The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-23
IOWA COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND
Every Blind or Partly Blind Boy or
Girl can be Well Educated at
Thi School.

itereSunS ala comprehensive TepoItS
of any Of the state schools or insti-
tutions is the one just issued and fill
ed with The boald of control by SUI
perintendent Eaton of the College
for the piind. We wish it could be
placed in the hands Of every family
in the state 1t would give the faith
ers and mothers of the state a clear
idea of a school that is OF great value
to those who have been SO unfortun-
ate as 20 have lost their eyesight.
Before Or tlne these were the ne
elected class. New means and meth
DDS have been adopted which bring
to them she same sducation as their
seeing brothers and sisters.
This report is full. clear and
complete outline of what this school
is doing. 1t viii be printed with the
states reports. 1t is too long for us
to give more than an outline of the
intention Of the school. Get II into
your mind that this institution is
nothing more nor less than a public
school All the common school.
branches are taught. The musical de-
partment is emphasized and those
who have talent in that direction
the course. Several industrial trades
are taught. The boys are given in
struction in Recommending, cane
seating chairs, piano tuning, weav-
ing rugs and hammock making. Man
ual training is being gradually intro
duced. The smaller boys are taught
bead making. The girls are taught
plain sewing. fancy knitting. crochet
work. -affis. and bead making. They
are also given chance to learn
hammock making
"The school year begins the first
day of September and closes the last
day of May. There is no vacation dur
ing the session. All applicants over
five and under twenty-one years of
age are admitted to the institution
by the superintendent.
This instssation is in no sense OF
the word an asylum or home for the
blind. Therefore no person of imbe-
Icile or unsound mind or of confirmed
immoral character will be knowing
ly received in the institution. AS stat
ed before this is a state institution,
therefore tuition, board and washing
are furnished free of cast to all pu-
pills residing in the state. The par
ents or friends must supply their
children with comfortable clothing;
iii this is lot done the superintendent
may purchase tie clothing and send
bill to the county where the child re-
sides. The same is true concerning
travelling expenses.
Thus 1t Will be seen by the above
that the college for the blind is right
ly named. 1t is school; a public
school-and in no sense is it an asy-
lum or home for the blind The peo-
pie of the state should get this fact
into their minds so as to refrain from
calling it the blind asylum" as many
do.
The treatment in the report of the
educational department. is very in
THE first to the seventh year inclusive
that the scholar is taken through.
/ The last four years of the pupils
school life is termed the high school
course" In the first year in the high
school course, first semester they are
taught algebra, English, physical geo.
graphy. civics and typewriting. The
second yemestar is the same. In the
second year, the first semester they
are taught algebra, English, general
physiology. The second semester is
/ the same. The third year in the first
/ semester they are taught plane geom-
/ etry, English. general history, Caesar
4 or economics In the second semester
/ physics takes the place of general
history. In the fourth year in the first
semester they are taught plane geom-
I etry, En- glish, physics, reviews. In the
! second semester plane geometry and
English, are dropped and solid goem.
etry and English history are added
Some OF the finest classes of any
I high school in Iowa have been grad
uated from tits school.
In the library there are 4S2 vol
umes of the New York Point and the
raised print. In the ink print library
there are 1913 volumes. The library
lis used by the teachers as reference
library and many of the books are
read to the pupils BY the teachers
and officers The ichtl.'s Companion
Chicago KecordHerald. Des Moines
Register and Leader, Cedar Rapids
Gazette. Vinton Eagle, Musician
! World Events, Midland Schools, Kin
dergarten Review. World Today, st
Nicholas and American Boy are sent
TO the school as gifts. Many Of the
publishers of the state could very
well ge1j tt.eir publications to the
school II d they would be appreciated
By virtue Of the liberality of the
postal iaws the schol is constant,
sending out embossed books to the
blind readers OF Iowa.
The medical department is unde
charge of DR.. Griffin, OF Vinton an,