Word: deafness
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Mattson was deaf in one ear for more than 24 hours after the explosion, but refused hospitalization...
Albert J. McLaughlin, Jr. '55 was discharged after being treated for cuts about the neck and back. The third student, Peter A. Mattsen '53, who refused hospitalization, is still deaf in his left...
...admission of women ("conducive to good order"), uniform entrance requirements for U.S. colleges, and teacher training. He looked forward to the day when Columbia would be a great university, complete with such modern additions as schools of engineering, architecture and commerce. Nevertheless, Columbia stayed put in its former deaf & dumb asylum on East 49th Street. It remained for the Midas touch of millionaire President Seth Low and his autocratic successor Nicholas Murray Butler to put Barnard's ideas into practice on Morningside Heights...
...students and professors at little (enrollment: 750) Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. The glove bears all the letters of the alphabet, and the young man wears it when among strangers so that they may talk to him by pressing the letters. Richard Kinney, 30, is totally blind and deaf, but through his fine mind and the wondrous sensitivity of his right hand he has managed to become a campus legend...
...Waring School in Cleveland, took special courses from the Hadley Correspondence School in Winnetka, ILL., finally returned to graduate as valedictorian of his high-school class. In 1943, during his sophomore year at Mount Union, Richard was struck again. Just as mysteriously as he had gone blind, he went deaf...