Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-13
PLEASING PROGRAM
IS RENDERED BY
QUARTET OF BLIND
Students From Gooding School
Sing Before Fortnightly Club
ut Home Of DR.. Bryan-At
First M. E. Tonight.

A quartet of blind students from
the School for Afflicted Children at
Gooding Saturday afternoon rendered
pleasing program before the Fort
nightly club at the home of DR.. and
Mrs. Enoch Bryan and tonight will
sing at the evening service at the
First Methodist church.
The quartet is composed of Oliver
Cable of Roberts, Leone Boggers of
Payette, Edgar Elliott OF Myrtle and
accompanied to Boise by w. e. Tay-
Tor, superintendent, and Miss Rose
Hirsch, musical instructor at the
school. Their visit to Boise was the
result of an entertainment at the
school in honor of visit of the board
of directors and DIR. Bryan short
time ago. DR.. Bryan was so i'm
pressed with the singing that he made
arrangements to have the quartet
come to Boise. The invitation to sing
here was extended a few days ago.
The students were delighted with the
compliment paid them.
The program at the club gathering
Saturday afternoon consisted Of seven
numbers, two of which were by the
full quartet, the other selections be-
ing given by Fred Somers, Leone
Goggess. Edgar Elliott and duet hy
Olive Cable and Leone Borgess.. The
program to be given at the church
this evening is as follows:
PROGRAM TO BE GIVEN.
Face to Face" ..... Fannie J. Crosby
Quartette.
II Come to Thee" ...... Caro- Roma
Edgar Elliott
"How Sweet the Name of Jesus
SOUNDS ................... White
Leone Borgess., Olive Gable.
Il Love to Think My Father Knows"
.......... ......... Davis
Leone Borgess., Fred Somers.
'.Flag Without a Stain ....... White
Quartette.
SCHOOL MAKING PROGRESS.
Superintendent Taylor states there |
are so students in the school, 20 blind
and IS deaf. The school, he says, is |
crowded, but this condition will be
remedied before another term by ad-
ditional school building and the add
ing of a shop. With the new build
ings, he states, the older students will |
be separated from the smaller end |
much more efficient work can be ac-
Mr.. Taylor explained that a 1o-year
course was given to blind and deaf L
students, the course for the former
being almost identical with that IN
the public schools, and that blind stu
dents took the regular eighth grade
examinations and usually passed with
as good averages as public school stu
dents. In the four-year high school 1
course, he says, the students have /
proven their ability, making good ave-
rage grades when compared with the H
public schools and on one occasion. Il
he says, the graduates stood the high /
est of any class in the county. Music Il
Is taught the blind, he states, broom !
weaving and it is the inten
ton to add piano tuning when the
new buildings are ready.
The deaf, he states ARE unable to /
follow the regular school course, as
they usually come to the school with
no language whatever and must bc
taught to use language after which
they are schooled as nearly as pos
Bible in general school studies. Grad
yates from the Gooding college, he
states, are admitted to the Callaudet
college at Washington, d. c., the only
college for the deaf in the world,
while the blind graduates are admit
ted to the University of Idaho without
An important feature in connection
with teaching the blind, he says, is
the adoption. universally of the Eng
lish Brallls system of point letters,
which will also be used in the school
another year. Formerly. he says,
three systems were in use, but oy the
of one, the students will be
placed on an equal plane and greater
results will be derived.