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Educating The Adult Blind
Boston has an admirable institution for the use of blind children, a school which, because it is liberally endowed, can excellently educate those who are blind in youth. But the doors of this institution are closed to all who lose their sight after the age of nineteen years. And inasmuch as reliable statistics show that more than two-thirds of the blind have lost their sight after they were twenty-one, it is evident that there is a deplorably large class for which the Perkins Institution makes absolutely no provision....