Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Blind College at Worcester, England, recently tried the novel experiment of holding athletic games for the blind students. Their running was directed by bells and by stationing boys at intervals along the roped track. Tugs-of-war, leaping, putting the shot, races of all kinds and distances, were successfully and creditably carried...
...reading and writing of Arabic, arithmetic, and French; in the secondary or preparatory schools Arabic, Turkish, French, and English, pure mathematics, drawing, history, and geography. The special schools are devoted respectively to the subjects of law, medicine, and art, engineering, etc. Besides there are government schools for the blind, those supported by the various Christian communities, both native and European, and the almost infinite number of "Free schools" attached to the public fountains and maintained by the same charitable foundation as the fountain. Every visitor to Cairo is familiar with these. Passing a fountain at almost any time...
...years this institution has kept the even tenor of its way in this same old mosque, in the same old fashion of teaching and learning, with the same old text-books, and if not with the same old instructors, at least under cover of their old prophetic mantle of blind intolerance. The president of the university is elected by the sheiks of the mosque, who are extremely jealous of their rights, and obstinately resist all the efforts made by the khedive to improve the character of the instruction given. Text-books once adopted are never changed, and the whole course...
...present. If those not on the editorial boards would only turn their attention to doing something to aid the experions of the editors, there would be less necessity for filling up vacant columns with what to the majority seems mere trash, be it essays, orations or local items of blind import and little interest, though to editors, hard pressed for time and copy, it may seem acceptable reading matter. [Badger...
...According to Mr. Lafarge's design, the figures should turn slightly toward each other, the younger poet as if appealing to his great predecessor. As the windows are now placed, the design is exactly reversed, and the graceful Virgil holding his scroll of verses turns his back upon the blind bard. It is to be hoped that this error will be corrected, as it might be at a small expense and trouble. If one did no know of the fault, one would probably fail to detect it, yet after it has been pointed out, it lets us see and think...