The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-12
A Wonderful Blind Student.

John T.. Swcaringeu, of E.dgcticl,l.
who was mnde totally blind by I'm acci-
dent when years old, has lust been
graduated from the South Carolina col
legc atthe age of 20, after having made
the highest record during the entire
four years of any man since the found
ing OF the college in the first part of
this century. says Il Columbia dispatch
to The New York Sun. He was first
honor man, delivering an Grafton en-
titled "Our Heritage"
The faculty regard Mr.. Swearingen
as Il wonder. DIR. j. w. Finn, ID. d..
said he had been professor ONLY ten
years but had spent years in !. half
dozen colleges OF nigh standing, in
Guiding Heidelberg, and SAID he. II
havc never met II man TO compare with
Swcaringcn. sincerely regret the
alumni has not fund to send him to
the best places i'll the world to thor
oughly develop his powers. His family
have not the means to do this.
"ln whatever he undertakes he must,
stand at the top. He is uncertain
whether to study for the ministry or
the law. AS Il lawyer he would make
II great success even before Jury, and
he would make Il mark as IN author.
HIS imaginative powers of mind and
fine logical reasoning are astonishing.
His memory is such as few other men
have had; for instance, he can deliver
4 lecture complete that he has heard
once, but not in the same language.
II vital points have only been touched
upon by the professor he will bring
them out and elaborate them.
''ln such branches as mathematics
astronomy, psychology, as now taught,
where the sense Of sight would be CON
sidered so important, Swearingcn never
two minutes thought, n complex math-
emntical proposition that have never
had answered by another student. He
has Il perfect conception of relative
positions and distances of heavenly
bodies, and experienced no difficulty in
drawing correctly gcometrical figures. =
In. further exemplificatiOn of the
mans extraordinary faculties, Dr.. Finn
said he had tested him in various ways
even to his own astOnishment, when
one day he handed Swearingen wood
eli nutcracker. rhc cracking portion
was finely carved head of bismarck,
giving capital likeness. The young
man passed his finger over the face
and unhesitatingly said: "Why, that
is Bismarck
A class and room mate read aloud
his studies i'll Swcaringen's hearing.
That is how he studied in college.
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