The age-herald., 1900-01-21
ANOTHER EVENT IN THE
 CAREER OF HELEN KELLER
Remarkable Examination Stood by the Wonderful Blind Girl for Ad-
 mittance to College.

Those of our readers who have followed the remarkable career of Miss Helen Kel- Ter are doubtless aware of 9ler admission to Radcliffe college in October last as the result of the passing with high credit to her entrance examination.
 The Association Review. the magazine published by the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf says of this achievement:
 "The worlds history does not contain case similar to it nor equal to it. Blind and deaf from infancy, and hence with only the senses of smell, taste and touch as avenues to her mind, sine has by her own indomitabe will and her love for learning, aided by intelligent, skillful, and ell-dlrected teaching covered a complete course of primary and advanced instruc- ton with a degree of success that finds her now at the threshold of regular col 1ege courses"
 For the benefit of those not already fa- miHar with the principal events of Miss Keller's life history the same publication states that she was born in Tuseumbia, Ala, on uJne 27 1880, possessed of all the faculties and senses of a shealthy child; that in March, 1882, at the age of nineteen months, she was attacked by violent con- gestion of the stomach, which eventually resulted in the total loss of sight and hear ing; and that a course of private inStruc- tion was begun in 1887 and continued till 1897, when Miss Keller successfully passed the Harvard preparatory examination, and in June, 1899, she took the final examins- ton which entitled her to enter the Rad cliffe college.
 In this entrance examination the sub- jects were geometry, algebra, Greek and advanced Latin. The difficulties under which Miss Keller labored have been well described in the Boston Transcript
 "It is quite certain that no person ever took a college examination with heavy q handicap i've may say with so many kinds of a handicap) as Helen Kellers on this occasion. As all the world knows she, could not the examination papers nor hear the voice of an examiner. The natu- ral method of communicating the ques- tions to her would have been to make use of the fingers of her old-tme teacher and interpreter, Miss Sullivan Miss Sullivan does not know Greek or Latin or the higher mathematics, and while she is able to serve Helen by communicating to her printed Greek and Latin letter by letter. she could not, even if she had been so dis posed, have given her the slightest assist ance in answering the examination ques- tions. uBt it was deemed best by all con- cerned to avoid even the remotest sugges- tion or possibility of assistance. A gentle man was found-Mr. Vining, of the Per kins Institution, who had never met Helen Keller and who was quite unknown to her and unable to speak to her-who could take the examination papers as fast as they were presented and write them out in Braile characters, the system of writing fin punctured points now much used by the blind. The questions thus transcribed by him were put into Helen.s hands in the examination room, in the presence of a proctor who could not communicate with her, and she wrote out her answers on the typewriter.
 Here, however, came in one of the addi- tonal points of Helen's handicap. There are two systems of Braile writing, the English and the American. There are marked differences between them-very much such differences as those between the two principal systems of shorthand writing. Helen Keller has been accustom- ed to the English system, in which nearly all the books which have been put into