The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-29
HELEN KELLER GOING To HAIR
WARD.
The Mind Deaf Mate WIZ FIT for
Radcliffe.

rum AAAE new ANlA NANr1.
Boston. June 2o.-Helen Keller. the won
derful blind. deaf and dumb girl IS going
to enter Harvard. Next fan she viii be-
gin study that viii III her 10 take the reg
uiar course at Radcliffe, the womens
branch Of the university.
Friends OF the brilliant girl think that
she can take all OF the studies prescribed
I'm the course at Radcliffe except some Of
the natural sciences. like chemistry. in
which visible experiments are absolutely
essential 10 the complete understanding
of the studies.
Miss Keller is now Is years OF age. and
she is probably the best known deaf mute
In the world, as well as the most accom-
plished She was born deaf dumb and
blind, but she has been taught TO hear
10 speak and almost 20 see. The develop-
ment or latent or absent powers has been
aud scientific world.
At nrst all Of her education was taught
10 her by feeling the more delicate of the
only TWO senses that she possessed. She
learned rapidly the finger alphabet. both
10 express herself and 10 read what others
wished to say to her. So proficient has
she become in this that she can talk al
the rate OF eight words q minute with
any one capable Of reading finger language
mat iast. only teachers In institutions
for mutes and a few OF Miss KeIler's
friends have attained that proficiency in
the manual alphabet, however
Miss keller's chief mode OF communion
ton with the world is by the medium of
lip reading. The DEVELOPMENT of this
branch In the education of mutes really
began with her. In this she has become
asIon.shingly proficient. With her fingers
lightly across ones lips and her thumb
placed softly under the chin Of the sneak
er, she follows the vibrations OF the vo-
cat chords so accurately that She knows
Mhat one Is saying, providing that either
HHNH q ran - al
Helen does not use the finger alphabet
now at all. Strange as 1t seems. she has
Deen taught to talk and sing, and she
does both remarkably. Her proficiency in
lip reading may be better understood
when one knows that she can learn the
menu OF dinner by feeling Of the lips
OF the waitress as she recites It.
Most of Miss Keler's life has been pass
ca IN the Perkins Institution for the
Blind in South Boston, though three years
ago she left the institution, having learned
an that the instructors could teach her
there. Since then she has been STUDYING
voice culture and the languages She has
a good working knowledge OF Latin.
french and German, enough to enable
her TO take up the classics of those Lam
guages. Her voice though artificial Is re-
markably rich and resonant and not at an
or the harsh, unnatural quality usually
round in educated mutes. Miss Keller has
cultivated her voice in an oral school for
the deaf in New York, where she has
spent the greater part Of the last two
years.
Miss Keller owes much of her proficiency
10 her lifelong friend, companion and
teacher, Miss Annie Sullivan. The two
are never separated, and both viii take
the preparatory course for Radcliffe to-
gether Miss Keller will fit for the regu-
lar academic course These studies will
include algebra, geometry. trigonometrv.
Greek, Latin, French, German. literature.
history and such natural sciences as can
be mastered without witnessing the DEM
OnstratiOns.
Miss Keller's career in college will prove
interesting, certainly.