Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the top of its ornate concrete tower, familiar to the oarsmen constantly rowing below, to the mile of heat and service tunnels running under its dozen buildings, Perkins Institution for the Blind is quiet and country-like, little resembling its early self in the heart of South Boston. The first school of its kind in the country, it was conceived by Dr. John P. Fisher, who, tradition says, buttonholed an unfamiliar but handsome and able - looking young man on Boylston Street one day, and made him the first director on the spot. He was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whose...
Ever since those early days Perkins has been preparing its sightless graduates to "take a contributory place in life," but now, in a society at war, their place is more than ever distinguished and distinctive. Up to the outbreak of war, these men and women, both partially and totally blind, had filled positions ranging from poultry farmers to teachers and public servants. Now they have adapted their special abilities to war work. Many are serving as airplane spotters, their highly-developed hearing enabling them to locate a plane long before their seeing companions are aware of it. Others are employed...
...part, by those who can see a little, but the other forms of entertainment, such as singing and dancing can be enjoyed by all. In the fall the boys play an adapted game of six-man football. With three who can see a little, and three who are totally blind on each side, a system of forward-passing with little running has been worked out. Walking around by the pond and among the trees and flowering shrubbery, is another favorite recreation. Most of the students can get around quite well unaided, determining accurately where they are by the sound...
...prepared to mobilize for total war. This meant manpower-and woman-power; every man, woman, youth and maid, of every race, color and creed who is not lame or halt or blind. The move was one of potentially vast scope: it meant, if carried all the way through, a shake-up of U.S. life so deep, so wide, so far-reaching it could not yet be grasped. It might take another year or more of total war to bring the earthquake shock full home...
...Before discussing the ideal program of tomorrow," said Dr. Grol, "we must confront the grave and immediate problem [of] how to keep thousands of children alive . . . children without parents, children with neither bread nor roof, some mown down by epidemics, others grown slowly blind through starvation...