry stands justified. In a higher, nobler way, the man who has caught some spiritual vision of life is trying to contribute to life, to make it richer, to make it more efficient, to make it more productive; and here the teacher's work also stands justified. It is interpreted in terms of life, and no one really understands the work of a teacher who does not try to interpret it in these terms.

It is a question of life in the last analysis, and the contribution which i6o

the teacher is making is a contribution to life. Now, we may very well raise the question, life to what end ? We might almost, perhaps,

be justified in declining to analyze at all. "For its own sake,"

we might answer; "life is desirable for its own sake;" and yet we need not hesitate to make the analysis. Life for the sake of joy;

life for the sake of happiness; every avenue of life which is opened to a man or to a child contributes to his happiness. I was

almost moved to tears, in reading the life of Miss Keller, to see how pathetically she struggled with her misfortune and how deep

was her darkness, how helpless she was; and my joy, it seems to me, was almost like hers, when I came to that part of her story when he was able to read with ease and freedom, when one and anothers

avenue of life was opened to her. How her joy abounded! It is ever thus; no man can have a new avenue of Ufe opened to him with- out having his joy increased.

But this is not all; every new avenue of life that is opened makes life more productive. A man's powers are not to be developed merely

that he may be on exhibition. A man is not to be educated merely that he may be seen, but rather that he may be a worker in the world. One desires to be a producer. These children are not to be edu- cated merely for the exhibition day, merely for what they can show you when at last they are graduated or when once a year they come

here for their exercises. WTiat are they educated for ? First of all, for the sake of Hfe. Next, for the sake of joy and happiness. Next, for the sake of making their labor productive,—their labor, unfor- tunate as they are, handicapped as they are,—that their labor may be productive. Now, as we honor the minister, as we honor the physician, as we honor the teacher who contributes to Hfe, so we

honor the captain of industry, great or small, who makes life's labor productive; the railroad magnate, the originator of a shoe shop or steel factory or woollen mill, any man who organizes other men to work,—we should honor him.

I want to raise this question : Whom should we honor most ; the man who begins at the top and contributes to life there or the man who begins at the bottom and contributes to Hfe there? I do not believe it requires much enthusiasm or much inspiration for the teacher of physical training to select out of a hundred boys the young Apollo best developed and see what he can be made into physically. It requires vastly more inspiration to take the poor, dwarfed, stunted i6i weakling, the weakest among the hundred, and see what that boy can be made into. I remember having attended an exercise in a grammar school in Roxbury some years ago, when the teacher said to me at the close of the exercise: "Which one of these girls among the forty do you think I am the proudest of?" I said: "I do not know." "That one there," she answered. "And why are you the proudest of that one? Is that the brightest girl in your class?" She said:

"No, that is the dullest girl in all the room, and yet, not one girl in all the room has made the progress that this girl has." A greater contribution to life had been made in the case of this little one than any other. It requires, I warrant, more inspiration to begin there and make that development in the dullest one than it requires to carry the brightest one farther than she found her. Now, dear friends,

I yv^ant to make this application to the work we have before us today. As much as I believe in the divine call of every teacher of the child who can see, as well as the child who is blind, the teacher of the child who hears, as well as the child who cannot hear, as much as I be- lieve in that work and as much as I honor that work, yet more do I honor the work of the teacher who takes these children, handi- capped as they are, and contributes to their life and undertakes to make their Hfe productive, and the reason I honor them more is because it seems to me it requires more devotion and greater inspi- ration to accomplish what they do accomplish.

And so it seems to me we have an illustration here, in the work that is being done, which is beyond all praise, and, among the many interesting things that they are doing, it seems to me that we find the most interesting in the work of the kindergarten; and one rea- son why I am interested in the kindergarten, especially, is because we have here the beginnings of a work with the children at a time in hfe when we can best study their capabilities. First of all, they are to Hve; in the next place, they are to be happy; and in the next place, they are to be productive, and the kindergarten is one of the best places for the study of their capabilities, how to contribute to life; how to make their labor productive; how to make them happy in the coming years. These first years, when life is pliant, when it is ductile; in these first years, when the child is under the immediate touch of a teacher; here is the time when the child may be studied to best advantage, and many a time it will turn out that, at the age of eight or ten years, the teacher understands what the child is best —

l62 fitted for. Not every child may be developed into a musician; not every young man may be developed into a minister, nor a lawyer. I have often wondered why more blind young men have not en- tered the ministry, and if there are any of these here who will come to me, I will tell them what a splendid profession it is. But, at the best, not all of them can be good ministers; not all of them can be good merchants; some of them may be mechanics, but here in the kindergarten where they are studied young and at first-hand, here is where it may be determined what they are fitted for, so by the time they enter the high school the teachers may direct them into some remunerative avenue, where there is a fair chance for success. For this reason I believe in the kindergarten for the blind. Now, dear friends, I look upon this company, back here, of teachers and professors, under the leadership of Air. Anagnos, as one of the most splendidly organized expert corps of teachers in this country. I doubt if we can match them anywhere. Are we, then, to leave the three or four thousand blind people in the com- monwealth of Massachusetts to their care alone? Are we to rest satisfied that everything that can be done will be done for them, because we have these experts? Ah, there is the trouble. In these days we are inclined to do everything by machinery. We organ- ize a big machine, and then we turn over one and another class to the machine; then we rest easy, because we fancy the machine will take care of the business. They will make their contribution to life, the life of these blind children. WTiat is the contribution that we are to make? We have these experts in the care of the blind, but are we therefore to shirk responsibility? We cannot, perhaps, use the blind language; we are not experts in the training of these young men and women; these blind boys and girls. No, but we can equip, perhaps, these institutions and put into the hands of these experts the means they need. And so I was glad when the president called }-our attention to this last paragraph on the last page of our programme and asked you to read that paragraph. Ah, but I hope you will do some-

thing more than read it ! I asked one day how the kindergarten for the blind was supported, was it supported by the state? Reply was made: "No, it is not supported by the state. It depends upon the voluntary contributions of the people of the city and the com- monwealth for its support." And when once we think of it, that —

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after all, should not be so serious a problem. Wh}-, it seems to me that, when we think of the work that is being done there, money ought to be coming in steady streams for the support of this work that Mr. Anagnos is carrying on, that he should not need to write a single letter in its behalf; that he should scarcely make a single appeal for the support of the school; that private individuals, men and women, should be so interested, so infatuated by it, so filled with a sense of obligation that they would write and say: "Tell me what you need next ? Ask and you shall receive. Tell me what you want, and I stand ready to help you out." I do not be- lieve that work like this will ever suffer. The work itself commends itself to the people of our city and our commonwealth. I do not know how you feel toward the teachers of this country, but some- times, when I think of the contribution they are making to American citizenship and to life, I feel like falling down in almost adoration before them, their service is so fine; what they are doing is worth so much ! And among them all there are no more devoted workers than the workers for the blind. We ask, sometimes, whether the age of heroism is not passed. The age of heroism passed! Not so long as there are men like Dr. Howe and Mr. Anagnos. You remember that poem that asks the question:

Mother Earth, are the heroes dead?

Do they thrill the soul of the years no more ? Are the gleaming snows and the poppies red

All that is left of the brave of yore ? Are there none to fight as Theseus fought,

Far in the young world's misty dawn ?

Or to teach as the gray-haired Nestor taught ?

Mother Earth, are the heroes gone ?

Gone? In a grander form they rise.

Dead ? We may clasp their hands in ours, And catch the light of their clearer eyes, And wreathe their brows with immortal flowers.

Wherever a noble deed is done

'Tis the pulse of a hero's heart is stirred; Wherever the right has a triumph won, There are the heroes' voices heard.

Their armor rings on a fairer field Than the Greek and the Trojan fiercely trod.

For freedom's sword is the blade they wield,

And the light above is the smile of God. 164

So in his isle of calm delight, Jason may sleep the hours away; For the heroes Uve and the sky is bright,

And the world is a braver world today.

And it is brighter and braver because of work like this which you see exemplified today in the Perkins Institution for the Blind.

Mr. Perin's remarks made a profound impression upon his hearers, whose applause gave evidence of their hearty assent to his sentiments.

By this time the four little workers were sitting with folded hands before their completed models, their expres- sion denoting the pleased consciousness of a successful undertaking. They were now ready, at a word of com- mand, to rise from their little chairs and lift into view the objects which they had made and which were sym- bolic of the seasons. The first had built a bee-hive which hinted at labors through the long and flowery summer days; the second had moulded in clay the fruit which represented autumnal activities; the third had formed the semblance of a sled to express the joys of the winter season; and the fourth had endeavored to suggest the spirit of the springtime through his well-modelled birds. Then all the children together, joining in songs and games, abandoned themselves to the pleasure of re- producing in mimic form the activities of the different seasons, —the busy labors of the bees, the care-free joy- ousness of the birds, the response of the blossoms to sunshine and shower, the merriment of childish play, the whirling of the windmill, the harvesting of the fruit, and the building of snow images which were duly bowled over by a well-directed volley of snowballs. This ended the round of the merry year, and then, their duties of the commencement season over for another twelvemonth, the children marched away, followed by ringing applause i65 from their interested auditors whose hearts had been touched and sensibilities quickened by this object lesson of happiness amid deprivation, joyousness in spite of misfortune. Then the kinder orchestra assembled upon the stage and played sweetly and tunefully a waltz by Deroy. The excellence of their performance drew forth a meed of praise and a demand for repetition, which elicited another simple melody from the youthful performers. Thus the annual appearance of the little sightless kindergarten children serves to cement more closely the bonds, attaching to their cause those stanch, true- hearted friends whose loyalty has aided so largely in the

development of the little school to its present degree of efficiency.

All which is respectfully submitted by

FRANCIS H. APPLETON, WILLIAM L. BENEDICT, WILLIAM ENDICOTT, PAUL REVERE FROTHINGHAM, CHARLES P. GARDINER,

N. P. HALLOWELL,

J. THEODORE HEARD, EDWARD JACKSON, GEORGE H. RICHARDS, WILLIAM L. RICHARDSON, RICHARD M. SALTONSTALL,

S. LOTHROP THORNDIKE,

Trustees. KINDERGARTEN FOR THE BLIND.

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR.

I rest in faith

That man's perfection is the crowning flower

Toward which the urgent sap in life's great tree Is pressing—seen in puny blossoms now, But in the world's great morrows to expand With modest petal and with deepest glow. —George Eliot.

To the Board of Trustees.

Gentlemen:—Time in its rapid flight has brought to a close another year in the history of the kindergarten,

and in entering upon the duties of a new year we deem it meet and proper to take a retrospective view of the work of the past twelve months and to give an account of what has been done during that period for the physical welfare of the little blind children and for their mental, moral and spiritual development. The same degree of prosperity and success, which has

characterized this beneficent institution since its establish- ment, has been vouchsafed to it during the period cov- ered by this report. We have at present io6 children under our care. Of these 53 belong to the kindergarten proper and the same number to the primary department. Although no death has occurred among the pupils during the past year, the health record has not been en- 16/ tirely satisfactory. Three of the contagious diseases, which were prevalent in the neighborhood of the kinder- garten, broke out at different times in the two buildings occupied by the younger children and interfered more or less with the regularity of the work of the school. There have been in all fourteen cases of measles, five of scarlet fever and four of diphtheria. Owing to the outbreak of the last named disease it became necessary to give up the annual reception. The ladies' visiting committee would have held this reception in April, had the health of the establishment permitted. We are deeply grateful to the friends and benefactors of the kindergarten for the continuance of their kind favor and for the generous donations, which have assisted us greatly in carrying on this beneficent work. We cannot

refrain from saying that our chief reliance is upon these good friends and that without their support our plans and labors cannot meet with a proper degree of success. We beg to assure them that no pains will be spared on our part to make the school even more efficient and fruit-

ful in the future than it has been in the past.

Present Condition of the Kindergarten.

Love works at the centre, Heart hea\'ing alway, Forth speed the strong pulses To the borders of day. —Emerson.

Never before has the kindergarten been in such an ex- cellent condition as at the present time. The manage-

ment of its internal affairs is placed in the hands of faith- ful and trustworthy persons, who discharge their respec- tive duties with good judgment and rare patience and discretion. There predominates among the teachers and 1 68

caretakers a charming spirit of entire harmony, hearty cooperation and mutual esteem. The children are surrounded by wholesome and con- genial influences and are treated with the utmost kind- ness and affection. They are developed, taught and trained in accordance with the rational methods of Froe- bel's system of education by a corps of able and devoted young women. This band of earnest and conscientious workers comprises eight kindergartners and primary teachers, five instructors in vocal and instrumental music

and three in manual training. They have all proved to be well adapted and adequately equipped for the position which they occupy. The houses are invariably found to be clean and tidy, and the excellent condition in which they are kept bears ample evidence that they are under the care and super- vision of watchful, industrious and painstaking matrons. These ladies are admirably fitted for their positions, and every one of them has a perfect understanding of her

mission. They are not content to sit in an easy chair and give orders to their subordinates without having the

remotest idea of what is going on in the kitchen or in the

storeroom, but attend closely to their work in its minutest details and do everything in their power not only to pro- mote the health, the comfort and the happiness of the members of the households over which they preside, but to prevent waste and secure economy in the expenses. Their relations with each other are friendly and cordial, and the fruits of their service are seen in the neatness and order, which prevail in the establishment, and in the spirit of peace and concord, which reigns everywhere. All the teachers and officers of administration deserve our hearty thanks for the fidelity and skill, with which they carry on the work of the establishment. 169

Legacies and Gifts to the Kindergarten.

The sun, the moon, the stars Send no such light upon the ways of men As one great deed. —Tennyson.

It is a sincere pleasure and satisfaction to us to be able to state that the kindergarten has already reached a high degree of development. At the same time the oppor- tunity for extending its usefulness still farther and of broadening its influence was never so great as it is now. But, in order to be able to widen the field of its beneficence and render its advantages accessible to every sightless child in New England, it must be adequately supported by the public.

This fact is of such a momentous significance that it cannot be too often brought forward or too strongly em- phasized. It must be laid before the community in the clearest possible light and kept constantly in view, so that its vital importance as a prime factor in the ultimate success of one of the most humane educational enterprises of the age may be distinctly understood and fully realized. We are heartily thankful to the stanch friends of the cause of the little blind children for the annual subscrip- tions, which we receive from them with encouraging regu- larity and which cover not a small part of the current ex- penses. Indeed, these contributions constitute a valu- able temporary expedient and a most convenient means for obtaining a sufficient sum of money for the mainte- nance of the kindergarten; but they are not unfailing.

They form a shifting or unsteady financial basis, and it is only by strenuous effort that we keep them from falling off faster than they do. We need a surer source of reve- nue than that which can be thus supplied, and this can be secured only by a liberal increase in the permanent fund I/O through bequests and generous gifts, so that the income which it will yield at the prevailing low rates of interest will suffice not only to meet the present demands but to provide the sap for constant growth and the motive power for uninterrupted advancement.

It is with a sense of profound gratitude that we acknow- ledge the receipt of se\ eral legacies, which have been paid to us in the course of the past year, thus in some degree lightening our anxiety for the future. We spoke with great sorrow in our last annual report of the sad loss, which our school had suffered in the death of Mrs. Nancy E. Rust, the beloved wife of Mr. William Augustus Rust, and we have alluded to her unfailing in- terest in the work of the kindergarten in terms of the high- est appreciation. For many years this kind lady had been one of the steadfast friends and valued helpers of the little sightless children, and in disposing of her earthly possessions, she remembered their cause most generously. Thanks to the promptness with which the executors of her estate, Messrs. William Augustus Rust and Alexander F. Wadsworth, have complied with her wishes, we have received through them a legacy of $5,000. According to the direction left by the testatrix, this sum is to be held in trust as a memorial to her late son, Frank Davison Rust, and its income is ''to be applied for the sole use and bene- fit of the kindergarten."

Mrs. Mary S. C. Reed, widow of Benjamin T. Reed, died at the advanced age of eighty-four years, but left behind her a host of friends by whom she is greatly missed and sincerely mourned. She was a woman of keen in- tellect and tender heart, and her contemporaries often re- ferred to her personal beauty and her wit in terms of ad- miration. She well knew the joy of giving and practised it extensively. Her interest in life and in the young was 171 intense, and both her sympathy and her help were always ready for those in distress or in suffering and need. She befriended the kindergarten most generously and be- queathed to it $5,000. This amount has already been received by our treasurer, and we are greatly indebted to the executors under her will, Messrs. Arthur Wain- wright and Francis C. Welch, for their thoughtful kindness in paying over the legacy without delay. The name of Miss Sarah Silver Cox, who died in Switzerland nearly two years ago, will be blessed by the blind and their helpers for generations to come. She manifested a warm sympathy with the cause of the little sightless children, and, appreciating most highly the edu- cational benefits which the kindergarten is affording to them, left to it a legacy of $5,000. This amount has been promptly paid into our treasury by the executor of her will. Dr. Octavius B. Shreve, to whom we desire to ex- press our earnest thanks. Messrs. Richard H. Dana and William H. Herrick, ex- ecutors of the will of Mrs. Mary Longfellow Green- leaf, have paid into our treasury $2,000 on account of the legacy which she left to the kindergarten. The amount of $1,622.45, obtained from the residue of the estate of Mrs. Olive E. Hayden, has been added to the legacy of $3,000, which was received from the ex- ecutors of her will in 1901. Miss Jeannie Warren Paine, a generous, sympathetic and noble woman, in whose kind heart there was a warm place for the little blind children, left to the kindergarten by her will a bequest of $1,000. This amount has already been received and is to be preserved as a permanent fund, to be known under the name of the testatrix for all time to come. In recording our sense of deep gratitude to the blessed memory of Miss Paine, w^e avail ourselves of 172 the opportunity to tender our hearty thanks to Mr. Robert D. Weston Smith, the executor of her estate.

It is with great thankfulness that we acknowledge the • receipt of a bequest of $500, left to the kindergarten by the will of Mrs. Emeline Morse Lane, late wife of Mr. Zenas M. Lane of Rockland, Massachusetts. According to the directions given to us by Mr. Lane, this sum is to be kept as a permanent fund with the name of the testatrix attached thereto, and only its income is to be used. Mrs. Lane was a woman of fine qualities of mind and heart, which led her to become a true friend of the little blind children and to be of help to them. As the amount real- ized from the disposal of certain valuable articles did not prove to be equal to her expectations, her beloved hus- band, who is in perfect sympathy with her benevolent purposes, has taken appropriate measures to carry out her wishes in due time. Mrs. Harriet Taber, late of Roxbury, Massachusetts, left to the kindergarten a legacy of $500, which, thanks to the kindness of the executor of her will, Mr. Frank E. Smith, has been promptly paid into our treasury. This sum will form a branch of the permanent endowment fund and will be forever known under the name of the ''Harriet Taber fund." This noble benefactress of the little sightless children has shown a great interest in their welfare, and the provision which she has made in their behalf will serve to preserve her name in fragrant remem- brance. For nearly a score of years Mrs. Adaline M. Chapin, late of Milford, Massachusetts, was strongly attached to the kindergarten and from time to time contributed her mite toward its support. She was always thinking and planning to do something for it and when she died she bequeathed to it $400, which amount has been duly paid to our treasurer by the executrix of her will, Miss Emilie Albee. An additional sum of $425 has been received from the executor of the will of the late Samuel A. Borden, of whose legacy to the kindergarten the amount of $4,675 has already been received.

It is with a sense of deep gratitude and a feeling of great joy that we record these bequests. We need hardly repeat here the assurance that they will be religiously preserved in their entirety and will form ever-during mon- uments to the blessed memories of those whose honored names are attached to them and as perennial sources of pride to their descendants and relatives. Side by side with the above named legacies stand the generous gifts of a number of the living champions of

the cause, who never forget it or fail to aid it liberally and to whose donations we cannot refrain from referring here. Mrs. Annie B. Matthews and Miss Sarah M. Fay, the two benevolent sisters who have stood fast by the kindergarten since 1886, have again shown during the

past year their profound interest in its welfare in a sub- stantial way, each adding the sum of $1,000 to the fund

which is known under her name. We cannot possibly find appropriate words to express adequately our sense of obligation to these dear friends for the munificent gifts with which they have constantly favored the cause of the

little sightless children and which form solid permanent stones in the foundation of our enterprise. That firm friend of the kindergarten, Mr. George F.

Parkman, whose bountiful gifts to it we have acknowl- edged at different times with feelings of sincere apprecia- tion, has added another sum of $500 to the permanent fund, which bears his name and which now aggregates 174

to $3,000. With this generous contribution Mr. Park-

man has given to our work his warm sympathy, which is

a part of himself and the value of which is by no means inferior to that of material aid. In addition to the above named givers the yearly cata- logue of the generous benefactors of the blind comprises the names of Mr. Thomas M. Adams of Ashland, Ken- tucky, Miss Mary S. Ames, Mrs. Charles W. Amory, Mrs. Joseph Brewer of Milton, Hon. Elisha R. Brown of Dover, New Hampshire, Mrs. Henry C. Clark of Worcester, Mr. Zenas Crane of Dalton, Mrs. Z. Marshal

Crane of Dalton, ISIrs. George A. Draper, Mrs. Samuel Eliot, Friend F., Mrs. Francis C. Foster, Mr. George A. Gardner, Miss Clara Hemenway, Mr. Francis W. Hunne- well, Miss H. W. Kendall, IMrs. Marcus M. Kimball, Mr. Charles Larned, Mrs. Joseph Lee, Miss Susan G. Littell, Mrs. Thornton K. Lothrop, Miss Amelia Morrill, Miss Fanny E. Morrill, Mrs. Leopold Morse, the Misses Pea- body of Cambridge, Mr. Francis H. Peabody, Mr. Wallace L. Pierce, the late Mrs. Warren B. Potter, the Misses

Sohier, Mrs. Mahlon D. Spaulding, JNIrs. Bayard Thayer of Lancaster and the late Col. William A. Tower.

This is by no means a complete register of the names of those who have gladly assisted the cause of the little blind children during the past year. There are hundreds of others who have proved their deep interest in the kin- dergarten by regular and unfailing annual subscriptions to its funds and whose names, together with the amount of their respective contributions, are printed in the several lists of acknowledgments, which may be found in an- other part of this report. The duty of giving was never better nor more wisely and conscientiously performed by any class of people than by these representatives of the ideals of New Eng- !

175 land generosity and philanthropy. Fortunate is the land which bears such sons and daughters! Happy is the community which includes among its own members the men and women whose honored names are to be found in the noble record of the benefactors of the blind

Appeal to Annual Subscribers.

That day is best wherein we give A thought to others' sorrow; Forgetting self, we learn to live, And blessings born of kindly deeds Make golden our tomorrow. —Thorpe.

To the friends oj the little blind children:

Again we ask you to rejoice with us in the growth of the kindergarten and in the success which has attended

its work. The single cottage, with which the little school opened in 1887, has been supplemented by three addi- tional dwelling-houses. We have now four households, containing more than one hundred happy boys and girls, who may be seen playing about the grounds in the hours for recreation bright and cheerful as seeing children. We thank you one and all very warmly for the many gifts whether of sympathy, time or money, which alone have enabled us to carry on our work. Our rejoicing at the generosity of the loyal friends of

the kindergarten is mingled with sorrow, for again the

ranks of its benefactors have been cruelly thinned by death. While we are deeply grateful for the legacies and donations, which have lightened in a measure our anxiety for the future, we see with serious concern the diminution in the number of our helpers caused by the decease during the past year of many warm friends of our enterprise. It will be very difficult to carry on our work upon a larger 176 scale unless these sad gaps are Med by new volunteers. The kindergarten and the parent school, the Perkins In- stitution, have always received the warm support and hearty sympathy of the community, indeed of the whole state and of New England. These are the life-blood, which keeps them alive and active, which cheers and en- courages our teachers and enables the Massachusetts

School to retain the high position it has always occupied. As our old friends pass from this world, leaving golden memories behind them, their places must be filled by others, for our work, so greatly blessed in the past, will not be allowed to suffer now we feel assured, as it must, if our hands are not held up by the sympathy and liber- ality of our fellow-citizens. There surely must be many who will be glad to enroll their names in the golden book of the friends and helpers of the little blind children.

We would urge all kind-hearted and sympathetic per- sons to visit the kindergarten, for no one can see the tiny pupils there without feeling a deep interest in their wel- fare. To quote from a recent address of Mr. S. Lothrop Thorndike.

Their very presence is a most touching and forceful appeal, which goes directly to your hearts. There are no words in any language, which can make the pathos more pathetic. Still, do you not feel, as you sit here, that the emotion which presents itself most vividly is not pathos but cheer? For my own part I must confess that, when I come here or when I go to South Boston, I find that it is not the sadness of the pupils which strikes me and which is upper- most or undermost in my mind; it is the brightness that radiates from the faces which I behold.

Thus light has come to those who sat in darkness, and the light shines on their little faces, blessing all who be- hold them, all who have helped work this miracle. —

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"// is not, however, benevolence or religion alone that bids us to care for the unfortunate and the helpless, but self-interest comes in and repeats the command.'" These words of Doctor Samuel Gridley Howe, uttered more than half a century ago, are truer now than ever. It has been our constant effort as educators of the blind to prevent their being "dead weights on society," to enable them to become independent, happy members of the commu- nity, radiating energy and self-respect instead of demand- ing alms and diffusing gloom. Mrs. Elizabeth Gary Agassiz, the former president of Radcliffe College and grand-daughter of the great bene- factor of the blind after whom the Perkins Institution was named, thus speaks of our work:

Although renewed every year, the annual report of the trustees of the institution for the blind never fails to arouse our wonder and admiration. As a mere statement of facts it seems to carry us into the region of miracle.

Rev. Charles Fleischer, a noted humanitarian and a scholarly reformer, said recently.

When I reahzed too, that that boy [Thomas Stringer], when he came to this institution, was literally a lump of clay, a little animal, —and when last week I saw that boy and the smile of intelligence on his face, the outward radiation of his soul, which had practically been put in there by the love of his teacher,—I want to say that I had as gratifying, as completely satisfying a concrete illustration of the high purpose and fine efficiency of this school as I needed to have.

In our appeal of last year we quoted statistics that fur- nish the best possible test of the results of our system of education.

The tree is judged by its fruits. New England is proud of the record and standing of its blind citizens, as compared with those 178 of other parts of the world. Here 45 per cent, of the adult blind are self-supporting, in the true sense of the word, as a result of our system of education, in which the kindergarten is the first step. Since a large part of our graduates earn their living by teaching music, tuning pianofortes and doing upholstery work, the impor- tance of training the ear and fingers at an early age will at once appear. Our kinder orchestra has been found to pave the way ad- mirably for later musical accomplishment. The orchestra of the Perkins Institution, which has won such high commendation, owes its skill in no small measure to the early training of little fingers in a happy mingling of work and play. Thomas Stringer's surprising dexterity with tools and appliances shows the value of the instruction in sloyd, which forms an insepa- rable part of the work of the juvenile school.

We have never asked in vain for help for the little creatures standing in such rare need. Surely every one who reads this appeal will give something, be it much or little, to bring light to those who sit in darkness!

Mrs. Sarah E. Potter.

The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her. —Shakespeare.

We stand in the shadow of a great sorrow. A noble woman, on whom we looked for many years as one of the most distinguished benefactors of the blind, is with us no longer. Mrs. S.arah E. Potter,, widow of Warren B. Potter, has gone to her rest full of years and good works. She died at her summer residence on Neptune street, Beverly Cove, on the twenty-third of September, 1904, in the eightieth year of her age. Through her decease the kindergarten has lost one of its truest friends and stanchest supporters. Mrs. Potter was a living embodiment of benevolence.

Simple in her life, unassuming in her manners, of a sin- 179 gularly gentle and refined nature, she was dearly be- loved and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. She was as rich in noble c{ualities of heart and mind as in worldly possessions. She had a genius for sympathy that was not confined to the feeling of sorrow for the mis- fortunes of mankind, but manifested itself in helpful, uplifting acts. She lived to make others happy, and her fine enthusiasm, her love for humanity and the sweetness of her disposition were in themselves a blessing and a joy to all who came in contact with her. In her numerous deeds of beneficence Mrs. Potter was prompted by a splendid public spirit and by an ardent desire to relieve the poor and needy and to aid those who struggle to free themselves from the shackles of misfor- tune. It would be hardly possible to frame a better or more beautiful and far reaching will and testament than that which she has made. In it she has bequeathed $1,145,000 to educational, religious and scientific insti- tutions and to various societies which care for the sick, the aged, the maimed and indeed for sufferers of every kind. Her testamentary provisions cover the whole field of thoughtful and gracious benevolence w4th few excep- tions. Mrs. Potter became deeply interested in the cause of the little sightless children nearly fifteen years ago and has been ever since one of its warmest and most generous friends. She w^as heartily devoted to the kindergarten, which she was wont to call her ''pet school," and appre- ciated very highly the value of its beneficent ministrations. In testimony thereof she made in 1892 a munificent gift to it of $20,000 for the establishment of a permanent fund, which bears her blessed name and which has been in- creased by subsequent donations to $30,000. This fund is to be kept intact and safely invested and only its in- i8o come is to be used for current expenses. By her will she added to it the sum of $100,000, together with a pro- portionate share of the residue of her estate. This princely gift places the name of Mrs. Potter at the head of the list of the great benefactors of the kinder- garten, side by side with those of Miss Helen Curtis

Bradlee and Mr. Joseph Beal Glover; it will stand for all time to come as a magnificent memorial of that re- fined, pure, lofty sentiment and that unostentatious be- nevolence, which characterize the best and noblest sons and daughters of New England. In gratitude to our dear friend and in order to have her name indissolubly connected with the kindergarten we have decided to dedicate to her precious memory the house on Day street, which is occupied by the boys' primary department and which will always be known by the name of the Sarah E. Potter Building. At the close of the funeral service which was held over Mrs. Potter's remains at her summer home in Beverly Cove on the twenty-sixth day of September, the officiating minister, the Rev. John Cuckson of Plymouth, read with deep feeling several verses of a poem written by John Greenleaf Whittier on the death of a friend. The last three stanzas of this poem are so admirably worded and give such clear expression to our thoughts that we copy them here in full as forming a peculiarly appropriate conclusion to this tribute.

Fold her, O Father! in thine arms, And let her henceforth be A messenger of love bet-i\een Our human hearts and thee.

Still let her mild rebuking stand Between us and the wrong, And her dear memory serve to make Our faith in goodness strong. I8I

And grant that she who, trembling, here

Distrusted all her powers, May welcome to her hoHer home The well-beloved of ours.

II n riDcmortam.

Death of Friends of the Kindergarten.

Early or late, come when it will. At midnight or at noon,

Promise of good or threat of ill. Death always comes too soon. —Stoddard.

It is with a sense of deep sorrow and personal grief that we report the loss by death during the past year of sixteen of the friends and benefactors of the little blind children who have done so much for the kindergarten.

Prominent on the list of the deceased stand the honored and beloved names of Mrs. Sarah Sweetser Brackett, Miss Mary Devens Balfour, Mrs. Helen E. Gary, Mr. William Durant, Mrs. Emily Everett, Mrs. Ann Sophia Whitman Farnam of New Haven, Mr. Charles W. Galloupe, Miss Ellen Maria Jones, Mrs. Lucy Buck- minster Lowell, Mrs. Helen Merriam, Mrs. John Parkin- son, Mrs. • A. Shuman, Mr. Amos W. Stetson, Miss Charlotte Louisa Ware, Mrs. Sarah Wyman Whitman and Mrs. Elizabeth S. Whitten. Mrs. Sarah Sweetser Brackett, widow of Henry Brackett of Newton, died in New York on the twenty-fifth of June, 1904, at the age of seventy-one years. She had spent the greater part of her life in Boston and was noted for her benefactions. When the kindergarten was about to be organized she made a generous contribution of money to its funds and thereby became a member of the — —

I«2 corporation. As Sarah Holden of Ipswich seminary, Mrs. Brackett was called one of the most beautiful women of New England. She was a member of the Church of the Advent and for many years the president of the guild of foreign missions connected with it. She devoted much of her time to works of charity and was honored and reverenced by all worshippers at the shrine of real benevo- lence and genuine worth. She went through her life's pilgrimage doing good and

Wearing the white flower of a blameless hfe.

Miss Mary Devens Balfour, who died on the last day of March, 1904, in the eighty-fifth year of her age, was a loyal friend of the little blind children and one of the unfailing subscribers to the fund for the support of the kindergarten. She was a native of Charlestown and belonged to a family, which was very prominent in that locality in the past. For nearly seventy years she was a member of the old first parish church, and during her younger days she participated in its affairs with great energy and devotion. Miss Balfour was an upright, benevolent, true woman—one whose faith was made per- fect in works and whose creed blossomed and bore fruit in deeds. She spared no pains in striving to aid the helpless, to lighten the burden of the poor and aged, and to promote the welfare of her fellow-men. She did her best to make the world better, and her efforts unques- tionably met with a good measure of success. For

No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

The death of Mrs. Helen E. Gary, which occurred on the twenty-fourth of September, 1904, brought to a

close a beautiful life, active, useful and benignant. Mrs. —

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Gary was truly beloved and highly esteemed by those who knew her well on account of the beauty of her char- acter, combining womanly gentleness with strength of purpose, the dignity of her demeanor and the unselfish- ness of her life. She deserves to be honored for a sincere devotion to every good cause and she will be long remem- bered as a gracious lady whom it was a pleasure and an inspiration to meet. Her benefactions were many, and their record is indelibly written in the hearts of the re- cipients of her bounty. To the kindergarten both she and her daughter, Miss G. S. Gary, have been loyal friends and generous helpers. Mrs. Gary was noted for her tenderness to the weak, her active interest in the afflicted and her encouragement of the downcast. She was a noble woman

One in whose eyes the smile of kindness made Its haunt, hke flowers by sunny brooks in May; Yet at the thought of others' pain a shade Of sweetest sadness chased the smile away.

Mr. William Durant, whose death occurred on the last day of December, 1903, was one of the true friends of the little blind children and of the supporters of the kin- dergarten. Born in the heart of the city, Mr. Durant was an honored son of Boston and a product of its common schools. Although prevented by his imperfect 'eyesight from pursuing a regular course of study in the high school and in college, he had kept in close touch with the movements and events that made up contemporaneous history and became thoroughly informed on all questions of local and public interest. If his knowledge was less technical than that which some possessed, its breadth and solidity offset the deficiency. Mr. Durant had uncommon judgment and discernment as a man of affairs and acted on correct principles in the conduct of business. He was 1 84

scrupulously honest, unostentatious, faithful and chari-

table, and it would be difficult to point to a career more spotless or more fruitful in the line of duty than his. His

life glowed with the steady lustre of true worth. He pos- sessed many rare qualities, his courage, sagacity, cheer- fulness and skill being even more conspicuous in storm and stress than when all was plain sailing. He enjoyed the friendship of many distinguished persons of widely differing beliefs and opinions, and among worthy men un- known to fame he was always the kindly adviser and the genial associate. He had long outlived the limit of the period of individual existence set by the psalmist, but old

age did not take from him the attractiveness of his life and character. His wealth of years seemed rather to strengthen, ripen and enrich the graces of his early man- hood. To the last he preserved his youth of heart and liveliness of spirit, and was an honor to his native city and a blessing to mankind.

Ah, would the world were of such as he, Whose heart was large, and the mind strong and free.

Mrs. Emily Everett, the oldest person in Cambridge,

•Massachusetts, so far as is known, died at her home. No. 23 Berkeley street, on the twenty-third day of September, 1904, at the age of one hundred and five years, seven months and nineteen days. She was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on the fourth of February, 1799, and was the daughter of the Rev. Abiel Abbott, D.D. She was married in 1824 to the Rev. Stevens Everett, a Unitarian clergyman, who died in Dorchester in 1833. Mrs. Ever- ett was a woman of broad views and of superior intelligence. Born of sturdy stock, educated in accordance with the standards of the early part of the nineteenth century, trained to the careful performance of all duties, she —

i85 brought to the affairs of her later and wider life a character disciplined and ready for every emergency. Her love of home, her keen appreciation of truth and goodness and her ardent devotion to the welfare of her fellow-men were ever an inspiration to those who came within the sphere of her influence. Mrs. Everett presented a notable in- stance of longevity, which would seem in many instances to be the reward of temperance. She had exceeded by nearly thirty-six years the length of human existence pre- scribed by the psalmist, without experiencing the ill effects which he declares afflict those who go beyond the limit set by him. Of Mrs. Everett it may be fittingly said in the words of Wordsworth that

An old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Has led her to her grave.

Mrs. Ann Sophia Whitman Farnam, widow of Henry Farnam, late of New Haven, entered into rest on Sunday, the sixth of March, 1904, at the ripe old age of eighty-eight years. She was one of the stanch friends and constant helpers of the little blind children. When the kindergarten was still in its infancy, struggling hard for the means of existence, Mrs. Farnam, at the suggestion of her friend. Miss Laura E. Poulsson, opened the art room of her beautiful mansion on Hillhouse avenue to a group of our pupils, who gave therein an interesting illus- tration of their attainments both in literary studies and in vocal and instrumental music. The entertainment was well patronized by the best people of New Haven and a good sum of money was raised, which was substantially increased by a gift from the generous hostess. Deeply in- terested in humane and educational enterprises and works of charity of various kinds, Mrs. Farnam was a judicious contributor to such causes as were calculated to alleviate i86 suffering, promote general intelligence and morality, elevate the standard of character and ennoble human life. To relieve the wretched was her pride, And even her failings leaned to virtue's side.

In the death, on th? twenty-eighth of November, 1903, of Mr. Charles W. Galloupe, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, the community loses one of its most up- right and public-spirited citizens and the kindergarten for the blind one of its truest friends. His loyalty to the cause of the little sightless children was unfailing and led him to aid every movement which aimed to promote their wel- fare. Mr. Galloupe was a genial and generous gentle- man of the old school, whom to know was to love and re- spect. He did many kind deeds quietly and has left behind him a host of admirers who cherish his memory and retain a vivid recollection of the fine record of his honorable and beneficent life. Many are those who had an opportunity to find out, that

He was a friend to truth, of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear. Who broke no promise, served no private end.

Who gained no title, and who lost no friend.

With the death of Miss Ellen Maria Jones, which occurred on the fourteenth of August, 1904, a noble woman has fallen asleep and a vacancy has been made in the ranks of the friends of the little sightless children. Twenty years ago when the project of establishing a kin- dergarten was just agitated, she became actively inter- ested in it, and will always be remembered with deep gratitude as one of its supporters. She was an attentive listener to the calls of suffering humanity and "her own works praise her in the gates." Through her uniform i87 kindness, her undeviating rectitude of purpose, her readi- ness to help those in need of assistance, her unfailing liberality and her innate refinement, Miss Jones endeared herself to a large number of people and won the esteem and appreciation of those who came in contact with her.

She made her life a sweet song, That comforted the sad, That helped others to be strong, That made the singer glad.

In the death of Mrs. Lucy Buckminster Lowell, widow of Judge John Lowell, who passed away on the twentieth of April last, in her seventy-seventh year, we mourn the loss of one more valued friend and constant benefactor of the little blind children. She was one of the regular contributors to the funds of the kindergarten from the time of its opening and always took a most pro- found interest in its progress and success, which was fully shared by her daughters, Miss Lucy Lowell and Mrs. William H. Aspinwall. Mrs. Lowell possessed a very attractive personality and a rare combination of social and domestic virtues. She represented the choicest flower of our civilization, the gracious, refined and benev- olent American woman. She was true in every relation of life, faithful in matters of trust and worthy of the highest honor and esteem. Of tender feeling and quick sympathy, which were controlled by sound judgment, of unselfish disposition and unflinching integrity, she was beloved and respected by all who knew her. Wherever she went those who came in contact with her, both old and young, the rich and the poor alike, found her one of the most joyous, affectionate and serenely trustful souls they had ever met. For a love that was boundless as the sea, and for a faith which no waves of affliction could ever sub- merge or shake, she was a lesson and an inspiration to those —

1 88 who were brought within her influence. She enfolded a whole multitude of people in the full warmth of her affec- tions. There seemed to be no "outer courts" in her favor, but there was room for everybody in the sanctuary of her heart. Her sympathy encountered no barriers, which it could not easily penetrate. Her distinguished career of active benevolence and unflagging generosity has identified her name with numerous educational and philanthropic causes and beneficent enterprises. Hospi- tals, homes for infants, societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and to dumb creatures, movements for the amelioration of the condition of the poor and the unfortunate, all received either her personal service or her liberal support, and some of them received both. She was a tireless worker, as well as a liberal giver. Prompted by the dictates of a sensitive conscience and by an ever- present sense of duty, as well as by a genuine feeling of joy in doing good, and not by a spasmodic impulse, she labored constantly for others, striving to increase and pro- long their pleasures, to right their wrongs, and to banish or solace their pains. Hers was

True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd,

Fed by the love from which it rose at first.

Many hearts were filled with heaviness and oppressive sorrow at the death of Mrs. Helen Merriam, which occurred at her summer residence in Nahant on the twelfth of September, 1904. She was a typical New England gentlewoman, noted for her integrity, for her sense of justice and for those special traits of character, which come by inheritance to the people of this section of the country. She was loyal to high ideals, which she learned to translate in her daily living into patience, fortitude, gentleness and sympathy with others. Like —

i8g her bereaved husband, Mr. Charles Merriam, she took a deep interest in the cause of the little sightless children and became a regular contributor to the fund for the support of the kindergarten. She was imbued with the spirit of true philanthropy and possessed a broad mind and a heart sweet and sincere ; she never turned a deaf ear to any calls for assistance that were made to her on behalf of a deserv- ing cause. To Mrs. Merriam the following lines can be applied with peculiar fitness:

To the hearts where light has birth Nothing can be drear; Budding through the bloom of earth, Heaven is always near.

The cause of the little blind children has lost another ear- nest and faithful friend by the decease of Mrs. Gertrude Weld Parkinson, wife of Mr. John Parkinson, one of the well known bankers of Boston. She died on the eighteenth of June, 1904, at the summer home of the family in Bourne, Massachusetts, in her sixty-first year. She was a fine specimen of the best type of New England womanhood. Wise and tender-hearted, energetic and resourceful, generous and refined, upright and conscien- tious, she made a place for herself in the community that seems empty indeed without her. She had devoted much of her time to ministering to the welfare and relief of others. As president of the Trinity employment society, which helps worthy needle women, she exerted a powerful

influence over the management of its affairs and her leadership in the work had been such as to bring excel- lent results. She was exceedingly modest and unassum- ing and strongly averse to all display and ostentation.

Her face was beautiful with perfect calm, Peace sealed the brow, and peace the tender mouth; To wounded hearts her gentle gaze was balm, Her words like winds blown softly from the south. To those who were thoroughly conversant with the rare virtues of Mrs. Parkinson there is left a most loving memory of a pure, kindly, loyal and unselfish nature. We grieve sorely over the loss of one. of the valued friends of the blind, Mrs. Hetty Lang Shuman, wife of Mr. A. Shuman, who died at her summer home in Beverly on the twerfty-first of June, 1904, in the fifty-ninth year of her age. She was a woman of quiet and retired disposi- tion, sunny heart and open hand. She was the mother of a large family and when her children grew to manhood and womanhood, most of them marrying and settling in homes of their own, she turned her attention to those charitable duties, which cry aloud for performance in a large city. For many years she was prominent in different benevolent societies, and her benefactions were much greater than was generally known.

Large was her bounty, and her soul sincere.

The kindergarten for the blind was one of the many in- stitutions which came within the scope of her generous

thought, she and her daughters, Mrs. I. A. Ratshesky and Mrs. Alexander Steinert, having been regular subscribers

to the fund for its support. Mrs. Shuman met her friends and acquaintances with a cordial greeting, and her in- timates found a refuge from care and anxiety in her so- ciety, her happy disposition inspiring them with courage. She went upon her way quietly, helping the needy and

lowly, and her decease is keenly felt by those who were reached by her beneficence as well as by those closely associated with her. She gave freely of her time, money and energy, and made no distinction of race, creed or color in her good deeds, which were numerous, shared by Jews and gentiles alike. Her private charities were very exten- sive, but they were wrought without ostentation. She —

191 sought for no acknowledgment, for no recognition; she sowed her bright seeds of comfort without consciousness of their harvest. The following lines were written about Mrs. Shuman by one of her friends, and convey a just tribute of praise.

She hath not lived in vain. Where'er she went love's sunshine was distilled; She succored the sorrowing, soothed pain; Lives empty of fair hope she filled with hope again.

Her heart, of largess full, disdained no call;

Her arms benignant held sweet motherhood for all.

Amos W. Stetson, formerly president of the state national bank, died suddenly in Zurich, Switzerland, on the tenth of August, at the age of seventy-seven years, four months and sixteen days. By the decease of Mr.

Stetson, Boston is bereaved of one of its leading financiers and most public-spirited citizens and the cause of the little sightless children of a loyal friend and generous sup- porter. He was a native of this city, having been born here on the twenty-fifth of March, 1827, and was the son of Caleb Stetson, a prominent merchant. He was rec- ognized as a gentleman of the old school and as a business man of more than ordinary ability. He was distinguished by his faithful service to his fellow-men, his numerous

deeds of generosity and the virtues of his private life. He was an honor to the community, a foe to every sort of evil and wrong and a promoter of all things good and right and just. He was one

Who never brought His conscience to the public mart. But hved himself the truth he taught; White-souled, clean-handed, pure of heart.

Miss Charlotte Louisa Ware, who breathed her last at the home of her nephew, No. 1572 Massachusetts —

192 avenue, on the eighth of December, 1903, in her eighty- sixth year, was one of the subscribers to the fund for the support of the kindergarten and a generous helper of various good causes. She was a woman of strong in- dividuahty, of high principles and of kind feelings. She came from a stalwart New England stock, and was nqted for independence of character, public spirit, modesty of demeanor, sturdy common sense and a vigor of body and mind that laughed to scorn the psalmist's limitation of

human life to three score years and ten with all beyond this feebleness and misery. She brought to the perform- ance of her duties an earnest purpose and a sincere desire to be of service to those in need of assistance. She died with Her heart and hand both open and both free: For what she had she gave, what she thought she showed;

Yet gave she not till judgment guided her bounty.

Mrs. Sarah Wyman Whitman, who lived at No. 77

Mt. Vernon street, died at . the Massachusetts general hospital on the twenty-fourth of June, 1904, after an illness of several weeks' duration. Although the home of her family was in Lowell, Massachusetts, Mrs. Whitman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1842, during a temporary residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Wyman,

in that city. She was a woman of rare refinement and possessed charming characteristics. She held a high place in the best society of Boston by reason of her ex- quisite courtesy of manner, her admirable tact, her wide knowledge and her kind consideration for others. She was a woman of varied activities, and her influence was

felt in many directions. While art was her special sphere, she devoted much attention to charities, and was herself an excellent type of the general culture which she sought to promote. She was a portrait painter of 193 considerable repute, and we owe to her much beautiful work in stained glass. She took infinite pains to body forth accurately the creations of her imagination and the conceptions of her mind and to give to them adequate shape. Thus her art was a direct expression of herself. In her intercourse with other people she was eminently suave and gracious, full of all the sweet benignities of the ideal gentlewoman. She treated her friends and ac- quaintances with great consideration and cordiality and dispensed to them a hospitality which was as large and as genial as her heart. She believed thoroughly in love toward all mankind and lived loyally up to her belief. Those who were closely associated with her speak enthusiastically of her generous furtherance of various humane, educa- tional and scientific enterprises. Endowed with many talents and possessed of a remarkable versatility, Mrs.

Whitman has left behind her a rich record of achievement, but above all she will be always remembered as the gracious hostess, the delightful companion and the faith- ful friend. The following words of the poet may be applied to her with peculiar fitness.

An inborn charm of graciousness Made sweet her smile and tone. The dear Lord's best interpreters Are humble human souls. The gospel of a Ufe hke hers Is more than books or scrolls.

The death of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Whitten, which occurred on the twentieth of December, 1903, deprived the kindergarten of a stanch friend, who had been iden- tified with it ever since it was opened, who labored in- telligently and faithfully in its behalf, and who was a per- sonification of energy, perseverance and devotion. In 1889 when the ladies' visiting committee formed an 194 auxiliary society for the purpose of obtaining annual sub- scriptions to defray the current expenses of the juvenile school, Mrs. Whitten established a branch society in

Dorchester and served as its treasurer for a number of years, while her daughter, Mrs. M. V. Pierce, did precisely the same thing in Milton. Both these branches are still prospering and doing excellent work, the former being under the friendly care of Mrs. J. Henry Bean and the latter under that of Mrs. William Wood, daughter of the late S. S. Pierce and sister-in-law of Mrs. M. V. Pierce. Mrs. Whitten was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1832, and was descended from a line of worthy ancestors. She had the large heart and the quick generosity which can not wait for extended and laborious investigation, and her kindnesses were numerous. She possessed marked executive ability and strength of character. She was highly esteemed and dearly beloved for her noble womanhood, her benevolent spirit and her splendid moral attributes and domestic virtues. She was passionately fond of doing good and of rendering service to those in need. Indeed, she

Counted that day lost whose low descending sun Viewed from her hand no noble action done.

All these valued friends, whose loss we mourn with a heart full of sadness and grief, were profoundly inter- ested in the kindergarten and have contributed largely to its growth and prosperity. They have been its bene- factors in the broadest and widest meaning of the word; they will be constantly missed and frequently remembered with great reverence and gratitude for years to come. But, while we sorrow deeply for the removal by death of these sainted men and women, we are not without hope that the places left vacant by them will be worthily filled by younger persons of the same character and social standing. That these new friends may be inspired by

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I 91 —^ 1 THOMAS^STRINGER. 195 the exemplary benevolence of their predecessors and, following in the footsteps of their sires, may devote them- selves unreservedly to the cause of the little blind children and labor assiduously for its furtherance and for its steady advancement toward the goal of complete success, is our earnest desire and fervent prayer.

Thomas Stringer.

His inner day can never die,

His night of loss is always there. —Tennyson.

In recent years there has been no more striking demon- stration of the achievements of rational education than

that which is presented in the case of Thomas Stringer. The story of the rescue of this hapless boy from the tomb of impenetrable darkness and distressing silence has been given to the public year after year in a plain and simple form and has been widely read and highly com- mended. Scholars and scientists, teachers and thinkers,

philanthropists and professional men and women, all

are more or less acquainted with it. Yet, as some of the details and incidents not heretofore described are very

instructive and absorbingly interesting, it may not be amiss to refer to them or describe them at this time.

Whether it is considered from a physiological or from a psychological and educational point of view, the case

of Thomas Stringer is of the utmost importance to the students both of pedagogy and of mental evolution. It presents to them a wide field for scientific investigation and a veritable laboratory for ascertaining facts and testing

theories, and it may help to solve some of the most com- plicated problems, which confront them. Auguste Comte said long ago that sociology comes nearer scientific ex- —

196 periment in dealing with the defective than with the nor- mal classes. This remark may be applied to educational matters with equal fitness and with greater force. In order to be able to estimate adequately the magni- tude of the work, which has been accomplished in the deliverance of Tom from the thraldom of darkness and silence and in making him what he is, we must take into consideration the lamentable and truly hopeless condi- tion in which he was when he came to us. At the time of his admission to the kindergarten in

April, 1 89 1, Thomas was the most forlorn child that could be imagined. There was nothing hopeful or prom- ising about him. He was like one living in an arid and cheerless desert, while the future seemed to the beholder to stretch before the poor boy like a shoreless ocean, on which he was doomed to sail without aim or purpose. Disinherited of his birthright, helpless, soulless, there was scarcely any possibility of restoring him to his human estate. He was an abject image of listless apathy, a spirit- less creature differing little from a dumb animal. He appeared to be nothing more than a somnolent entity a lump of breathing clay, and the task of transforming this into an intelligent being was a herculean one. Never- theless we undertook it with courage and with a firm be- lief in the possibility of accomplishing it. The services of a competent teacher were at once secured, and Thomas was placed under such training as his distressing condition required and as the angel of love and unremitting toU could carry on for him. Indeed, nothing was omitted which might aid in awakening him from his lethargic state and in rendering him conscious of himself and of his environment. He was a remarkably sweet and winsome child of a happy disposition, and at any friendly touch he instinctively reached out his arms —

197 to encircle the neck of the person approaching him just as a puppy or a kitten licks the hand that caresses it. His movements indicated that he was not entirely desti- tute of sparks of intelligence, but these were buried deeply in a mass of nerveless and flabby flesh and gave no signs either of heat or of light. His spirit was immured in a gloomy dungeon, which stood like an impregnable fortress, defiant to all external attacks. Hence, in order to be able to penetrate this, it was imperatively necessary to institute a regular siege and to bring into service all the means which study, wisdom and experience in simi- lar cases might suggest. This was done, and for nearly six months the barriers were persistently assailed without any visible effect. Thomas could not be aroused from his apathy, which set at naught all strenuous efforts made for his emancipation. Finally his obstinate indifference was conquered, an aperture was pierced through the double walls imprisoning his mind, the soaring element of his in- telligence was quickened, the conditions for its development were supplied, and thus the decree of fate was reversed and a new victory was won for suffering humanity. It was again proved that so far as the spirit is concerned

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.

Thomas was peculiarly fortunate that his lines had fallen in such a pleasant and life-giving place as the kindergarten. Here he entered under most favorable auspices and received special attention and parental care. Here he was resuscitated from a death-like lethargy and brought into life. Here he was aroused from passivity into activity, from slothful stupor into intellectual viva- city, from sluggishness into alertness. Here he was sur- rounded by a genial atmosphere of loving kindness and began to live and to grow under the influence of healthy —

198 forces and spiritual energies. Here, while his physique was gradually built up and his brain steadily developed, his mental faculties were unfolded, his remaining senses trained and his natural tastes cultivated. Here he was made conscious of his relations to his fellow-men and glad to live in this "high-domed, blossoming world, which is not a charnel-house and a grave, but god-like." Only in this little paradise for sightless children and nowhere else could he have received the course of training, which has enabled his kindly, honest, affectionate nature to gleam forth like sunshine from the murky clouds of his double affliction. Thus, from one of the most doleful creatures, Thomas has been molded, through the beneficent ministrations of the kindergarten and in accordance with the principles of education clearly laid down by Dr. Howe, into a bright, fine, lively boy. His transformation is almost miracu- lous. He is healthy, hale, sturdy, wide awake and ex- ceedingly attractive. He is 65x^0' inches in height and weighs 1362 pounds. He is well formed, full of vitality, erect in figure, alert in action and manly in appearance.

His complexion is now clear, fresh and rosy, instead of pale and sallow, as it was eight or ten years ago. His face, beaming with gladness and lighted with smiles, has a look at once refined and animated. There is a real charm in his modest and kindly bearing. He is very equable in temper and cheerful, even joyous in dis- position. Under the burden of a terrible affliction he makes himself a haven of pleasant thoughts, which no deprivation can render gloomy and of which he builds fairy palaces of pleasure and gladness, of felicity and delight. Although his infirmity debars him from listen- ing to the sounds of harmony,

His heart is full of song All day long. —

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To him the following words of John Bunyan may be applied with peculiar fitness:

I will dare to say that this one lives a merrier life and wears more of the herb called "heart's ease" in his bosom, than he that is clad in silk and velvet.

The course of training pursued in Thomas' intellectual development was simple, natural and in perfect harmony with the laws of pedagogy and the bent of his mind. He has made good progress in his studies and has moved onward with steady step and increasing energy. He has been led to seek the root of things, to learn by doing, to reason and think for himself and to express his thoughts in plain and correct language. He has acquired great

skill in the use of tools and has shown aptitude for inven- tion, often making himself the necessary apparatus for illustrating his work. In spite of the narrow limitations which the destruction of the organs of hearing and sight imposes upon him in all his efforts, his powers of ob- servation have been carefully fostered and properly quickened. This faculty forms a prime factor in educa-

tion and is deemed of the greatest possible value by judges of high standing. Ratish and Frankle, Locke and Basedow, Pestalozzi and Froebel, all lay great stress

upon it and advocate its thorough cultivation most em- phatically. In addition to this Froebel places a very high estimate upon the spirit of self-reliance as did the founder of the Perkins Institution, who succeeded in inspiring

it into the mind of his blind, and even of his deaf-blind pupils. Thomas has been wisely taught to rely so far as possible on himself, and does so to a remarkable degree for a person in his peculiar situation. But great and surprising as has been the physical and mental development of this remarkable boy in many

respects, that of his moral character is even more note-

worthy. He is truly a model of good behavior. Faith- —

200 ful, upright and straightforward, he hates dupHcity and is entirely free from artfulness and low desires. He is as pure in heart as he is sound in head and deft of hand. To borrow Shakespeare's phrase,

He knows not the doctrine of ill-doing.

Honesty, truthfulness, a sympathetic disposition, little nameless acts of kindness, silent victories over favorite temptations,—"these are the silent threads of gold, which, woven together, gleam out in the pattern of his life." Candor reigns in his bosom and sincerity frames his actions. Innocent as a lamb of the field, incapable of harboring feelings of malice, envy, jealousy or mean- ness, he seems to dw^ll perpetually in the sunlight of

confiding love and friendliness. His soul is as white

as a lily, and is unpolluted by deceit or by any other blem-

ish. Being without guile himself, he is entirely unaware

of its existence in others. He has implicit faith in the good- ness, honesty, integrity, veracity and justice of his fellow- men, and this makes him perfectly happy. For

The heart that trusts for ever sings,

And feels as light as if it had wings;

A well of peace within it springs.

The likeness of Thomas, which is inserted on the next

page, is copied from the first photograph taken of him after his admission to the kindergarten and represents him just as he appeared at that time—a forlorn child, indeed. Compare this picture with that which is placed at the beginning of this section and which shows how he looks today, and then you will realize the extent of the marvellous work which has been accomplished in his case at the juvenile school. In the autumn of the year 1903 Thomas entered the Mechanic Arts high school of Boston. There, as else- where, he was received with great kindness and, assisted 20I by his special tutor, Miss Emma Mills, who succeeded Miss Helen S. Conley and who sat by him in the class room and served as his interpreter and guide, he pur- sued the prescribed course of study. He attended reg- ularly to his work, and the experience which he gained by coming in contact with a large number of seeing and hearing boys was very beneficial to him in more ways than one. The principal and the teachers did everything in their power to aid him in his efforts, and we desire f

I' to express to them our sense of obligation for the tender interest which they have manifested in Thomas and to assure them that he will always remember with great pleasure and grati- tude the kind attention shown to him at this school. In spite of Thomas' strong attachment to the kindergarten and of the many attractions and joys which the locality afforded to him, it became evident to us that he could no longer TOMMY STRINGER AS HE APPEARED make his home there. He SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING had outgrown his asso- IN BOSTON. ciates entirely and had begun to feel isolated and lonely. He needed companions and playmates of his own age, and we decided to transfer him to the parent school at South

Boston. Here the course of study is very comprehensive and quite adequate to meet his special requirements, while the facilities for physical and manual training and the —

202 appliances for tangible illustration are unsurpassed. For these reasons we deemed it best to arrange for the continu- ance of his education within the walls of his new home. The inconvenience and the difficulties, which he had to encounter in going for his lessons every day in all kinds of weather from his place of residence to the southwest end of the city, contributed their share to this conclusion. At the expiration of her term of service Miss Emma Mills, who endeavored most faithfully and to the best of her ability to perform her duty and to promote the wel- fare of her pupil, declined a reappointment, and Miss Ruth L. Thomas, a graduate of Mount Holyoke college and a bright young woman of excellent parts, has been chosen to fill the vacancy. Before leaving the institu- tion. Miss Mills wrote the following account of her scholar's work during the past year:

When Tom returned to the primary building in September, 1903, he was confronted by new and untried conditions through a change of school and of teacher, and bravely and patiently did he face the task of famiUarizing himself \vith the situation. To be suddenly and entirely separated from the one who had been his devoted and constant companion through so many years was a shock and a trial to which Tom could not accustom liimself for a long time. His atti- tude toward his new teacher at first expressed mere toleration, and monosyllables in response to direct questions formed his sole con- tribution to conversation. After a few days, he broke the ice by beginning a description of his "home in Wrentham," from which he passed to a detailed account of all his friends and his many in- terests both at Jamaica Plain and Wrentham. Having thus intro- duced himself, he proceeded, with a most friendly spirit and with the native courtesy which characterizes him, to make diUgent in- quiries concerning his teacher and her interests. Tom showed a most thoughtful consideration of the difficulties experienced by a novice in becoming skilled in the use of the manual alphabet, and never did he betray any reluctance to repeat his words, however often he was asked to do so. It was interesting to note 203 how, of his own accord, he gradually quickened the movement of his fingers, as he reaUzed that proficiency had grown with practice, until he had reached his normal rate of speed. At the Mechanic Arts high school, which he entered in the autumn of 1903, the size of the building, the many recitation rooms and the number of the pupils were thoroughly interesting to Tom. The movement of the classes at the end of a period never failed to please him, for he could feel the vibration of the floor,—"waves," as he called it. At first he was exceedingly cautious in his motions, fearing that he would be run into by the other boys; but, as experience taught him that they were always considerate of him, he became courageous, and soon he could have gone to any part of the building alone, had this seemed desirable. Tom's work during the past year included the study of algebra, history, Enghsh and sloyd. He began the study of algebra with ex- cellent spirit, and, although his progress was slow to a disheartening degree, he maintained throughout his unbounded enthusiasm and apparent enjoyment. History seemed at first to be a great hardship to him, but later on the hour devoted to that study became a pleasant part of the day's work. Here Tom's splendid memory came to his assistance and the ease with which dates, locations of cities and names of heroes were impressed upon his mind was surprising. As his unimaginative nature will never permit him to comprehend the vast drama of life as revealed by history, he cannot feel a keen interest in the subject, and therefore his faithful study of it is most com- mendable. In English, attention has been directed chiefly to composition, as the best means of correcting the disposition to use short sentences and disconnected phrases, to which Tom, in common with the deaf as a class, is addicted. Every effort has been made to enlarge Tom's vocabulary in order to increase his appreciation of literature and history. Tom's work in sloyd, as might be expected, has been the source of his greatest joy, and he looked forward eagerly to the two hours which were devoted to it each day. Any suggestion to give a study period to extra work at his bench was always hailed with delight. Up to the time when he entered upon the course in carving, Tom omitted only three of the models made by the other boys, two of which required sight. One of the most difficult models was the handle of a hammer. This was oval at one end and elHptical at 204 the other, consequently composite near the indentation left for the hand. Tom's sensitive fingers gUded over the four models leading up to the finished product. He noticed the successive steps of progress, denoted by each, and then voluntarily illustrated the slant- ing position w^hich the plane must assume in order to combine the shapes of the two ends. This vi^ould have been a good object lesson for many seeing children. Tom's leisure hours at home have been also given to his favorite wood-work. In the autumn a friend who is much interested in fishing showed Tom his complete assortment of poles, lines and other articles, including a burnt-wood box with drawers and com- partments for hooks, artificial flies and the like. This evidently impressed Tom deeply, for later he announced his intention of making a similar box for use when he went on excursions on the pond in Wrentham. After a few Saturdays devoted to the task, he presented the box for inspection. It was larger than the one which he had examined, and on each end was a strong handle, a desirable addition in consideration of the weight. A screw was fastened at each corner of the bottom, raising the box about an inch, in order, as Tom ex- plained, to keep it dry if there should be water in the boat. In the middle of the cover, which was securely locked down, was a compass, as a guide for the sightless mariner in case he should get lost or should colUde with the rock in the middle of the pond. With his usual originality of expression Tom dubbed his new treasure his "far- away box," but upon suggestion concluded to call it his travelling box. Thus, busy in school and at home, the year has quickly flown.

It is impossible to express adequate appreciation of the many kind- nesses which have been shown to Tom by the faculty and pupils of the high school and which have smoothed his path in a thousand

little ways when Tom was utterly unconscious of it. Heartfelt thanks are due to them and also to Tom's dear friend and com- panion. Master PhiHp Lanzendorfer who, entering the high school from the Lowell school at the same time as Tom, has as an old friend done so much to make him happy in his new surroundings. Tom has often remarked upon the speed with which the days have passed, always adding: "because I am so busy." His happiness in hfe depends almost wholly upon his ability to be active with his hands,—a fact which he himself appreciates, for he said one day that he was less lonesome than when he was a little boy because he — .

205 had been taught to work. Thus, courageously accepting and adapting himself to new experiences, Tom looks forward from a happy present to a no less pleasant future, into which he is ready to work his way.

The farm of the Rev. William L. Brown in Wrentham is the one place outside the kindergarten, to which Thomas continues to be warmly attached and in which he feels perfectly at home. There he spent his summer vacation and found ample occasion for the full gratification of his natural taste for an outdoor life and healthful activity. His desire to be of help to the aged members of the family was as strong as ever, and his ingenuity was constantly exercised in various ways. Under the thoughtful care and wise guidance of his former teacher and devoted friend, Miss Laura A. Brown, he made excellent use of his time in studying, in working on the premises and in carrying out the plans which are always seething in his brain and find expression in the materials and opportu- nities at hand. Miss Brown has written the following account of Thomas' occupations at Wrentham during the swiftly

passing hours of his summer vacation :

Tom's life during the vacation days was quiet and uneventful but

full of activity of his own planning. Usually the first of the family to arise, he was busy until breakfast time in walking or in arranging for his day's work. The morning meal over, Tom be- came steadily engaged in various undertakings throughout the day; after supper was eaten and his bench and tools were put in order, he spent the time until nine o'clock in study of some kind. By far the greater part of his time was spent at his bench with his tools; and many pieces of work bore evidence of his untiring industry. Among these were three blotters, a weather-vane with a wind-mill attached, a plant stand or small table, a sleeve board on a standard, a bench hook, three picture frames and two folding screens. One of the frames was for the diploma which he had received from the Lowell grammar school. 206

Tom always enjoyed walking to the village, a mile and a half away. He liked to time the walk, and there was no loitering or

lagging if he had his way, even the heat seldom checking his regula- tion pace. In order to get more exercise he conceived the idea of stretching a string from tree to tree in the orchard. It was care- fully measured, and Tom could estimate the distance he walked by

the number of times he traversed its length. His ambition was to achieve twenty-five miles, but he finally gave up the idea of walking that distance until cooler weather had come. One day he joyfully announced that he had walked twelve miles, and this was the longest constitutional he took. A ride in the electric cars was always a pleasure to Tom, particu- larly if it was in the direction of a hardware store and he was per- mitted to make some purchase there.

A trip to Providence was taken late in the summer, and it included a visit to the capitol of Rhode Island and the City Hall as well as a trip down the river to the beach. Tom was much impressed by the size and grandeur of the State House. The summer passed quickly and pleasantly, with nothing to mar its happiness. Ever ready and willing to do anything he could to help others, Tom made many friends and kept the good will of all with whom he came in contact. He was always quick to ask pardon and express sorrow for any misdemeanor or display of wilful- ness on his part.

Conjectures as to the new life which he was soon to enter upon at South Boston and meniories of the happy years at Jamaica Plain were frequent topics of conversation. Tom remarked that the country was very nice in the summer time but he liked the city better in the winter; then too, he must return to his old friends and make new ones and he must get acquainted with his new life at the insti- tution. So, eager for the new and ready for study and work once more, Tom reached the end of the vacation days at Wrentham.

Thus runs the story of Thomas' life and occupations during the past year and of his work at school and at his summer home in Wrentham. This account, like those which have preceded it, is of great value to educa- tors and of exceeding interest to all our readers, but es- pecially to those among them who, having been deeply —

207 touched by the sad condition of the unfortunate boy, have provided the means for its amelioration. Through the generosity of these givers not only has he been taken out from the sepulchre of physical darkness and still- ness and transported, as if through the air, into a region of supernal intellectual and moral light, but he has be- come Serene and manly, hardened to sustain

The load of life.

In the list of the contributors to the fund for the main- tenance of Thomas are included the names of many men and women who, prompted by the spirit of true bene- volence, never tire in doing good and who deserve high praise for their constant benefactions to the hapless lad. Prominent among these are such honored givers as ''A. B.," Mr. George E. Atherton, Miss Elizabeth Hope

Bancroft, Mrs. J. Conklin Brown, Dr. B. H. Buxton, the children of the first grade of the Winthrop School, Brookline, through Miss Anna M. Taylor, the Children's Aid Society of Washington, Pa., Miss Jane F. Dow, Miss Sarah M. Fay, Miss Caroline L. W. French, Miss

Mary R. Hudson, Mrs. Mary J. Jackson, ''J. G.," the Junior Children's Aid Society of Washington, Pa., Mrs. Annie B. Matthews, Miss Eleanor G. May, trustee of the Lydia Maria Child fund, members of the Pickwick Club, Fannie Frank, Maida Herman, Mabel and Ethel Koshland and Helen Strauss, Mrs. E. Rollins Morse, Miss Ellen F. Moseley, the late Mrs. Warren B. Potter, the primary department of the Sunday School of the Walnut Avenue Congregational Church, Roxbury, and that of the Sunday School of the First Methodist Protes- tant Church of Pittsburgh, Pa., through Mrs. William McCracken, jr., a friend in memory of "R. S. and L. T. S.," ''Rodelmer," the Misses Seabury, Miss Mary D. 208

Sohier, Mrs. Augusta H. Wallace, and many others whose names are printed in full in another part of this report. We desire to tender our warmest thanks to each and all of these donors for their active interest in Thomas. They must feel great satisfaction in learning that they have supplied the means for liberating the dear boy from the bondage of a terrible infirmity and for enabling him to join the ranks of the active and useful members of society. In paying a tribute of gratitude to these benefactors we cannot refrain from expressing our sense of profound obligation to a beloved friend of Thomas, who strictly forbids us to mention her name but who has one of the most generous and loyal souls that ever looked out of human eyes. Time after time has she volunteered to pay the amount needed over and above the annual re- ceipts to defray current expenses. This munificent giver represents the best type of New England womanhood and is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of unostenta- tious philanthropy, which characterizes her family. She is deeply interested in various good causes, and her bene- factions are numerous. She does not live for self and has no taste for empty social show and fashionable display.

She is noted for her unobtrusive benevolence and her heartfelt sympathy with neglected children, and we use no exaggerated form of speech in saying that her friendship for Thomas is one of the greatest blessings that have fallen to his lot. Without the valuable pecuniary assistance which she gives to him and which is promptly sent as soon as the annual account of receipts and expenditures in his behalf is published, it would have been utterly impossible for us to bring about an entire agreement between the two sides of the balance sheet without any encroachment upon the permanent fund. 209

We are obliged to present again a very unsatisfactory report of the financial side of Thomas' case, and we do this with more regret than words can express. In the account for his maintenance there is this year a deficit of $441.68. This shortage is much larger than those of previous years, and the unexpected increase of the deficit is due to two causes: First, to the diminution of the reg- ular annual subscriptions and of the occasional dona- tions; second, to the increase of the incidental expenses, which was made unavoidable by the attendance of Thomas at the high school. In recent years the ranks of Tom's benefactors and stanch supporters have been sadly thinned by death, and his cause has thus sustained very heavy and grievous losses. Several of his most beloved and devoted friends are no longer among the living, and their decease makes an immense difference in his prospects. We earnestly hope and trust that the places which have thus been left vacant will soon be filled by other persons, who are de- sirous of doing good and of lending assistance to the vic- tim of one of the cruellest of human calamities. Never- theless the work of the dread minister of fate must go on in the natural order of things, be its effect on communities and individuals what it may. This fact makes us feel very uncertain as to what may happen in the future and strengthens our conviction that a surer and more per- manent source of income than that supplied by annual subscriptions must be procured for the dear boy, while the benevolent and well-to-do members of our community still manifest a profound interest in him and his work and a disposition to aid him. Hence we appeal again most earnestly to the public in general and to Tom's stanch friends and benefactors in particular for gifts toward the permanent fund, which we are raising for his —

210 benefit, as well as for a sufficient amount of yearly contri- butions to pay his current expenses. We fervently hope that this request will meet with a favorable response and that the clouds of anxiety for the future will be entirely dissipated.

Bostonians have seldom proved themselves more faith- ful to their traditions or worthier of their just renown for broad philanthropy than they did when they under- took to supply the means for bringing such a child out of dense physical darkness into bright intellectual light and to make adequate provision for his subsistence and education.

From the depths of the dense darkness and awful still- ness in which he is plunged, the unfortunate boy is as incapable of pleading his own case in eloquent words as he is of singing a song of glee or a carol of joy. His voice can be of no service to him in portraying his condition or in presenting his claim to a thorough education, which is to him the veritable bread of life and therefore of infi- nitely greater importance than to children possessed of all their faculties. In all probability he does not realize fully the extent of his indebtedness to his benefactors, and therefore he does not take up his pencil to write a few words to them, acknowledging their goodness toward him and expressing his sentiments of high appreciation and of profound gratitude to them for what they have done for him. Nevertheless, he is gradually becoming conscious of the inestimable value of the aid which they bestow upon him, and, although mutely and unostenta- tiously yet touchingly and earnestly,

He sends a prayer from his heart's deep core, And flings a plea upwards to heaven's door, for their spiritual well-being, as well as for their happi- ness and continued prosperity. 21 I

In the whole range of humble and pathetic supplica- tions is there one, which can reach the throne of glory more quickly or will be heard more attentively than that, which emanates from the white soul and the sealed lips of Tom Stringer?

We must go onward to win the Goal.

Soon or late to all that sow The time of harvest shall be given; The flowers shall bloom, the fruits shall grow. —John G. Whittier.

We have thus given a brief account of the work and development of the kindergarten and of the effects of the educational advantages, which it affords to scores of little boys and girls bereft of the visual sense. In looking over the record of the progress and achieve- ments of this institution from the time of the inaugura- tion of its operations in 1887 to the present day, we are impressed more deeply than ever with the wise generos- ity and keen foresight of those benevolent men and women, who responded readily to our appeals in behalf of the little sightless children and contributed the means for the establishment of the juvenile school with un- stinted liberality. Quietly but steadily has the kindergarten continued to grow and to fulfil its sacred mission, supplying the re- cipients of its benefits with a beautiful home and provid- ing for them such ways and means for physical, mental and moral training as are calculated to unfold their facul- ties, enkindle their intelligence, develop their powers and lay the foundations of character. When we recall the days of the infancy of the kinder- garten, with their needs and weaknesses and with the —

212 anxiety as to the outcome of the enterprise, and compare these with the present times of prosperity and of promis- ing prospects, we have ample reason to be profoundly grateful to the faithful friends and generous benefactors for what they have done to place the institution on a solid foundation. Taking into consideration the measure of success, which we have achieved in the course of the past eighteen years, we are encouraged to go onward with hope and fortitude and to look into the future with firm trust and absolute confidence that

The best is yet to be.

Respectfully submitted by Michael Anagnos. —

WORK OF THE KINDERGARTEN.

Extracts from the Reports of the Teachers.

A solid foundation is laid in the kindergarten for the

blind for every branch of work in which the little pupils may afterwards engage, so that the progress from the fas- cinating employments of Froebel's system of training into the sterner, more practical lessons of after years is normal, gradual and full of fresh interest from step to step. These successive stages are all shown by extracts which are here published, from the accounts given by the teachers in charge of the several divisions of the work.

Kindergarten.

The truism that "well begun is half done" applies in all its force to the kindergarten work with its very helpful uplift of the minds and hearts of the little recipients of its benefits and its careful training of the tiny hands. Here is what the teachers say in recognition of the value of this method of development:

The importance of the kindergarten for blind children can not be doubted. Knowledge which comes to the normal child through vision can be derived by a sightless little one only through the sense of touch, which is often but feebly developed when the child enters our school. The gifts and occupations supply the necessary train- ing and strengthen and invigorate the tiny fingers, while at the same time the working together of hand and brain is demanded. From the models of animals, stuffed birds and toys of various kinds the children gain the pleasure which pictures afford to those who can —

214 see, and fresh revelations of beauty and interest come to them through walks in the parks and woods, by means of which the employments, games and stories of the kindergarten are so pleasantly supplemented. The year has yielded very satisfactory results in the training of these little ones.

Department of Primary Studies.

The literary branches which have their beginning in the intermediate classes are further extended by the work in the primary buildings, by means of which the boys and girls are fitted to take their places in the school for older pupils at South Boston, earning promotion by the suc- cessful completion of the allotted course in the school at Jamaica Plain. The achievements in these studies have been thus summarized by the teachers:

Strong, steady, quiet work has characterized the }ear. So far as possible, the lines of instruction have been such as to lead systemati- cally into the course of study used at the school in South Boston, and the results have been very satisfactory. The studies which have successively claimed attention have been arithmetic, reading, wTiting, the English language, elementary science, geography and history, supplemented by gymnastic exercises. Visits to the State House and to other buildings of historic interest have made real to the chil- dren the stirring events of which they have learned, while walks and talks in the country have added greatly to their enjoyment of the study of nature. This is always a subject of intense interest to the pupils, and its scope is gradually broadened from observation of the simplest forms of life about them to the study of more complex organisms. Every subject is the occasion for a lesson in language, and the pupils are encouraged to learn to speak and write correctly and to appreciate and enjoy good literature with which they become familiar through hearing selections from many of the best authors. Beyond the acquisition of a certain amount of specified knowledge, character-building is recognized to be "an end of education" and lessons in self-control are inculcated while the children are taught due regard for the rights and privileges of others. —

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Music Department.

The study of music in this school is no mere desidera- tum but receives full recognition as an important branch of the curriculum and an elevating influence upon the aesthetic nature of the pupils. To the beginning of their musical education at this early age may be traced in great measure the success which has been achieved by the older pupils of the parent school at South Boston, as solo players or as members of the excellent orchestra belonging to the institution. The work of the scholars in this direction has been thus characterized by their instructors:

Very satisfactory progress has been made by nearly all the pupils during the past year. The younger scholars have been exercised in the culture of the hand and the training of the ear and have learned to read and write the Braille musical notation. Many of them showed such ability in recognizing tones and such appreciation of rhythm as to make instruction in the elements of music a positive pleasure. The older students have studied the formation of scales and triads with close attention to tones and intervals and have learned to play very creditably, either upon the pianoforte, vioHn or clarinet, some simple selections from the works of different composers. Great pleasure and benefit have been derived through the daily singing classes in which two-, three- and even four-part songs have been learned, thus enabling the children to put into active practice their breathing exercises and their study of slow scales and sustained tones. The fortnightly pupils' recitals, arranged by themselves, have been the source of unalloyed enjoyment, and the programmes of these musical entertainments have contained the titles of vocal selections as well as those for the pianoforte and violin. Opportunities to attend concerts in the city have occasionally been extended to the children and have added greatly to their happiness and musical knowledge. —

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Department of Manual Training.

The training for the hand, afforded in this department, takes up the work where the kindergarten occupations

leave it and carries it on through a careful and systematic course, keeping pace with the needs and interests of the growing child and seeking to inculcate many valuable lessons in addition to developing the tactile sense and

muscular strength. Here is the account of this work as given by the teachers:

The work in this department has followed the line established in former years and has included knitting in the beginners' classes,

sewing, first coarse and later finer materials, and wood sloyd for the older pupils. Even among the youngest children great interest has been awakened by the work and commendable pride has been dis-

played in completing an article and taking it home for the inspection of relatives or as a gift for some favored friend. In the advanced classes in sewing, different stitches and their appUcation have been taught with considerable success. As a new feature of the work in wood sloyd, the pupils were encouraged to undertake some original models, and their achievements, made entirely without assistance, were exceedingly interesting. The articles thus produced were mostly toys, such as sailboats, swords, shields and doll furniture, but, al- though they were crude, they showed a lively imagination and a good understanding of how the work was to be accomplished. The re-

sults of the year's training have been very satisfactory in every branch \)f this department. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

We desire to express anew our heartfelt gratitude and our earnest thanks to Dr. Clarence J. Blake, Dr. E. G. Brack- ETT, Dr. E. A. Crockett, Dr. Francis I. Proctor and Dr. H. Walker, who have rendered valuable service freely and gratuitously to such of our children as needed their medical attendance. We are deeply indebted to them and also to the physicians, officers and employes of the Faulkner Hospital in West Roxbury and of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, for their kind care of and attention to our little ones in times of sickness.

Mrs. George Benedict very kindly invited the children to spend an afternoon at her house, where a Christmas tree had been pre- pared for their entertainment. When a severe snowstorm prevented their attendance gifts of toys from Master Edwin Benedict and herself and purses from Mrs. William G. Benedict were sent to the little ones, greatly to their delight. The same happy season was made memorable for them through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson who invited them to enjoy a Christmas tree at the home of these good friends. The boundless hospitality with which the children were entertained and the gifts which awaited them gave them the greatest possible pleasure. Gifts of money from Mrs. Walter C. Baylies, Mrs. E. Preble Motley and Dr. A. W. Fairbanks, for the purchase of Christmas presents for the children, added much to their happiness and made this festal season one long to be remembered.

The joys of Eastertide were increased for the little blind boys and girls through a bountiful gift of exquisite flowers from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shuman, in memory of their beautiful daughter. Miss Laura Shuman, the devoted friend of the suffering and needy. Choice flowers from the Herford Club of the Arlington Street 2l8

Church and potted plants from the Unitarian' Church at Jamaica Plain added to the children's happiness on that beautiful day. St. Valentine's day was made noteworthy by a gift of pretty val- entines for the children from Mrs. Lew C. Hill. Generous offerings of fruit, vegetables and plants were thankfully received from the Misses SLOCUM,who never fail to befriend the httle school and hold its needs in constant remembrance. Bountiful supplies of confectionery have also been donated by Mrs. E. Preble Motley, IVIiss Isabel H. Murray and Miss

Mary F. (Jill, who gave various toys in addition. Welcome gifts of luscious fruit have come from Mrs. Prescott Bigelow and Mrs. John Chipman Gray. •

Mr. John M. Rodocanachi has again remembered the little ones with a gift of delicious figs. From the same thoughtful friend came a gift of $30 for the purchase of instruments for the little mu- sicians. Mr. Rodocanachi has made it his annual custom to aid the music department in this way.

The very generous ofiE'ering of forty dollars from Miss ]\Iary Carleton Learned was a welcome reminder of her continued interest in the welfare of our little pupils, and other sums have been thankfully received from Leslie C. and Lawrence E. Morse. Miss Christine Farley has again benefited the children by her ever useful gift of clothing, which has found grateful recipients among them. Our thanks are again due to Miss Helen W. Aubin and Miss

Lucy W. Davis, through whose kindness it was made possible for three of the children to spend two of the summer months at the Children's Island Sanitarium in Marblehead. Through the great kindness of the Rev. M. R. Deming, the httle boys enjoyed a day at the boys' farm of the Boston Institute Sea- shore Home in Sharon, and the occasion was a dehghtful one to them. Mr. George H. Bates of Maiden very kindly paid the car-fares for the journey, and the pleasures of the day included a bountiful dinner and rides in a barge, in boats, upon a donkey and, through the great kindness of Mr. Abner Morse of Canton, in an automobile. Everything was done to give happiness to the little boys, and the delightful outing will long be cherished in their memories. On one evening the children enjoyed an entertainment through the kindness of Miss Vora Burpee whose readings gave them 219 great pleasure, and on another occasion they listened with deep appreciation to the musical treat furnished by Dr. John Dixwell and friends in dispensing the benefits of the "Hospital Music Fund." A beautiful picture, the gift of Mrs. Thomas Mack, furnishes an additional ornament to the walls of the boys' primary building.

The library of the little school has been enriched by a number of new books sent by several friends of the kindergarten. From Miss

Harriet S. Hazeltine came Mr. Rutherford's Children and Sybil and Chryssa, Carl Krinker and Hard Maple from Mr. C. B. R.

Hazeltine, and Wally Wanderoon and Stories 0} the Golden Fleece from the Misses Poulsson. The Youth's Companion and The Jamaica Plain News have been sent to the school by their publishers throughout the year. Mr. Harold A. Cole has very kindly remembered the children's love of music, sending tickets for their use at concerts- in the city on three occasions.

A collection of shells sent by Miss R. I. Fish was a valuable contribution to the equipment of the school. An offering of wild flowers from a class of children in the Willard School, West

Quincy, was much appreciated by our little pupils. LIST OF THE CHILDREN.

Abbott, Edna May. :McGiU, Marie. Anderson, Muriel C. Miller, Freda G. Baker, Mar}- ~S1. Miller, Gladys L. Barrabessi, Lucy. Miller, Margaret. Bartlett, Priscilla. Minahan, Annie E. Boland, Annie. Nixon, Bertha. Brannick, Elizabeth. Noonan, Marion L. Brasseau, Edwina. Parcher, Flora M.

Brayman, Edith I. Randall, Helen I. Clark, Helen F. Sanders, Olive B. Connelly, Elsie M. Sibley, Marian C. Curran, Mary I. Smith, Elena. Daicy, Gertrude C. Spencer, Olive E. DriscoU, Margaret. Stevens, Gladys L. Duffy, Nelly. Terry, Annie B.

Evarson, Elvera J. Wallochstein, Annie. Finnegan, Alice. Walsh, Annie. Fisk, Mattie E. L. Watts, Kate. Flardo, Rena. Anderson, Adolf A. Flynn, Marie E. Andrews, Thomas. Gadbois, Roselma. Blood, Howard W. Galvin, Margaret L. Brown, Arthur F. Goldrick, Sophie E. Brownell, Herbert N. Gray^ Nettie C. Buck, Arthur B. Guild, Bertha H. Casey, Frank A. Hamilton, Annie A. Clarke, Jerold P. Hayden, Ruth R. Cloukia, Ro}'. Holbrook, Carrie F. Cobb, Malcolm L. Irwin, Helen M. Corliss, William A. Johnson, Ellen T. Cuervo, Adolfo. Kelly, Catherine A. Curran, Edward. Lincoln, Maud E. Deane, William. 221

Devine, Joseph P. Marshall, Joseph. Dexter, Ralph C. McDonough, William. Dodge, George L. McFarlane, Francis P. Dow, Basil E. Moore, Henry A. Ellis, John W. Morang, James A. FitzSimmons, Joseph R. Robertson, David O. GosseHn, Arthur. Rodrigo, Joseph L.

Harris, Clifton W. Ryan, Michael J. Hart, D. Frank. Safford, Robert F. Hawkins, A. Collins. Salesses, Adrian. Holbrook, William F. Sikora, Frank E. Holmberg, Arvid N. Stearns, Allen C. Hopwood, Clarence A. Tirrell, Charles. Jean, Ludge. Tobin, Paul. Jordan, John W. Tousignant, Arthur. Lambert, Frederick A. Tyner, Edward T. Leach, Avery E. Wallochstein, Jacob.

LeBlanc, I. Medee. West, Paul L.

Lindsey, Perry R. S. Whitcomb, Samuel W. Mahoney, James M. Williams, Edward. Main, Lewis E. Woods, Richard E. 222

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE KINDERGARTEN.

For the Year ending August 31, 1904.

Receipts.

Cash on hand September i, 1903, j?20,004.99 Legacies: — Samuel A. Borden (additional) 425.00 Miss Sarah Silver Cox 5,000.00 Miss Jeannie Warren Paine fund 1,000.00 Mrs. Mary Longfellow Greenleaf (in part), . . . 2,000.00 Mrs. Nancy E. Rust as *' Memorial to Frank Davison Rust," 5,000.00 Mrs. Adaline M. Chapin, 400.00 Mrs. Mary S. C. Reed, 5,000.00 Mrs. Olive E. Hayden (additional), 1,622.45 Mrs. Harriet Taber fund 500.00 Mrs. Emeline Morse Lane fund 500.00

Gifts : — Mrs. Warren B. Potter (additional), 1,000.00 Miss Sarah M. Fay (additional), 1,000.00 Mrs. Annie B. Matthews (additional), 1,000.00 George F Parkman (additional), 500.00 Endowment fund, $2,307.08 ) Endowment fund through Ladies' Auxiliary > 3,722.08

Society, 1,415.00 ) Annual subscriptions through Ladies' Auxiliary Society, 6,457.57 Board and tuition, 12,639.17 Rents, 1,250.50 Sundry items 40. 45 Income from investments, 24,281.47 $93-343-68

Expenses.

Maintenance, $30,093. 32 Expense on houses let, 483.12 Taxes, repairs and annuity, Jackson estate, Wachusett street, 1,033.30 Bills to be refunded, 794-37

Furnishing Girls' Primary Building (additional), . . . 247.10 Invested, 54,234.00 Cash on hand September i, 1904, 6,458.47 $93,343-^8 223

PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE KINDERGARTEN.

Mrs. William Appleton fund, $[3,000.00 Nancy Barilett fund, 500.00 Miss Helen C. Bradlee fund, 140,000.00

In memory of William Leonard Benedict, Jr., . 1,000.00 Miss Harriet Otis Cruft fund, 6,000.00

Mrs. M. Jane Wellington Danforth fund, . . . 11,000.00 Mrs. Helen Atkins Edmands fund, 5.000.00 Miss Sarah M. Fay fund, 11,000.00 Mrs. Eugenia F. Farnham fund, 1,015.00 Albert Glover fund, 1,000.00 In Memoriam "A. A. C," 500.00 Mos-es Kimball fund, 1,000.00 Mrs. Emeline Morse Lane fund 500.00 Mrs. Annie B. Matthews fund, 11,000.00 Mrs. Warren B. Potter fund, 30,000.00 George F. Parkman fund 3,000.00 Miss Jeannie Warren Paine fund, 1,000.00 Mrs. Benjamin S. Rotch fund, 8,500.00 John M. Rodocanachi fund, 1,250.00 Memorial to Frank Davison Rust, 5,000.00 Mary Lowell Stone fund 1,500.00 Mrs. Harriet Taber fund 500 00 Transcript ten dollar fund, 5,666.95 Mrs. George W. Wales fund, 10,000.00 In memory of Ralph Watson, -37 92

Legacies : —

Mrs. Harriet T. Andrew, 5,000.00

Mrs. Eleanor J. W. Baker, 2,500.00 Mrs. Ellen M. Baker, 13,040.65 Sidney Bartlett, 10,000.00 Thompson Baxter, 322.50 Miss Harriet Tilden Browne, 2,000.00 Robert C. Billings, 10,000.00 Samuel A. Borden, 4,675.00 Mrs. Sarah Bradford, 100.00 John \A^. Carter, 500.00 Mrs. Adaline M. Chapin, 400.00 Benjamin P. Cheney, 5,000.00 Charles H. Colburn 1,000.00 Miss Susan T. Crosby, 100.00 Miss Sarah Silver Cox, 5,00000 George E. Downes, 3,000.00 Miss Caroline T. Downes, 12,350.00 Mrs. Lucy A. Dwight, 4,000.00 Mary B. Emmons 1,000.00 Miss Mary Eveleth, 1,000.00 Mrs. Susan W. Farwell, 500.00 John Foster, 5,000.00 Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gay, 7,931.00 Mrs. Ellen M. Gifford 5,000.00

Amount carriedforward, $368,589.02 224

Amount broughtforward, $368,589.02

Joseph B. Glover, 5,000.00 Miss Matilda Goddard, 300.00 Mrs. Mary Longfellow Greenleaf, 3,000.00 Mrs. Jane H. Hodge, 300.00 Mrs. Josephine S. Hall, 3,000.00 Mrs. Olive E. Hayden 4,622.45 Mrs. Ann E. Lambert, 700.00

Elisha T. Loring, » • • 5,000.00 Miss Rebecca S. Melvin, 23,545.55 Augustus D. Manson, 8,134.00 Miss Sarah L. Marsh, 1,000.00 Miss Helen M. Parsons, 500.00 Mrs. Richard Perkins 10,000.00 Edward D. Peters, 500.00 Mrs. Mary J. Phipps, 2,000.00 Mrs. Caroline S. Pickman, 1,000.00 Francis S. Pratt, 100.00 Mrs. Mary S. C Reed 5,000.00 Miss Dorothy Roffe 500.00 Miss Rhoda Rogers 500.00 Miss Edith Rotch, 10,000.00 Miss Rebecca Salisbury, 200.00 Joseph Scholfield, 3,000.00 Mrs. Eliza B. Seymour 5,000.00 Benjamin Sweetzer 2,000.00 Mrs. Cornelia V R. Thayer, 10,000.00 Mrs. Delia D. Thorndike 5,000.00 Mrs. Elizabeth L. Tilton 300 00 Mrs. Betsey B. Tolman, 500.00 Royal W. Turner, 24,082.00 Mrs. Mary B. Turner, 7,582.90 George W. Wales 5,000.00 Mrs. Charles E. Ware, 4,000.00 Miss Rebecca P. Wainwright, 1,00000 Mary H. Watson, 100.00 Mrs. Julia A. Whitney, 100.00 Miss Betsey S. Wilder, 500.00 Mrs. Jennie A. (Shaw) W^aterhouse, 565.84 Miss Mary W. Wiley 150CO Miss Mary Williams, 5,000.00 Almira F. Winslow, 306.80 Funds from other donations 93,894.21 $621,572.77 Real estate subject to annuity, 7,600.00 Cash in treasury, 6,458.47 Land, buildings and personal property in use of the kindergarten, Jamaica Plain 303,212.25

$938,843.49 225

KINDERGARTEN ENDOWMENT FUND.

List of Contributors

From August 31, 1903, to September i, 1904.

A. L. F., $5.00 Adams, Thomas M., Ashland, Ky., 100.00 All Souls Sunday-school of Roxbury, 25.00 Bacon, Louisa C, 10.00 Barr, Mrs. Arthur W., Jamaica Plain, 2.00 Berthold, Mrs. Selma E., Cambridge, i.oo

Bicknell, Mrs. William J., 2.00 Bissell, H., West Medford, 15.00 Brett, Miss Anna K., 20.00 Brewster, Miss Sarah C, 5.00 Brown, Ehsha Rhodes, Dover, N.H., 50.00 Brown, Samuel N., 10.00 Bryant, Mrs. Annie B. Matthews, 22.00 Children of Mrs. Nancy C. Sweetser's kindergarten at Newton Lower Falls, 10.00 Crafts, Mrs. James M., 30.00 Draper, Mrs. George A., 50.00 Drew, Frank, Worcester, 2.50

Eliot, Mrs. Samuel, in memory of Dr. Samuel Eliot, . 100.00 Elkins, Rev. W. P., Bath, N.H., 4-oo ElUs, George H., 75-oo Fairbanks, Caroline L., 10.00 Farnham, the Misses, 5.00 Fitts, Mrs. C. C, Brattleboro, Vt., 5.00 Friend F., 100.00 Glover, Miss Irene C, Roxbury, 2.00 Hammond, Miss, 5.00 Hazeltine, Charles B. R., 20.00 Hemenway, Miss Clara, 100.00

Amount carried forward, $785.50 226

Amount brought forward, $785.50

Hodgman, Mrs. Adelaide K., East Greenwich, R.I., . . 25.00 Hunnewell, F. W., 100.00 In memory of Miss Alice M. C. Matthews, 100.00 In memory of Mrs. Louise M. Richards, 300.00 In memor)' of Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall, 65.00

Jackson, Mrs. Mary J., 8.00 Joslin, Miss Alice B., Jamaica Plain, i.oo Kendall, Miss H. W., 50.00 Lane, Zenas M., i.oo Lamed, Charles, 100.00 Littell, Miss Susan G., 50.00 Lombard, the Misses, io.qd

Moors, J. R., 5.00 Morse, Mrs. Leopold, 100.00 Moulton, Mrs. Louise Chandler, 25.00 Nichols, Miss Sarah H., 10.00 Peabody, the Misses, Cambridge, 50.00 Pierce, Wallace L., 100.00 Primary Department of the Union Congregational

Church Sunday-school of Weymouth and Braintree, . 9.00 Proceeds of entertainment given by the pupils of Perkins Institution, February 22d, 1904, 18.70 Raymond, Fairfield Eager, 5.00 Robbins, Miss Agnes Frances, Brookline, 20.00 Robbins, Miss Clara T., Brookline, 10.00 Rogers, Miss Catharine L., i5-oo

Sanger, S. P., 3.00 Schmidt, Arthur P., 10.00 Seabury, the Misses, New Bedford, 25.00 Shepard, Mrs. Otis, Brookline, 10.00 Sohier, the Misses, 50.00 Stevens, Miss Alice B., Brookline, 5.00 Stevens, Mrs. Harriet Lyman, 25.00 Stockwell, Miss Marie Louise, Brookline, 2.00 Sunday-school of the First Church (Congregational), Cambridge, 20.00 Sunday-school of the First Church, Boston, 80.78

Amount carried forward, $2,193.98 227

Amouni brought forward, $2,193.98

Sunday-school of the Second Congregational Church, Dorchester, 10.10 Vose, Miss Caroline C, Milton, 10.00 Walnut Avenue Y. P. S. C. E., Roxbury, 3.00 Warner, Robert L., 5.00

White, C. J., Cambridge, . . . 25.00 Whitehead, Miss Mary, Roxbury, 10.00 Williams, Ralph B., 25.00 Winthrop, Mrs. T. L., 25.00

$2,307.08

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CURRENT EXPENSES.

Annual subscriptions through the Ladies' Auxiliary

Society, Miss S. E. Lane, treasurer, $5,291.00 Cambridge Branch, through Mrs. E. C. Agassiz, treas- urer, 546.57

Dorchester Branch, through Mrs. J. Henry Bean, treas- urer, 142.00 Lynn Branch, through Mr. L. K. Blood, 136.00

Milton Branch, through Mrs. William Wood, treasurer, . 1S2.00 Worcester Branch, through Mrs. Gilbert H. Harrington, treasurer, 160.00

$6,457-57

All contributors to the fund are respectfully requested to peruse the

above list, and to report either to William Endicott, Jr., Treas- urer, No. 115 Devonshire street, Boston, or to the Director, M. Anag- NOS, South Boston, any omissions or inaccuracies which they may

find in it.

WILLIAM ENDICOTT, Jr., Treasurer.

No. IIS Devonshire Street, Boston. 228

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THOMAS STRINGER.

From September i, 1903, to August 31, 1904.

A. B., ' $10.00 Atherton, Mr. George E., 5.00 Bancroft, Miss Elizabeth Hope, 2.00

Brown, Mrs. J. Conklin, Berkeley, Cal., 10.00 Buxton, Dr. B. H., New York, 50.00

Children of the first grade of Winthrop School, Brookline, through Miss Anna M. Taylor, i.oo Children's .\id Society of Washington, Pa., 5.00 Dow, Miss Jane F., Milton, 30.00 Fay, Miss Sarah M., 50.00 Hudson, Miss Mary R., i.oo

Jackson, Mrs. Mary J., 2.00 20.00 J. G.,

Junior Children's Aid Society of Washington, Pa., . . 15.00 Matthews, Mrs. Annie B., 50.00 May, Miss Eleanor G., trustee of Lydia Maria Child fund, 35-oo Members of the Pick\vick Club, Fannie Frank, ^laida Herman, Mabel and Ethel Koshland and Helen Strauss, 25.00 Morse, Mrs. E. RoUins, 10.00 Primary Department of Sunday-school of Walnut Avenue Congregational Church, Roxbur\-, .... 5.00 "Rodelmer," 2.00 Seabury, the Misses, New Bedford, 5.00

Sohier, :\Iiss Mary D., 25.00 White, Master Watson, Cambridge, 2.50 Young, Mrs. B. L., 10.00 Young, ]Miss Lucy F., Winchester, 6.00 $376.50 A friend to make up the deficit in the account of the pre\-ious year, 225.10 229

PERMANENT FUND FOR THOMAS STRINGER.

[This fund is being raised with the distinct understanding that it is to be placed under the control and care of the trustees of the Per- kins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, and that only the net income is to be given to Tom so long as he is not pro- vided for in any other way, and is unable to earn his living, the principal remaining intact forever. It is farther understood, that, at his death or when he ceases to be in need of this assistance, the income of this fund is to be applied to the support and education of some child who is both blind and deaf and for whom there is no provision made either by the state or by private individuals.]

A. B., $200.00 Children's Aid Society of Washington, Pa., 10.00 French, Miss CaroHne L. W., 100.00 Income from the Glover Fund, 50.00

In memory of "R. S. and L. T. S.," 10.00

Junior Children's Aid Society of Washington, Pa., . . 20.00 Moseley, Miss Ellen F., 100.00 Potter, Mrs. Warren B. (since died), 200.00 Primary department of the Sunday-school of the First Methodist Protestant Church of Pittsbvirgh, Pa.,

through Mrs. William McCracken, jr., 7.25 Wallace, Mrs. Augusta H., Allegheny, Pa., 5.00

$702.25 2 30

DONATIONS THROUGH THE LADIES' AUXILIARY.

Ahl, Mrs. Daniel, $25.00 Amory, Mrs. William, 2d, 5.00 Anonymous, 5.00 Bailey, Miss E. H., Peterborough, N.H., 5.00 Baldwin, Mrs. M. C, i5-oo Ballard, Miss Elizabeth, 5.00 Barstow, Mrs. A. C, Providence, R.I., 2.00 Bartlett, the Misses, Roxbury, 5.00 BayUes, Mrs. Walter C, i5-oo

Bemis, Mr. J. M., 10.00 Bigelow, Miss Mary A., 10.00 Blake, Mrs. Arthur W., Brookline, 5.00 Blake, Miss Mary S., Hampton Falls, N.H., .... i.oo

Bowditch, Mr. William I., 5.00 Bowker, Mrs. W. H., 2.00 Burnett, Mrs. R. E., Brookline, i.oo Cabot, Mrs. George E., 5.00

Cabot, Mrs. Joseph S., 5.00 Cary, Mrs. Richard, 9.00

Ca.ry, Miss G. S., 9.00 Church, Mrs. C. A., Brookhne, i.oo Church, Mrs. H. A., i.oo Cochran, Mrs. A. F., 3.00 Collar, Mr. William C, Roxbury, 2.00 Cotting, Mrs. C. E., 5.00 Cram, Mrs. W. A., Hampton Falls, N.H., i.oo Crane, Mrs. James B., Dalton, 10.00 Crane, Mrs. Z. Marshal, Dalton, 50.00 Crocker, Mrs. Uriel H., 10.00

Curtis, Mrs. Charles P., Jr., 10.00 Dabney, Mr. Lewis S., 25.00

Dabney, Miss Roxana L., Santa Barbara, Cal., . . . 3.00

' Atnount carried forward, . . . . $265.00 231

Amount brought forward, $265.00

Dana, Mrs. James, Brookline, 5.00 Devlin, Mr. John E., 25.00 DuBois, Mrs. L. G., 15.0c Ernst, Mrs. H. C, Jamaica Plain, 5.00 Eustis, Mr. W. Tracy, Brookline, 2.00 Evans, Mrs. Glendower, 5.00

"Every little helps," i.oo

Farnam, Mrs. Henry, New Haven, Conn, (since died), . 25.00 FitzGerald, Mrs. Desmond, Brookline, 5.00 Forbes, Mrs. F. B., 5.00

"For the Uttle blind girls," . . i.oo Fottler, Mrs. Jacob, 2.00 French, Miss Cornelia A., 25.00 Gardner, Mr. George A., 50.00 Glover, Mrs. Irene C, Roxbury, 2.00 Gooding, Mrs. T. P., 2.00 Gray, Mrs. Joseph H., 5.00 Green, Mr. Charles G., Cambridge, 10.00

Guild, Miss Harriet J., 5.00 Guild, Mrs. S. Eliot, 10.00 Hall, Miss Laura E., 5.00 Hallowell, Miss Henrietta T., Milton, ...... i.oo Hartwell, Mrs. Alfred T., Chestnut Hill, 2.00 Hill, Mrs. Lew C, 5.00 Howe, the Misses, BrookHne, 10.00 Keep, Mrs. F. E., BrookHne, i.oo Kimball, the Misses, Longwood, 25.00

Lang, Mrs. B. J., 10.00 Leavitt, Mr. Frank M., Roxbury, 5.00 Lincoln, Mr. A. L., BrookHne, 5.00 Loring, Mrs. Augustus P., 10.00 Lowell, Mrs. George G., 20.00 Manning, Mrs. F. C, 10.00 Mason, Mrs. A. F., Brookline, 5.00 Monks, Mrs. George H., i5-oo Morrill, Miss AmeHa, 50.00 Morrill, Miss Annie W., 20.00

Amount carried forward, $669.00 232

Amount brought forward, $669.00

Morrill, Miss Fanny E., 100.00 Morse, Mrs. Rebecca, 5.00 Murphy, Mrs. Frank S., i.oo Oliver, Mrs. S. P., Brookline, 2.00 Olmsted, Mrs. Mary C, Brookline, 5.00 Parker, Mrs. F. S., 5.00 Peabody, Mr. Francis H., 90.00 Perr}', Mrs. C. F., 5.00 Peters, Mrs. Francis A., 5.00 Pierce, Miss Katharine C, 5.00 Potter, Mrs. WiUiam H., BrookHne, 3.00 Pratt, Mr. Robert M., 25.00 Preston, Mrs. G. H., 3.00

Putnam, Mrs. James J., 5.00

Putnam, Mrs. J. Pickering, 10.00 Robbins, Miss Clara T., Brookhne, 10.00 Sanford, Mrs. A. E., Brookhne, 2.00 S. E. A., 1.00 Sever, Miss Emily, 5.00 Sherwin, Mr. Edward, 10.00

Souther, Mrs. J. K., 5.00 Spalding, Miss Dora N., 25.00 Spaulding, Mrs. Mahlon D., 100.00 Sprague, Dr. Francis P., 10.00 Sprague, Mrs. Mary B., Brookhne, i5-oo Stanwood, Mrs. E. C, 5.00 Stetson, Mr. Amos W. (since died), 20.00 Stevens, Miss Ahce B., Brookhne, 2.00 Stevenson, Miss Annie B., Brookhne, 3.00 Swift, Mrs. Edwin C, Prides Crossing, 20.00 Tapley, Mrs. Amos P., 10.00 Tappan, Miss Ehzabeth W., Brookhne, 2.00 Thayer, Mr. Byron T., 5.00 Thayer, Mrs. Ezra Ripley, 10.00 Tower, Col. Wilham A. (since died), 100.00 Townsend, Mrs. Wilham E., 5.00 Tucker, Mrs. WiUiam A., 3.00

Amount carried forward, $1,306.00 Amount brought forward, $1,306.00

Turner, Miss Esther Parkman, Brookline, 2.00 Vialle, Mr. Charles A., 5.00 Ward, the Misses, 10.00 Ware, Miss Mary Lee, 25.00 Watson, Mrs. Thomas A., Weymouth, 5.00 Wesson, Miss Isabel, 5.00 Whitman, Mr. James H., Charlestown, 10.00 Whitman, Mrs. James H., Charlestown, 10.00 Whitney, Miss Kate A., 5.00 ^Vhitney, Miss Maria D., 5.00 Willson, Miss Lucy B., Salem, 5.00 Windram, Mrs. Westwood T., 10.00

Wood, Mrs. R. W., Jamaica Plain, . 5.00 Woodman, Mr. Stephen F,, Jamaica Plain, 5.00

Youngman, Mrs. W. S., Brookhne, 2.00 $1,415.00

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Through the Ladies' Auxiliary Society, Miss S. E. Lane, Treasurer.

Abbott, Miss A. F., Brookline, $1.00 Abbott, Miss G. E., Brookhne, i.oo

' Abbott, Mrs. J., 5.00 Adams, Mrs. Charles H., Jamaica Plain, 5.00 Adams, Mr. George, Roxbury, i.oo Adams, Mrs. Hannah P., 5.00 Adams, Mrs. Waldo, 5.00 Alford, Mrs. O. H., Longwood, 5.00 Allen, Mrs. Angle N. (since died), 2.00 Men, Mrs. F. R., 5.00 Allen, Mrs. Thomas, 5.00 Allen, Mrs. W. H., 5.00 Allen, Mrs. W. L., Chestnut Hill, 2.00 Alley, Mrs. George R., Brookline, i.oo Ames, Rev. Charles Gordon, 10.00

Ames, Miss Mary S., 50.00

Amount carried forward, $ro8.oc 2 34

Amount brought forward, . . . $108.00

Amory, Mrs. Charles W., 100.00 Amory, Mrs. William, 5.00 Anderson, Miss Anna F., Lowell, 2.00

Anderson, Mrs. J. F., 5.00 Anthony, Mrs. S. Reed, 5.00 Appleton, Miss Fanny C, 2.00 Appleton, Mrs. William, 5.00 Archer, Mrs. Ellen M. H., Charlestown, i.oo Atkins, Mrs. Edwin F., Belmont, 5.00 Atkinson, Mrs. Edward, Brookline, 10.00 Ayer, Mrs. James B., 5.00 Bacon, Miss Ellen S., Jamaica Plain, 10.00 Bacon, Miss Mary P., Roxbury, 5.00 Badger, Mrs. WalUs B., Brookline, 2.00 Bailey, Mrs. Mollis R., Cambridge, 2.00 Balch, Miss Elizabeth A., 2.00 Balch, Mrs. F. G., 5-oo Baldwin, Mr. E. L., 2.00 Baldwin, Mrs. Percy V., 2.00 Bangs, Mrs. Edward, 5.00 Bangs, Mrs. F. R., 10.00 Barnard, Mrs. Mary C. E., Dorchester, 2.00 Barnes, Mrs. Amos, i-oo Barnes, Mrs. Charles B., 10.00 Barrows, Mrs. Henry H., S-oo Barstow, Miss C. A., 5.00 Bartlett, Miss Mary H., 500 Bartol, Miss Elizabeth H., 10.00 Bartol, Mrs. John W., 10.00 Bass, Mrs. Emma M., Newtonville, 10.00 Basto, Mrs. Mary A., Roxbury, 3.00 Batcheller, Mrs. A. H., 10.00 Batcheller, Mr. Robert, 2.00 Bates, Messrs. W. and S. W., 2.00 Batt, Mrs. C. R., Newton, 5.00 Beal, Mrs. Boylston A., 50° 25.00 Beebe, Mrs. J. Arthur,

Amount carried forward, $408.00 235

Amount brought forward, $408.00

Bell, Mrs. A. C, i.oo Bemis, Mrs. John W., 2.00 Berlin, Dr. Fanny, i.oo Bernstein, Mrs. Nathan, i.oo Berwin, Mrs. Jacob, 5.00 Betton, Mrs. C. G., i.oo Bigelow, Mrs. Alanson, Chestnut Hill, 2.00 Bigelow, Mrs. G. T., 5.00

Bigelow, Mrs. J. S., 10.00 Bigelow, Mrs. Prescott, Brookline, 10.00

Billings, Mrs. J. B., 2.00 Blacker, Miss Eliza F., AUston, 10.00 Blackmar, Mrs. W. W., 5.00 Blake, Mrs. Charles, 5.00

Blake, Mrs. S. Parkman, 5.00 Blake, Mr. WilUam P., 5.00 Boardman, Mrs. A. L., 2.00 Boardman, Miss E. D., 2.00 Boardman, Miss Madeleine, 2.00

Boland, Dr. E. S., 5.00 Bolster, Mrs. Wilfred, Roxbury, i.oo Bond, Mrs. Charles H., 10.00

Boody, Mr. J. H., Brookhne, 5.00 Borland, Mr. M. W., 10.00 Boutwell, Mrs. N. B., i.oo Bowditch, Mrs. Alfred, 5.00 Bowditch, Dr. Henry P., Jamaica Plain, 2.00 Bowditch, Dr. Vincent Y., "... 2.00

' Bradford, Mrs. C. F., . . . . 10.00 Bradstreet, Mrs. C. A., 20.00 Bradt, Mrs. Julia B., i.oo Bramhall, Mrs. William T., Brookline, 2.00

Bremer, Mrs. J. L., 10.00 Brewer, Mrs. D. C, 2.00

Brewer, Mr. Edward M., . 5.00

Brewer, Miss Lucy S., 10.00 Brown, Mrs. Atherton T., 10.00

Amount carried forward, $595.00 236

Amount brought forward, $595.00

Brown, Miss Augusta AI., 5.00 Brown, Mr. C. H. C, Brookline, 10.00 Brown, Miss Elizabeth Bowen, 5.00 Brown, Mrs. H. H., Brookline, 3.00 Brown, Mrs. Samuel N., 5.00 Bruerton, Mrs. James, Maiden, 10.00

Bryant, Mrs. J. D., 3.00 BuUard, Mr. Stephen, 10.00

BuUard, Mrs. William S., 10.00

Bullens, Mrs. George S., Newton, i.oo Bullens, Miss Charlotte L., Newton, i.oo

Bumstead, Mrs. Freeman J., Cambridge, 10.00 Bunker, Mr. Alfred, Roxbury, 2.00 Burgess, Mrs. George, Brookline (since died), .... 5.00 Burnett, Mrs. Joseph, 5.00

Burnham, Mrs. John A., Jr., 5.00 Burr, Mrs. Allston, Chestnut Hill, 5.00 Burr, Mrs. C. C, Newton Centre, 10.00

Burr, Mrs. I. Tucker, Jr., Readville, 10.00

Butler, Mrs. Charles S., 2.00 Cabot, Dr. A. T., 5.00 Cabot, Mr. John H., BrookHne, 5.00 Cabot, Mrs. Walter C, BrookUne, 25.00 Calkins, Miss Mary W., Wellesley, 2.00 Capen, Mr. Samuel B., Jamaica Plain, 3.00 Carr, Mrs. Samuel, 10.00 Carter, Mrs. George E., BrookUne, 5.00 Carter, Mrs. John W., West Newton, 5.00 Carter, Miss M. Ehzabeth, 20.00 Cary, Miss Ellen G., 20.00

Cary, Miss Georgiana S., i.oo Cary, Mrs. Richard (since died), i.oo Caryl, Miss Harriet E., 2.00 Case, Mrs. James B., 5.00 Cate, Mr. Martin L., Roxbury, 2.00 Cate, Mrs. Martin L., Roxbury, 5,00 Chamberlain, Mrs. M. L., 5.00

Amount carried forward, $833.00 237

Amount brought jorward, $833.00

Chandler, Mrs. Frank W., 5.00 Channing, Mrs. Walter, Brookline, 5.00 Chapin, Mrs. Henry B., Jamaica Plain, 10.00 Chapman, Miss E. D., Cambridge, i.oo

Chapman, Miss J. E. C, Cambridge, 2.00 Chase, Dr. H. Lincoln, Brookline, 2.00

Chase, Mrs. S. R., Brookline, i.oo

Chick, Mrs. I. W., 2.00 Choate, Mr. Charles F., 10.00 Clapp, Miss Antoinette, 2.00 Clapp, Dr. H. C, 2.00 Clapp, Miss Helen, Charlestown, N.H., 3.00 Clark, Mr. B. Preston, in memory of Mrs. B. C. Clark, 5.00

Clark, Mrs. Frederick S., 10.00

Clark, Mrs. J. J., 2.00 Clark, Mrs. John T., Jamaica Plain, 10.00 Clark, Miss Mary, 2.00 Clark, Miss Sarah W., Beverly, 10.00 Clerk, Mrs. W. F., Roxbury, 3.00 Cobb, Miss Clara, Quincy, i.oo Cobb, Mrs. Charles K., 5.00 Cobb, Mrs. John E., Brookhne, 2.00 Coburn, Mrs. George W., 25.00 Cochrane, Mrs. Alexander, 5.00 Codman, Mrs. Charles R., 10.00

Codman, Mrs. J. Amory, 5.00 Coffin, Mrs. George R., Brookline, 2.00 CoUamore, Miss, 5.00 Comer, Mrs. Joseph, Brookhne, i.oo Comstock, Mr. A. L., 5.00 Conant, Mrs. WilHam M., 2.00 Conrad, Mrs. David, Brookhne, 2.00 Converse, Mrs. Costello C, 10.00 CooUdge, Mrs. Algernon, 5.00 Coohdge, Mrs. Francis L., i.oo

CooHdge, Mrs. J. Randolph, 10.00 Coolidge, Mr. John T., 10.00

Amount carried jorivard, 81,026.00 238

Amount brought forward, $1,026.00

Cordis, Mrs. Edward, Jamaica Plain, 5.00 Corey, Mrs. H. D., Newton, 2.00 Cotton, Miss Elizabeth A., Longwood, 5.00

Covel, Mrs. A. S., 2.00 Cowing, Mrs. Martha W., Brookline, 25.00 Cox, Mrs. William E., Chestnut Hill, 10.00 Craig, Mrs. D. R., 5.00 Craigin, Dr. G. A., .... 5.00 Crane, Mrs. Aaron M., 5.00 Crane, Mr. Zenas, Dalton 50.00 Crehore, Mrs.. G. C, 5.00 Crocker, Miss Sarah H., 5.00

Crosby, Mrs. S. V. R., 10.00 Cumings, Mrs. Charles B., Jamaica Plain (since died), 2.00 Cumings, Mrs. John W., Brookline, 2.00 Cummings, Mrs. Charles A., 5.00 Curtis, the Misses, Brooldine, 2.00 Curtis, Mrs. Charles P., 20.00 Curtis, Mr. George W., Ro.xbury, 5.00 Curtis, Mrs. H. G., S-oo

Curtis, Mrs. J. F., 5.00 Curtis, Mrs. M. S., BrookHne, 2.00 Curtis, Mr. William O., Roxbury, 5.00 Gushing, Mrs. H. W., 5.00 Gushing, Miss Sarah P., 5.00 Cutler, Mrs. Charles F., i.oo Cutler, Mrs. E. G., 2.00 Cutler, Mrs. George C, BrookUne, 2.00 Cutter, Mr. Edward L., Dorchester, i.oo Cutter, Mrs. Ellen M., i.oo Cutter, Mrs. Frank W., Dorchester, i.oo Cutts, Mrs. H. M., Brookline, i.oo Dale, Mrs. Eben, 5.00 Dana, Mrs. George N., 5.00 Dana, Mr. Samuel B., 10.00

Dane, Mrs. E. S., Longwood, S-oo Dane, Mrs. Francis, i.oo

Amount carried forward, $1,258.00 2 39

Amount brought forward, $1,258.00

Daniell, Mrs. Henry W., 5.00 Dary, Mr. George A., Roxbury, 2.00 Davis, Mrs. Edward L., 5.00 Davis, Mrs. James H., North Andover, 5.00 Davis, Mrs. Simon, 3.00 Day, Mrs. Lewis, Norwood, 2.00 Dehon, Miss Cornelia (since died), 5.00 Dennison, Mrs. E. W., 5.00 Denny, Mrs. Arthur B., Chestnut Hill, 5.00 Denny, Mrs. H. M., i.oo Denny, Mrs. W. C, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2.00 Derby, Mrs. Hasket, 5.00 Dewey, Miss Mary E., 5.00 Dexter, Miss Elsie, 2.00 Dexter, Mrs. Franklin, 5.00 Dexter, Miss Sarah V., 10.00 Dexter, Mrs. Wirt, 10.00

Dixon, Mrs. L. S., 2.00 Doliber, Mrs. Thomas, Brookline, 5.00 Downes, Mrs. Lilla A., Roxbury, 2.00 Draper, Dr. F. W., 5.00 Driscoll, Mrs. Dennis, Brookline, 2.00 Drost, Mrs. C. A., 2.00 Drummond, Mrs. James, 5.00 Dunbar, Mrs. James R., Brookline, 5.00 Dwight, Mrs. Thomas, i.oo

Eager, Mrs. Elizabeth C, . . 5.00 Edgar, Mrs. C. L., Longwood, 5.00 Edmands, Mr. H. H. W., Roxbury, 2.00 Edmands, Mrs. M. G., Chestnut Hill, 10.00 Edmond, Mrs. Emma H., Brookline, 2.00 Edwards, Miss Hannah M., 10.00 Edwards, Mr. John C, Brookline, 10.00 EUot, Mrs. Amory, 2.00 Ehot, Mrs. W. R., 5.00 Ellis, Mrs. Caleb, i.oo Elms, Miss Florence G., Newton, i.oo

Amount carried fonvard, $1,417.00 240

Amount brought forward, $1,417.00

Elms, Mrs. James C, Newton, i.oo Ely, Mrs. Harriet E., 5.00 Emerson, Miss Elizabeth, Brookline, 10.00 Emerson, Mrs. Harriet M., 3.00 Emery, Mrs. Mark, North Anson, Me., i.oo Emmons, Mrs. Olive E., 3.00 Emmons, Mrs. R. W., 2d, 20.00 Endicott, Mrs. Henry, 5.00 Endicott, Mrs. William C, 5.00 Ernst, Mrs. C. W., 2.00 Estabrook, Mrs. Arthur F., 5.00 Estabrook, Mrs. George W., i.oo Eustis, Mrs. Henry L., Brookline, 5.00 Evans, Mrs. Charles, 2.00 Everett, Miss Caroline F., Roxbury, i.oo Fairbairn, Mrs. R. B., 2.00 Fairbanks, Mrs. C. F., 5.00 Farmer, Mr. L. G., Roxbury, i.oo Farnsworth, Mrs. Edward M., Sr., Brookline, .... 2.00 Faulkner, Miss Fannie M., 15.00 Fay, Mrs. Dudley B., 10.00

Fay, Mrs. Joseph S., 10.00 Fay, Miss Sarah B., 10.00 Fay, Miss Sarah M., 10.00 Ferrin, Mrs. M. T. B., Newton, 5.00 Field, Mrs. D. W., Brockton, 5.00 Fillebrown, Mrs. F. E., Brookline, i.oo Fisk, Mr. Lyman B., Cambridge, 10.00 Fiske, Mrs. Joseph N., 5.00 Fitch, Miss Carrie T., 10.00 Fitz, Mrs. Walter Scott, 25.00 Flagg, Mrs. Augustus, 6.00 Flint, Mrs. Caroline E., Brookline, 5.00 Foote, Mr. Henry W., New Orleans, La., 10.00 Forbes, Mrs. W. H., Jamaica Plain, 3.00 Forster, Mrs. Henry, Jamaica Plain, 5.00 Foss, Mrs. Eugene N., Jamaica Plain, 10.00

Amount carried forward, . $1,651.00 241

Amount brought forward, $1,651.00

Foster, Mrs. A. S., Chestnut Hill, 2.00 Freeman, Mrs. A. Forbes, 2.00 Freeman, Mrs. H. H., 3.00 Freeman, Mrs. Louisa A., 2.00 French, Mrs. E. A., 5.00

French, Mrs. John J., 5.00 Friedman, Mrs. Max, Roxbury, 5.00

Friedman, Mrs. S., Roxbury, 5.00 Frothingham, Mrs. L. F., 2.00 Fry, Mrs. Charles, 10.00 Fuller, Mrs. R. B., 5.00 Gardner, Mrs. John L., 5.00 Gates, Mr. Gardiner P., 5.00 Gay, Mrs. Albert, Brookline, i.oo Gay, Dr. Warren F., 5.00 Giddings, Mrs. E. L., 2.00 Gilbert, Mr. Joseph T., 2.00 Gill, Mr. Abbott D., Roxbury, 2.00

Gill, Mrs. George F., i.oo

Gillett, Mr. S. Lewis, Roxbury, 3.00 Gilmore, Mrs. K. M., 5.00 Gleason, Mrs. Cora L., i.oo Goodhue, Mrs. George H., Chestnut Hill, i.oo Gorham, Mrs. W. H., 5.00 Gowing, Mrs. Henry A,, Brookline, 2.00 Grandgent, Prof. Charles H., Cambridge, 5.00 Grandgent, Mrs. Lucy L., Cambridge, 5.00 Grant, Mrs. Robert, 5.00

Graves, Mrs. J. L., 5.00 Gray, Mrs. John Chipman, 20.00 Gray, Mrs. Morris, Chestnut Hill, 5.00 Gray, Mrs. Reginald, Chestnut Hill, 5.00 Greeley, Mrs. R. F., 5.00

Greene, Mrs. J. S. Copley, 2.00 Greenleaf, Mrs. Lyman B., 5.00 Greenough, Mrs. A. A., Jamaica Plain, 5.00 Greenough, Mrs. Charles P., Longwood, 2.00

Amount carried forward, $1,806.00 242

Amount brought forward, $1,806.00

Grew, Mrs. H. S., 10.00

Griffith, Mrs. J. E., Brookline, i.oo Griggs, Mr. B. F., Roxbury, i.oo Griggs, Mrs. Thomas B., i.oo Hall, Mrs. Anthony D., 2.00

Hall, Mrs. Eliza J., 2.00 Hall, Mrs. Solomon, Dorchester, 10.00 Hall, Mr. William F., Brookline, 5.00 Harding, Mrs. Edgar, 10.00 Hardy, Mrs. A. H., 3.00 Harrington, Mrs. F. B., 5.00 Harrington, Dr. Harriet L., Dorchester, 2.00 Harris, Miss Frances K., Jamaica Plain, 2.00 Hart, Mrs. Thomas N., 2.00 Hartley, Mrs. Harry, BrookUne, 10.00

Harwood, Mrs. George S., Newton, 5.00 Haskell, Mrs. W. A., 2.00 Hatch, Mrs. Jennie B., Reading, 5.00 Hawes, the Misses, 2.00 Hayden, Mrs. C. R., 5.00

Heard, Mrs. J. Theodore, 5.00 Heath, Mr. Nathaniel, 5.00 Hecht, Mrs. Jacob H., 5.00 Hemenway, Mrs. C. P., 10.00 Herman, Mrs. Joseph M., 2.00

Herrick, Miss A. J., i.oo Herrick, Miss C. M., Chelsea, "... i.oo Hersey, Mrs. Alfred H., 5.00 Hersey, Miss M. T., i.oo Higginson, Mrs. F. L., 5.00 Higginson, Miss E. C, Brookhne, 5.00 Higginson, Mrs. Henry Lee, 25.00 Hill, Mrs. Hamilton A., 3.00

Hill, Mrs. S. A., Brookhne, i.oo Hill, Mrs. WilUam H., BrookUne (since died), .... 5.00 Hills, Mrs. S. E., Jamaica Plain, 2.00 Hobbs, Mrs. Warren D., 2.00

Amount carried forward, $1,974.00 24 ^

Amount brought forward, $1,974.00

Hodgdon, Mrs. Henrietta, 5.00 Hogg, Mr. John, 25.00 Holbrook, Mrs. Walter H., Newton, 2.00 Hollander, Mrs. Louis P., 5.00 Hood, Mrs. George H., 5.00 Hooper, Miss Adeline D., 5.00 Hooper, Mrs. James R., iS-oo Hooper, Mrs. N. L., i.oo Hopkins, Mrs. Charles A., Brookline, 10.00 Horton, Mrs. Edward A., 2.00 Houghton, Miss Elizabeth G., 10.00 Houston, Mr. James A., Roxbury, 5.00 Howard, Mrs. P. B., Brookline, i.oo Howe, Mrs. Arabella, 2.00 Howe, Mrs. George D., 5.00 Howe, Mr. George E., 2.00

Howe, Mrs. J. S., Brookline, 5.00 Howes, Mrs. Osborn, 2.00 Howland, Mrs. D. W., Brookhne, 2.00 Hoyt, Mrs. C. C., Brookline, 2.00

Hoyt, Mrs. J. C, Newburyport, 5.00 Hubbard, Mrs. Elliot, 10.00 Hudson, Mrs. John E., 5.00 Hunneman, Miss Elizabeth A., Roxbury, 3.00

Hunneman, Mrs. S. W., Roxbury, 2.00 Hunnewell, Mrs. Arthur, 10.00 Hunnewell, Mr. Walter, 20.00 Hutchins, Mrs. Constantine F., 5.00 Hyde, Mrs. H. D., i.oo lasigi, Mrs. Oscar, 10.00 In memory of Mrs. Susan Emerson, Brookline, .... 10.00 In memory of Mrs. Charles Lowell Thayer, 3.00

Ireson, Mrs. S. E., 5.00

Jackson, Mrs. Emily J., 20.00 Jelly, Dr. George F., 10.00 Jenkins, Mr. Charles, 5.00 Jennings, Miss Julia F., Wellesley, i.oo

Amount carried forward, 82,210.00 244

Ajnount brought forward, $2,210.00

Jewett, Miss Annie (for 1903-04), 4.00 Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, South Berwick, Me., .... 5.00 Johnson, >Iiss Mary F., 5.00 Johnson, Mr. Arthur S., 5.00 Johnson, Mrs. Edward, 2.00 Johnson, Mr. Edward C, 10.00 Johnson, Miss Fanny L., Wollaston, i.oo Johnson, Mrs. F. W., 3.00

Johnson, Mrs. Herbert S., 10.00 Johnson, Mr. Wolcott H., 10.00 Jolliffe, Mrs. T. H., Brookline, 5.00 Jones, Mrs. B. M., 10.00 Jones, ]Miss Ellen M. (since died), 10.00 Jones, Mrs. Jerome, Brookline, 10.00 Jordan, Mrs. Eben D., 5.00 Josselyn, Mrs. A. S., 5.00 Joy, Mrs. Charles H. (for 1903-04), 20.00 Keep, Mrs. Charles M., Longwood, i.oo Kenerson, Mr. Austin H., Roxbury, 2.00 Kennard, Mrs. Charles W., 5.00

Kettle, Mrs. C. L., . . i.oo

Kidder, Mrs. Henry P., ' 10.00 Kidner, Mrs. Reuben, 2.00 Kimball, Mrs. D. P., 25.00 Kimball, Mr. Edward P., Maiden, 10.00 Kimball, Mrs. Marcus M., 50.00 Kimball, Miss Susan Day, 2.00 King, Mrs. D. Webster, 2.00

King, Mrs. S. G., 2.00 Kingsbury, Miss Mary E., Brookline, i.oo Klous, Mr. Isaac, Roxbury, 2.00 Koshland, Mrs. Joseph, 10.00 Kuhn, Mrs. Grace M., 10.00 Lamb, Miss Augusta T., Brookline, i.oo

Lamson, Mrs. J. A., 2.00 Lane, Mrs. Benjamin P., Roxbury, i.oo Larkin, the blisses, 2.00

Amount carried forward, $2,471.00 245

Amount brought forward, $2,471.00

Lavalle, Mrs. John, 5.00 Lawrence, Mr. Charles R., Brookline, 5.00 Leavitt, Mrs. George R., Lexington, 2.00 Lee, Mrs. George C., 10.00 Lee, Mrs. Joseph, 100.00 Leeds, Miss CaroHne T., Cambridge, i.oo Leiand, Mrs. Lewis A., Brookline, i.oo Leland, Mrs. Mary E., 2.00 Levy, Mrs. B., Brookline, 2.00 Lincoln, Miss C. K. T. (since died), i.oo Linder, Mrs. G., 10.00 Linder, Mrs. John F., Brookline, 2.00 Lins, Mrs. Ferdinand, Jamaica Plain, 2.00 Livermore, Mr. Thomas L., Jamaica Plain, 10.00 Locke, Mrs. Charles A., Chestnut Hill, 10.00 Loring, the Misses, 30.00 Loring, Mr. W. C, 25.00 Loring, Mrs. W. C, 25.00 Lothrop, Miss Mary B., ^.00 Lothrop, Mrs. Thornton K., t;o.oo Lothrop, Mrs. W. S. H., 5.00 Loud, Miss Sarah P., r qq

Lovering, Mrs. Charles T., 5. 00 Lovett, Mr. A. S., Brookhne, 5.00

Lovett, Mrs. A. S., Brookhne, 5. 00 Low, Mrs. Gilman S., 2.00 Lowell, Mrs. Charles, ^.00

Lowell, Mrs. Edward J.. coo

r Lowell, Mrs. John, Jr., . qo Lyman, Mr. John Pickering, 10.00 Lyman, Mrs. Theodore, Brookhne, 20.00 Mack, Mrs. Thomas, r. 00

Magee, Mr. J. L., Chelsea, 10.00 Mallory, Mrs. F. B., 2.00 Mandell, Mrs. S. P., 5.00

Mansfield, Mrs. George S., Maiden, 2. 00 Marrs, Mrs. Kingsmill, Wayland, 10.00

Amount carried forward, $2,876.00 246

Amount brought forward, $2,876.00

Marsh, Mrs. Robert, 3.00

Marshall, Mrs. J. P. C, 10.00 Mason, Miss Fanny P., 10.00 Matchett, Mrs. W. F., 5.00

Mead, Mrs. S. R., Dedham, . ^ 10.00 Means, Miss Anne M., 10.00

Means, Mrs. William A., . 10.00 Meredith, Mrs. Joseph H., 5.00 Merriam, Mrs. Charles (since died), 5.00

Merrill, Mrs. J. Warren, Cambridge, 10.00 Merriman, Mrs. Daniel, 10.00 Messinger, Miss Susan D., Roxbury, i.oo

Metcalf, Mrs. I. Harris, . 3.00 Meyer, Mrs. George von L., 25.00 Mills, Mrs. D. T., 5.00 Mixter, Miss M. A., i.oo Mixter, Mrs. William, i.oo Monks, Mrs. George H., 5.00 Monroe, Mrs. George H., Brookline, 5.00 Morison, Mr. George B., 5.00 Morison, Mrs. John H., 5.00 Morrill, Miss Annie W., 5.00 Morrill, Mrs. Ellen A., Roxbury, 5.00 Morrill, Miss Fanny E., 5.00 Morrill, Mrs. F. Gordon, 2.00 Morse, Mrs. Jacob, 5.00 Morse, Miss Margaret F., Jamaica Plain, 5.00

Morse, Mrs. S. A., . 2.00

Morss, Mrs. Anthony S., Charlestown, 5.00 Moseley, Miss Ellen F., 5.00 Motte, Mrs. Ellis L., 2.00 Nathan, Mrs. Jacob, Brookline, 2.00 Nazro, Mrs. Fred H., Roxbury, 2.00 Nazro, Miss Mary W., Roxbury, 2.00 Neal, Miss Caro F., Brookline, 5.00 Newell, Mrs. James W., Brookline, 2.00 Newell, Mrs. M. A. M., Roxbury, 5.00

Amount carried forward, $3,079.00 247

Amount brought forward, $3,079.00

Newton, Mrs. E. Bertram, i.oo Nichols, Mrs. E. H., Brookline, 5.00

Nichols, Mrs. Fred S., 5.00 Nichols, Mr. Seth, New York City, 5.00 Nickerson, Mr. Andrew, 10.00 Niebuhr, Miss Mary M., i.oo Norcross, Mrs. Otis, 5.00

Norcross, Mrs. Otis, Jr., 5.00 North, Mrs. James N., Brookline, 5.00 Noyes, Mrs. George D., Brookline, 3.00 Oliver, Miss Martha C, Phila., 2.00 Osborn, Mrs. Anna F., Hartland, Me., 2.00 Osborn, Mrs. John B., 2.00 Osgood, Mrs. John Felt, i5-oo Page, Mrs. Calvin Gates, 2.00

Page, Mrs. L. J., Brookline, 3.00 Paine, Mrs. William D., Brookline, 2.00

Palfrey, Mrs. J. C, 2.00 Parker, Mrs. Charles E., i.oo

Parker, Miss Eleanor S., 5.00 Parker, Mrs. Theodore K., Winchendon, i.oo Parkinson, Mrs. John (since died), 20.00 Parsons, Miss Anna Q. T., Roxbury, 5-oo Peabody, Mrs. Anna P., 25.00 Peabody, Mrs. C. H., BrookUne, 2.00 Peabody, Mr. Francis H., 10.00 Peabody, Mrs. Oliver W., 5.00

Peabody, Mrs. S. Endicott, 10.00 Pearson, Mrs. C. H., Brookline, 5.00

Pecker, the Misses Annie J. and Mary L., 10.00 Peirce, Mrs. Silas, Brookline, 2.00 Peirson, Mrs. Charles L., 10.00 Penfield, Mrs. James A., 2.00 Percy, Mrs. Fred B., Brookline, 2.00 Perry, Mrs. ClaribelN., 5.00 Perry, Miss Elizabeth H., Bridgewater, 2.00 Pfaelzer, Mrs. F. T., 5.00

Amount carried forward, $3,281.00 248

Amount brought forward, $3,281.00

Phelps, Mrs. George H., 5.00

Philbrick, Mrs. E. S., Brookline, 2.00 Phillips, Mrs. Anna T., 25.00 Pickert, Mrs. Lehman, Brookline, 2.00 Pickman, Mrs. Dudley L., 25.00 Pierce, Mr. Phineas, 5.00 Pope, Mrs. Albert A., 25.00 Pope, Drs. C. A. and E. F., 2.00 Porteous, Miss M. F., 2.00 Porter, Mrs. Georgia M. Whidden, 25.00 Porter, Mrs. P. G., Cambridge, i.oo Potter, Mrs. Warren B. (since died), 100.00 Poulsson, Miss EmiUe, Leicester, i.oo Poulsson, Miss Laura E., Leicester, i.oo Prager, Mrs. Philip, 3.00 Pratt, Mrs. Elliott W., 3.00 Prendergast, Mr. James M., 10.00 Prescott, Dr. W. H., 2.00 Preston, Mrs. G. H., 2.00

Prince, Mrs. C. J., 5.00 Proctor, Mrs. Henry H., 2.00

Punchard, Miss A. L., Brookline, ' 5.00 Putnam, Miss Ellen D., 5.00 Putnam, Mrs. George, 5.00 Putnam, Miss Georgina Lowell, 10.00 Putnam, Mr. W. E., Brookline, 5.00 Quincy, Mrs. George H., 10.00 Quincy, Mrs. H. P., 5.00 Ramsdell, Mrs. E. A., i.oo Ranney, Mr. Fletcher, 5.00 Ratshesky, Mrs. LA., 5.00 Ratshesky, Mrs. Fanny, 5.00 Raymond, Mrs. Henry E., 5.00 Reed, Mrs. William H., 20.00

Revere, Mrs. Paul J. (since died), i.oo Reynolds, Mr. Walter H., 5.00 Rhodes, Mrs. Albert H., 2.00

Amount carried forward, $3,623.00 249

Amount brought forward, $3,623.00

Rhodes, Miss Florence R., 2.00 Rhodes, Mrs. James F., 5.00 Rhodes, Mrs. S. H,, Brookline, 5.00 Rice, Mr. David, 10.00 Rice, Mrs. David, 15.00 Rice, Mrs. David Hall, Brookline, 2.00 Rice, Mrs. Henry A., 5.00 Rice, Mrs. N. W., 5.00 Rice, Mrs. W. B., Quincy, 2.00 Richards, Miss Alice A., Brookline, 5.00 Richards, Miss Ahce A, (in memory of her mother, Mrs. Dexter N. Richards), 25.00 Richards, Miss Annie L., 20.00 Richards, Miss C, 5.00 Richards, Mrs. C. A., 25.00 Richards, Mrs. E. L., Brookline, 2.00 Richardson, Mrs. Edward C, 5.00 Richardson, Mrs. Frederick, Brookline, 5.00 Richardson, Mrs. Mary R., 10.00 Riley, Mr. Charles E., Newton, 10.00 Ripley, Mr. Frederic H., 2.00 Robbins, Mr. R. C, 5.00 Robinson, Mrs. Henry H., Brookhne, 2.00 Robinson, Miss H. M., 25.00 Roby, Mrs. Cynthia C, Wayland, 10.00 Rodman, Mr. S. W., 10.00 Roeth, Mrs. A. G., i.oo Rogers, Miss Anna P., 10.00 Rogers, Mrs. Jacob C, 10.00

Rogers, Mrs. J. F., 3.00 Rogers, Mrs. R. K., Brookhne, 5.00 Rogers, Miss Susan S., 5.00 Rogers, Mrs. Wilham B., 3.00 Rosenbaum, Miss Elsa, i.oo Rosenbaum, Mrs. L., i.oo Ross, Mrs. Waldo O., 5.00 Rotch, Mrs. Clara M., New Bedford, 10.00

Amount carried forward, $3,894.00 250

Amount brought forward, $3,894.00

Rotch, Mrs. T. M., 2.00 Rothwell, Mrs. W. H., Brookline, 5.00 Rowland, Mrs. Charles B., New York City, 25.00 Russell, Mrs. Elliott, 2.00 Russell, Mrs. Henry G., Providence, R.I., 25.00 Russell, Mrs. Isaac H., Roxbury, 5.00 Russell, Mrs. William A., ro.oo

Rust, Mrs. Nathaniel J., 2.00 Rust, Mrs. W. A., 10.00 Ryan, Miss Mary, Quincy, i.oo Sabin, Mrs. Charles W., Brookline, 2.00 Sabine, Miss Catherine, Brookline, 2.00 Sabine, Mrs. G. K., Brookline, 2.00 Sacker, Miss Amy M., 2.00 Saltonstall, Mr. Richard M., in memory of his mother, Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall, 10.00 Sampson, Mrs. Edwin H., Cambridge, i.oo Sampson, Mrs. H. H., Brookline, i.oo Sampson, Mrs. Oscar H., 5.00 Sanborn, Mrs. C. W. H., i.oo Sargent, Mrs. E. P., Brookline, 2.00 Sargent, Mrs. F. W., 5.00 Sargent, Mrs. L. M., 5.00 Saunders, Mrs. D. E., Brookline, i.oo Sawyer, Mr. Timothy T., 5.00 Scaife, Miss Helen, 2.00 Schouler, Mrs. James, 5.00 Scott, Mrs. William M., 2.00

Scudder, Mrs. J. D., in memory of her mother, Mrs. N. M. Downer, 5.00 Scull, Mrs. Gideon, 10.00 Seamans, Mrs. Frank F., Brookline, i.oo Seamans, Mr. James M., Brookline, 10.00 Sears, Mr. Frederick R., 25.00 Sears, Mrs. Herbert M., 25.00 Sears, Mrs. Knyvet W., 10.00 Sears, Mrs. Philip H., 10.00

Amount carried forward, $4,130.00 251

Amount brought forward, $4,130.00

Sears, Mrs. Philip S., 10.00 Sears, Mrs. Willard T., 5.00 Severance, Mrs. Pierre C, 5,00 Shapleigh, Miss Frances H., Brookline, i.oo Shapleigh, Mrs. John W., Brookhne, 2.00 Shattuck, Mrs. George B., 5.00 Shaw, Mrs. Benjamin S., 5.00 Shaw, Mrs. G. Howland, 10.00 Shaw, Mrs. George R., 2.00 Shaw, Mrs. Robert Gould, 5.00 Shepard, Mrs. L. H., Brookhne, 5.00 Shepard, Mr. O. A., Brookhne, 3.00

Shepard, Mrs. Thomas H., Brookhne, . 5,00 Shepard, Mrs. T. P., Providence, R.I., 25.00 Sherburne, Mrs. C. W., 5.00 Sherburne, Airs. F. S., 5.00 Sherman, Mrs. George M., Brookhne, 2.00 Shuman, Mrs. A. (since died), 5.00 Sigourney, Mr. Henry, 10.00 Simpkins, Miss Mary W., Jamaica Plain, 5,00 Simpson, Mrs. G. W., Longwood, i.oo Skinner, Mrs. WiUiam, Holyoke, 5.00 Slatery, Mrs. WilUam, i.oo

Smith, ]\Iiss Annie E., Roxbury, 2.00 Smith, Mrs. Thomas P., Brookhne, 2.00 Snow, Mrs. F. E., 20.00 Snow, Mr. WiUiam G., Phila., 5.00 Soren, Mr. John H., Roxbury, i.oo S. P. B., I.oo Sprague, Mrs. Charles, i.oo Sprague, Miss M. C., Brookhne, 5.00 Stackpole, Mrs. F. D., 2.00 Stackpole, Miss Roxanna, 5.00 Stadtmiller, Mrs. F., Jamaica Plain, 5.00 Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H., Brookhne, .... 30.00 Stearns, Mrs. R. H., 10.00 Stearns, Mrs. R. S., Jamaica Plain, 10.00

Amount carried forward, $4,356.00 252

Amount brought forward, ^ . . . . $4,356.00

Steese, Mrs. Edward, Brookline, 5.00 Steinert, Mrs. Alex., 3.00 Stetson, Miss Sarah M., 10.00 Stevens, Mrs. H. H., 5.00

Stevens, Mr. J. C, 2.00 Stevenson, Miss Annie B., Brookline, 5.00 Stevenson, Mrs. Robert H., 10.00 Stockton, Mrs. Mary A., 3.00 Stone, Mrs. Edwin P., 5.00 Stone, Mrs. Frederick, i5-oo Storer, Mss A. M., 5.00 Storer, Miss M. G., 5.00

Storrow, Mrs. J. J., 10.00 Strauss, Mrs. Ferdinand, i.oo Strauss, Mrs. Louis, 2.00 Strong, Mrs. Alexander (since died), 10.00 Sturgis, Mrs. John H., 5.00 Swan, Mr. Charles H., 5.00 Swan, Miss Elizabeth B., Dorchester, 5.00 Swann, Mrs. John, Stockbridge 10.00 Sweetser, Mr. Frank E., 5.00 Sweetser, Mrs. Frank E., 5.00 Sweetser, Miss Ida E., 10.00

Sweetser, Mr. I. Homer, 10.00 Symonds, Miss Lucy Harris, 5.00 Taft, Mrs. L. H., Brookline, 5.00 Talbot, Mrs. Thomas, North Billerica, 25.00

Talbot, ]\irs. Thomas Palmer, Roxbury, i.oo Talbot, Miss Leslie, Roxbury, i.oo Talbot, Miss Marjorie, Roxbury, i.oo Talbot, Mrs. William H., i.oo Tappan, MissMary A., 15.00

Tarbell, Mr. John F. (in memory of Mrs. J. P. Tarbell), 10.00

Taylor, Mrs. Charles H., Jr., 10.00 Taylor, Mrs. E. B., 5.00 Thacher, Mrs. Henry C, 10.00 Thacher, Mrs. Lydia W., Peabody, 5.00

Amount carried forward, $4,601.00 253

Amount brought forward, $4,601.00

Thayer, Miss Adela G., 10.00 Thayer, Mrs. Bayard, 50.00 Thayer, Miss Harriet L., 5.00 Thayer, Mrs. William G., Southborough, 10.00 Thomas, Miss Catharine C, 2.00 Thomson, Mrs. Arthur C, Brookline, 5.00 Thorndike, Mrs. Alden A., 5.00 Thorndike, Mrs. Augustus, S-oo Thorndike, Mrs. A. L., Brookline, i.oo

Tibbetts, Miss S. M., Salem, 2.00 Tileston, Miss Edith, i.oo Tileston, Miss Eleanor, i.oo Tileston, Mrs. John B., 5.00 Titcomb, Mrs. Joseph A., 2.00 Topliff, Miss Mary M., 3.00 i-oo Townsend, Mrs. J. P., Tucker, Mrs. James, i.oo i.oo Tucker, Mrs. J. Alfred, Newton, Tuckerman, Mrs. C. S., 2.00 Turner, Miss Abby W., Randolph, 25.00 Tyler, Mrs. Joseph H., 5.00 Van Nostrand, Mrs. Alonzo G., 5.00

Vass, Miss Harriet, Brookline, •. 2.00 Vickery, Mrs. Herman F., 5.00 Vogel, Mrs. Frederick W., Roxbury, 5.00

Vorenberg, Mrs. S., i.oo Vose, Mrs. Charles, 2.00 Vose, Mr. Frank T., 5.00 Wadsworth, Mrs. A. F., 5.00

Wadsworth, Mr. Clarence S., 10.00 Wadsworth, Mrs. O. F., 5.00 Waldo, Mr. Clarence H., 2.00 Walker, Mr. Charles C, 5.00 2.00 Walker, Mrs. J. Albert, Walley, Miss Helen B., 5.00 Ward, Miss E. M., 5.00 Ware, Miss Harriot, Cromwell, Conn., 2.00

Amount carried forward, $4,809.00 254

Amount brotcght forward, $4,809.00

Warren, Mrs. B. W., 10.00 Warren, Mrs. William W., 25.00 Wason, Mrs. Elbridge, Brookline, 5.00 Watson, Mrs. C. Herbert, Brookline, 5.00 Watson, Mrs. H. H., 2.00 Wead, Mrs. Leslie C, Brookline, 2.00 Webster, Mrs. F. G., 5.00 Weeks, Mrs. Andrew G., 10.00

Weeks, Mr. Andrew G., Jr., 5.00 Weeks, Mrs. W. B. P., 2.00 Weld, Mrs. A. Davis, Jamaica Plain, 5.00 Weld, Mrs. A. W., Chestnut Hill, 2.00 Weld, Mrs. Samuel M., North Chatham, 5.00 Weld, Mrs. William F., 20.00 West, Mrs. Preston C. F., 2.00 W^eston, Mrs. H. C, 10.00

Whalen, Mrs. J. E., Melrose Highlands, i.oo Wheeler, Mrs. Charles D., Brookline, 5.00 Wheeler, Mrs. G. H., i.oo Wheelwright, the Misses, 2.00 Wheelwright, Mrs. Edward, 5.00 Wheelwright, Mrs. John W., 10.00 Whipple, Mrs. Sherman L., Brookline, 10.00 White, Mrs. Charles T., 3.00 White, Miss Eliza Orne, Brookline, 5.00 White, Mr. George A., 25.00 White, Mrs. Jonathan H., Brookline, 10.00 White, Mrs. Joseph H., Brookline, 2.00 ^Vhiteside, Mrs. A., 3.00

Whiting, Mrs. J. K., Longwood, 5.00 Whiting, Miss Susan A., Newton, 5.00

Whiting, Mrs. S. B., Cambridge, 5.00

Whiting, Mrs. W. S., Brookline, 5.00 Whitman, Mrs. Henry (since died), 25.00 Whitney, the Misses, 2.00

Whitney, IVIr. Edward F., New York City, 10.00 Whitney, Mrs. George, 2.00

Amount carried forward, 85,065.00 255

Amount brought forward, 85,065.00

Whitney, Mr. George M., Winchendon, i.oo Whitney, Mrs. H. A., 5.00 Whitney, Mrs. Henry M., Brookline, 5.00

Whitney, Mrs. I. G., 2.00 Whitney, Miss Mary, i.oo

Whitney, Mr. S. B., 10.00 Whittemore, Mrs. Augustus, Brookline, 2.00 Whittington, Mrs. Hiram, 2.00 Whitwell, Mrs. Frederick A., 5.00 Wilbur, Mrs. Alfred, Brookline, 2.00 Willard, Mrs. A. R., 5.00 Willard, Miss Edith G., 2.00 Willcomb, Mrs. George, 5.00 Willcutt, Mr. Le\d L., Brookhne, 10.00 Williams, the Misses, Concord, 2.00 W^illiams, Miss Adelia C., Roxbury, 10.00

Williams, Mrs. Arthur, Jr., Brookline, i.oo Williams, Mrs. Charles A., Brookline, 5-oo Williams, Mrs. Harriet C, 25.00 Williams, Mrs. Jeremiah, 2.00 Williams, Mr. Moses, 5.00 Williams, Mrs. Moses, 5.00

WiUiams, Mrs. S. H., Brookhne, i.oo Williams, Mrs. T. B., 5.00 Wilson, Miss Annie E., Brookline, 5.00 Wilson, Mrs. Edward C, Brookhne, 5.00 Wilson, Miss Lilly U., Brookline, 5.00 Wing, Mrs. M. B., Brookline, i.oo Winkley, Mrs. Samuel H., 25.00 Winsor, Mrs. Ernest, Chestnut Hill, 2.00

Withington, Miss Anna S., Brookhne, i.oo Withington, Mrs. Charles F., i.oo Wolcott, Mrs. Roger, 5.00 Wonson, Mrs. Harriet A., \A'averIey, 5.00

Wood, Mrs. E. S., 2.00 Wood, Mr. Henry, Cambridge, 5.00 Woodbury, Mr. John P., 5.00

Amount carried forward, $5,250.00 256

Amount carried forward, $5,250.00

Woodworth, Mrs. A. S., 10.00 Worthley, Mrs. George H., Brookline, 2.00 Wright, Mrs. John G., Chestnut Hill, 10.00 Wright, Miss Mary A., 3.00 Wyeth, Mrs. Edwin A., Brookline, 5.00 Young, Mrs. Benjamin L., 10.00 Young, Miss Lucy F., Winchester, i.oo

$5,291.00

Cambridge Branch.

Through Mrs. E. C. Agassiz.

Abbot, Miss Anne W. (donation), $10.00 Abbot, Mrs. Edwin H., 10.00

A friend, i .00 Agassiz, Mrs. E. C, 10.00 Ames, Mrs. James B., 10.00

Batchelder, Miss I., Boston, 2.00 Beaman, Mrs. G. W., 2.00 Beard, Mrs. Edward L., i.oo Bigelow, Mrs. John M., i.oo Bradford, ISiiss Edith, 5.00 Brewster, Mrs. William, 5.00 Brooks, Mrs. John, 5.00 Brooks, Aliss Martha W., Petersham, 5.00

Bulfinch, Mrs. S. G., 5.00 Carey, Mrs. A. A. (donation), 5.00 Carstein, Mrs. H. L., 2.00 Gary, Miss E, F., 2.00

Chandler, Mrs. S. C, i.oo Chapman, Miss Anna B., i.oo Chapman, Miss K. M., i.oo

Child, Mrs. F. J., 2.00

Cooke, Mrs. J. P., 10.00 Cushman, Miss Edith W., i.oo Dana, Mrs. R. H., 5.00

Dana, Mrs. R. H., Jr., 5.00

Amount carried forward, $107.00 257

Amount brought forward, $107.00

Davis, Mrs. W. M., 2.00 Deane, Mrs. Walter, 2.00 Devens, Mrs. A. L., 5.00 Durant, Mrs. W. B., i.oo Ela, Mrs. Walter, 5.00 Emery, Miss C. G., i.oo Emery, Miss Octavia B., 3.00

Eustis, Mrs. Frank I., 3.00 Everett, Mrs. Emily (donation), 10.00 Farlow, Mrs. William G., 5.00 Fish, Mrs. F. P., Brookline, 10.00 Fisk, Mrs. James C. (since died), 5.00 Foster, Mrs. Francis C, 100.00 Francke, Mrs. Kuno, 2.00 Gale, Mrs. Justin E., Weston, 5.00 Goodale, Mrs. G. L., i.oo Goodwin, Miss A. M., 5.00 Goodwin, Mrs. Hersey B., 10.00 Green, Miss E. W., i.oo Green, Miss M. A., i.oo Hall, Mr. Edward H., 5.00 Hastings, Mrs. F. W., 2.00 Hayward, Mrs. James W., 5.00 Hedge, Miss Charlotte A., Brookline, 5.00 Henchman, Miss A. P., 5.00 Hoppin, Miss E. M., 5.00 Horsford, Miss Katharine, 5.00 Houghton, the Misses, 10.00 Howe, Miss Sara R., 5.00 Kennedy, Mr. F. L., 3.00 Kettell, Mrs. Charles W., 3.00 Lamb, Mrs. George (donation), 5.00 Longfellow, Miss Alice M., 10.00 Longfellow, Mrs. W. P. P., 5.00 Lyon, Mrs. D. G., (since died), i.oo Moore, Mrs. Lucy T., 5.00 Neal, Mrs. W. H., i.oo

Amount carried forward, $364.00 258

Amount brought forward, $364.00

Nichols, Mrs. J. T. G., 2.00 Noble, Mrs. G. W. C, 5.00 Norton, Prof. C. E., 10.00

Page, Miss Abby S., Lowell, i.oo Palfrey, the Misses, 5.00 Perrin, Mrs. Franklin, i.oo Pickering, Mrs. Edward C., 5.00 Read, Mrs. WiUiam, 1.00 Richards, Mrs. Mary A., 2.00 Riddle, Miss CordeUa C, i.oo

Roberts, Mrs. CooUdge S., 10.00 Saville, Mrs. H. M., i.oo Scudder, Mrs. Horace E., i.oo Sedgwick, Miss M. T., 5.00 Sever, Mrs. C. W., 2,00

Sharpies, Mrs. S. P., 2.00 Simmons, Mrs. George F., i.oo

Smith, Mrs. Horatio S., 2.00

Spelman, Mrs. I. M., 5.00 Stark, Mrs. W. F., i.oo

Swan, Mrs. S. H., 5.00 Thayer, Mrs. James B., i.oo

Thayer, Mrs. J. H., 2.00

Thorp, Mrs. J. G., 10.00 Toppan, Mrs. Robert N., 10.00

Tower, jVIiss Anna E., i.oo Vaughan, Mrs. Benjamin, 10.00

WTiite, Mrs. J. Gardiner, 5.00 Whitney, Miss Maria, 10.00

Whittemore, Mrs. A. S., 10.00 Whittemore, Mrs. G. W., 2.00 Williston, Mrs. L. R., i.oo Willson, Mrs. Robert W., 5.00 Woodman, Mrs. Charlotte F., 25.00 Woodman, Mrs. Walter, 5.00 Yerxa, Mrs. Henry D., 5.00 Interest, 12.57

I546.57 259

Dorchester Branch.

Through Mrs. J. Henry Bean.

Barry, Mrs. Elizabeth S., $i.oo

Bartlett, Mrs. S. E., Boston, i.oo

Bean, Mrs. J. Henry, i.oo Bennett, Miss M.M.,Wellesley College, i.oo Bird, Mrs. John L., i.oo Brigham, Mrs. Frank E., i.oo Burdett, Mrs. Charles A., 5.00 Callender, Miss, i.oo Callender, Mrs. Henry, i.oo

Churchill, Mrs. J. R., i.oo

Clark, Mrs. W. R., Jr., 2.00

Conant, Mrs. James S., i.oo Copeland, Mrs. W. A., i.oo dishing. Miss Susan T., i.oo Dillaway, Mrs. C. O. L., i.oo Ehot, Mrs. Christopher R., Boston, i.oo Faunce, Mrs. Sewall A., i.oo Fay, Mrs. M. C. T., Mihon, 2.00 Hall, Miss Adelaide, 2.00 Hall, Mrs. Henry, i.oo

Hawkes, Mrs. S. L., i.oo Hearsey, Miss Sarah E., i.oo Hemmenway, Mrs. Edward A., i.oo Humphreys, Mrs. R. C, 2.00 Jackson, Mr. Edward P., i.oo

Jordan, Mrs. H. J., Hingham Centre, 2.00 Joyslin, Mrs. L. B., i.oo Laighton, Mrs. William B., i.oo

Lee, Mrs. Charles J. (donation), 10.00 Moore, Mrs. L. M., i.oo Murdock, Mrs. Harold, Chestnut Hill, 2.00 Nash, Mrs. Edward, Boston, i.oo Nash, Mrs. Frank K., i.oo

Amount carried Joncard, $52.00 26o

Amount brought forward, $52.00

Nightingale, Mrs. C, i.oo North, Mrs. F. O., i.oo Noyes, Miss Mary E., i.oo Pratt, Mrs. Laban, 2.00 Preston, Mrs. John, i.oo Reed, Mrs. George M., i.oo Robinson, Miss A. B., i.oo Sayward, Mrs. W. H., 2.00 Sharp, Miss E. B., i.oo Sharp, Mr. E. H., 3.00 i.oo Smith, Miss H. J., Smith, Mrs. W. H. L., i.oo Soule, Mrs. EHzabeth P., 5.00 Stearns, Mrs. Albert H., i.oo Stearns, Master A. Maynard, i.oo Stearns, Master A. T., 2d, i.oo Stearns, Master Henry D., In memory of, i.oo Stearns, Miss Katherine, i.oo Stearns, Mrs. Fred P., 2.00 Swan, Mrs. Joseph W., 3.00 Thacher, Mrs. A. C, "... i.oo

Thacher, Miss Elizabeth M., . i.oo Thacher, Miss M. H., i.oo Torrey, Mrs. Elbridge (donation), 25.00 Turner, Mr. William H., i.oo Waitt, Mrs. William Gay, i.oo Warner, Mrs. F. H., 2.00 Whitcher, Mr. Frank W., 5.00 Whiton, Mrs. Royal, i-oo

Wilder, Miss Grace S., 3-0° Willard, Mrs. L. P., i.oo Wood, Mr. Frank, 5.00 Wood, Mrs. Frank, 5-oo Woodbury, Miss Mary, i.oo Wright, Mr. C. P., 500 Year of 1904 after accounts were closed, i.oo $142.00 26l

Lynn Branch.

Through Mr. L. K. Blood.

Averill, Miss M. J., $i.oo Bancroft, Mrs. Thomas, i.oo

Berry, Mrs. B. J., and son, 5.00 Blood, Mr. and Mrs. E. H., 5.00 Blood, Mr. and Mrs. L. K., 10.00 Breed, Mrs. A. B., i.oo Caldwell, Mrs. Ellen F., Bradford, i.oo Chase, Mrs. Philip A., 5.00 Earp, Miss Emily A., i.oo

Elmer, Mr. and Mrs. V. J., 5.00 Frazier, Mrs. Lyman B., 2.00 Harmon, Mrs. RoUin E., i.oo

Haven, Miss Cassie S., i.oo Haven, Miss Rebecca E., Phila., 2.00 Heath, Mrs. CaroHne P., Boston, 2.00

Hollis, Mrs. Samuel J., 10.00 Lee, Mrs. Caroline A., 5,00 LeRow, Mrs. M. H., i.oo Little, Mrs. WilHam B., i.oo Lovejoy, Mrs. Dr., i.oo Macnair, Mr. John, 5.00 Morgan, Mrs. William F. (since died), 5.00 Newhall, Mr. Charles H., 25.00 Page, Miss E. D., i.oo Pickford, Mrs. Anna M., 5.00 Purinton, Mrs. H. S., i.oo Sheldon, Mrs. Mary L., 5.00 Smith, Mrs. Sarah F., 10.00 Souther, Mrs. Elbridge, i.oo Sprague, Mr. Henry B., 5.00 Tapley, Mr. and Mrs. Henry F., 5.00 Thomson, Mr. Elihu, Swampscott (donation), .... 5.00 Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, 2.00

$136.00 262

Milton Branch.

Through Mrs. William Wood.

Barnard, Mrs. James M., $1.00 Breck, Mrs. C. E. C, i.oo Brewer, Miss Eliza, 5.00 Brewer, Mrs. Joseph, 5.00 Briggs, Miss Sarah E., i.oo Charming, the Misses, 2.00 Clarke, Mrs. D. O., East Milton, i.oo Clum, Mrs. Alison B., i.oo Cunningham, Mrs. Caleb, East Milton, 4.00 Dow, the Misses, 10.00

Forbes, Mrs. J. Murray, 5.00

Gilbert, Mrs. H. J., 5.00 Gilmore, Miss Mary E., North Easton, i.oo Glover, Mrs. T. R., 1.00 Hemenway, Mrs. Augustus, Readville, 10.00 Hicks, Miss Josephine, 2.00 Hinckley, Miss Mary, Mattapan, i.oo HoUingsworth, Mrs. Amor, 3.00 In memory of Mrs. WilUam H. Slocum by Mrs. Joseph Brewer, 50.00 Jaques, Mrs. Francis, 5.00 Jaques, Miss Helen, 10.00 Klous, Mrs. Henry D., i.oo

Ladd, Mrs. William J., 5.00 Loring, Miss Edith, 2.00 Loring, Mrs. Elisha, 3.00

Mcintosh, Mrs. J. S., i.oo Morse, Mrs. Samuel A., i.oo Perkins, Mrs. Charles E., 5.00 Pierce, Mrs. M. V., i.oo Pierce, Mr. Vassar, i.oo Pierce, Mr. Walworth, i.oo Pierce, Mrs. Wallace L., i.oo

A mount carried forward. $146.00 263

Amount brought forward, $146.00

Richardson, Miss ISIartha, 2.00 Rivers, Mrs. George R. R., i.oo Roberts, Miss Rachael, i.oo Roberts, Mrs. R. H., i.oo Rotch, Miss Johanna, i.oo Safford, Mrs. N. M., 2.00 Tilden, Mrs. George, 2.00

Tilden, Mrs. William P., . . . i.oo Tucker, Miss R. L., Hyde Park, i.oo Tucker, Mrs. Stephen x\., Hyde Park, i.oo Tuell, Mrs. Hiram, 1.00 Upton, Mrs. George B., i.oo Vose, Miss Caroline C, 2.00 VVadsworth, Mrs. E. D., i.oo Weston, Mr. William B., 5.00 Whitwell, Mrs. F. A., i.oo WTiitwell, Miss NataHe S., i.oo Wood, Mr. William, 1.00 Wood, Mrs. WiUiam, 10.00

$182.00

Worcester Branch.

Through Mrs. Gilbert H. Harrington.

Allen, Miss Katherine, $5.00 Allen, Mrs. Lamson, 1.00 Ball, Miss Helen, 1.00 Ball, Mrs. Phineas, i.oo Brigham, Mrs. John S., i.oo Clark, Miss Harriet E., c.oo Clark, Mrs. Henry C, 50.00 Comins, Mrs. E. I., 1.00 Fobes, Mrs. Celia E., i.oo Gage, Mrs. Homer, e.oo Gage, Mrs. Thomas H., 2.00 Gates, Mrs. Charles L., 1.00 Harrington, Mrs. Gilbert H., 2.00

Amount carried forward, $76. 00 264

Amount brought jorward, $76.00

Hoar, Miss Mary, 2.00 Moen, Mrs. Philip W., i.oo Morse, Mrs. E. de F., i.oo

Pratt, Mrs. Henry S., 10.00 Richardson, Mrs. W. A., i.oo Rogers, Mrs. NeUie F., i.oo SaUsbury, Hon. Stephen, 10.00 Schmidt, Mrs. H. F. A., i.oo

Scofield, Mrs. J. M., 5.00

Sinclair, Mr. J. E., i.oo

Sinclair, Mrs. J. E., i.oo

Stone, Mrs. J. B., 2.00 Thayer, Mrs. Adin, 10.00

Thayer, Mrs. E. D., Jr., 10.00 Torrey, Mrs. Lewis H., i.oo Washburn, Mrs. Charles G., 25.00 Wheeler, Mrs. Leonard, 5.00 Whipple, Mrs. W. F., i.oo Witter, Mrs. Henry, 2.00 Wyman, Miss Florence W., i.oo

*$i67.oo

* Subscriptions amounting to $7 were received after the accounts were closed for the year.