Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-23
kENDALLGREEN'S PROGRESS
)tSIi
Annual Report Submitted by President
hi Gallaudet.
Instruction and Training of the Stu
DENLY Dfacribed-Estimates
FOR The Next Year.

columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb
| at Kendall Green has been submitted to the
Secretary of the Interior by President Gal
laudet The pupils remaining in the inst
tuition July 1, 1898 numbered III; admitted
during the year, &c. since admitted, o. to-
tai, 1s0 Under instruction since July !,
1898, 113 males. 81 females. OF these, 127
have been in the college department, rep
resenting thirty-one states, the District Of
Columbia, Canada and Ireland. and SO in
the primary department.
The report saws:
Moral and religious instruction, the lat
ter of strictly undenomnational charac-
ter, Is provided for by regular daily exer-
clses In both school and college separately,
and on the Sabbath such services are held
In the chapel with the two departments
brought together
These exercises are conducted by signs,
the manual alphabet or orally, as seems
pest pest adapted to the capacity and ability of
those to be instructed and as may most
clearly and impressively reach the minds
and hearts of our pupils.
instruction in drawing and painting is
given to all in the school or college who
snow talent for artistic work and who de-
sire such teaching
Physical training is given to all the stu
oentS OF the college and to the older pupils
Oh the school in a convenient and we'll
equipped gymnasium We have ample play
grounds and fields for athletic sports for
all classes of pupils. Foot ball, base ball,
track athletics, lawn tennis. basket ball and
croquet are engaged in with great ZeSt by
many.
Course of Instruction.
The boys of the Kendall School, when
arrived at the proper age, may have in
structfon In carpentry and cabinet making,
ana the girls of this school are taught sew
ing and the ordinary branches of house
work.
instructions in speech and speech read
ing Is given to all pupils and students who
show ability to attain a reasonable degree
OF success Herewith and a considerable
amount of teaching is carried on orally
with those pupils whose power of under
standing the movement of the lips is suf-
t1ctent therefor. The manual alphabet is
much used in conducting Rotations and
the sign language is resorted 70 mostly for
public lectures, or for explanation in the
class room, when the resort to words
spelled, written or spoken is unsuccessful.
The range of mental development COW
cred by the prescribed courses of study in
our school and college Is believed to be
greater than can be found in any other edu-
cational establishment in the world, for we
receive into our school children seven years
of age, who have no basis of verbal Ian
guage whatever, ana carry them forward
through a graded course until they are pre-
pared to enter college, and then through a
regular course in the higher branches until
they have earned the right to be graduated
as bachelors of arts or of science.
THE course of instruction followed in the
Kendall School is substantially that pursued
by a majority of the institutions for the
deaf in this country. Its general aim may
be thus stated: To give the pupil a prac-
teal understanding and command of the
English language, a knowledge Of the prin-
ciples of arithmetic sufficiently extensive
to meet his needs In business transactions,
a full course in political geography and a
reasonable course In history.
"The teacher while observing certain
general rules of instruction, is encouraged
in minor details to consult his own judg-
ment and methods and the individuality of
the pupil Original work his part is
welcomed. Manuscript lessons or language
exercises, written with particular reference
to the requirements of the class, form a
part of the school room work.
During the first two years of the course
the pupil is taught writing and the mean
ing and construction of simple sentences,
and practiced in Enumeration and in SIM
pie addition and subtraction. Toys, pic
lures and other illustrative objects are en-
ployed.
During the next two years the class is
carried forward in the construction of SEN
fences, multiplication and division are
taught, and more or less instruction in
geography is given.
During the fifth and sixth years the
class is drilled in composition daily; 1t is
advanced in arithmetic to common frac-
tons and compound numbers, and even fur
ther. II possible; This course sometimes
or even into the eighth year.
Reading the Lips.
daily instruction in articulation and lin
reading is given to every pupil that shows
capacity for vocal Improvement In all
cases, save the exceptional ones where the
results do not warrant the time and labor
bestowed, the instruction is continued
through the whole period of the pupils con-
nection with the Kendall School. The hear
Ing tube, single and duplex, the audiphone
Bells visible speech charts and all other
appliances that can be utilized in the work
are employed.
1.-The time assigned for completing the
course of study in Gallaudet College is five
years, an Introductory year preceding the
four usual years Of college study"
President Gallaudet estimates as neces-
sary for the support of the institution for
the next fiscal year S67, 900, and 5000 for
repairs. The attention of Congress is call
ed to the necessity for increased accommo-