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more through the financial support of
Col. Boiling. His school was failure
because of his habits.
In 1915 Rev. Thomas Hopkins
Gallaudet crossed the ocean for the
purpose of soliciting the Braidwood
monopolists to impart their secret to
him for the benefit of American deaf,
but the Braidwoods refused to do so,
believing that they were protecting
the interests of their dissolute rela-
tive known to be teaching deaf Ameri-
cans. Mr.. Gallaudet then went To
Paris where he learned the French
sign language from Able Sicard. In
1916 he returned to America accom-
panied by Laurent Clerc, one of the
professors of the Sicard establishment,
himself a deaf mute. Together they
established a school at Hartford-the
eldest deaf school of America-and for
30 years the French sign language
was all that was taught in this
country.
Romance marked the next step in
less than years was stricken with
deafness as a result of scarlet
fever--Mabel Hubbard, daughter of
Mark Greene Hubbard of Cambridge,
Mass. Following deafness, the childs
speech began fading away. and the
troubled parents discovered that there
was no school in America where arti-
culate speech was taught 10 the deaf.
Mr.. Hubbard searched Europe and
found that in Germany deaf children
were being taught lip reading and arti
culate speech.
From the Germans Mrs Hubbard
caught the idea of teaching lip read
ing and articulation to her child.
Later she discovered that Gov. Lip
ir,sT <NFD TcIa Iii a,
similarly afflicted and that Mrs. Lip
pitt had been teaching them in the
same way. The outcome was an effort
to get an appropriation from the
Massachusetts Legislature to found a
State school for articulate teaching of
deaf children. This was fought bitter
Iy by the experts" of the sign Ian
guage, but in 1867 Mr.. Hubbard again
undertook to appeal to the Legislature
for the school, and learned that Mr..
Clarke of Northampton had offered
, to endow such a school with $50 900,
provided that it be located at North
ampton. This was done. subsequently.
Mr.. Clarke gave an additional 100000,
and the Clarke School for articulate
instruction for the deaf was develop
ed into a very important and useful
institution in its three-score years of
growth.
The deaf Mabel Hubbard became the
wife of DIR. ]. Graham Bell, the In
ventor of the telephone, and through
| his interest in her welfare, he be-
! came a leader of the cause of better
ment for the deaf of America
X x X
In 1864 Congress responded to an
appeal from Rev DR.. Gallaudet for
an appropriation to establish ma
tional college for the higher education
| of the deaf and the National Deaf
Mute College in Washington was
/ founded September, 1864. with Dr.
GaIlaudet its president and one other
professor-and seven pupils, all men.
1t was made coed" in 1887. In 1894,
at the petition of its pupils, the name
was changed to Gallaudet College.
The five-year course is a combination
of sign and articulate, adapted to the
individual needs and possibilities of
the pupils, and is of standard college
rank.
A small primary school for deaf
children was opened in 1856 in Wash
ington, under congressional support
amounting to $4,000 a year In 1859
Amos Kendall gave land and erected
building at cost of $4,000; later
the school name was changed to Ken
dali School. In 1895, through the
leadership of Senator Henry L. Dawes
of Massachusetts,, Congress appro-
priated funds for a mems dormitory,
now called Dawes House.
The two institutions, so closely as
sociated-Kendall School and Gal
laudet College-are located together,
on Florida avenue, in the midst of
beautiful parked grounds planned by
Frederick Law Olmsted.
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