The age-herald., 1898-07-17
NEW WORLDS
 FOR HELEN KELLAR
From the New York Herald.

from the New 1orK Herald.
 When Miss Helen Keller, the wonder full blind, deaf and dumb girl. withdrew from Professor Arthur Gilman's school in Cambridge, Mass, last December, there was a good deal of speculation as to what her future success in the study of classics would be. It will be remembered that there was a sharp clash between Professor Gilman and Miss Sullivan, who had been her private tutor and companion for eleven years-in fact, during her whole school life.
 The issue came on the opinion of Pro- lessor Gilman that his gifted pupil was overworking. and that her course must be so changed that her entire stay at his school in preparation for Radcliffe would be five years instead of three. Without consulting Miss Sullivan, Professor Gill; man dropped geometry and astrology from the pupils course, and substituted Eng fish. Miss Sullivan protested against the change. but the professor was obdurate. His plans, so it was said, involved noth- ing less than her separation from Miss Sullivan and his substitution as her guard ian
 Miss Sullivan appealed to Helen's moth- CT, who came all the way from Alabama to settle the difficulty. Helen herself says of the case: q could scarcely endure my bitter hu- initiation at the change of my course. It seemed to me as If I had been cheated out of my proper share of the school work l knew Miss Sullvan's judgment had been flung aside as of value. I knew, too, that she had loved me for nearly eleven years and that no harm had come to me while was with her. She had worked all these long years to make my life sweet and happy had never overworked in all my life, and she had.'
 Miss Keller was taken from the school, and private instruction, under the direc- tion of Dean Irwin, of Radcliffe college, was arranged for her in Dedham, Mass.
 The appended letter, written by Miss Keller to the editor of the Silent Worker a publication devoted to deaf mutes, tells of her progress under the new plan of instruction:
 'I cannot write an article for the Silent Worker but I will tell you as briefly as I can in a letter what I have been doing since left the Cambridge school last De- cember.
 My studies at present consist of Greek, algebra and geometry. I pursue these studies under the guidance of an excellent tutor, MT. Keith, assisted by Miss Sullivan. MT. Keith comes out here once a week and teaches me for three hours. He explains what l did not understand in the previous lesson assigns new work and takes the Greek exercises, which I have written during the week on my Greek typewriter, home with him, corrects them fully and clearly and returns them to me. In this way my preparation for college has gone on uninterruptedly
 T find it much easier and pleasanter to be taught by myself than to receive in- struction in classes. There is no hurry. no confusion My teacher has plenty of time to explain what I do not understand; so get on faster and do better work than l ever did in school I still find more diffi- culty in mastering problems in ma thematics than l do in any other of my studies. But l am not discouraged. I am going to con- quer them, and right soon, too.
 Tn Greek have practically finished the grammar, and am now reading the .Anabasis, and shall soon begin the Tliad.' I admire Greek very much, in- deed. It is easier to read than Latin, I think, and much more spontaneous and beautiful. I wish algebra and geometry were only half as easy for me as lan- guages and literature. But somehow I cannot make myself care very much wheth CT two and two make four or five, or whether two lines drawn from the ex- tremities of the base of an isosceles tri- angle are equal or not I cannot see that the knowledge of these facts makes life any sWeeter or nobler
 ''On the other hand, each language learn reveals new world to me. If I sit down to study my Aeneid' new thoughts, new ideas, new aspirations flesh out from the Latin words with almost the same vividness and freshness they did W. en the meaning of my own beautiful language first dawned upon my imprisoned soul.
 "As to plans, I have but one, and that is to take my final examinations for col- lege a year from now. Of course, it is, my fervent wish and earnest determina- tion to pass them with credit, for my teachers sake as we'll as my own Fur ther than this, have not tried to look into the future. The present is so rich in all that makes life sweet and happy, have no time for dreaming dreams or building air castles