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Your reference to "50,000 hopeless U. S. deaf-mutes" is unfortunately worded. I suppose you mean they are hopelessly deaf. But, you may be sure they are not hopeless and few are mute. The "deaf," meaning those who have been profoundly deaf from an early age, constitute the most admirable group I know of. They ask no favors, earn their own way, and probably live happier and more useful lives than most of their hearing brothers. E. B. BOATNER Superintendent...
...adults), 50,000 who are "stone" deaf, i.e., those born totally deaf or who became so before learning to talk. Inhibitions caused by faulty hearing are a commonplace with psychologists. No more than TIME calls Helen Keller useless did it imply that U. S. deaf-mutes were "hopeless...
Usual course is three convulsions a week for five or six weeks. A patient is seldom given more than 20 injections, and if no improvement is noted after ten treatments, he is usually given up as hopeless...
Purpose of the society is to .encourage or sweeten the 20,000,000 U. S. citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull. For 50,000 hopeless U. S. deaf-mutes, the society can do nothing but cheer for bigger & better special training schools. Through newspaper campaigns and radio programs, the society, which claims such hard-of-hearing, hard-working members as Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Owen D. Young, has 1) pushed the passage of laws in eleven States demanding hearing tests for all school children;* 2) campaigned for routine lipreading classes in all public schools...
...there any little old kid game that Harvard could get good enough to win at--or is it such a communistic place as to be completely hopeless? R. H. Goodell '04, Glendale...