Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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April 25. Deaf and Dumb Institute at Princeton...
...other extreme, desire that there should be an equitable distribution of goods. But this is pure idealism and we all know that human nature makes this idea impossible. Between these two courses the state must steer an intermediate course. The large sums expended annually for state schools for the deaf, the blind, lunatics, and for other charitable institutions is proof that the popular mind is in favor...
...professions, however successful they may be; but there is no wearying of the feeling that you have helped some slipping soul to regain lost ground, or have even checked the slipping. This help must be the work of the young men. The older generation, with some bright exceptions, is deaf to any call for it. This call must come to the universities, with their intelligent, strong young men. Shall these beautiful temples of learning educate men to love the true and the beautiful and to know good and evil only for their own sakes, or for the sake...
...sorts of guesses about new tricks and soon these scavengers will prove conclusively that tricks won't work against Yale, and that we might just as well give it all up. Such men have a certain influence and we urge upon the students that they turn a deaf ear to all such talk. No matter what happens we ought to feel sure that everything is all right till Yale can prove it all wrong at Springfield. A great public spirit means as much or a good cause as a great public opinion does against an evil...
Percival Hall '92 has been elected a Normal Fellow of the National College for the Deaf...