Outlook for the Blind, Volumes 1-2Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind, 1907 - Blind |
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Page 56 - Professor in the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, in the Guildhall School of Music, and in the Royal Academy of Music.
Page 5 - ... years, one for a term of four years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year...
Page 5 - The hoard shall act as a bureau of information and industrial aid. the object of which shall be to aid the blind in finding employment and to teach them industries which may be followed in their homes, and to provide such means for the development of such industries and for the marketing of the products thereof as may seem to the board to be expedient.
Page 4 - The annual report of the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind...
Page 6 - The other members of the Board shall receive no compensation for their services, but their traveling and other expenses, while employed on the business of the Board, shall be paid.
Page 75 - Accounts, another copy shall be delivered to commissioner of the revenue of the county, district or corporation, on or before the first day of June of the year .in which the assessment is made, but for good cause shown the judges of the circuit or corporation courts, respectively, may extend the time of making the returns of such...
Page 91 - In 1882, the Pennsylvania Home Teaching Society and Free Circulating Library for the Blind was founded in Philadelphia and in 1899 was incorporated with the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Page 104 - Ophthalmia neonatorum, or inflammation of the eyes of newborn babies, is one of the commonest and at the same time one of the most dangerous maladies of the eyes to which the child is subject. It is not confined to the tenement house district; it may occur in any class of society.
Page 88 - States put into practice every known and approved method of prevention and that physicians and teachers open wide the doors of knowledge for the people to enter in. The facts are not agreeable reading. Often they are revolting. But it is better that our sensibilities should be shocked than that we should be ignorant of facts upon which rest sight, hearing, intelligence, morals, and the life of the children of men. Let us do our best to rend the thick curtain with which society is hiding its eyes...
Page 52 - ... children under the age of sixteen years, such widow shall, upon due proof of her husband's death, without proving his death to be the result of his Army service, be placed on the pension roll from the date of the application therefor under this act, at the...