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Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  22,  1917. 

To  the  Hon.  Albert  P.  Langtry,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the 
use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-sixth  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 

1917-1918. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOARD   OF  TRUSTEES. 


Mrs.  GEORGE  ANGIER. 

FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON. 

WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES. 

WILLIAM  ENDICOTT. 

THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 


ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL. 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
Miss  ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS. 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL. 


STANDING    COMMITTEES. 
Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


1918. 

January,  .  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

February,  .  Mrs.  George  Angier. 

March,  .  .  Robert  H.  Hallowell. 

April,      .  .  Paul  R.  Frothinqham. 

May,       .  James  A.  Lowell. 

June,      .  .  Thomas  B.  Fitzpatrick. 


July,       . 

August,  . 

September, 

October, 

November, 

December, 


1918. 

Walter  Cabot  Batubs. 
Annette  P.  Rogers. 
George   H.  Richards. 
William  L.  Richardson. 
Richard    M.  Saltonstall. 
William  Endicott. 


Committeo  on  Education. 

George  H.  Richards. 

Rev.  Paul  Revere  Froteunqham. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 


House  Conunittoe. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Mrs.  George  Angier. 
George  H.  Richards. 


Committee  on  Finance. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
George  H.  Richards. 
James  A.  Lowell. 


Committee  on  Health. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
Wiluam  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Auditors  of  Accounts. 

George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 


OFFICERS  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS  AND  OFFICERS   OF  THE  UPPER  SCHOOL. 
LITESART  DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

HAROLD   MOLTER. 

MisB  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

Miss  JULIA  A.  BOYLAN. 

Miss  JESSICA  L.  LANGWORTHY. 

FRED   L.  SAWYER. 

Miss  FEODORE   M.  NICHOLLS. 

Miss  ETHEL  D.  EVANS. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  ELLEN   H.  PACKARD. 
Mrs.  VERA   N.  LOCKE. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  INEZ   J.  SWENSON. 
Miss  LAURA  A.  BROWN. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  of  Housework. 

Miss  MEREDITH  PEIRCE. 


DEPARTMENT   OP  PHYSICAL  TRAINING. 

LEWIS   M.  DILLINGHAM.  |    Miss  INEZ  J.  SWENSON. 

Miss  LENNA  D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   MUSIC. 

EDWIN   L.  GARDINER. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 


Miss  MARY  E.  RILEY. 
Miss  ALVERA  C.  GUSTAFSON. 
Miss  BLANCHE   A.  BARDIN. 
Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   MANUAL  TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 

JULIAN  H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN  C.  SMITH. 
Miss  MARY    B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES  M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ELIZABETH  O.  PIERCE. 


DEPAHTMEKT  OF  TXJNINO  PIANOFOSTES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,  CLERKS  AND  BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.  SAWYER,  Librarian. 
Miss  LOUISE   P.  HUNT,  Asxiatant. 
Miss  ANNA  GARDNER  FISH,  Clerk. 


Miss  DOROTHY  A.  TITUS,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI   L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  AssislarU. 


Mrs.  SARAH  A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  GREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD   B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR  LANE,  DM.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.'D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


DOMESTIC  DEPARTMENT. 

FREDERICK  A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Housekeepers  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  CLARISSA  A.  DAWSON. 
Miss  ANNIE  W.  BODFISH. 
Mk8.  JOSEPHINE   H.  MANSUR. 
Mrs.  ANNIE   L.  SMITH. 


Girls'  Section. 

Mrs.  ISABELLA   P.  HEARD. 
Mrs.  CORA   L.  GLEASON. 
Mrs.  AGNES  C.  LUMMUS. 
Mrs.  BERTHA  C.  MAXWELL. 


PRINTING  DEPARTMENT. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS,  Printer.  \     Miss  MARY   L.  TULLY,  PriiUer. 


WORKSHOP  FOR  ADULTS. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Miss  EVA  C.  ROBBINS,  CUrk. 


TEACHERS  AND  OFFICERS  OF  THE  LOWER  SCHOOL. 


EINDERGABTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron, 
Miss  Florence  Cronkhite,  Assistant. 
Miss  Elsa  M.  Hackebahth,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 

Miss  Henrietta  Damon,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Annie  L.  F.  Edwards,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinbrton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 

Miss  Edith  M.  Taylor,  Psychologist. 

Miss  Eleanor  E.  Kellt,  Field  Worker. 


Girls'  Section. 

Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Lorino,  Assistant, 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 


PBIMABY  DEPABTMENT. 

Boys'  Section. 


Misa  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miss  Mary  M.  Hallett,  Teacher. 


Miss  ErFiE  C.  Saunders,  Teacher. 
Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron, 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 


Miss  Lizzie  R.  Kinsman,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Grino,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'   VISITING  COMMITTEE   TO   THE   KINDEBOABTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Secretary. 


Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Cabot,        .     . 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  . 
Mrs.  John  B.  Thomas, 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard, 


January. 
February. 
March. 

April. 

May. 


Mrs.  Ronald  Lyman,  . 
Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent,  . 


June. 

October. 

November, 

■  December, 


General  Visitors. 

Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker. 
Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 
Mrs.  William  R.  Livermorb. 


Honorary  Members. 

Mrs.  KiNQSMILL   Marrb. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  M.  T.,  Cambridge. 

Adams,  Melvin  0.,  Boston; 

Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 

Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 

Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 

Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henry, 
Peabody. 

Appleton,  Mrs.  Francis  Henry, 
Peabody. 

Appleton,  Francis  Henry,  Jr., 
Boston. 

Appleton,  Mrs.  Francis  Henry, 
Jr.,  Boston. 

Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 

Bacon,  Gaspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 

Baker,  Mrs.  Ezra  H.,  Boston. 

Baldwin,  S.  E.,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 

Bancroft,  Miss  Eleanor  C, 
Beverly. 

Bancroft,  Robert  H.,  Beverly. 

Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 

Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 

Bates,  Arlo,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 

Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 

Benedict,  Wm.  Leonard,  New 
York. 

Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 

Blake,  Miss  Marian  L.,  Man- 
chester, N.  H. 


Blunt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 

Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Bowditch,  Alfred,  Boston. 

Bowditch,  Ingersoll,  Boston. 

Boyden,  Mrs.  Charles,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brigham,  Charles,  Watertown. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 

Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 

Burnham,  Miss  JuUa  E.,  Lowell. 

Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 

Burr,  I.  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W.,  Newton. 

Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 

Callender,  Walter,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Water- 
town. 

Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 

Gary,  Miss  E.  F.,  Cambridge. 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston, 

Case,  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  Boston. 

Chace,  J.  H.,  Valley  FaUs,  R.  I. 

Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 

Clement,  Edward  H.,  Boston. 

Cochrane,  Alexander,  Boston. 

Colby,  Miss  Jennie  M.,  Boston. 

Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 

Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 


Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 

Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crane,  Mrs.  Zenas  M.,  Dalton. 

Crosby,  Sumner,  Brookline. 

Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 

Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Grove  Hall. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

De  Witt,  Alexander,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dex-ter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dimick,  Orlando  W.,  Water- 
town. 

Dolan,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Boston. 

Ernst,  C.  W.,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Everett,  Dr.  GUver  H.,  Worces- 
ter. 


Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  S.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover,  N.  H. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Thomas  B.,  Brook- 
line. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Foster,  Mrs.  E.  W.,  Hartford, 
Conn. 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Need- 
ham. 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

Glidden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Bos- 
ton. 


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Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Eichard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Florence  Howe,  New 
York. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 

Hearst,  Mrs.  Phebe  A.,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Higginson,  Frederick,  Brookline. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 

Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 

Hollis,  Mrs.  S.  J.,  Lynn. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 

Homans,  Robert,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 

Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  O.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Francis  W.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi,  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

In  graham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  Cambridge. 

James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 


Jones,  Mrs.  E.  C,  New  Bedford. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Somer- 
ville. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 

King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Kinnicutt,  Lincoln  N.,  Worcester. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Kjiowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Ivramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Leverett,  George  V.,  Boston. 

Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Lincoln,  Waldo,  Worcester. 

Linzee,  J.  T.,  Boston. 

Livermore,  Thomas  L.,  Boston. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 

Longfellow,  Miss  AUce  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Loring,  Miss  Katharine  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 


Levering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  LaT\Tence,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 

Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  John,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Luce,  Hon.  Robert,  Waltham. 

Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston, 

Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 

Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston. 

Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 

Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 

Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 

Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 

Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 

Minot,  WilUam,  Boston. 

Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 

Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco, 
Me. 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 

Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 

Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 

Oliver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 

Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hope- 
dale. 

Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 

Parkinson,  John,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 

Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Philip  G.,  Boston. 


Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 

Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 

Pickering,  Henry  G.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston, 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 

Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H.,  Newton. 

Pratt,  George  Dwight,  Spring- 
field. 

Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 

Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 

Putnam,  F.  Delano,  Boston. 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 

Rand,  Arnold  A.,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 

Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 

Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 

Richards,  Miss  EUse,  Boston. 

Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richards,  Henry  H.,  Groton. 

Richardson,  John,  Boston. 

Richardson,  John,  Jr.,  Readville. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John,  Jr.,  Read- 
ville. 

Richardson,  Miss  M.  G.,  New 
York. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 

Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Allston. 

Robie,  Frederic  H.,  Watertown. 

Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 

Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston. 

Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 

Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Rowan,  Alfred  J.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Miss  Marian,  Boston. 

Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 


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Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Mattapan. 

Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Saltonstall,  Leverett,  Westwood. 

Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Leverett,  West- 
wood. 

Saltonstall,  Miss  Nora,  Chestnut 
Hill. 

Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 

Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 

Sears,  Willard  T.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Rowland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  WatertoAvn. 

Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 

Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  CUpston,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Miss  Adele  G.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thomdike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Thorndike,    Miss    Rosanna    D., 
Boston. 

Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tingley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  L 


Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 

Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,    Wm.    Lyman,   Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Wallace,  Andrew  B.,  Springfield. 

Ward,  Mrs.  May  Alden,  Boston. 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  Miss  Ellen  W.,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Washburn,     Hon.     Charles     G., 
Worcester. 

Washburn,    Mrs.    Frederick    A., 
Boston. 

Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Boston. 

Wendell,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 

Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Wheelwright,    Mrs.   Andrew   C, 
Boston. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 

Williams,  Mrs.  H.  C,  Framing- 
ham. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,    James    B.,    Providence, 
R.  L 

Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PEOCEEDIMS 

OF   THE 

ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watertown,  October  10,  1917. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  annual  report  of  the  treasurer  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are  hereby 
ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  Albert  Thorndike. 

Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 


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Trustees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton,  Walter  Cabot  Baylies,  William  Endicott,  Robert  H. 
Hallowell,  James  A.  Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  and  Rich- 
ard M.  Saltonstall. 

Mr.  Philip  G.  Peabody  was  unanimously  elected  a  member 
of  the  corporation. 

The  Director  spoke  of  his  summons,  just  received,  to  go 
to  Washington  as  a  member  of  an  advisory  committee  to  the 
government,  which  is  now  considering  preparedness  for  the 
war-blinded.  President  Appleton  assured  him  that  he  might 
offer  the  use  of  the  facilities  of  the  Perkins  Institution  for 
such  scheme  of  the  re-education  of  these  men  as  might  ap- 
pear to  him  advisable. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretxiry. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  10,  1917. 

To  the  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  As  we  have  previously- 
reported,  a  residential  school  like  ours  needs  to  be  an 
instrumentahty  for  the  socializing  of  its  pupils. 
Indeed,  we  so  planned  the  buildings  at  Watertown 
that  they  would  lend  themselves  intimately  to  this 
kind  of  education  as  being  our  peculiar  problem. 
The  institution  community  of  some  400  people  all 
told,  divided  up  as  it  now  is,  first,  into  two  main 
groups  and,  second,  into  fifteen  households,  is  no 
longer  institutional  in  character  but  as  normal  and 
natural  as  conditions  will  admit.  We  doubt  if  the 
socialized  education  of  so  many  blind  children  could 
have  been  much  better  planned  for.  In  so  saying 
we  do  not  forget  that  the  degree  of  our  success  with  a 
given  set  of  children  depends  mainly  on  the  spirit 
which  the  director  and  his  staff  is  able  to  infuse  into 
their  work  of  service.  But  the  Perkins  Institution 
has  always  commanded  a  singularly  excellent  corps 
of  workers;  and  now  that  its  government  is  less  cen- 
tralized than  ever  through  the  placing  of  an  im- 
mediate responsibility  on  to  more  shoulders  than 
formerly,  —  twelve  matrons  instead  of  ten,  for  ex- 

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ample,  and  four  masters  with  house  duties  instead  of 
two,  —  the  need  of  extreme  care  in  their  selection  is 
greater  than  ever.  The  cottage  family  plan,  as  we 
aim  to  carry  it  out,  necessarily  means  the  inter- 
dependence of  the  taught  and  the  teacher;  hence,  a 
given  amount  of  responsibihty  is  intended  to  fall 
upon  the  children  and  youth,  under  which  they  should 
grow  stronger  and  more  efficient.  We  believe  they 
must  do  so. 

All  which  this  implies  in  the  daily  life  at  the  school 
makes  for  the  socialized  education  above  referred  to. 
But  there  are  other  influences  tending  to  further  it, 
especially  the  many  and  various  ways  that  come  to 
us  or  are  sought  by  us  for  mingling  in  the  life  outside 
the  institution.  All  save  a  very  few  of  the  pupils 
have  homes  and  visit  them  as  often  as  conditions 
permit,  a  few  every  day,  more  every  week,  almost  all 
over  the  shorter  holidays,  and  absolutely  all  each 
summer  vacation.  Those  remaining  over  Sundays 
attend  the  church  of  their  parents'  choice,  and  wher- 
ever it  can  be  managed  those  who  attend  Sunday 
schools  mingle  in  classes  with  the  young  people  of 
the  neighborhood.  Acquaintance  naturally  leads  to 
some  intervisiting,  which  is  encouraged  by  us;  also 
to  mutual  invitations  to  parties,  for  under  restric- 
tions, the  propriety  of  which  our  pupils  are  made  to 
understand,  they  may  and  sometimes  do  invite  to  the 
school  dances  even  young  people  of  the  opposite  sex, 
much  as  happens  at  any  modern,  well  regulated 
boarding-school.     Our  pupils  often  go  down  street 


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and  through  buying  little  things  at  the  stores  learn 
their  cost.  They  travel  about  in  car  and  train  and  so 
learn  how  to  get  about.  We  take  them  to  many  con- 
certs. They  themselves  give  concerts  to  which  the 
public  is  invited  in.  As  a  result  they  are  invited  to 
sing  at  many  an  affair  outside.  At  most  of  these 
light  refreshments  are  served,  —  no  bad  experience 
for  blind  people  in  handling  themselves  in  such 
matters,  especially  when  served  standing.  The  daily 
cottage  life  involving  not  alone  the  contributory 
housework  but  the  meeting  at  table  or  in  the  living 
room  with  house  matron,  teachers,  and  frequent 
guests,  —  the  frequent  intercottage  visiting,  the 
occasional  little  house-parties,  especially  at  Hallow- 
e'en, at  the  Christmas  tree  festivities  and  when  out- 
side friends  come  in  to  private  theatricals  and  other 
entertainments,  —  all  these  experiences  are  most 
helpful,  making  as  they  do  for  a  better  mutual  under- 
standing and  an  improved  social  ease.  Additional 
affairs  leading  to  ''community  participation,"  as  our 
Director  calls  it,  occur  each  year.  This  year  there 
have  been  an  unusual  number.  The  Hampton  In- 
stitute Quartet  and  our  choir  sang  for  each  other. 
A  troupe  of  Tufts  College  undergraduates  presented 
Percy  MacKaye's  ''Mater"  on  our  stage.  Following 
visits  and  talks  to  our  pupils  by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Luther 
H.  Gulick,  our  girls'  Pequossette  Camp  Fire  group 
was  invited  to  lead  the  singing  at  a  lecture  and 
demonstration  by  Dr.  Gulick  in  Ford  Hall,  Boston; 
and  they  did  so.     The  same  girls  took  part  with 


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about  2,000  others  in  a  Grand  Council  Fire  and 
Masque  in  Mechanics  Hall,  Boston,  one  of  them  being 
called  upon  to  sing  the  Sunrise  Song  in  that  vast  hall. 
The  camp  fire  groups  from  the  neighboring  city  of 
Newton  came  twice  to  the  institution  to  practise 
their  marching  for  this  Grand  Council  Fire  with  our 
own  group  of  girls.  The  ladies  of  a  Watertown  music 
club  gave  in  our  fine  hall  a  guest  night  musicale,  to 
which  many  local  people  came  who  had  not  before 
visited  the  institution.  Again,  about  300  school  chil- 
dren with  their  teachers  came  there  to  a  special 
performance  for  them  of  our  Christmas  carols.  Four 
patriotic  lectures,  given  there  under  the  auspices  of 
the  local  camp  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans,  brought 
together  large  audiences  both  of  inside  and  of  outside 
people.  Then  this  year  timely  and  stirring  talks 
were  given  to  the  school  and  guests,  especially  on 
''The  League  to  Enforce  Peace"  by  Samuel  J.  Elder, 
Esq.,  on  ''The  Service  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Huts,"  by 
Rev.  D.  Brewer  Eddy,  and  on  "The  Fighting  Spirit" 
by  Rabbi  Levi. 

Participations  of  another  sort  were  contributions 
of  sewing  for  the  Belgian  children,  and  knitting  for 
the  soldiers,  also  suppUes  sent  to  the  Surgical  Dress- 
ings Committee  at  the  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hos- 
pital, the  latter  made  by  all  the  girls  but  the  material 
paid  for,  at  a  cost  of  $48.60,  out  of  our  Pequossette 
Camp  Fire  funds,  won  summer  before  last  as  a  prize. 
Following  a  vividly  given  lecture  to  the  school  and 
friends  by  Miss  Winifred  Holt  on  her  work  for  the 


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war-blinded  of  France,  there  fell  upon  our  pupils  an 
added  eagerness  to  be  useful  to  their  fellow  sufferers 
in  this  great  emergency;  and  so  the  boys  who  had 
lately  presented  with  great  success  Shakespeare's 
'' Merchant  of  Venice"  repeated  it  in  two  perform- 
ances for  the  benefit  of  the  war-blinded  and  raised 
$900,  for  which  amount  they  proudly  sent  their 
check.  The  girls  proposed  subscribing  for  a  $50 
Liberty  Bond  and  were  able  to  do  so.  The  blind  men 
and  women  of  our  workshop  at  South  Boston  also 
subscribed,  —  nine  of  them  individually  and  four 
collectively. 

Such  co-operative  activities  as  those  indicated 
above  cannot  but  help  broaden  the  minds  and  hearts 
of  the  physically  shut  in,  our  pupils  or  employees, 
and  extend  their  horizon  and  make  them  better 
citizens.  They  even  raise  the  status  of  the  institu- 
tion and  should  bind  it  more  firmly  than  ever  to  the 
community.  However,  the  spirit  of  the  Perkins 
Institution  has  ever  been  noble,  and  its  schooling  not 
institutional  but  emancipatory  and  socializing. 

Throughout  the  year  the  Maria  Kemble  Oliver 
Fund  has  brought  much  pleasure  and  musical  culti- 
vation to  our  serious  students  of  music,  to  whom  the 
opportunity  of  hearing  the  works  of  the  best  com- 
posers interpreted  by  the  finest  musicians  is  an  in- 
valuable part  of  their  training.  Thus  the  privilege  of 
attending  the  symphony  concerts  in  Boston,  the 
series  of  Sunday  afternoon  concerts  in  Symphony 
Hall,  a  choral  concert  in  Mechanics  Hall,  recitals  by 
Fritz  Kreisler,  Julia  Gulp  and  Harold  Bauer,  and  a 

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lecture  by  Mr.  Havrah  Hubbard  have  all  come 
to  our  pupils  through  the  wise  expenditure  of  this 
fund. 

Life  at  the  school  is  joyful.  Every  visitor  perceives 
that.  Whether  or  not  it  is  also  energizing  depends 
very  much  on  how  many  of  the  pupils  are  energiz- 
able.  Some  are  unfortunately  wholly  unpromising, 
but  of  most  much  may  be  expected,  and  in  proportion 
as  they  can  acquire  and  hold  a  saving  state  of  mind. 
Those  who  cannot  do  this  join  the  unfortunate  blind 
in  the  world,  who  need  continued  help  of  some 
kind  and  ought  to  have  it.  Such  help  might  well  be 
either  financial  or,  better,  in  the  form  of  definite 
and  ample  provision  of  opportunity  for  gainful  em- 
ployment, or  even,  in  the  neediest  cases,  both.  But 
we  trust  that  in  our  community  it  will  not  come  as 
special  class  legislation,  the  ^' blind  pension,"  for 
which  some  of  the  adult  blind  and  their  mistaken 
friends  have  been  clamoring  even  in  Massachusetts. 

A  good  many  of  those  who  become  our  pupils  and 
fail  while  at  school,  eventually  join  the  ranks  of  the 
needy.  It  seems  bound  to  be  so  among  so  many  and 
such  heterogeneous  material.  Yet  we  are  always 
trying  to  do  more  to  rouse  all  the  hopeful  to  efficiency. 
A  year  ago  we  reported  having  placed  four  graduates 
in  excellent  positions.  This  year  we  placed  another, 
a  totally  blind  young  man,  as  instructor  of  piano 
tuning  and  the  industries  at  the  Oregon  School  for 
the  Blind.  The  placement  agent  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Commission  has  again  secured  permanent  and 
temporary  positions  for  several,   and  others  have 

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obtained  jobs  for  themselves.  Of  late  years  training 
in  salesmanship  has  been  given  in  our  schools  and 
encouragement  imparted  to  earn  while  at  home  sum- 
mers instead  of  idhng  the  time  away.  Last  summer 
this  training  bore  larger  fruit  here  than  usual,  for 
among  other  things  eight  boys  have  reported  sales 
of  brushes  amounting  collectively  to  $1,762.90.  Now, 
as  a  consequence,  those  boys  have  grown  immensely 
in  importance  both  to  themselves  and  to  others. 
Two  of  them  have  developed  ambition  to  attend  the 
local  public  high  school  and  now  go  there  daily  from 
the  institution.  Some  of  our  older  girls  did  splen- 
didly, too,  as  mothers'  helpers  and  the  like.  As  a 
direct  result  of  all  this  our  teachers  report  this  fall  a 
most  promising  outlook  for  the  school  year  just 
begun.  There  is  no  question  that  a  hopeful  state  of 
mind  works  magically  in  a  community  of  handi- 
capped people. 

The  Perkins  Institution  is  a  day  and  boarding 
school  for  blind  and  nearly  blind  pupils  between  the 
ages  of  five  and  nineteen.  A  few  are  gladly  per- 
mitted to  remain  into  manhood  and  womanhood  in 
order  to  finish,  but  as  most  are  children,  so  the 
conduct  of  all  must  accord  with  the  system  beheved 
best  for  them.  Smoking,  for  example,  is  forbidden, 
and  no  young  man  may  remain  who  is  known  to 
persist  in  breaking  this  rule.  All  three  of  our  directors 
have  been  quite  positive  in  this  matter  and  have 
even  been  singularly  fortunate  in  finding  non-smoking 
men  teachers.  Mr.  Allen  explains  to  his  boys  his 
reasons  for  not  allowing  them  to  smoke  and  makes  it 

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plain  that,  if  they  want  to  remain,  they  must  refrain. 
These  reasons  are  chiefly  physiological  and  apply  to 
youthful  people;  but  he  gives  them  moral  and  ad- 
ministrative reasons  also.  At  any  rate  he  expects 
those  who  are  going  to  smoke  to  wait  until  after 
leaving  school  when,  if  they  feel  competent  to  add 
this  liability  to  the  liability  of  bUndness,  they  are  at 
liberty  to  do  so.  This  statement  is  made  here  and  at 
this  time,  since  last  year  four  young  men  were  sus- 
pended from  school  for  smoking.  Two  of  them  have 
returned  this  fall. 

As  the  formal  education  of  by  far  the  most  of  our 
pupils  stops  when  they  leave  us  and  as  their  means 
and  opportunities  of  acquiring  correct  notions  of 
many  matters  desirable  for  all  voting  citizens  to  have 
are  uncommonly  limited  and  as  there  has  never  been 
time  enough  for  their  consideration  at  school,  the 
directors,  superintendents  and  principals  of  a  few 
schools  for  the  blind  have  met  twice  within  the  year, 
as  a  self -constituted  efficiency  committee,  for  the 
purpose  of  discussing  suggested  changes  in  curricula. 
The  principal  teacher  of  our  boys'  school,  Mr.  Molter, 
who  is  tremendously  interested  in  all  this  matter,  has 
been  carefully  trying  out  the  changes  allowed,  and 
he  reports  no  little  eagerness  and  enthusiasm  on  the 
part  of  his  high  school  pupils  affected.  The  experi- 
ment will  continue.  One  of  the  topics  which  was  in- 
spirationally  treated  here  in  twelve  lessons  is  astron- 
omy. Only  the  most  general  conceptions  were 
touched  upon,  and  yet  it  was  quite  evident  that  the 
boys    acquired    an    approximate    understanding    of 

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what  the  subject  is  all  about,  and  certainly  a  better 
comprehension  of  infinite  space  than  they  ever  had 
before  and  also  a  more  reverential  attitude  of  mind. 
Among  the  other  topics  similarly  treated,  though 
lending  themselves  more  to  historical  treatment,  are 
taxation,  organized  labor,  trusts  and  monopolies, 
prison  reform,  and  the  development  of  western 
Europe.  The  quantities  of  fresh  miscellaneous  lit- 
erature which  keep  coming  to  the  institution,  — 
special  articles,  papers,  reports  of  other  schools  and 
of  new  movements,  books,  pedagogical  magazines, 
and  periodicals  of  current  history,  —  all  such  lit- 
erature lies  for  a  while  on  the  ''round  table"  in  the 
library,  and  there  the  teachers  spend  many  an  odd 
half  hour  in  looking  it  over.  Residential  schools 
which  do  not  invite  this  sort  of  reading  lose  a  very 
splendid  opportunity  of  indirectly  broadening  their 
pupils'  minds. 

Many  of  the  pamphlets  and  clippings  recently 
added  to  our  Special  Reference  Library  on  Blindness 
and  the  Blind  are  on  the  subject  of  the  re-creation  and 
re-education  of  the  war-blinded.  The  clippings  alone 
already  fill  four  thick  volumes.  As  reported  last 
year,  this  unique  and  rich  library  of  ours  is  recognized 
by  the  American  Library  Association  as  ''sponsor" 
for  the  subject  of  blindness.  Five  people  profession- 
ally interested  in  our  subject  have  recently  spent 
many  hours  reading  and  studying  in  it,  one  of  them 
a  week,  one  a  month,  and  another  six  weeks;  and 
furthermore  they  have  had  the  continuous  help  of 
our  extremely  well  equipped  special  librarian.    What 

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vision  Mr.  Anagnos  had  when  he  started  his  collec- 
tion seventeen  years  ago! 

One  of  the  above-mentioned  students  is  a  grad- 
uate of  our  school,  who  was  invited  to  return  to  pre- 
pare herself  for  giving  a  course  of  lectures,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Special  Aid  Society  for  American 
Preparedness,  on  the  general  psychology  of  blindness, 
which  course  she  has  since  repeated  in  Boston  to  75 
women  anxious  to  prepare  themselves  to  answer  the 
anticipated  call  to  help  hearten  and  re-educate  the 
war-blinded  men  who  may  return  to  this  community. 
The  course  included  learning  Braille  and  inspecting 
all  the  Massachusetts  agencies  in  behalf  of  the  blind. 
It  will  be  resumed  again  this  fall  and  will  doubtless 
provide  experience  in  personal  service  to  those  of  the 
blind  adult  who  are  already  in  our  midst. 

The  Institution  entertained  also  for  a  few  weeks  a 
young  woman  from  New  York  who  wished  to  prepare 
herself  to  teach  blinded  soldiers  and  is  now  en- 
gaged in  this  occupation  in  France.  Naturally  we 
are  glad  to  be  able  to  aid  in  such  a  cause,  and  we 
trust  we  may  have  other  opportunities  of  doing  so. 

While  the  school  and  lending  library  of  embossed 
books  continues  to  grow  in  numbers  and  in  use  alike 
—  the  total  circulation  for  the  year  having  been 
12,860  —  yet  the  Howe  Memorial  Press  has  pub- 
lished but  little  that  is  new,  except  a  mass  of  music 
scores,  new  editions  of  old  matter,  and  a  few  books 
and  stories  on  the  great  war;  for  the  energies  of  that 
press  have  been  drafted  off  to  two  matters:  first,  to 
a   rehabilitation   under   its   new  manager  —  chiefly 

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the  adding  of  much  shelf  room  and  the  relocation 
and  re-pigeonholing  of  its  vast  body  of  plates  —  and 
second,  to  the  equipping  of  a  machine  shop  for  the 
making  of  new  and  improved  appliances  used  by  the 
blind  and  their  instructors.  Fortunately  the  former 
manager  had  so  husbanded  the  resources  of  the  Trust, 
which  is  separately  endowed,  that  the  indicated 
expenditure  could  readily  be  borne. 

Most  of  the  classroom  appliances  used  in  our 
schools  have  heretofore  been  made  to  order  at  various 
places,  and  it  so  happens  that  little  reliance  could  be 
placed  on  constant  accuracy  of  workmanship,  es- 
pecially in  Braille  slates  or  similar  writing  appliances. 
Now,  nicety  of  registration,  for  example,  between 
the  parts  of  a  Braille  slate  where  the  gauge  is  very 
small  and  where  the  position  and  number  of  the 
points  are  all  that  determine  their  meaning,  is  quite 
essential;  and  so  the  Howe  Memorial  Press,  which 
was  founded  for  the  purpose  of  supplying  appliances 
as  well  as  music  and  books,  has  been  asked  by  vote 
of  the  Uniform  Type  Commission  to  undertake  to 
manufacture  the  former  for  the  profession.  And  it 
has  begun  to  do  so,  having  turned  out  within  the 
year  about  1,000  Braille  pocket  slates,  650  of  which 
have  been  sold  at  cost  or  given  away. 

Reliable  ■wTiting  slates  of  the  kind  are  likely  to  be 
in  increasing  demand,  now  that  the  turning  towards 
a  Braille  type  is  general  and  manifest,  and  that 
diversity  of  systems  is  soon  to  disappear.  At  last 
summer's  convention  of  the  American  Association  of 


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Workers  for  the  Blind,  held  in  Portland,  Maine,  it 
was  voted  to  endorse  the  recommendations  of  the 
Commission  on  Uniform  Type,  that  all  American 
agencies  for  the  blind  try  to  unite  on  British  Braille, 
Grade  One  and  a  Half,  the  doing  of  which,  while 
it  would  give  all  the   English-speaking   blind   one 
and  the  same  alphabet,  would  yet  rid  the  Ameri- 
can portion  of  having  to  conform  to  the  drawbacks  of 
Grade  Two  —  which  code  American  schoolmen  find 
to  be  cumbered  with  confusing  rules  and  exceptions 
more  difficult  to  bear  in  mind  than  all  the  rest  of 
the  system.     Though  the  Perkins  Institution  long 
ago  put  forth  and  is  still  using  the  most  perfect  and 
efficient  embossed  alphabets  of  their  kind,  the  Boston 
line  type  of  Dr.  Howe  and  the  Improved  or  Ameri- 
can Braille  system  of  Mr.  Joel  W.  Smith,  a  valued 
former  pupil  and  teacher,  yet  the  demand  for  gen- 
eral uniformity  is  so  loud  that,  all  things  considered, 
we  and  the  other  schools  using  it  should  not  be  doing 
right  to  persist  in  our  narrower,  though  better  path. 
Therefore,  reluctant  as  we  are  to  say  it,  whichever 
way  the  country  goes  Perkins  must  go  too.    This 
is  the  opinion  of  our  present  director  who,   as  a 
former  classroom  teacher  of  the  blind,  both  in  Eng- 
land and  in  America,  practically  conversant  with  all 
systems,  still  feels  that  in  giving  up  the  simple  and 
scientifically  arranged  American  Braille  the  blind  of 
the  country  are  resigning  a  better  tool  for  a  worse 
one,  —  a  thing  people,  who   are   already  weighted 
down  with  a  mighty  handicap,  can  seldom  afford  to 


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do.  However,  uniformity,  even  though  not  a  step 
in  advance,  will  be  in  itself  a  distinct  gain. 

Our  workshop  for  adults  at  South  Boston,  in  a  part 
of  which  the  new  Braille  appliances  are  being  made, 
has  passed  a  better  year  than  was  feared  would  be 
possible  in  these  times  of  growing  public  thrift.  The 
22  men  and  women  there  have  been  about  as  busy 
as  usual,  though  not  continuously  so,  and  though 
they  have  been  paid  increased  piece-work  wages, 
nevertheless  the  total  output  has  been  such  that  the 
business  has  again  practically  taken  care  of  itself. 
Reference  has  already  been  made  to  the  fact  that 
nine  of  these  blind  workers  have  each  managed  to 
buy  a  Liberty  Bond  and  four  of  them  another. 

There  has  died  within  the  year  one  who  for  some 
time  has  been  carried  on  the  rolls  of  the  institution  as 
manager  emeritus  of  our  workshop  at  South  Boston. 
We  speak  of  Mr.  Eugene  C.  Howard,  whose  fifteen 
years  of  managing  that  shop  was  of  the  consecrated 
and  yet  practical  kind  that  we  love  to  record.  Before 
he  took  charge  of  it,  the  shop,  which  had  been  con- 
ducted since  1840,  had  always  cost  the  institution 
considerable  money  to  run.  Afterwards,  owing 
largely  to  the  transfer  of  its  salesroom  to  Boylston 
Street,  Boston,  where  it  still  is,  but  partly  also  to 
Mr.  Howard's  thrifty  business  ways  and  long  hours 
of  personal  devotion,  the  business  of  the  shop  has 
practically  taken  care  of  itself;  that  is,  it  has  given 
steady  work  to  about  twenty-two  blind  adults  with- 
out expense  to  the  institution.    There  are  few  work- 


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shops  for  the  blind  of  which  such  a  statement  can 
properly  be  made. 

Last  year  we  were  glad  to  furnish  room,  board  and 
washing  to  a  Harvard  student  from  Oklahoma,  a 
young  man  who  through  accident  had  newly  become 
totally  blind.  The  Pennsylvania  Institution  for  the 
Blind  had  accorded  him  the  same  privileges  while 
attending  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  The 
Massachusetts  and  the  Pennsylvania  schools  have 
again  exchanged  pupil  teachers  and  with  mutual 
satisfaction  as  well  as  unquestioned  advantage  to 
the  young  women  themselves. 

For  some  fifteen  years  the  Howe  Memorial  Club, 
an  organization  of  the  boys,  has  held  exercises  at  the 
school  in  November,  the  birth  month  of  Dr.  Howe 
and  Mr.  Anagnos.  One  or  more  members  of  the 
Howe  family  have  always  been  present  and  spoken, 
as  has  a  lifelong  friend  of  the  school  and  its  directors, 
Mr.  Frank  B.  Sanborn.  Mr.  Sanborn  has  likewise 
always  spoken  at  the  exercises  of  Founder's  Day  at 
the  Kindergarten.  His  death  last  winter  is  a  distinct 
loss,  for  the  whole  school  had  come  to  depend  on  his 
occasional  visits  and  his  delightful  reminiscent  talks. 

Upon  receiving  the  resignation  of  the  treasurer, 
Mr.  William  Endicott,  in  May,  1917,  the  Trustees 
took  the  following  action:  — 

Voted,  to  accept  with  deep  regret  the  resignation 
of  the  Treasurer,  William  Endicott,  and  to  approve 
the  following  statement,  presented  by  Mr.  Salton- 
stall  and  the  Secretary :  — 


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Mr.  Endicott  was  elected  Treasurer  January  8,  1904. 
Although  a  very  busy  man,  he  always  had  time  for  any 
institution  business.  He  has  regularly  attended  the  meet- 
ings of  the  Trustees  and  of  the  Corporation,  freely  giving 
the  counsel  and  advice  which  he  could  so  well  give.  He 
understood  the  principles  of  the  institution  and  was  jealous 
of  its  good,  both  spiritual  and  material.  His  interest  in 
blind  people  was  ever  sympathetic  and  practical.  We  con- 
gratulate the  American  organization  created  to  rehabilitate 
the  devastated  towns  and  villages  abroad  that  it  can  com- 
mand his  devoted  services. 

The  Director  read  papers  last  season  as  follows:  — 
On  ''The  Problem  of  the  Feebleminded  Blind  Child" 
before  the  Massachusetts  Society  for  Mental  Hygiene, 
on  ''Present-Day  Factors  in  the  Schools  for  the 
Blind,  as  Emphasized  at  Perkins  Institution"  before 
the  American  School  Hygiene  Association,  and  on 
"The  Education  of  the  Blind,"  being  the  address 
given  at  the  closing  exercises  of  the  Austine  Institu- 
tion for  the  Education  of  the  Deaf  and  the  Blind, 
Brattleboro,  Vermont. 

This  Austine  Institution,  which  has  been  running 
for  the  past  five  years,  has  now  closed  its  department 
for  the  blind,  both  because  the  per  capita  expense 
of  keeping  it  open  was  large  and  because  the  Super- 
intendent perceived  that  it  is  better  for  the  deaf  and 
the  blind  alike  not  to  be  thrown  together  at  school. 
This  fall  Vermont  has  entered  five  of  its  state  pupils 
with  us. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 

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1917,  the  number  of  blind  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  315,  four  more  than  on  the 
same  date  of  the  previous  year.  This  number  in- 
cludes 76  boys  and  79  girls  in  the  upper  school,  63 
boys  and  61  girls  in  the  lower  school,  15  teachers  and 
oJ95cers,  and  21  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  There  have  been  54  admitted  and  50  dis- 
charged during  the  year. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year  1916-1917,  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
12;  Interstitial  keratitis,  1;  Phlyctenular  keratitis, 
2;  Ulcerative  keratitis,  1;  Injuries,  3;  Atrophy  of 
the  optic  nerve,  7;  Albinism,  1;  Congenital,  1;  Con- 
genital amblyopia,  1 ;  Congenital  cataracts,  5 ;  Con- 
genital cataract  and  optic  atrophy,  1;  Congenital 
cataract  and  conical  corneae,  1;  Congenital  ab- 
normalities of  nerve,  1 ;  Congenital  microphthalmos, 
2;  Congenital  cyclitis,  1 ;  Irido-cyclitis,  1;  Buphthal- 
mos,  1;  Retinitis  pigmentosa,  1;  Glaucoma,  1; 
Meningitis,  1;    Progressive  myopia,   1;    Glioma,   1. 

We  must  not  close  this  report  without  calling  at- 
tention to  the  increase  in  the  expenses  of  every  kind 
in  carrying  on  the  Institution.  The  high  cost  of 
living  is  seriously  felt  in  every  family,  and  it  must  be 
remembered  that  there  are  housed  in  the  Institution 
about  four  hundred  persons  who  must  be  fed  and 
kept  warm.  We  therefore  appeal  to  the  friends  of 
the  Institution,  who  have  made  it  what  it  is,  to  stand 
by  it  in  its  present  needs  and  by  their  gifts  so  increase 
its  income  as  to  enable  it  to  meet  the  situation  with- 
out impairing  its  funds. 

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Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 
A.  Parker  Browne;  Mrs.  Helen  Nichols, 
widow  of  Samuel  Cabot;  Hon.  Jonathan  Chace 
of  Providence;  Henry  G.  Chapin  of  Springfield; 
Mrs.  Louisa  F.,  widow  of  Zenas  Marshal  Crane; 
Mrs.  Caroline  Gardiner,  widow  of  Charles 
Pelham  Curtis;  Livingston  Gushing;  Dr.  San- 
ford  Hanscom;  Charles  Henry  Hersey;  John 
Hogg;  Mrs.  Clitheroe  Dean,  wife  of  Charles 
L.  James;  Mrs.  Helena  M.,  widow  of  Barker  B. 
Kent,  M.D.;  Mrs.  Alice  K.,  wife  of  Truman  L. 
Quimby;  Melvin  Eugene  Rice  of  South  Sudbury; 
Mrs.  Caroline  R.  Webb,  wife  of  George  K.  Sabine; 
Franklin  B.  Sanborn;  Prof.  Charles  Joyce 
White. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ANNIE   GILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES, 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 
THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL, 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
ANNETTE   P.  ROGERS, 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL, 

Trustees. 
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THE  PROBLEM  OF  THE  FEEBLEMINDED 
BLIND  CHILD/ 


The  wording  of  the  topic  given  me  to  treat,  describ- 
ing the  particular  blind  child  in  question  as  feeble- 
minded, is  not  the  wording  which  teachers  of  the 
blind  prefer.  Realizing  as  we  do  that  feebleminded- 
ness is  the  real  defect,  we  think  of  these  doubly 
afflicted  children  not  as  the  feebleminded  blind  but 
as  the  blind  feebleminded.  To  be  sure  the  same  topic 
which  I  treated  ten  years  ago  in  Philadelphia  was 
worded  as  this  one  is,  yet  its  conclusions  showed  that 
I  had  more  or  less  unconsciously  turned  the  title 
round;  for  they  read  as  follows:  ''What  shall  be 
done  with  these  doubly  afflicted  children?  Their 
principal  [or  central]  defect  is  their  feeblemindedness ; 
their  blindness  is  but  superficial.  Like  all  other 
feebleminded  children  they  need  parental  and  per- 
manent custodial  care.  Hence  some  provision  should 
be  made  for  them  at  institutions  for  the  feeble- 
minded. What  form  this  provision  should  take 
must  be  left  for  the  superintendents  of  those  insti- 
tutions to  determine."  You  see  how  nicely  I 
shifted  the  burden  from  our  shoulders  on  to  those 
already  supporting  the  burden  of  a  most  hetero- 
geneous group,  —  the  idiots,  the  imbeciles  and  the 
morons. 

'  This   paper  was  presented  by  Mr.  Allen  at  a  conference  of  the  Massachusetts  Society 
for  Mental  Hygiene,  Ford  Hall,  Boston,  December  15,  1916. 


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When  in  the  nineties  some  of  us  teachers  of  special 
children  had  begun  to  receive  recognition  by  the 
National  Education  Association,  the  department, 
now  known  as  that  of  Special  Education,  was  termed 
''Department  Sixteen,  —  The  Deaf,  The  Blind,  and 
The  Feebleminded."  Now,  at  a  convention  of  those 
days,  the  room  in  which  this  department  was  to 
meet  was  marked  with  a  sign  too  short  for  the  whole 
title,  and  so  the  artist  had  added  after  the  words 
"The  Deaf,  The  Blind"  the  abbreviation  ''etc." 
This  was  evidently  too  much  for  a  teacher  of  the 
feebleminded  present,  for  he  remonstrated  thus: 
"You  needn't  consort  with  us  if  you  don't  want  to; 
but,  if  we  are  coming  in  with  you,  we  object  to  being 
called  the  'Andsoforths'."  And  yet  the  feebleminded 
are  a  miscellaneous  people;  but  he  might  have  as- 
severated that  there  are  "andsoforths"  among  the 
blind  and,  I  presume,  among  the  deaf,  not  to  men- 
tion others.  Dr.  Howe's  first  little  group  of  feeble- 
minded children  was  known  as  the  School  for  Idiots. 
It  was  taught  in  a  part  of  the  Perkins  Institution 
but  is  said  to  have  been  soon  removed  elsewhere, 
largely  because  the  blind  pupils  in  the  other  parts  of 
the  house  objected  to  being  classed  with  idiots.  And 
so  it  has  been  to  this  day,  —  both  they  and  their 
educators  have  always  made  this  objection;  for  as 
we  say,  on  the  one  hand,  the  defect  of  the  feeble- 
minded is  central  and  unalterable;  that,  whether 
untrained  or  trained  to  the  limit  of  their  capacity, 
they  eventually  require  permanent  custodial  care 
and  restraint;  —  in  short,  that  the  feebleminded  are 

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socially  incompetent.  And  we  say,  on  the  other 
hand,  that  the  defect  of  the  blind  is  superficial  and 
superable  and  that,  when  properly  trained,  they 
may  be  expected  to  make  good  in  society  at  large; 
in  other  words,  that  the  blind  are  socially  competent. 
And  it  is  so.  The  whole  fabric  of  the  education  of 
the  blind  is  woven  on  the  assumption  not  only  that 
the  blind  may  be  fitted  for  efficient  citizenship  but 
for  contributing  their  own  share  to  the  world's 
progress. 

The  problems  of  the  bhnd  and  of  the  feebleminded 
being,  then,  wholly  different,  I  still  contend  that 
where  the  double  affliction  appears  in  an  individual 
child  the  problem  is  the  problem  of  the  feebleminded. 
But  should  the  problem  be  handled  as  such  in  prac- 
tice? The  following  very  competent  authorities: 
two  superintendents  of  institutions  for  the  feeble- 
minded, one  active  and  one  retired;  the  principal 
of  one  of  the  largest  and  best  equipped  schools  for 
the  blind;  a  principal  teacher  of  a  school  for  the 
feebleminded;  and  a  psychologist  who  has  had  wide 
experience  in  observing  and  testing  feebleminded 
children  of  every  grade;  —  meeting  in  Vineland  to 
discuss  this  question  two  years  ago,  answered  "Yes." 
Nevertheless  and  notwithstanding,  the  bhnd  feeble- 
minded child  is  not  yet  commonly  admitted  into 
schools  for  the  feebleminded,  —  not  even  into  that 
training  school  where  the  consultation  was  held 
and  the  admission  made. 

The  reason  for  this  state  of  affairs  is  obvious 
enough.    The  problem  of  the  feebleminded  is  one  of 

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numbers  far  beyond  the  provision  for  their  care, 
while  that  of  the  bhnd  is  rarely  one  of  great  numbers 
but  rather  of  adequate  inspirational  opportunities 
in  their  comparatively  few  and  small  day  and  resi- 
dential schools.  Superintendents  of  the  feebleminded 
institutions  naturally  word  the  problem  as  this 
paper  has,  the  feebleminded  blind  child,  and  look 
to  us  blind-school  men  to  receive  and  train  our  own. 
And  indeed  we  have  been  doing  more  or  less  of  this 
all  along;  that  is  to  say,  we  have  been  admitting 
for  trial  those  doubtful  cases  which  had  no  other 
place  to  go  to,  in  the  behef  that  some  of  them  would 
prove  hopeful.  And  we  have  usually  retained  as 
pupils  even  the  unpromising  so  long  as  their  presence 
was  not  plainly  harmful  to  others.  There  was  room 
for  them,  and  we  pitied  them  and  so,  against  our 
better  judgment,  we  let  the  matter  drift.  Occa- 
sionally a  low-grade  boy  or  girl  would  be  admitted 
by  mistake,  as  in  this  single  instance  which  I  will 
cite:  A  boy,  totally  blind  and  without  previous 
schooling,  was  admitted  into  an  institution  for  the 
blind.  Although  twelve  years  of  age,  his  develop- 
ment was  that  of  a  child  of  two  or  three  years.  He 
had  many  habits  of  motion,  rocking  his  body  furiously 
backwards  and  forwards,  shaking  his  hands  and 
tapping  his  feet  when  excited,  as  he  easily  became. 
He  could  not  use  his  hands  and  therefore  could  not 
care  for  himself  or  engage  in  kindergarten  games  or 
occupations.  And  yet  withal  he  was  a  winsome  child, 
smihng  sweetly  when  pleased,  fond  of  music  and 
listening  to  the  reading  of  stories  with  quiet  com- 

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posure,  although  not  comprehending  their  meaning. 
It  is  obvious  that  such  a  child  cannot  be  expected  to 
gain  much  if  anything  through  residence  in  a  school 
for  the  bhnd  or  through  the  training  which  it  affords, 
even  in  the  simplest  forms  of  manual  work.  What  he 
requires  is  custodial  care  for  life  where  the  necessary 
attention  and  such  training  as  he  is  capable  of  receiv- 
ing will  fill  his  cup  of  happiness  to  the  fullest  extent. 
Some  of  us  have  even  kept  for  a  few  weeks  such 
cases  as  this  one,  inflicting  its  care  upon  a  willing 
teacher  and  housemother,  only  to  do  at  the  end  of 
those  weeks  what  we  should  have  done  at  the  out- 
set, —  send  the  child  back  whence  it  came.  Oc- 
casionally, indeed,  we  have  been  repaid  for  our 
patience  and  forbearance;  I  have  in  mind  more  than 
one  serious-minded  simpleton  of  a  boy,  having  a 
little  useful  sight,  who  developed  into  a  willing  and 
responsible  manservant  within  the  school  for  the 
blind,  where  he  was  employed  on  regular  wages  to 
the  end  of  his  days.  Such  people  often  make  the 
best  and  most  trustworthy  servants  in  an  institu- 
tion where  they  are  understood  and  protected.  The 
same  boys  would  not  have  lived  equally  serviceable 
and  happy  lives  within  an  institution  for  the  feeble- 
minded, for  there  they  would  have  been  handicapped 
by  having  less  sight  than  their  companions,  whereas 
in  their  institution  for  the  blind  they  had  the  ad- 
vantage of  more  sight.  In  the  realm  of  the  blind 
the  one-eyed  man  is  often  king.  In  my  own  school 
some  of  the  dearest,  most  willingly  helpful  little 
boys  are  evidently  little  imbeciles.    They  can  see  a 

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bit  and  are  so  kind  and  useful  to  the  brighter  children 
who  cannot  that  we  do  not  find  it  in  our  hearts  to 
turn  them  out,  hoping  that  when  they  become  older 
pupils  their  desire  to  do  things  will  perhaps  enable 
them  to  learn  to  do  housework  or  recane  a  chair  or 
perform  some  other  simple  craft  by  which  they  will 
be  able  to  earn  part  of  their  support  at  home  or 
within  an  institution.  I  recall  the  case  of  a  little 
totally  blind  fellow  of  German  parentage,  who  was 
retained  despite  the  fact  that  he  was  irritable  and 
violent  at  times  and  that  he  made  the  others  afraid 
of  him.  We  knew  that  his  father  was  a  wife-beater 
and  that  the  home  conditions  were  generally  de- 
plorable. We  kept  him,  for  through  a  friend  we 
learned  that  the  changes  we  were  able  to  make  in 
this  high-grade  feebleminded  boy  had  gradually  re- 
formed the  family  who  were  ashamed  to  do  in  the 
presence  of  their  child  what  he  told  them  on  his 
vacations  they  never  did  at  the  institution.  Since  he 
has  grown  up  this  boy  has  been  employed  in  a  work- 
ing home  for  blind  men. 

Now  training  the  blind  feebleminded  to  be  useful, 
or  to  reform  his  home  may  not  be  the  business  of  a 
school  for  the  blind,  but  it  is  gratifying,  nevertheless. 
Every  such  school  has  done  this  and  will  continue 
to  do  it  so  long  as  it  has  the  room  and  the  heart  and 
knows  that  there  is  no  other  way.  Still,  doing  this 
with  a  few  pupils  only  helps  individuals.  The  prob- 
lem of  the  blind  feebleminded  child  cannot  be  solved 
in  this  kindly  manner.  The  Perkins  Institution 
alone  has  discharged  within  the  past  twelve  years 

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96  of  its  pupils,  untrainable  by  its  means  and  meth- 
ods, because  they  were  feebleminded.  This  is  an 
average  of  8  a  year.  Of  these  96,  63  belonged  to 
Massachusetts.  Most  of  them  were  returned  to 
their  homes,  but  admittance  for  a  few  of  them  was 
secured  at  Waverley  and  at  Wrentham.  At  least  two 
of  these  became  most  unhappy  in  their  associations 
with  the  feebleminded  only,  missing  the  stimulating 
companionship  of  the  bright. 

Why  did  the  Perkins  Institution  do  this  heartless 
thing?  Because  its  problem  of  the  education  of  the 
blind  is  in  itself  a  difficult  and  expensive  undertaking 
and  will  be  defeated  if  it  is  to  be  complicated  by  a 
wholly  different  one.  For  this  reason  I  have  ap- 
peared at  recent  legislative  hearings  and  spoken 
in  behalf  of  the  establishment  of  a  third  institution 
for  the  feebleminded  in  Massachusetts,  hoping  that  a 
department  for  the  blind  feebleminded  might  some- 
how be  created  there. 

In  the  Perkins  Institution  the  few  subnormals  Hve 
distributed  among  the  normals  but  go  to  school  by 
themselves  and  are  given  much  more  manual  than 
mental  occupation.  This  they  resent,  being  in- 
fluenced by  their  surroundings  to  wish  to  study  the 
same  things  as  the  other  boys  and  girls  do.  In  the 
case  of  the  boys  there  is  a  special  teacher  for  them; 
in  that  of  the  girls  all  teachers  take  their  turn,  each 
plan  seeming  to  work  best  as  arranged.  But,  ''no 
feebleminded  child  should  be  admitted  to  any 
classes  in  which  children  are  supposed  to  be  trained 
to  take  independent  positions  in  the  world."     In 

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the  city  of  London  the  bUnd  feebleminded  children 
have  latterly  been  removed  from  the  day  classes  of 
the  blind  and  instructed  by  themselves  in  a  building 
known  as  Stormont  House.  The  reports  of  the  result 
of  this  temporary  segregation  are  favorable.  The 
same  thing  has  just  been  done  in  one  or  two  Ohio 
cities  which  maintain  public  school  centers  for  blind 
children.  But  no  American  residential  school  has 
yet  opened  a  special  cottage  in  which  to  observe 
doubtful  newcomers,  though  at  least  two  of  our 
schools,  of  which  the  Perkins  Institution  is  one  and 
the  Pennsylvania  school  at  Overbrook  the  other,  have 
talked  of  having  such  an  observation  cottage,  not  as 
a  solution  of  this  whole  serious  problem  but  as  a 
means  of  preserving  and  protecting  from  vitiation 
the  sweetening  and  energizing  environment  which  is 
a  basic  element  in  the  successful  education  for 
eJEciency  of  the  educable  blind.  Many  a  blind  person 
has  made  his  blindness  a  stepping  stone  to  life  suc- 
cess; but  where  blindness  is  coupled  with  feeble- 
mindedness the  handicap  is  too  great  to  be  over- 
come. We  believe,  therefore,  that  the  mingling  in 
institution  life  of  these  two  classes  of  pupils  is  both 
unwise  and  uneconomic.  Besides,  admitting  them 
as  pupils  into  a  residential  school  for  the  blind  is  at 
best  but  a  temporary  expedient;  for  such  schools 
have  no  custodial  departments  and  the  feeble- 
minded, whether  blind  or  not,  should  not  be  returned 
into  the  world.  Most  of  our  institutions  for  the 
blind  are  public  foundations  (state  schools)  and 
have  no  moneys  for  separate  work  with  feebleminded 

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children  who  are  also  blind.  Three  or  four  incor- 
porated schools,  like  the  Perkins  Institution,  could 
establish  separate  cottages  for  their  care  and  train- 
ing, but  what  would  eventually  happen?  The  cus- 
todial cases  would  remain  with  us,  the  children  would 
in  time  become  adult,  and  in  two  or  three  decades  our 
custodial  feebleminded  department  would  outnumber 
the  school  department  proper,  thus  using  up  the  only 
funds  available  in  our  communities  for  educating  the 
educable  blind.  Evidently,  then,  this  is  a  solution 
not  to  be  seriously  entertained. 

We  at  Watertown  are  noticing  with  no  little  con- 
cern the  gradual  pressure  for  admittance  of  more 
and  more  applicants  with  mixed  defects.  The  ma- 
terial seems  to  be  averaging  lower  in  the  scale  of 
hopefulness.  This  is  due,  doubtless,  to  the  growing 
heterogeneity  of  our  population,  but  surely  also  to 
efficient  labors  in  the  prevention  of  blindness.  The 
Massachusetts  Commission  for  the  Blind  is  able  to 
state  that  in  the  year  1915  it  knew  of  but  a  single 
new  case  in  the  whole  Commonwealth  of  total  blind- 
ness in  both  eyes  from  that  heretofore  most  damag- 
ing eye  disease  of  infancy,  ophthalmia  neonatorum. 
Surely  a  magnificently  hopeful  showing  for  the  com- 
munity. Now  this  disease  has  contributed  to  the 
Perkins  and  other  institutions  for  the  blind  from 
one-fourth  to  one-third  of  their  whole  pupil  bodies. 
Moreover,  ophthalmia  neonatorum  resulting  as  it 
most  often  does  in  a  merely  superficial  defect  —  a 
damaging  of  the  eye  alone  —  contributes  pupils  of 
the  brighter,  more  hopeful  kind.    Hence,  the  gradual 

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lessening  of  new  pupils  blinded  from  this  cause  may 
be  expected  to  leave  with  us  a  larger  proportion  of 
those  rendered  blind  from  other,  much  more  serious 
and  deep-seated  causes,  including  cerebral  troubles. 
Though  at  present  Perkins  has  a  fine  lot  of  pupils, 
it  may  not  always  have  so  fine  a  one. 

Having  in  mind  this  possibility  of  a  change  in 
pupil  material  and  being  encouraged  by  Dr.  Fernald, 
Dr.  Fairbanks  and  others,  I  last  year  brought  to 
Watertown  a  psychologist,  trained  both  at  Vassar 
and  at  Vineland,  whose  duties  have  begun  with  the 
mental  testing  of  the  present  pupils.  She  has  been 
applying  as  many  tests  of  the  usual  Binet-Simon 
scale,  recommended  by  Goddard,  as  are  practical 
to  the  blind,  together  with  such  additional  tests 
adapted  to  blindness  as  should  be  equivalent  to  those 
omitted.  We  are  cooperating  with  others  who  are 
working  with  the  same  scale,  tentatively  standard- 
ized for  the  blind,  and  anticipate  achieving  results 
that  may  be  illuminating  and  will  at  least  give 
educators  of  the  blind  a  clearer  understanding  of 
their  pupils  than  has  before  been  possible.  We 
trust  that  our  study  will  be  a  contribution  to  the 
solution  of  the  question  under  consideration  in  this 
paper. 

These  tests  being  taken  only  under  the  best  of 
conditions,  the  work  proceeds  but  slowly.  I  shall 
touch  here  upon  a  few  of  the  findings.  The  whole 
number  of  pupils  so  far  examined  is  172.  Of  these 
exactly  one-fourth  or  43,  lost  sight  from  ophthalmia 
neonatorum.    And  of  these  43  only  8,  or  18  per  cent., 

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fell  to  the  mental  level  of  four  years  below  normal 
and  are  called  feebleminded.  The  other  figures  here 
given  apply  to  the  block  unit  of  120  children,  com- 
prising the  lower  school,  —  those  from  the  kinder- 
garten to  the  fifth  grade  inclusive.  Of  these  12  per 
cent,  tested  feebleminded;  28  per  cent,  backward; 
and  60  per  cent,  normal.  It  is  interesting  to  note 
that  15  children,  or  one  more  than  tested  feeble- 
minded, tested  above  age  or  supernormal;  but  par- 
ticularty  significant  in  connection  with  the  topic 
before  us  is  it  to  learn  that  the  totally  blind  showed 
more  normal  and  fewer  subnormal  cases  than  did 
the  partially  sighted.  Anthropometrical  measure- 
ments are  also  being  made  and  the  family  histories 
and  the  causes  and  period  of  blindness  recorded  for 
the  future  study. 

Whilst  I  have  prepared  the  present  paper  under 
slightly  unfavorable  conditions,  it  yet  reflects  the 
somewhat  hazy  ideas  which  I  have  upon  the  im- 
mediate solution  of  the  complex  problem  of  the  so- 
called  Feebleminded  Blind  Child,  which  ideas  of 
mine,  as  is  doubtless  evident  to  you,  are  not  so 
positive  and  clear  as  they  were  ten  years  ago  in 
Philadelphia,  when  I  said  the  matter  was  the  im- 
mediate business  of  the  superintendents  of  the  insti- 
tutions for  the  feebleminded.  But  I  would  have  you 
understand  that  I  still  beUeve  that  the  proper  agency 
for  the  final  solution  of  the  problem  would  be  indi- 
cated were  the  question  worded,  The  Blind  Feeble- 
minded Child. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN. 

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NINTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 
School  for  the  Blind 

In  a  Program  of  Christmas  Music  in  the  Assembly  Hall 
OF  the  School  at  Watertown 

Sunday   Afternoon,    December    17,    1916    (Public   Rehearsal) 
AT  3.30  o'clock  and 

Monday  Evening,  December  18,  1916  at  8.15  o'clock. 
The  Program. 

PART  ONE. 

Anthems  and  Carols. 
Anthem  for  Christmas-tide,  "Sing,  0  Heavens,"        .       .       .     Tours 

The  Shepherds'  Christmas  Song, Reimann 

The  Sleep  of  the  Child  Jesus, Gevaert 

O'er  the  Cradle  of  a  King, Old  Breton  Melody 

Christmas  Hymn  (Antiphonal)  17th  century       ....   Jungst 

Sing  We  Noel, French  Carol  of  the  16th  century 

In  Excelsis  Gloria, Waddington  Cooke 

Silent  Night, Franz  Gruber 

Song  of  Adoration,  "Sleep,  Holy  Babe,"       .       .  J.  B.  Dykes 

Anthem  for  Christmas-tide,  "Rejoice  greatly,"   .  John  E.  West 

PART  TWO. 

The  Holy  Child,  a  cantata  for  mixed  chorus  and  solo 

voices,  with  organ  accompaniment,        .        .        .     Horatio  Parker 

The  Choir  will  have  the  assistance  of 
Mrs.  LoRA  May  Lamport,  Soprano,  Mr.  J.  Garfield  Stone,  Tenor, 

Mr.  Frederic  Cutter,  Bass. 
Of  the  faculty.  Miss  Starbird,  Mezzo-Soprano,  Miss  Bacon,  Pianist, 

Mr.  Hartwell,  Oj-ganist,  Mr.  Gardiner,  Director. 


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1832-1917. 
GRADUATING   EXERCISES    OF   THE    PERKINS    INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 
Thursday,  June  21,  1917,  10.30  a.m. 

Program. 

Organ,  Fanfare, Lemmens 

Malcolm  L.  Cobb 

Chorus,  "When  Spring  Awakes," Weinzierl 

Essays: 

The  Violet, AdeUne  Hambly  Wood 

Experiences  in  Expression,  ....  Ellen  Frances  Welch 

Part  Song,  Barcarolle, Offenbach 

Girls'  Glee  Club 

"The  Achievements  of  Luther  Burbank"  ^ 

Annie  Elizabeth  Minehan 
Essays : 

Lullabies, Rose-Alma  Gadbois 

The  Evolution  of  the  Pianoforte,       .  Isaac  Walter  Phelps,  Jr. 

Organ,  Gavotte  in  E  flat, Roeder 

Roger  T.  Walker. 

Address, Mr,  Charles  F.  F.  Campbell 

Superintendent,  Ohio  State  School  for  the  Blind. 

Presentation  of  diplomas  and  certificates. 

Chorus,  "The  Twenty-third  Psahn," Neidlinger 


Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1917. 

Rose-Alma  Gadbois.  Ellen  Frances  Welch. 

Annie  EHzabeth  ^linehan.  Adeline  Hambly  Wood. 

Pianoforte  tuning  department. 

Thomas  Thompson  McBride.  Francis  Charles  Nelson, 

Isaac  Walter  Phelps,  Jr. 

Class  Colors:  Green  and  Gold. 

Class  Flower:  The  Violet. 

Class  Motto :  Veritas  vincit. 

»  Omitted. 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Concerts,    Recitals,    Lec- 
tures AND  Plays. 

To  Major  Henry  Lee  Higginson,  through  Mr.  C.  A. 
Ellis,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts 
in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Miss  Florence  A.  Goodfellow,  for  ten  tickets  for  a 
course  of  lectures  by  Mr.  Havrah  Hubbard. 

To  Mr.  Charles  R.  Sturgis,  for  an  invitation  to  two 
hundred  pupils  to  attend  a  performance  of  "Little  Women" 
at  the  Castle  Square  Theatre. 

To  Miss  Mary  L.  Ware,  for  two  tickets  for  two  recitals 
by  The  Edith  Rubel  Trio  in  Jordan  Hall. 

To  Mrs.  L.  D.  Gibbs,  for  two  tickets  for  a  pianoforte 
recital  by  Miss  Estelle  Neuhaus. 

To  Mrs.  Eleanor  Baldwin  Cass,  for  two  tickets  for 
readings  by  Miss  Adelle  Hoes  and  assisting  artists  in  Hun- 
tington Hall. 

To  Miss  Alice  Shepard,  for  eight  tickets  for  a  concert  for 
the  Boston  Seaman's  Friend  Society. 

To  Mr.  James  Friskin,  for  twelve  tickets  for  a  pianoforte 
recital  in  Jordan  Hall. 

To  Mrs.  G.  H.  Vidal,  for  six  tickets  for  a  pupils'  recital  at 
the  Faelten  Pianoforte  School. 


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To  Mr.  Frank  W.  Sticher,  treasurer,  for  two  tickets  for 
a  concert  of  the  Harvard  Alliance  for  the  Blind. 

To  Mrs.  Louis  Rosenbaum,  for  an  invitation  to  fifteen 
pupils  to  attend  a  musical  comedy  at  the  Boston  Opera 
House. 


II.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Recitals,    Lectures    and 
Dramatics  in  our  Hall. 

To  Samuel  J.  Elder,  Esq.,  for  a  talk  on  "The  League  to 
Enforce  Peace." 

To  the  Rev.  D.  Brewer  Eddy,  for  a  lecture  on  "In 
Thirty  Camps  with  Tommy  Atkins." 

To  Rabbi  Harry  Levi,  for  a  lecture  on  "The  Fighting 
Spirit." 

To  Prof.  Albert  H.  Gilmer  and  students  of  Tufts  and 
Jackson  colleges,  for  a  presentation  of  Percy  MacKaye's 
"Mater." 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  William  Frye  White,  Esq.,  for  a  lecture  on  "Presi- 
dents I  Have  Known." 

To  Mr.  John  E.  Brewin,  for  two  talks  on  "Salesman- 
ship." 

To  Miss  Winifred  Holt,  for  a  talk  on  her  work  in  France 
for  blinded  soldiers. 

To  Mrs.  Maud  Messer,  for  readings. 

To  Prof.  Henry  Wilder  Foote  and  the  Hampton  Quar- 
tet, for  a  concert;  and  to  Mr.  Frank  A.  Whipple,  for  a 
talk  in  connection  with  it. 

To  Mrs.  E.  P.  BuRTT,  for  a  talk  on  her  work  in  a  school 
for  the  blind  in  China. 

To  Miss  Mabel  Hanson,  for  a  vocal  recital. 


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To  Mr.  J.  L.  Harbour,  for  a  lecture  on  "Blessed  be 
Humor." 

To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Luther  H.  Gulick,  for  lectures  on 
"Physical  Training"  and  on  "The  Camp  Fire  Movement." 

To  Mrs.  H.  H.  Powers,  for  a  talk  on  China. 

HI.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Periodicals    and    News- 
papers. 

American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  California  News,  Christian 
Record  (embossed).  Christian  Register,  Christian  Science 
Journal,  Christian  Science  Sentinel,  Colorado  Index,  Illu- 
minator (embossed),  McClure's  Magazine,  Matilda  Zeigler 
Magazine  for  the  Blind  (embossed),  the  Mentor,  Michigan 
Mirror,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Our  Dumb  Animals,  The  Silent 
Worker,  The  Theosophical  Path,  the  Well-Spring,  West  Vir- 
ginia Tablet,  Woman  Citizen,  Youths'  Companion. 

IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

Dr.  Henry  Hawkins  and  Dr.  Harold  B.  Chandler,  for 
professional  services. 

Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  Peter  Bent  Brigham 
Hospital,  Children's  Hospital,  and  Psychopathic  De- 
partment OF  Boston  State  Hospital,  for  care  and  treat- 
ment of  pupils. 

Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Miss  Elizabeth  Atwood,  "a 
sailor,"  and  "the  littlest  children  in  the  Sunday  School  of 
the  Church  of  the  Disciples,"  for  gifts  of  money. 

Mrs.  David  A.  Evans,  Mrs.  Louis  Rosenbaum  and 
friends,  Mr.  Abraham  D.  Sperber,  Miss  Eleanor  T.  Hart, 
and  Ladies  of  St.  Patrick's  Church,  Watertown,  for  parties. 


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sociables  and  entertainments  for  the  pupils;  and  Mrs.  Rosen- 
baum,  for  a  summer  outing  of  three  weeks  in  the  country  for 
nine  pupils. 

Mrs.  RosENBAUM,  Mrs.  George  H.  Monks,  Mrs.  C.  M. 
Boyd,  Miss  Belle  Garner,  Mrs.  L.  J.  Lyons,  and  Mrs. 
George  Moses,  for  clothing. 

Mr.  H.  D.  Foss  of  the  New  England  Confectioners'  Club, 
Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Mr.  John  E.  Brewin,  Mr. 
Frank  McLaughlin,  Mrs.  Harry  Bryant,  Mr.  William 
S.  Fielding,  and  Mr.  Leroy  S.  Eaton,  for  gifts  of  fruit, 
confectionery,  groceries  and  maple  syrup. 

Mrs.  C.  M.  Bond  and  Mr.  L.  W.  Cronkhite,  for  toys; 
and  Mrs.  George  H.  Francis,  for  a  pair  of  skates. 

Mrs.  W.  C.  Ware,  for  musical  instruments;  and  Miss 
Ratsey,  for  an  "otophone." 

Lady  Sophia  Campbell,  for  a  picture  of  Sir  Francis 
Campbell  and  herself. 

The  Bible  Training  School,  South  Lancaster,  Mass., 
the  Xavier  Braille  Publication  Society,  Mr.  Harold 
T.  Clark,  Superintendent  T.  S.  McAloney  of  the  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  School  for  the  Blind,  and  the  Watertown 
Free  Public  Library,  for  books. 

Miss  M.  D.  Tappan,  through  Miss  Helen  S.  Conley,  for 
embossed  maps. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  UPPER  SCHOOL. 


Adomaitis,  Elsie, 
Allen,  Margaret  E.  B. 
Anderson,  Esther  M. 
Bannon,  A.  Maud, 
Belanger,  Dolores. 
Benoit,  Josephine, 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Burrough,  Mary  R, 
Butler,  Alice  May, 
Clancy,  Elizabeth. 
Coffey,  Angela  L, 
Cohen,  Alice, 
Collins,  Veronica, 
Cordero,  Loaiza. 
Cross,  Helen  A, 
Davenport,  Anna  A, 
Davis,  Ruth  M. 
Doucha,  Armen. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Dufresne,  Irene, 
Duke,  Marion  W, 
Evans,  Lillian  M. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M, 
Fetherstone,  Mae  E, 
Fiske,  Dorothy  T, 
Fiske,  Mattie  E.  L, 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
Freeman,  Edith  M. 
French,  Agnes  G. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L, 
Graham,  Marguerite  A. 


Gray,  Nettie  C. 
Guild,  Bertha  H. 
Guiney,  Julia. 
Hart,  Doris  L, 
Hill,  Lila  N. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
Irwin,  Helen  M. 
Kimball,  Blanche  E. 
Kimball,  Eleanor. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Ljungren,  Elizabeth. 
Locatelli,  Adele. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Malatesta,  Mary. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
Martin,  Lea. 
Martin,  Libby, 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McGill,  Marie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Miles,  Mildred  C. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Najarian,  Nevart. 
Noonan,  M.  Loretta. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Ramsey,  Mildred  M. 
Ross,  Lena. 
Rowe,  Margaret  C, 


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Samson,  Bertha. 
Samson,  Rose  Mary. 
Sannicandro,  Josephine. 
Sibley,  Marian  C. 
Siebert,  Bessie  L. 
Sokol,  Marion  G. 
Spencer,  Olive  E. 
Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Stewart,  Alice  L. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Thompson,  Mary. 
Tuttle,  Harriet  C. 
Uhrig,  Mary  G. 
Vilaine,  Mary  C. 
Wallockstein,  Annie. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Abbott,  Charles  A. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Baskin,  Morris  H. 
Beach,  B.  H.  Sparling. 
Beavon,  Burton. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Brooks,  Harold  D. 
Buck,  Arthur  B. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Cooney,  John. 

Craig,  Edward  J. 

Crowell,  Arthur  A. 

Curley,  Joseph  H. 

Cushman,  Ralph. 

Davis,  Sheldon. 

Depoian,  Hrant  G. 

Dorsey,  Harold  J. 

Dow,  Basil  E. 

Dugal,  J.  Ernest. 

Durfee,  Sidney  B. 

Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 

Evans,  Frederic  P. 


Fenton,  Walter  F. 
Ferguson,  Milton  W. 
Ferris,  Sumner  S. 
Ferron,  Homer. 
Fingerhut,  George  C. 
Fiske,  Martin  H. 
Fournier,  Eugene. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Fulton,  James. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Ginsberg,  Aaron. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Greene,  George. 
Haggerty,  Frederick. 
Hanaford,  Clarence  A. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 
HolUster,  Walter  W. 
Holmberg,  Arvid  N. 
Howard,  Thomas. 
Hoxsie,  Asa  T. 
Inglis,  John  S. 
Jacobs,  David  L. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Johnson,  Emil. 

Katwick,  Arthur  D. 

Liberacki,  Edward. 

Mack,  Francis  J. 

McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 

Moran,  Francis. 

Munn,  Daniel  J. 

Navarra,  Gaspere. 

Oliver,  Joseph. 

O'Neill,  Ralph  L. 

Philpot,  William  R. 

Porter,  Raymond  L. 

Quirk,  Arthur  L. 

Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 

Read,  J.  Elmer. 

Schoner,  Emil. 


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Sharp,  William  F. 
Smith,  Charles  E. 
Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Sullivan,  John  J. 
Tansey,  Frederick. 
Tobin,  Paul. 


Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Vetal,  Herbert  M. 
Walker,  Roger  T. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 
Wilcox,  J.  Earl. 
Youk,  Kim  K. 
Zalolsky,  Hyman. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Baker,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Beliveau,  Leontine  T. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Cambridge,  Mollie. 
Cassavaugh,  Nellie  J. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Costa,  Marianna. 
Cox,  Annie  E. 
Davis,  Mary. 
De  Dominieis,  Edith. 
Demers,  Germaine  M. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Duverger,  Loretta  V. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Elliott,  Mary. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Grent,  Josephine. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Haswell,  Thelma  R. 
Hinckley,  Geraldine. 


Ingersoll,  Dorothy. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kelley,  Beulah  C. 
Landry,  Edwina. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
Lyons,  Mary  L. 
MacDonald,  Katherine. 
McGovern,  Velma. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Miles,  Winifred  M. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Ogilvie,  Hilda  M. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Rapoza,  Evangeline  S. 
Riley,  Helen  I. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Rousseau,  Lillian. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Shea,  Mary  E. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Smith,  Dorothy  L. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Wands,  Hazel  C. 
Wheeler,  Theresa. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Witham,  Beatrice  L. 


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Abbott,  Dana  H. 
Amiro,  Gilbert. 
Barrett,  Robert  C. 
Caisse,  George  T. 
Costa,  Manuel. 
Crapowitch,  John. 
Cullen,  George  F. 
Cullen,  William. 
Deslauries,  Laurence. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Dunbar,  Kenneth  A. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Egan,  Robert  J. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Evans,  Walter  C. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Goguen,  Raoul. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Grime,  G.  Edward. 
Hebert,  Arthur  D, 
Holmes,  Rutherford  B. 
Houle,  Walter. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Lamagdeleine,  Armand. 
Lam  in  an,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Lemieux,  Bertrand  E. 
Libby,  Arthur  C. 
Logan,  Walter  J. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  L. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 


Matsson,  Harry  N. 
Maziall,  J.  Herbert. 
McDonald,  Edmond  J. 
McEachern,  Donald  M. 
McGillicuddy,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Morse,  Kenneth. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Noble,  Clark  W. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
O'Neil,  John. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Pearlstein,  David. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Perreault,  J.  Edward. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Remington,  Joseph  H. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
St.  George,  William. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Silvera,  Manuel. 
Simoneau,  Henry  J. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Slade,  Winton  C. 
Smith,  Jerome  C. 
Spencer,  Merton  S. 
Stott,  Lester  W. 
Thibeault,  Arthur. 
Thibeault,  Joseph. 
Walsh,  Louis. 
Wesson,  Kermit  O. 
Zybert,  Tony. 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THOMAS  STRINGER. 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 

[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  living,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

A  friend, $50  00 

Income  from  the  Glover  Fund,         .......  100  00 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 50  00 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D 25  00 


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STATEMENT 


Messrs.  Wabren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins  Institution 

Gentlemen  :  —  We  hereby  certify  that  the  following  statements  of  the 
August  31.  1917. 


Statements  of  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer  of  the  Perkins 

Year  ending 


Institution  Accoctnt. 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1916,  ..." $15,980  89 

Donations $4,695  67 

Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 30,000  00 

Other  New  England  States 10,606  67 

Income  from  investments 30,490  63 

Kindergarten  and  Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund,  adjusting  main- 
tenance, administrative  and  management  expense  accounts,    .  38,670  24 

Miscellaneous  income 5,858  07 

Works  Department  income, 32,131  79 

Legacies 9,150  00 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 21,579  22 

183,182  29 


3199,163  18 


Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund  Account. 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1916,  ..." $1,012  89 

Income  from  investments, $10,884  59 

Miscellaneous  income, 1,293  47 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 42,394  55 


54,572  61 


$55,585  50 


Kindergarten  Account. 
Receipts. 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1916, 

Donations $32  50 

New  England  States 11,000  01 

Income  from  investments 69,346  99 

Interest  on  loan, 1,200  00 

Miscellaneous  income, 5,627  34 

Legacies 7,233  76 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 170,274  60 


9,224  78 


264,715  20 


$273,939  98 


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OF  ACCOUNTS. 


Boston,  October  Eighth,  1917. 
and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown,  Massachusetts. 
Treasurer  correctly  show  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 

Respectfully  subniitted, 

EDWIN   L.  PRIDE  AND   CO.    (Incorporated), 
By  Edwin  L.  Pride, 

Certified  Public  Accountant. 

Institution  anb  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  for  the 
August  31,  1917. 

Institution  Account. 
Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director, $157,700  00 

Add  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1916, 13  17 

$157,713  17 
Less  iinexpended  balance  August  31,  1917, 264  60 

$157,448  57 

Administrative  and  management  expenses, $879  37 

Interest  on  loan 1,200  00 

Miscellaneous  expenses, 758  66 

Invested 19,756  25 

22,594  28 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1917, 19,120  33 

$199,163  18 

Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund  Account. 
Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director $12,850  00 

Add  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1916, 20  13 

$12,870  13 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1917, 14  48 

$12,855  65 

Miscellaneous  expenses,  .        .        .        .        .        .        .  $127  77 

New  Printing  Plant,  Watertown, 302  85 

Invested 39,263  75 

39,694  37 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1917, 3,035  48 

$55,585  50 

Kindergarten  .Account. 
Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director, $73,950  00 

Add  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1916, 52  62 

$74,002  62 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1917 60  06 

$73,942  56 

Maintenance, $3,755  18 

Administrative  expenses, 1,026  28 

Miscellaneous  expenses 629  17 

Invested 184,526  00 

189,936  63 

Balance  on  hand,  August  31,  1917 10,060  79 

$273,939  98 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1, 
1917:  — 


Investments,  securities, 
Investments,  real  estate, 
Buildings  and  grounds,  Watertown,  . 
Equipment,  Watertown, 
Music  Department,  Watertown, 
Library  Department,  Watertown, 
Tuning  Department,  Watertown, 
Building,  Workshop,  South  Boston,  . 
Equipment,  etc.,  Workshop,  South  Boston, 
Rents  and  accounts  receivable,  . 

Stamp  fund, 

Cash,  Treasurer, 

Cash,  Director,  etc.,     .... 


$360,560 

15 

206,944 

15 

678,333 

95 

17,005 

26 

20,375 

00 

54,758  35 

389 

50 

8,647  74 

16,318 

26 

325 

85 

50 

00 

18,855 

73 

1,682 

31 

—  $1,384,246  25 

The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 

-J 

INSTITUTION   FUNDS. 

General  fund $365,196  87 

Special  funds :  — 

Charlotte  Billings $40,507  00 

Stoddard  Capen, 13,770  00 

Harris  Fund 80,000  00 

Benjamin  Humphrey 25,000  00 

Stephen  Fairbanks 10,000  00 

Mary  Lowell  Stone, 2,000  00 

Jonathan  E.  Pecker, 950  00 

Elizabeth  P.  Putnam, 1,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust 2,500  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer, 2,174  77 

Alfred  T.  Turner 1,000  00 

Anne  White  Vose 12,994  00 

Charles  L.  Young 5,000  00 

Richard  Perkins 20,000  00 


Hobert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb  and  blind), 
Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind). 


Maria  Kemble  Oliver,  . 
Accrued  interest  on  $3,000, 


Amount  carried  forward. 


$13,000  00 
365  09 


4,000  00 
5,000  00 


13,365  09 


239,260  86 
,457  73 


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Amount  brought  forward $604,457  73 

Legacies,  etc.:  — 

Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, $3,000  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2.500  00 

Calvin  W.  Barker 1-859  32 

Lucy  A.  Barker 5,953  21 

Francis  Bartlett 2,500  00 

MaryBartol 300  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 25.000  00 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell 5.832  66 

William  T.  Bolton 555  22 

George  W.Boyd 5.000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 268,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 10,508  70 

J.  Edward  Brown 100.000  00 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham 5.000  00 

Fanny  Channing 2.000  00 

Ann  Eliza  Colburn 5.000  00 

Louise  F.  Crane. 5.000  00 

Harriet  Otis  Cruft 6.000  00 

David  Cummings 7,723  07 

Chastine  L.  Cushing 500  GO 

LW.Danforth 2.500  00 

Susan  L.Davis 1.500  00 

Joseph  Descalzo. 1.000  00 

JohnH.Dix. 10.000  00 

Alice  J.  H.  Dwinell 200  00 

Mary  E.Eaton 5.000  00 

Mortimer  C.  Ferris  Memorial,    ....  1,000  00 

Martha  A.  French. 164  40 

Thomas  Gaffield 6.450  00 

Albert  Glover 1.000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5.000  00 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow 6.471  23 

Hattie  S.  Hathaway 500  00 

Charles  H.  Hayden 20.200  00 

John  C.  Haynes 1.000  00 

Joseph  H.  Heywood 500  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 3.708  32 

Martha  R.  Hunt. 10,000  00 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchison,      ....  2.156  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson 6.000  00 

William  Litchfield 7.951  48 

Hannah  W.  Loring 9.500  00 

Susan  B.  Lyman 4,809  78 

Stephen  W.  Marston 5,000  00 

Charles  Merriam 1.000  00  

Amounts  carried  forward §575,557  13      5604,457  73 

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Amounts  brought  forward $575,557  13      $604,457  73 

Legacies,  etc.  —  Concluded. 

Sarah  Irene  Parker, 699  41 

George  Francis  Parkman 50,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters, 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce, 20,000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt, 1,000  00 

Matilda  B.  Richardson, 300  00 

Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2,640  00 

William  A.  Rust, 1,500  00 

Joseph  Scholfield, 2,500  00 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .  15,000  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey 5,000  00 

Mary  F.  Swift 1,391  00 

William  Taylor 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton 10,000  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh, 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait, 3,000  00 

Harriot  Ware 1,952  02 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested 

remainder  interest  under  his  will),          .        .  11,500  00 

Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  Whitney 1,000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson, 543  75 

Thomas  T.  Wyman, 20,000  00 

736,063  44 

Loans  payable.  Kindergarten, 40,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 3,489  82 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 235  26 


$1,384,246  25 


DONATIONS,  INSTITUTION  ACCOUNT. 

Clapp,  Mrs.  Robert  P $10  00 

Hammond,  Miss  Ellen, 5  00 

The  Rose  Bud  Club  of  Dorchester 144  67 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,     .        .        .  $4,423  00 

Iron  fence  fund, 107  00 

Organ  fund, 5  00 

Clock  fund 1  00 


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$159  67 


4,536  00 
$4,695  67 


WORKS  DEPAETMENT. 

Profit  and  Loss  Account  for  the  Year  ending  August  31,  1917. 

Revenue. 
Sales,  repairs,  etc., » $32,838  68 

Expenditures. 

Material  used $11,821  71 

Salaries  and  wages, 15,802  01 

General  expense, 4,512  66 

Total  expenditures 32,136  38 

Profit, $702  30 

Deduct:  — 
Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,      .  $368  57 

Bad  accounts  written  off, 240  06 

Total $608  63 

Less:  — 

Recovered  from  bad  debts, 80  52 

528  11 

Total  profit  for  year  ending  August  31,  1917,  .        .        .  $174  19 

1  As  by  the  books,  actual  cash  receipts  for  the  year,  132,131.79. 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund 
September  1,  1917:  — 


Investments,  securities, $217,027  52 

Machinery  and  equipment, 32,254  74 

Merchandise,  raw  and  finished, 9,598  00 

Accounts  receivable, 134  18 

Cash,  Treasurer, 3,021  00 

Cash,  Director 14  48 


$262,049  92 


The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


HOWE   MEMORIAL  PRESS   FUNDS. 

General  fund, $245,409  28 

Special  funds :  — 

Joseph  H.  Center, $1,000  00 

Deacon  S.  Stickney 5,000  00 

6,000  00 

Legacy,  Augusta  Wells 10,290  00 

Accounts  payable, 350  64 


$262,049  92 


The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Kindergarten  September  1, 
1917:  — 


Investments,  securities, $1,028,207  00 

Investments,  real  estate, 419,946  43 

Buildings  and  grounds,  Watertown,  ....      526,856  00 

Equipment,  Watertown, 19,928  44 

Rents  and  accounts  receivable, 11,313  30 

Loans  receivable, 40,000  00 

Cash,  treasurer 10,000  73 

Cash,  director,  etc 398  00 

$2,056,649  90 


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The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


KINDERGARTEN   FUNDS. 

Generalfund, $594,316  91 

Special  funds:  — 

Samuel  A.  Borden $4,675  00 

M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth 11,000  00 

Catherine  L.  Donnison  Memorial,      .        .        .  1,000  00 

Caroline  T.  Downes 12,950  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Eugenia  F.  Farnham, 1,015  00 

Elisha  T.  Loring, 5,000  00 

Catherine  P.  Perkins 10,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,          .        .        .  14,100  00 

Abby  K.  Sweetser 25,000  00 

May  Rosevear  White 500  00 


Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Room,    .        .        .         4,000  00 


Legacies,  etc.:  — 

Emilie  Albee $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen 748  38 

Michael  Anagnos 3,000  00 

Harriet  T.  Andrews 5,000  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton 18,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey 500  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Ellen  M.  Baker 13,053  48 

Mary  D.  Balfour 100  00 

Nancy  Bartlett 500  00 

Sidney  Bartlett 10,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,  Memorial,       .  1,000  00 

Robert  C.  Billings 10,000  00 

Sarah  Bradford 100  00 

Helen  C.  Bradlee 140,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 6,130  07 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown 1,000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown, 3,073  76 

Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2,000  00 

In  memoriam  A.  A.  C, 500  00 

John  W.  Carter 500  00 

Adeline  M.  Chapin 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5,000  00 

Helen  G.  Coburn 9,980  10 


113,174  13 


Amounts  earned  forward $401,949  53      $707,49104 


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Amounts  brought  forward, 

Legacies,  etc.  —  Continued. 
Charles  H.  Colburn, 
Helen  Collamore,  . 
Anna  T.  Coolidge, 
Mrs.  Edward  Cordis, 
Sarah  Silver  Cox,  . 
Susan  T.  Crosby,  . 
George  E.  Downes, 
Eliza  James  (Bell)  Draper 
Lucy  A.  Dwight,   . 
Helen  Atkins  Edmand; 
Mary  B.  Emmons, 
Mary  Eveleth, 
Susan  W.  Farwell, 
Sarah  M.  Fay, 
John  Foster,  . 
Elizabeth  W.  Gay, 
Ellen  M.  Gifford,  . 
Albert  Glover, 
Joseph  B.  Glover, 
Matilda  Goddard, 
Maria  L.  Gray, 
Mary  L.  Greenleaf, 
Josephine  S.  Hall, 
Olive  E.  Hayden,  . 
Jane  H.  Hodges,    . 
Margaret  A.  Holden,    . 
Marion  D.  Hollingsworth, 
Frances  H.  Hood, 
Abigal  W.  Howe,  . 
Ellen  M.  Jones,     . 
Maria  E.  Jones,     . 
Moses  Kimball,      . 
Ann  E.  Lambert,  . 
Emeline  Morse  Lane, 
Charles  Larned,     . 
William  Litchfield, 
Mary  Ann  Locke, 
Robert  W.  Lord,    . 
Sophia  N.  Low,      , 
Thomas  Mack, 
Augustus  D.  Manson, 
Calanthe  E.  Marsh, 
Sarah  L.  Marsh,    . 
Annie  B.  Matthews, 
Rebecca  S.  Melvin, 

Amounts  carried  forward, 


Memorial 


$401,949  53  $707,491  04 


1,000  00 
5,000  00 
45,138  16 
300  00 
5,000  00 
100  00 
3,000  00 
1,500  00 
4,000  00 
5,000  00 
1,000  00 
1,000  00 
500  00 
15,000  00 
5,000  00 
7,931  00 
5,000  00 
1,000  00 
5,000  00 
300  00 
200  00 
5,157  75 
3,000  00 
4,622  45 
300  00 
2,360  67 
1,000  00 
100  00 
1,000  00 
500  00 
9,935  95 
1,000  00 
700  00 
1,000  00 
5,000  00 
6,000  00 
5,874  00 
1,000  00 
1,000  00 
1,000  00 
8,134  00 
13,491  20 
1,000  00 
15,000  00 
23,545  55 


$624,640  26  $707,491  04 


62 


Amounts  brought  forward $624,640  26      §707,49104 

Legacies,  etc.  —  Continued. 

Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Mary  Abbie  Newell 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis 1,000  00 

Jeannie  Warren  Paine 1,000  00 

Anna  R.  Palfrey 50  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

George  F.  Parkman, 3,500  00 

Helen  M.  Parsons 500  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Mary  J.  Phipps 2,000  00 

Caroline  S.  Pickman 1,000  00 

Katharine  G.  Pierce 5,000  00 

Helen  A.  Porter, 50  00 

Sarah  E.  Potter  Endowment 425,014  44 

Francis  S.  Pratt 100  00 

Mary  S.  C.  Reed 5,000  00 

Jane  Roberts 93,025  55 

John  M.  Rodocanachi, 2,250  00 

Dorothy  Roffe 500  00 

Rhoda  Rogers 500  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch 8,500  00 

Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

"William  A.  Rust 1.500  00 

Rebecca  Salisbury 200  00 

Joseph  Scholfield, 3,000  00 

Caroline  O.  Seabury 1,000  00 

Eliza  B.  Seymour 5,000  00 

Annie  E.  Snow 9,903  27 

Adelaide  Standish 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  G.  Stuart 2,000  00 

Elizabeth  O.  P.  Sturgis 21,729  52 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser 5,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer 2,000  00 

Harriet  Taber 622  81 

Sarah  W.  Taber 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Delia  D.  Thorndike, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Betsey  B.  Tolman 500  00 

Transcript  ten  dollar  fund,          ....  5,666  95 

Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Rebecca  P.  Wainwright 1.000  00 

George  W.  Wales, 5,000  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $1,313,047  11      $707,49104 


63 


Amounts  brought  forward,     ....         $1,313,04711      $707,49104 

Legacies,  etc.  —  Concluded. 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware, 4,000  00 

Rebecca  B.  Warren 6,000  00 

Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse 565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson, 100  00 

Ralph  Watson  Memorial 237  92 

Mary  Whitehead, 666  00 

Julia  A.  Whitney, 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney, 150  62 

Betsey  S.  Wilder, 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Mary  W.  Wiley 150  00 

Mary  Williams, 5,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow, 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott, 5,532  00 

1,345,556  29 

Accounts  payable 3,226  60 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 12  11 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Room,  Income, 363  86 


$2,056,649  90 


DONATIONS,  KINDERGARTEN  ACCOUNT. 


Brett,  Miss  Anna  K $10  00 

Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union 
Congregational  Church  of  Weymouth  and  Brain- 
tree,     21  00 

$31  00 


64 


CONTRIBUTIONS   FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  Sarah  A. 
Stover,  Treasurer :  — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,389  00 

Donations, 1,686  00 

Donations  for  the  Iron  Fence, 107  00 

Donations  for  the  small  organ  and  the  clock,  .        .        .  6  00 

Cambridge  Branch, 167  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 90  00 

Lynn  Branch, 51  00 

Milton  Branch, 40  00 


$4,536  00 


ANNUAL  SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE  PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stoveb,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E, 
Abbott,  Mrs.  J., 
Abbott,  Mrs.  P.  W.,     . 
Adams,  Mr.  George,     . 
Adams,  Mrs.  Henry  J., 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo,    . 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H.,      . 
Allen,"  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Amory,  Mrs.  William, 
Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 
Applet  on,  Miss  Fanny  C, 
Archer,  Mrs.  E.  M.  H., 

Amount  carried  forward, 


,    $1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

.       10 

00 

3 

00 

.       25 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

.     $70 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    ,     $70  00 


Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P., 

5  00 

Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 

2  00 

Baer,  Mrs.  Louis, 

5  00 

Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R..      . 

2  00 

Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 

5  00 

Baldwin,  Mr.  E.  L.,     . 

2  00 

Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 

5  00 

Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 

20  00 

Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 

5  00 

Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 

10  00 

Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 

1  00 

Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G.,      . 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    .  $134  00 


65 


Amuunt  brought  forward,    .  $134  00 


Bigelow,  Mrs.  Alanson, 

1  00 

Blackmar,  Mrs.  W.  W., 

5  00 

Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W., 

5  00 

Blake,  Mrs.  Francis,     . 

5  00 

Boardman,  Mrs.  Alice  L., 

2  00 

Boardman,  Miss  E.  D., 

2  00 

Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

5  00 

Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.,  . 

5  00 

Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,   . 

2  00 

Bronson,  Mrs.  Dillon, 

2  00 

Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 

5  00 

Brush,  Mrs.  C.  N., 

.       10  00 

Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred,     . 

2  00 

Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D., 

5  00 

Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C, 

10  00 

Cabot,  Mrs.  Walter  C, 

25  00 

Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 

3  00 

Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,      . 

10  00 

Cary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,    . 

50  00 

Cary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 

10  00 

Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 

5  00 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 

5  00 

Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 

5  00 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 

5  00 

Chapman,  Miss  E.  D., 

1  00 

Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E.  C. 

2  00 

Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R., 

1  00 

Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C, 

2  00 

Clark,    Mr.    B.    Preston,    in 

memory    of    his    mother 

Mrs.  B.  C.  Clark,     . 

5  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 

10  00 

Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen, 

5  00 

Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F.,       . 

3  00 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 

5  00 

Cochrane,  Mrs.  Alex., 

5  00 

Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Amory,   . 

5  00 

Conant,  Mrs.  Nathaniel, 

2  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L.,    . 

1  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph 

25  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F., 

1  00 

Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D., 

2  00 

Cox,  Mrs.  William  E., 

10  00 

Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 

5  00 

Craigin,  Dr.  George  A., 

5  00 

Crane,  Mr.  Zenas, 

100  00 

Crocker,  Miss  Sarah  H., 

5  00 

Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 

10  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $528  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $528  00 


Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G., 
Curtis,  Miss  M.  G.,      . 
Curtis,  Mr.  Wm.  O.,    . 
Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W., 
Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 
Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F.,       . 
Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G.,      . 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Dale,  Mrs.  Eben, 
Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 
Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 
Day,  Mrs.  Lewis, 
DeLong,  Mrs.  E.  R.,    . 
Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 
Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C,  for  1916 

17,  ... 

Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket,    . 
Drost,  Mr.  C.  A., 
DuBois,  Mrs.  L.  G.,     . 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 
Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant, 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Wm.  Richards, 
Elms,  Mrs.  Edward  E., 
Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 
Ehns,  Mrs.  James  C,  . 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 
Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,    . 
Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B., 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,    . 
Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N., 
Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel,     . 
Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,  . 
Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  L.  A 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert,  (for  1916) 
Gibbs.  Mrs.  H.  C,       . 
GiU,  Mr.  Abbott  D.  (for  1916), 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $795  00 


5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

3  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

.       20  00 

2  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

.       10  00 

1  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

1  00 

1  00 

),       2  00 

66 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $795  00 


Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,   . 
Goldberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer^H. 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,   . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Charles  H 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,  . 
Greeley,  Mrs.  R.  F.,     . 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 
Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S.,       ■>. 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 
Harrington,  Dr.  Harriet  L 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W., 
Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 
Haven,  Mrs.  Franklin, 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G., 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,   Mrs.   F.   L.   (for 

1916),      . 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,  . 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Holden,  Mrs.  C.  W.,    . 
Homans,  Mrs.  John,     . 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B.,    . 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,  . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howland,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Ireson,  Mrs.  S.  E., 
Jennings,  Miss  Julia  F., 
Jewett,  Miss  Annie, 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S., 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H., 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 
Jordan,  Mrs.  Eben  D., 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S.,    . 
Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L., 
Kidner,  Mrs.  Reuben, 
Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 
KimbaU,  Mr.  Edward  P., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 
Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 
Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix,  . 


Amount  carried  forward,     SI,  127  00 


1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   25 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

.   15 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

,   25 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   50 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

Aynounlhro-aghl  forward,    $1,127  00 


Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 
Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A.,     . 
Larkin,  The  Misses, 
Lautterstein,  Mrs.  Josie, 
Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 
Lee,  Mrs.  George, 
Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 
Le\'i,  Mrs.  Harry, 
Locke,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Loring,  Judge  W.  C,   . 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C,     . 
Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B., 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  Thornton  K 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 
Lovering,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,  . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M., 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M.,     . 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Mixter,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.  (for 

1915-16), 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Morse,  Mrs.  J.  P., 
Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 
Morss,  Mrs.  Everett,   . 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Moses,  Mrs.  George,    . 
Moses,  Mrs.  Joseph,    . 
Moses,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob,    . 
Nathan,  Mrs.  John,      . 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,  . 
Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,     . 
Olmsted,  Mrs.  J.  C,    . 
Orcutt,  Mrs.  W.  D.,     . 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 
Paine,  Mrs.  Wm.  D.,   . 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J., 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,570  00 


1  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.  100  00 

1  00 

2  00 

10  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

,   50  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

50  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   30  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

3  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

67 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,570  00 


Perry,  Mrs.  Clarabel  N., 

5  00 

Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman, 

2  00 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  . 

25  00 

Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 

5  00 

Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M. 

10  00 

Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,  . 

5  00 

Putnam,  Miss  Ellen  Day, 

1  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  George, 

5  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 

5  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 

5  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A., 

5  00 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Henry  E., 

2  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

1  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  John  H.,    . 

2  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  William  Howell 

25  00 

Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 

30  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  Wm.  B.,      . 

10  00 

Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 

5  00 

Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 

10  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  C.  A.,  . 

10  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  . 

2  00 

Robbins,  Mrs.  Reginald  L., 

2  00 

Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 

1  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C., 

5  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K.,     . 

5  00 

Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S., 

6  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Henry, 

1  00 

Rosenbavun,  Miss  Loraine, 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Louis, 

5  00 

Rosenfield,  Mrs.  Harry, 

1  00 

Rotch,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,    . 

25  00 

Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S., 

1  00 

Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 

2  00 

Russell,  Mrs.  Elliott,    . 

2  00 

Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,      . 

4  00 

Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M. 

in  memory  of  his  mother 

Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall 

,       10  00 

Sanborn,  Mrs.  C.  W.  H., 

2  00 

Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W.,    . 

10  00 

Sargent,  Mrs.  Winthrop  (fo 

1916),      . 

.       25  00 

Schouler,  Mr.  James,  . 

5  00 

Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem 

ory  of  her  mother,    Mrs 

N.  M.  Downer, 

5  00 

Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 

.       10  00 

Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 

.       25  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 

.       25  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     $1,917  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,917  00 


Shattuck,  Mrs.  George  B., 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Rowland, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 
Short,  Mrs.  Y.  S., 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D., 
Sias,  Miss  Martha  G., 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Smith,  Miss  Ellen  V.,  . 
Smith,  Mrs.  Phineas  B., 
Snelling,  Mrs.  Howard, 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P.,       .      ' 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana, 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D., 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett 
Stearns,  Mr.  Wm.  B.,  . 
Steese,  Mrs.  Edward,  . 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex, 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil,     . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,  . 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis,     . 
Swann,  Mrs.  John, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 
Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 
Thomas,  Miss  Catherine  C. 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C, 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Thorndike,    Mrs.    Augustus 

L 

Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C, 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett,     . 
Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F., 
Vose,  Mrs.  Charles  (for  1916 

17). 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A.,    . 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee, 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard, 


Amount  carried  forward,     $2,204  00 


5 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

.       25 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

,       10 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

r,         1 

00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

6 

00 

.       15 

00 

4 

00 

5 

00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

.       25 

00 

.       25 

00 

68 


Amount  brought  forward,    $'. 

Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador, 
Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A., 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P., 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor, 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M., 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman, 
White,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Whittington,  Mrs.  Hiram, 


Amoimt  carried  forward,     $2 


2,204 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

20 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

25 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2,289 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $2,289  00 


Williams,  The  Misses, 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mr.  Moses,  . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses, 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Wingersky,  Mrs.  Harris, 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest,   . 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Wright,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 


.       10 

00 

.       50 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5  00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

.       10 

00 

S2,389  00 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E., 
Alden,  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Amory,  Mrs.  William,  2d, 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,  . 
Baker,  Miss  S.  P., 
Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Bemis,  Mr.  J.  M., 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James, 
BuUens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Burns,  Mr.  Walter  G., 

C 

Carpenter,  Mrs.  G.  A., 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,    . 
Case,  Mrs.  James  B.,  . 
Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,  Mrs.  John  Dudley, 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Codman,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C, 
Cole,  Mrs.  E.  E., 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $351  00 


DONATIONS. 

.,      $1  00 

Amount  brought  forward. 

.  $351  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

Converse,  Mrs.  C.  C, 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 

5  00 

5  00 

Cotting,  Mrs.  C.  E.,     . 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 

.       50  00 

.       10  00 

Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R., 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P., 

.       50  00 

.       10  00 

Daland,  Mrs.  Tucker, 

.       10  00 

5  00 

Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

1  00 

3  00 

Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M. 

,       10  00 

.       10  00 

Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C, 

5  00 

5  00 

Estabrook,  Mrs.  A.  F., 

5  00 

.       15  00 

Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 

25  00 

5  00 

Evans,  Mrs.  Charles,   . 

1  00 

5  00 

F 

20  00 

1  00 

Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 

10  00 

2  00 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B., 

10  00 

5  00 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,    . 

15  00 

3  00 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 

20  00 

.       10  00 

Flood,  Mrs.  Hugh, 

2  00 

.     100  00 

Forbes,  Mrs.  F.  B.,      . 

5  00 

.       25  00 

French,  Miss  Cornelia  A., 

10  00 

2  00 

Frothingham,      Mrs.      Ran- 

.      50  00 

dolph,      .          .          .          . 

5  00 

2  00 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L. 

5  00 

.       10  00 

Ginzberg,  Mrs.  Barnard, 

1  00 

5  00 

Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R., 

5  00 

2  00 

Grandin,  Mrs.  J.  L.,     . 

10  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $661  00 


69 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $661  00 


Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman, 

.       10  00 

Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 

5  00 

Grosberg,  Mrs.  0., 

2  00 

Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,    . 

.       10  00 

Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 

3  00 

Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 

5  00 

Heath,  Mr.  Nathaniel, 

5  00 

Hill,  Mrs.  Lew  C., 

5  00 

Hobbs,  Mrs.  Warren  D., 

2  00 

Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 

,      10  00 

Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C., 

.       10  00 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,  . 

10  00 

Hubbard,  Mr.  Gorham, 

5  00 

Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 

25  00 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Thomas,    . 

3  00 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F., 

5  00 

Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis, 

2  00 

lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 

10  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  George 

H.  Eager, 

10  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 

L.  Thayer,  through  Mrs 

Hannah  T.  Brown,  . 

5  00 

Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C., 

25  00 

Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 

5  00 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

10  00 

Keene,  Mrs.  S.  W., 

2  00 

Kettle,  Mrs.  L.  N., 

50  00 

Kimball,  The  Misses,  . 

25  00 

Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 

10  00 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  John, 

10  00 

Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 

5  00 

Linder,  Mrs.  George,    . 

10  00 

Livermore,  Col.  Thomas  L. 

10  00 

Lockwood,   Mrs.  T.   S.   (for 

1916),      . 

5  00 

Loring,  Mrs.  A.  P., 

10  00 

Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 

5  00 

Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H., 

10  00 

Magee,  Mr.  John  L.,    . 

10  00 

Mandell,  Mrs.  S.  P.,    . 

10  00 

Manning,  Miss  A.  F.,  . 

10  00 

Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 

10  00 

McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L., 

5  00 

Means,  Mrs.  W.  A.,     . 

10  00 

Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank, 

10  00 

Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T., 

5  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $1,075  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,075  00 


Monroe,  Mrs.  G.  H.,    . 
Morrill,  Miss  Amelia,  . 
Morse,  Mrs.  Henry  Lee, 
Pearson,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Perry,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 
Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,    . 
Pope,  Mrs.  W.  C, 
Potter,  Mrs.  W.  H.,     . 
Punchard,  Miss  A.  L., 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H.,     . 
Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher, 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W., 
Richardson,  The  Misses,  in 
memory  of  M.  A.  E.  and 

C.  P.  P 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C, 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick, 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E., 
Ripley,  Mr.  Frederick  H., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma, 
Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,  . 
Russell,  Mrs.  Isaac  H., 
Rust,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P., 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E., 
Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 
Sever,  Miss  Emily, 
Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 
SUsbee,  Mrs.  G.  S.,  . 
Slattery,  Mrs.  Wm. 
Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N. 
Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P.,  . 
Spring,  Mrs.  Romney, 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley, 
Thayer,  Mrs.  WiUiam  G., 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  B., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  Alfred  J., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A., 
Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H.,  . 
Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H.,  . 
Warren,  Miss  Ellen  W., 
Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.,    . 


5  00 

50  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 
10  00 

3  00 
3  00 
5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

10  00 


2  00 
5  00 
5  00 

3  00 
25  00 


10  00 

5  00 

50  00 

20  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

2  00 

10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

2  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
10  00 

1  00 

3  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 
10  00 
25  00 
25  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,499  00 


70 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,499  00 


Wesson,  Miss  Isabel,    . 
Weston,  Mrs.  H.  C,    . 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary  C. 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 
Willcomb,  Mrs.  George, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,569  00 


3 

00 

10  00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $1,569  00 


Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,  . 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T., 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 
Zerrahn,  Mrs.  Franz  E., 
Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis, 


5 

00 

.   25 

00 

5 

00 

5  00 

.   50 

00 

15  00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

$1,686  00 


DONATIONS   FOR   THE   IRON   FENCE. 


Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C, 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 
Hill,  Mrs.  L.  C,    . 


$100  00 
6  00 
2  00 

$107  00 


DONATIONS   FOR   ORGAN  AND   CLOCK. 


Keene,  Mrs.  Jarvis  B.  (for  small  organ). 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W.  (for  clock), 


$5  00 
1  00 


$6  00 


CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


Aldrich,     Mrs.    Charles 

(for  1916-17), 
Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona 

tion), 
Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Brewster,  Mrs.  William  (do 

nation),  . 
Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 

(donation), 
Cary,  Miss  Emma  F., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C, 
Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B., 
Farlow,   Mrs.  Wm.  G.   (do 

nation),  . 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno,   . 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 

Amount  carried  forward. 


.       $2 

00 

.   10 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

.  $41 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $41  00 


Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  James  W., 
Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 

(donation), 
Horsford,     Miss     Katharine 

(donation), 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Ireland,    Miss   Catharine    I 

(donation), 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,  . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M., 
Longfellow,  Mrs.  W.  P.  P., 
Morison,  Mrs.  Robert  S., 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H., 

Amount  carried  forward, 


1 

00 

.   10 

00 

5  00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3  00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

S96  00 


71 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $96  00 


Perrin,  Mrs.  Franklin, 
Richards,  Miss  L.  B.,  . 
Roberts,  Mrs.  Coolidge  S 
Sargent,  Dr.  D.  A., 
Saville,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Sawyer,  Miss  Ellen  M.  (do- 
nation), . 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $120  00 


1 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $120  00 


Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  Robert  N., 
White,  Mrs.  Moses  P., 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


.       10  00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.       15 

00 

2 

00 

$167  00 


DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  Susan  E., 
Bennett,  Miss  M.  M., 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  (do 

nation),  . 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S. 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  . 

(donation), 
Cushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  C.  R., 
Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewall  A., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Haven,       Mrs.       Katharine 

Stearns,  . 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L.,     . 
Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C 
Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A., 
Murdock,  Mrs.  Harold, 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W., 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K., 
Nightingale,  Mrs.  C.  (dona- 
tion), 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Laban, 


Amount  carried  forward. 


$1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

$33 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $33  00 


Preston,  Miss  Myra  C.  (do- 
nation), . 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Robinson,  Miss  Anna  B., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem- 
ory of ,     . 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Frederic  P., 
Torrey,   Mrs.  Elbridge   (do 

nation),  . 
Whiton,  Mrs.  Royal,  . 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S., 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P.,  . 
Wood,  Mrs.  Wm.  A.,  . 
W^oodberry,  Miss  Mary, 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P.,       . 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 

00 
00 


30  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


$90  00 


LYNN   BRANCH. 


Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F., 

$1  00 

Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A., 

5  00 

Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,  . 

1  00 

Ehner,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J., 

5  00 

Haven,  Miss  Rebecca  E., 

2  00 

(donation). 

2  00 

Hollis,  Mrs.  Samuel  J.  (do- 

nation), .... 

10  00 

Amount  carried  forward. 


$26  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $26  00 


Sheldon,  Mrs.  Chauncey  C 
Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B., 
Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.    (do- 
nation,   . 


5 

00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

5  00 

$51  00 


72 


MILTON  BRANCH. 


Brewer,    Miss    Eliza    (dona- 
tion), 
Clark,  Mrs.  D.  Oakes, 
Cliun,  Mrs.  AUston  B., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray, 
Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L., 

Amount  carried  forward, 


$10  00 

2  00 

1  00 

10  00 

10  00 

S33  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $33  00 


Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 
Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar, 
Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R. 
Safford,  Mrs.  N.  M.,    . 


2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

$40  00 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  No. 
19  Congress  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen,  Water- 
town,  any  ojnissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 


No.  19  Congress  Street,  Boston. 


ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Treasurer. 


73 


rORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  (S  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows :  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation  is  as 

follows: 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

No.   19  Congress  Street, 

Boston. 


Bust  of  Michael  Anagnos,  dedicated  November  7,  1917,  in  Anagnos  Court, 
Kindergarten. 


AVJL.     tJLlCJ 


^WBJf 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  School 
For  the  Blind 


EIQHTY'SEVENTH  ANNUAL   REPORT 
OF  THE   TRUSTEES 


1918 


BOSTON     jt     J*     Jt     ^     jit     1919 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


211^  (tsmmmtmBnitii  uf  Mwssmifm^tia. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  fob  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  21,  1918. 

To  the  Hon.  Albert  P.  Langtrt,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the 
use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-seventh  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 

1919-1919. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOABD   OF  TRUSTEES. 


Mrs.  GEORGE  ANGIER. 
FRANCIS  HENRY   APPLETON. 
WALTER   CABOT   BAYLIES. 
WILLIAM   ENDICOTT. 
M168  ROSAMOND   FAY. 
THOMAS  J.  FAY. 


Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL. 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL. 
GEORGE   H.   RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM    L.    RICHARDSON.    M.D. 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL. 


STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 

1919. 
Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
Miss  Rosamond  Fat. 
George  H.  Richards. 
William  L.  Richardson. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 
William  Endicott. 


1919. 

January,  . 

Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

July,   .      .      . 

February, 

Mrs.  George  Angier. 

August,    . 

March,      . 

Robert   H.    Hallo  well. 

September,    . 

April, 

Paul  R.  Frothingham. 

October,  . 

May,  . 

James  A.  Lowell. 

November,     . 

June,  . 

Thomas  J.   Fat. 

December, 

Committee  on  Education. 
Gbobge  H.  Richards. 
Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 


House  Committee. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Mrs.  George  Angier. 
George  H.  Richards. 


Committee  on  Finance. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
George  H.  Richards. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 


Committee  on  Health. 
Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Auditors  of  Accounts. 

George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 


OFFICERS  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS    AND    OFFICERS    OF   THE    UPPER    SCHOOL. 
LITE&ARY   DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

HAROLD   MOLTER.i 

Miss  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

Miss  JULIA  A.   BOYLAN. 

Miss  JESSICA   L.  LANGWORTHY. 

ARTHUR  E.  HOLMES. 

Miss  FEODORE   M.   NICHOLLS. 

Miss  ETHEL  D.  EVANS. 

Miss  ETHEL  WELLS. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss  ELLEN   H.   PACKARD. 
Miss  ANNIE   L.  BRADFORD. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  INEZ   J.  SWENSON. 
Miss  LAURA  A.  BROWN. 
Miss  JULIA   E.   BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  of  Housework. 

Miss  MEREDITH   PEIRCE 


DEPARTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL  TRAININQ. 

Misa  INEZ  J.  SWENSON.  I     Miss  LENNA   D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  MUSIC. 

EDWIN    L.  GARDINER. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY   E.   BURBECK. 
JOHN  F.  HARTWELL. 


Miss  MARY   E.   RILEY. 
Miss  ALVERA   C.  GUSTAFSON. 
Miss  BLANCHE   A.   BARDIN. 
Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,    Voice. 


DEPARTMENT    OF   MANUAL   TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 

JULIAN   H.   MABEY. 

ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 

Miss  MARY   B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Oirls'  Section. 
Miss  FRANCES   M.   LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.   ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ELIZABETH   O.   PIERCE. 


1  On  leave  of  absence  at  United  States  Hospital  No.  7,  Baltimore. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   TUNING   PIANOFORTES. 

ELWYN    H.  FOWLER,   Manager  and  Ijistructor. 


LIBRARIANS,   CLERKS   AND   BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.   SAWYER,   Librarian. 
Miss  HARRIET   E.  BOSWORTH, 

Assistant. 
MiSB  ANNA  GARDNER  FISH,  Clerk. 

Mrs.   SARAH   A.   STOVER,    Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


Miss  ELLEN   THOMPSON,   Assistant. 
Miss   MAI    L.   LELAND,   Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.   CREELEY,   M.D.,   Attending  Physician. 

HENRY    HAWKINS,   M.D.,   Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD    B.   CHANDLER,   M.D.,   Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR   WILLARD    FAIRBANKS,    M.D.,   Pediatrician. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE,   D.M.D.,   Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


DOMESTIC   DEPARTMENT. 
FREDERICK  A.   FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Housekeepers  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  CLARISSA   A.   DAWSON. 
Miss  ANNIE  W.   BODFISH. 
Mas.  JOSEPHINE   H.   MANSUR. 


Girls'  Section. 

Mrs.   ISABELLA   P.   HEARD. 
Mrs.   CORA    L.   GLEASON. 
Mrs.  M.  M.  EASTMAN,  Substitvte. 
Mrs.   AGNES   C.   LUMMUS. 
Mrs.   BERTHA   C'^MAXWELL. 


PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 

FRANK   C.   BRYAN,   Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS.  Printer.         |     Miss  MARY    L.    TULLY.   Printer. 


WORKSHOP   FOR  ADULTS. 

FRANK   C.    BRYAN,   Manager. 
Miss  EVA   C.   ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS    AND    OFFICERS    OF    THE   LOWER    SCHOOL. 


KINDERGARTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Miss  Florence  Cronkhite,  Assintant. 
Miss  Hope  Davison  Kindergartner . 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Sadie  Turner,  Teacher. 

Me3.  Ruth  R.  Chase,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Annie  L.  F.  Edwards,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 
Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics 
Miss  Eleanor  E.  Kelly,  Field  Worker,  i 


Qirls'  Section. 

Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Loring,  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 


PRIMARY  DEPARTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 

Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 

Miss  Marguerite  Whealon,  Teacher. 


Miss  Ida  E.  Stratton,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 


Miss  Lizzie  R.  Kinsman,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Gring,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'    VISITING   COMMITTEE   TO   THE   KINDERGARTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Secretary. 


Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Cabot,      .      . 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren, 
Mrs.  John  B.  Thomas,     . 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard, 


:) 


January. 
February. 
March. 

April. 

May. 


Mrs.  Ronald  Lyman, 
Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent, 


June. 

October. 

November. 

December. 


General  Visitors. 

Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker. 
Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 
Mrs.  William  R.  Livermore. 


Honorary  Members. 

Mrs.  Kingsmill  Marrs. 
Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott. 


'  On  leave  of  absence  overseas. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  M.  T.,  Cambridge. 

Adams,  Melvin  0.,  Boston. 

Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 

Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 

Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 

Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henrj'-, 
Peabody. 

Appleton,  Francis  Henry,  Jr., 
Boston. 

Appleton,  Mrs.  Francis  Henry, 
Jr.,  Boston. 

Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 

Atherton,  Mrs.  Caroline  S.,  Grove 
HaU. 

Bacon,  Gaspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 

Baldwin,  S.  E.,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 

Bancroft,  Miss  Eleanor  C, 
Beverly. 

Bancroft,  Robert  H.,  Beverly. 

Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 

Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 

Beatley,  Mrs.  Clara  B.,  Boston. 

Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 

Benedict,  Wm.  Leonard,  New 
York. 

Bennett,  Miss  Gazella,  Worces- 
ter. 

Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 


Blake,  Miss  Marian  L.,  Man- 
chester. 

Blunt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 

Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Bowditch,  Ingersoll,  Boston. 

Boyden,  Mrs.  Charles,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brigham,  Charles,  Watertown. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 

Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 

Burditt,  Miss  Alice  A.,  Boston. 

Burnham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 

Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 

Burr,  I.  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 

Callender,  Walter,  Pro\idence, 
R.I. 

Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Water- 
town. 

Carter,  IMrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 

Case,  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  Boston. 

Chace,  J.  H.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  I. 

Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 

Clement,  Edward  H.,  Concord. 

Cochrane,  Alexander,  Boston. 

Colby,  Miss  Jennie  M.,  Boston. 

Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 

Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  IMich. 


Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 

Coohdge,  IVIrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 

CooUdge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 

Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crosby,  Sumner,  Brookline. 

Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 

Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston, 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

De  Witt,  Alexander,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dimick,  Orlando  W.,  Water- 
town. 

Dolan,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

EUot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Bos- 
ton. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Boston. 

Ernst,  C.  W.,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 


Everett,  Dr.  Oliver  H.,  Worces- 
ter. 

Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  S.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover,  N.  H. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Thomas  B.,  Brook- 
Une. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Foster,   Mrs.   Francis   C,   Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Need- 
ham. 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

Geer,   Mrs.   Danforth,  Jr.,   New 
York. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Gleason,   Mrs.   Cora  L.,   Water- 
town. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

Glidden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  L 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 


Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Richard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Florence  Howe,  New 
York. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hallowell,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 

Hearst,  Mrs.  Phebe  A.,  Cah- 
fornia. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Higginson,  Frederick,  Brookline. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs. Henry  L.,  Boston. 

Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 

Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 

Hohnes,  Charles  W.,  Toronto, 
Ont. 

Homans,  Robert,  Boston, 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 

Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi.  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  Cambridge. 


James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilham,  Miss  Annie  M.,  Beverly. 

Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Somer\alle. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 

King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Kinnicutt,  Lincoln  N.,  Worcester. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Leverett,  George  V.,  Boston. 

Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Lincoln,  Waldo,  Worcester. 

Littell,  Miss  Harriet  A.,  Boston. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 
Lord,   Rev.   A.   M.,   Providence, 

R.I. 
Loring,  Miss  Katharine  P.,  Prides 

Crossing. 
Loring,   Miss  Louisa   P.,    Prides 

Crossing. 
Loring,  Mrs.  Wm.  Caleb,  Boston. 
Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 


Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 

Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  John,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Luce,  Hon.  Robert,  Waltham. 

Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 

Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 

Mason,  Miss  EUen  F.,  Boston. 

Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 

Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 

Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 

Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 

Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 

Minot,  WilUam,  Boston. 

Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 

Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco, 
Me. 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 

Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 

Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 

Noyes,  Mrs.  Lucia  C,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Oliver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 

Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hope- 
dale. 

Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 


Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 

Parkinson,  John,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 

Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Philip  G.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 

PhilUps,  IVIrs.  John  C,  Boston. 

Pickering,  Henry  G.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 

Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Poulsson,  Miss  Emilie,  Boston. 

Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H.,  Newton. 

Pratt,  George  Dwaght,  Spring- 
field. 

Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 

Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 

Putnam,  F.  Delano,  Boston. 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 

Read,  Mrs.  Robert  M.,  Medford. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 

Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 

Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 

Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 

Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richards,  Henry  H.,  Groton. 

Richardson,  John,  Boston. 

Richardson,  John,  Jr.,  Readville. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John,  Jr.,  Read- 
ville. 

Richardson,  Miss  M.  G.,  New 
York. 

Richardson,  IVIrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 

Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Allston. 

Robie,  Frederic  H.,  Watertown. 


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Robinson,  George  F,,  Watertown. 

Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston. 

Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 

Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Miss  Marian,  Boston. 

Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Saltonstall,  Leverett,  Westwood. 

Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Leverett,  West- 
wood. 

Saltonstall,  Miss  Nora,  Chestnut 
Hill. 

Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 

Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 

Sears,  Willard  T.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Smith,  Joel  West,  East  Hampton, 
Conn. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  WatertowTi. 

Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 

Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 

Thaj'er,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 


Thorndike,  Miss  Rosanna  D., 
Boston. 

Tifft,  Ehphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tingley,  S.  H.,  Pro\^dence,  R.  I. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 

Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Wallace,  Andrew  B.,  Sprmgfield. 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Washburn,  Hon.  Charles  G., 
Worcester. 

Washburn,  Mrs.  Frederick  A., 
Boston. 

Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Boston. 

Wendell,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 

Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Wliite,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 

Williams,  Mrs.  H.  C,  Framing- 
ham. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,  James  B.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS 


ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COKPOEATION. 


Watertown,  October  9,  1918. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  annual  report  of  the  treasurer  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are  hereby 
ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  • — 

President.  ■ —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  Albert  Thorndike. 

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Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton,  Walter  Cabot  Baylies,  William  Endicott,  Robert  H. 
Hallo  well,  James  A.  Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  and  Rich- 
ard M.  Saltonstall. 

The  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected  members 
of  the  corporation :  —  Mrs.  Caroline  S.  Atherton,  Mrs.  Clara 
Bancroft  Beatley,  Miss  Gazella  Bennett,  Miss  Alice  A.  Bur- 
ditt,  Mrs.  Cora  L.  Gleason,  Miss  Annie  M.  Kilham,  Miss 
Mary  H.  Ladd,^  Miss  Harriet  A.  Littell,  Mr.  Arthur  Lyman, ^ 
Miss  Lucia  Clapp  Noyes,  Miss  Emilie  Poulsson,  Mrs.  Robert 
M.  Read  and  Mr.  Joel  West  Smith. 

The  Director  of  the  institution  reported  that,  because  the 
plans  of  the  government  for  the  re-education  of  its  blinded 
soldiers  involve  bringing  them  together  in  a  special  plant 
for  them,  therefore  he  had  not  offered  the  government  the 
use  of  special  facilities  at  the  Perkins  Institution  plant,  as 
it  was  voted  at  last  year's  meeting  he  might  do,  but  that  he 
had  been  able  to  give  aid  through  counsel  and  advice  and 
through  supply  of  special  materials  manufactured  by  the 
Howe  Memorial  Press. 

Upon  presentation  of  the  matter  by  the  Director,  it  was  — 

Voted,  That  in  case  of  explosion  or  disaster  in  the  vicinity  of  Water- 
town,  the  temporary  use  of  such  of  the  institution  grounds  and  build- 
ings as  the  institution  could  properly  relinquish,  in  view  of  its  obliga- 
tions to  its  pupils  and  staff,  be  tendered  to  any  organization  such  as 
the  Shelter  Committee  of  the  Civilian  Relief  of  the  American  Red 
Cross  in  Boston. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 

1  Declined  the  election. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  9,  1918. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen:  —  The  number  of  pupils 
attending  this  school  at  any  one  time  rarely  exceeds 
270,  but  the  number  of  the  staff  of  teachers  and 
officers  and  of  the  help  in  so  complete  a  boarding 
school  as  the  Perkins  Institution  remains  constant, 
being  128,  or  nearly  one  half  the  number  of  the  pupils. 
It  is  chiefly  this  necessarily  large  proportion  of  staff 
which  lifts  the  pupil  per  capita  cost  above  that  of 
other  kinds  of  institutions;  for,  though  the  salaries 
paid  are  moderate,  their  total  makes  a  consid- 
erable budget.  This  past  year  the  increased  cost  of 
food  and  coal  and  other  supplies  has  been  met  rather 
anxiously  by  our  treasurer,  for  his  income  from  most 
sources  has  diminished.  And  the  income  seems  likely 
to  be  still  less  this  next  year,  which  promises  to  be 
one  of  ever-growing  expenditures. 

It  should  be  noted  that  last  year  we  had  to  draw 
upon  our  principal  to  the  extent  of  $7,000.  It  is  not 
true,  therefore,  as  was  publicly  stated  at  a  hearing 
in  the  State  House  before  the  Constitutional  Con- 
vention, that  the  Perkins  Institution  is  a  great,  rich 
school  which  accepts  State  aid  and  lays  by  an  annual 

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surplus.  This  is  not  the  fact,  and  it  is  markedly  not 
true  in  recent  years,  looking  at  the  three  depart- 
ments together,  although  to  be  sure  its  large  Kinder- 
garten Department,  or  lower  school,  which  is  a  sep- 
arate trust,  has  not  always  spent  all  of  its  income. 
The  Kindergarten  has  never  received  aid  from  the 
Commonwealth,  the  $30,000  which  Massachusetts 
has  been  paying  annually  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
having  gone  into  the  Institution  funds  proper,  as  a 
partial  offset  to  the  expense  of  caring  for  and  teaching 
the  State's  pupils  of  that  department.  This  contri- 
bution amounts  to  about  $300  for  each  such  pupil, 
whereas  their  actual  per  capita  cost  has  exceeded 
that  sum  ever  since  1896.  While  the  Perkins  Insti- 
tution has  not  had  much  concern  over  the  knowledge 
that  for  all  these  years  it  has  been  giving  unsurpassed 
care  and  training  to  the  State's  pupils  without 
expectation  or  even  desire  of  full  financial  return, 
the  Trustees  regret  that,  in  a  public  debate  upon 
an  important  constitutional  amendment,  greater 
care  was  not  exercised  in  stating  facts  which,  if 
accurately  presented,  would  have  shown  the  Insti- 
tution to  have  been  doing  work  which  would  without 
its  aid  have  had  to  be  done  at  greatly  increased 
expense  to  the  public. 

However,  the  so-called  Anti-Aid  Act  having  be- 
come law,  the  Perkins  Institution  is  now  beginning 
its  new  school  year  with  180  Massachusetts  pupils. 
The  State  having  made  its  customary  payment  this 
past  year,  we  have  no  doubt  that  a  new  and  mutually 


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satisfactory  arrangement  can  be  effected  between 
us  and  the  Commonwealth,  through  the  instru- 
mentahty  of  the  Special  Commission  on  Education 
and  the  State  Board  of  Education,  whereby  we  shall 
be  enabled  to  continue  the  schooling  of  its  youthful 
blind.  As  for  those  80  or  90  pupils  who  come  to  us 
from  other  States,  we  have  raised  the  per  capita 
tuition  charge  for  them  from  $300  to  $350  at  the 
lower  school  and  to  $400  at  the  upper  school;  sim- 
ilarly in  the  case  of  the  few  private  pay  pupils. 
From  the  responses  of  the  New  England  State  offi- 
cials concerned,  there  is  no  doubt  that  they  are  still 
glad  to  avail  themselves  of  the  unsurpassed  facili- 
ties which  the  Perkins  Institution  agrees  to  furnish 
at  considerably  less  than  cost. 

All  who  are  working  in  behalf  of  the  blind  feel  that 
the  present  is  a  time  of  promise  for  all  the  physically 
handicapped;  and  the  thoughtful  among  the  blind 
themselves  have  been  quickened  by  this  feeling.  A 
higher  sense  of  the  responsibility  of  government 
towards  its  unfortunate  citizens  seems  to  have  been 
crystalized  by  the  great  war,  together  with  a  new 
recognition  of  the  fact  that  the  labor  and  the  hap- 
piness of  the  handicapped  can  be  public  assets  of 
tremendous  economic  value.  Further,  a  spirit  mak- 
ing for  a  new  neighborliness  is  growing  and  spread- 
ing among  the  people,  which  is  particularly  evident 
among  w^omen  of  leisure,  several  hundreds  of  whom 
are  known  to  be  preparing  themselves  for  helpful- 
ness to  the  blinded  soldiers  alone.  There  have  been 
over  200  of  these  women  in  and  about  Boston  who 

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have  actually  studied  into  the  matter  of  how  best 
to  help  and,  in  so  doing,  have  necessarily  had  their 
attention  drawn  to  the  condition  and  needs  of  the 
blind  who  are  always  with  us.  They  have  visited 
all  the  Massachusetts  resources  for  the  blind,  among 
them  our  school,  where  the  pupils  appear  at  their 
best,  and  so  been  impressed  with  the  varied  capaci- 
ties of  the  blind  under  training. 

A  matter  of  fundamental  importance  which  we 
have  emphasized  to  these  new  and  potential  workers 
is  that  blindness  does  not  classify,  that  our  pupils 
are  individuals  with  very  different  possibilities  and 
are  thus  just  like  other  groups  of  boys  and  girls,  and 
that  for  many  of  them  manual  occupations  are  by 
no  means  necessary  or  even  best  after  school  days  as 
means  of  self-support.  The  fact  that  special  shops 
for  the  blind  are  eventually  resorted  to  by  numbers 
of  our  pupils  who  could  do  far  better  elsewhere  is 
merely  a  proof  that  the  average  employer  doesn't 
want  blind  labor.  This,  naturally,  is  deeply  dis- 
couraging to  our  graduates  who  have  become  con- 
scious of  potential  efficiency,  and  it  serves  measurably 
to  embitter  their  lives.  That  the  blind  are  commonly 
happy  is  doubtless  true  within  limits.  How  much 
happier  they  would  be  if  society  would  act  towards 
them  as  if  they  were  needed  in  this  workaday  world! 

The  conditions  indicated  in  the  foregoing  para- 
graph, —  the  reluctancy  of  the  world  to  act  the  part 
of  neighbor  to  the  blind,  which  has  always  kept  do\\Ti 
the  morale  of  our  schools  for  them,  —  promise 
definite  change  and  improvement  as  a  result  of  the 

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war.  We  must  therefore  see  to  it  that  the  schools 
quicken  the  efforts  of  their  pupils  themselves  through 
hope  in  their  future,  and  so  turn  out  ever  greater 
numbers  who  can  succeed  in  the  world  at  large. 

That  the  pendulum  has  already  begun  to  swing 
that  way  is  shown  by  this:  the  placement  agent  of 
the  Massachusetts  Commission  for  the  Blind  has 
been  increasingly  successful  in  getting  employment 
for  our  blind  people  among  the  seeing,  having  so 
placed  twenty  this  past  summer.  Within  the  year 
she  has  placed  five  as  office  typists  where  the  dicta- 
phone was  in  use.  The  immediate  effect  of  such 
success  has  been  magical  upon  the  spirit  of  the  school. 
It  seems  to  teachers  as  though  the  pupils  had  never 
returned  to  their  work  with  as  much  earnestness  as 
they  have  this  fall.  And  fewer  have  returned,  — 
the  attendance  is  smaller  than  usual,  —  a  goodly 
number  having  obtained  jobs  for  themselves  and 
gone  to  work  at  them. 

In  order  the  better  to  recognize  fitness  in  our 
pupils  and  to  develop  it,  there  has  been  added  to 
the  Perkins  staff  this  year  a  vocational  counsellor 
who  is  likewise  placement  agent  for  those  of  our 
pupils  from  outside  Massachusetts,  and  also  inter- 
mediary between  the  institution  and  the  parents  of 
its  pupils;  in  other  words,  she  is  both  a  student  of 
the  pupils  and  field  agent  and  visitor  at  their  homes. 
She  has  already  visited  the  homes  of  sixty  pupils 
between  September,  1917,  and  June,  1918,  mostly 
during  the  short  vacations  when  the  children  were 
there,   and  this  service  was  continued  during  the 

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long  summer  vacation  in  Maine,  New  Hampshire 
and  Vermont.  Being  tactful,  she  has  naturally 
succeeded  in  putting  the  school  in  touch  with  the 
parents  as  no  amount  of  correspondence  and  termly 
reports  of  their  children's  progress  can  do.  The 
message  you  carry  is  more  potent  than  the  message 
you  send.  This  new  worker  has  co-operated  with 
the  psychologist,  who  has  been  measuring  the  pupils 
for  the  past  two  years  and  has  the  latter's  reports 
to  help  her. 

This  psychologist  has  now  studied  350  different 
pupils  here  and  166  at  the  New  York  State  School  for 
the  Blind,  Batavia,  all  of  which  records  will  swell  the 
number  so  studied  elsewhere  and  form  a  basis  for 
standardizing  a  set  of  mental  tests  for  blind  children. 

The  Director,  having  been  called  in  counsel  touch- 
ing certain  new  movements  in  behalf  of  the  blind, 
has  kept  his  staff  and  pupils  in  touch  with  them,  — 
the  grand  project  of  the  government  to  rehabilitate 
the  war-blinded  at  Baltimore  and  that  of  the  Red 
Cross  Institute  for  the  Blind,  also  at  Baltimore, 
backed  by  all  the  funds  needed;  first,  to  hunt  out 
and  find  occupations  of  any  and  all  kinds  which  can 
be  carried  on  without  the  aid  of  sight;  second,  to 
persuade  employers  to  hire  without  prejudice  candi- 
dates recommended  for  work;  and  third,  to  follow 
up  the  workers  thus  placed  and  to  help  them  make 
good.  In  proportion  as  this  latter  project  can  be 
made  to  function  will  the  whole  status  of  the  blind, 
civil  and  military,  be  lifted. 

The  topic  for  special  discussion  by  the  Perkins 

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Alumnae  Association  at  its  34th  annual  meeting  in 
June  was  "How  can  we  lift  more  and  lean  less?" 
Last  winter  the  school  body  subscribed  liberally  to 
the  Liberty  Loans,  the  Red  Cross  and  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
drives  and  the  Thrift  Stamp  campaigns;  every  pupil 
contributed  his  bit  towards  a  fund  to  be  sent  to  Sir 
Frederick  Fraser,  Superintendent  of  the  Halifax 
School  for  the  Blind,  to  be  used  for  the  blinded  of 
the  explosion;  and  the  older  girls  wrote  Sir  Frederick, 
offering  to  care  for  such  of  his  pupils  as  he  might 
need  to  send  to  Watertown  to  make  room  for  the 
many  expected  newcomers  at  Halifax,  for  we  have 
voted  to  receive  temporarily,  free  of  tuition  charges, 
such  as  he  should  send.  The  girls  knitted  and  made 
many  an  article  for  the  war  uses  of  the  American  Red 
Cross;  and  they  bought  a  $100  Liberty  Bond  with  the 
proceeds  from  a  play  entitled  "  Mrs.  Tree."  The  boys 
repeated  their  play,  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream" 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  raised  thereby 
$600.  Altogether  the  year  was  very  rich  in  endeavor. 
The  Halifax  explosion  of  December  6,  1917,  made 
a  powerful  appeal  to  the  blind  everywhere.  Sir 
Frederick  Fraser,  being  himself  blind  and  a  former 
pupil  of  Perkins  Institution,  wrote  Mr.  Allen  most 
graphic  accounts  of  the  catastrophe.  Mr.  Allen 
thereupon  brought  the  matter  to  the  attention  of  the 
American  Red  Cross  with  the  result  that  he  was 
made  chairman  of  an  American-Canadian  committee 
to  investigate  the  condition  and  prospects  of  the 
explosion  blind  and  to  make  report  with  a  program 
of   recommendations   for   that   society   to   consider 

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carrying  out.  Mr.  Allen  went  to  Halifax  in  January, 
remaining  three  weeks,  and  later  wrote  the  com- 
mittee's report  and  carried  it  to  Washington. 

At  the  time  of  the  final  meeting  of  this  committee, 
which  was  held  at  Watertown,  the  school  listened 
four  successive  mornings  to  a  moving  address  by 
each  of  the  three  of  its  visiting  members,  —  Prin- 
cipal Burritt  of  the  sister  school  at  Overbrook,  Pa., 
Principal  Van  Cleve  of  that  in  New  York  and  Supt. 
Fraser  of  that  in  Halifax,  and  to  one  by  Supt.  Wool- 
ston  of  the  sister  school  for  the  blind  at  Jacksonville, 
Illinois.  They  were  able  to  listen  also  to  talks  and 
readings  by  others  from  time  to  time,  each  of  which 
is  acknowledged  elsewhere  in  this  report.  One  of 
these  was  by  Prof.  Arlo  Bates,  an  old  and  dear  friend 
of  the  institution.  Since  Prof.  Bates  has  died  this 
fall,  it  is  but  meet  to  make  especial  acknowledgment 
of  his  services  to  the  school.  Within  the  past  twenty- 
eight  years,  he  has  given  a  talk  or  lecture  to  the 
school  every  year  but  two,  he  being  out  of  the  country 
then.  His  coming  has  been  looked  forward  to  by 
teachers  and  pupils,  and  his  evening  has  been  among 
the  most  prized  and  valuable  of  any. 

An  event  of  intimate  interest  to  the  institution 
was  the  completion  and  unveiling  on  November  7 
of  a  bust  of  our  late  director,  Michael  Anagnos. 
This  bust  was  the  last  piece  of  work  of  the  artist, 
Bela  L.  Pratt  of  Boston,  and  was  a  gift  of  gratitude 
and  affection  by  former  pupils  of  the  kindergarten 
for  the  blind,  of  which  Mr.  Anagnos  was  founder. 
The  commemorative  exercises  were  held  in  the  main 

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hall  of  the  institution  and  were  most  impressive;  the 
unveiling  was  in  Anagnos  Court  of  our  lower  school. 

Again  the  pleasure  and  the  musical  education  of 
our  pupils  have  been  augmented  through  the  oppor- 
tunity of  hearing  good  music,  made  possible  by  the 
foundation  of  the  Maria  Kemble  Oliver  fund,  a  wise 
and  beneficent  gift  to  this  institution.  By  means  of 
its  income  tickets  have  been  purchased  for  the  Choral 
Symphony  concerts,  those  of  the  Boston  Symphony 
Orchestra  and  the  Cecelia  Society,  and  the  Sunday 
afternoon  concerts  at  Symphony  Hall,  the  operas 
given  by  the  MetropoUtan  Opera  Company,  and  a 
pianoforte  recital  by  Percy  Grainger.  Such  priv- 
ileges as  these  musical  events  represent  to  our 
young  people  are  deeply  appreciated. 

The  special  Reference  Library  of  the  institution 
has  continued  to  gather  in  for  present  and  future 
uses  quantities  of  material  on  the  subject  of  war 
blindness  and  the  re-education  of  blinded  soldiers 
and  sailors.  The  Howe  Memorial  Press  has  kept  on 
embossing  books  and  stories  on  the  great  war,  which 
have  been  widely  and  eagerly  sought  and  read.  The 
year's  circulation  of  embossed  books  both  inside 
and  outside  the  institution  reached  the  rather 
astounding  total  of  12,711,  while  the  music  library 
reported  that  sixty-six  persons  not  connected  with 
the  school  borrowed  approximately  700  pieces  of 
music  and  that  the  sale  of  music  was  unusually  large 
during  the  past  year. 

Among  this  year's  publications  touching  the  in- 
stitution the  most  unique  and  unexpected  was  a 

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little  booklet  issued  by  the  Angier  Chemical  Com- 
pany, constituting  an  advertisement  for  that  firm 
but  appearing  as  a  write-up  of  Perkins  Institution 
with  excellent  views  and  text.  We  have  been  as- 
sured that  no  fewer  than  126,675  of  these  little 
pamphlets  were  distributed  by  mail  to  a  general  list 
of  practising  physicians  and  surgeons  throughout 
the  United  States  and  Canada  and  that  an  additional 
lot  of  6,000  was  sent  out  from  the  London  office  of 
the  company  to  a  selected  list  of  similar  practitioners 
in  Australia  and  the  British  colonies  in  Africa. 

Quite  a  little  energy  of  the  manager  and  staff  of 
the  Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund  has  gone  this  year 
into  helping  along  preparedness  for  the  general  in- 
troduction of  the  new  and  uniform  type  of  embossed 
reading  and  writing.  They  have  issued  a  quantity 
of  various  alphabet  sheets  and  cards,  run  off  the 
press  unusually  large  editions  of  a  school  primer  for 
children  and  one  for  adults,  using  plates  some  of 
which  had  been  made  at  the  Overbrook  school,  some 
at  our  own.  But  perhaps  the  main  achievement  of 
the  year  in  this  department  was  its  manufacturing 
of  1,500  Braille  slates  to  meet  the  anticipated  demand 
for  such  appliances  all  over  the  country.  These  and 
other  products  of  this  fund  when  sold  are  sold  at 
cost.  A  comparison  of  the  receipts  of  this  with 
previous  years  will  show  increase  which  may  not 
continue,  since  the  present  is  really  emergency  pro- 
duction to  supply  a  need  which  we  are  better  pre- 
pared than  any  other  agency  to  meet. 

At  the  very  delightful  gathering  of  members  of 

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the  American  Association  of  Instructors  of  the  Blind 
last  June  in  Colorado  Springs,  as  the  guests  of  the 
Colorado  School  for  the  Deaf  and  the  Blind,  a  vote 
was  unanimously  adopted  to  make  Revised  Braille 
Grade  13^  the  official  punctographic  system  of  the 
Association.  This  was  followed  by  a  vote,  carried 
also  unanimously,  at  the  July  meeting  of  the  trustees 
of  the  American  Printing  House  for  the  Blind  at 
Louisville,  whereby  it  was  resolved  that  all  future 
plates  embossed  there  out  of  government  moneys 
should  be  in  this  uniform  system.  Thus,  seemingly, 
ends  a  long  controversy  over  which  system  or  type 
should  prevail  for  the  use  of  the  blind.  As  we  re- 
ported last  year,  the  decision  represents  a  happy 
compromise  between  what  is  inherently  the  most 
efficient  tool  for  the  blind  and  what  it  seemed  wholly 
impracticable  for  them  and  their  workers  to  unite 
on.  Obviously  the  soldier  blind  will  be  taught  this 
system,  and  all  books  to  be  embossed  especially  for 
them  will  be  in  it.  As  for  the  libraries  in  the  other 
types,  they  will  continue  to  circulate  until  the  books 
are  worn  out,  for  many  old  readers  will  never  be 
weaned  from  the  old  to  the  new.  However,  as  com- 
petition is  the  life  of  trade,  so  the  past  competition 
between  the  rival  systems  has  resulted  in  an  excel- 
lency of  means  and  product  such  as  would  not  have 
been  attained  without  it.  This,  too,  is  a  contribu- 
tion of  America  to  the  progress  of  the  world. 

Existing  agencies  for  the  blind  have  been  called 
upon  to  lend  of  their  trained  personnel  to  the  govern- 
ment and  associated  enterprises  in  behalf  of  the  war- 

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blinded,  and  these  agencies  have  responded  gen- 
erously, as  they  should  do.  The  Perkins  Institution 
has  given  leave  of  absence  to  the  principal  teacher 
of  its  boys'  upper  school,  Mr.  Harold  Molter,  to  be 
acting  educational  director  of  United  States  General 
Hospital  No.  7,  at  Baltimore,  ''where  blinded  soldiers, 
sailors  and  marines  in  the  military  service  of  the 
United  States  are  being  fitted  to  'carry  on'  in  the 
battle  of  life;"  and  to  Miss  Eleanor  E.  Kelly,  our 
field  worker,  to  join  the  overseas  unit  of  the  Red  Cross 
Institute  for  the  Blind.  The  six  others  who  have 
left  us  for  sundry  governmental  service  are  as  follows : 
—  the  psychologist  to  become  a  nurse;  a  gymnastic 
instructor,  an  engineer  and  a  gardener  to  join  the 
A.  E.  F.  abroad;  a  general  man  to  work  in  a  ship- 
yard; and  a  very  recent  pupil  with  improved  eyesight 
to  become  yeoman  in  the  navy. 

The  mattress,  pillow  and  chair-rebottoming  work 
has  continued  to  come  to  our  workshop  for  the  twenty 
adults  at  South  Boston  in  such  quantities  that, 
though  the  wages  of  the  "hands"  have  been  increased 
in  conformity  wdth  the  demands  of  the  times,  yet  the 
business  has  held  its  own  again,  having  been  con- 
ducted without  cost  to  the  institution  or  the  public. 
The  exchange  from  the  horse  and  team  to  the  auto- 
truck means  of  transportation  of  goods  has  doubtless 
helped  make  this  result  possible. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1918,  the  number  of  blind  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  303,  twelve  less  than  on  the 
same  date  of  the  previous  year.     This  number  in- 

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eludes  68  boys  and  75  girls  in  the  upper  school,  64 
boys  and  61  girls  in  the  lower  school,  15  teachers  and 
officers,  and  20  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  There  have  been  62  admitted  and  74  dis- 
charged during  the  year. 

Within  the  six  years  since  the  institution  moved 
to  Watertown  no  greater  change  has  visited  it  than 
the  loss  of  four  of  the  six  splendid  women  who  came 
with  it  from  South  Boston  to  mother  an  equal  num- 
ber of  its  new  cottage  families.  Two  of  these  matrons 
resigned  last  year  because  of  illness,  —  Miss  Florence 
M.  Stowe,  who  had  presided  with  grace  and  devotion 
for  ten  years  over  Eliot  Cottage  and  for  five  years 
and  a  half  over  May  Cottage;  and  Mrs.  Francis  E. 
Carlton,  who  for  over  twenty  years  had  presided 
with  marked  success  over  the  management  of  the 
big  building  in  South  Boston  and  over  one  of  the 
cottages  in  Watertown. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year,  1917-1918.  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
7;  Ophthalmia  neonatorum  and  congenital  cataracts, 
2;  Interstitial  keratitis,  2;  Phlyctenular  keratitis,  1; 
Ulcerative  keratitis,  1;  Acute  uveitis,  1;  Injury,  3; 
Atrophy  of  the  optic  nerve,  6;  Albinism,  5;  Congenital 
amblyopia,  7;  Congenital  cataracts,  6;  Microphthal- 
mos, 1;  Progressive  myopia,  3;  High  myopia,  1;  Hy- 
peropia, 2;  Buphthalmos,  1;  Aniridia,  1;  Glaucoma,  1; 
Glaucoma  and  panophthalmitis,  1;  Panophthalmitis, 
1;  Traumatic  panophthalmitis,  1;  Choroiditis,  4; 
Retro-bulba  neuritis,  2;  Corneal  ulceration,  1;  Corneal 
opacities,  1;  Spinal  meningitis,  2;  Unknown,  1. 

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Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Mrs.  Mary  Tappan,  wiie  of  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton;  Mrs.  Ezra  H.  Baker;  Prof.  Arlo  Bates; 
Alfred  Bowditch;  Miss  Emma  Forbes  Gary;  Mrs. 
Charlotte  Morse,  widow  of  Joseph  N.  Fiske;  Mrs. 
Emily  Wells,  wife  of  Elliott  C.  Foster;  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth O.,  wife  of  Samuel  J.  HoUis;  Francis  Welles 
Hunnewell;  Mrs.  Mary  Luce,  widow  of  Edward 
C.  Jones;  John  Torrey  Linzee;  Thomas  L.  Liver- 
more;  Col.  Arnold  A.  Rand;  Alfred  Julian 
Rowan;  Miss  Adele  Granger  Thayer;  Mrs.  May 
Alden,  wife  of  William  G.  Ward;  Mrs.  Sarah 
Cabot,  widow  of  Andrew  C.  Wheelwright. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ANNIE  GILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES, 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 
THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL, 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS, 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL, 

Trustees. 
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i 


PRESENT-DAY  FACTORS  IN  THE  SCHOOLS 
FOR  THE  BLIND,  AS  EMPHASIZED  AT 
PERKINS  INSTITUTION.^ 


I  have  recently  studied  the  life  career  of  a  blind  man  of 
remarkable  achievements  who,  when  he  had  sight,  had  been 
a  reamer  and  a  drifter  but  whom  the  oncoming  of  blindness 
had  stabilized  into  efficiency.  Some  twenty  years  ago  there 
came  to  the  school  of  which  I  was  Principal  a  lad  of  seven- 
teen who  had  newly  lost  both  eyes  and  his  right  arm  through 
a  quarry  explosion.  A  year  and  a  half  before  the  accident 
he  had  immigrated  from  southern  Italy.  He  had  never  at- 
tended school  there,  and  he  had  not  learned  to  read  and 
write  even  his  own  language.  But,  though  he  had  been 
mutilated,  he  was  attractive  because  affectionate,  eager  and 
brave.  He  made  friends  whose  goodness  he  resolved  to 
requite  by  amounting  to  something.  He  has  amounted 
to  something;  is  not  merely  a  remarkable  blind  man  but  a 
remarkable  American,  well  educated,  highly  useful,  respected 
by  all  who  know  him.  We  used  to  say,  half  in  earnest,  that 
the  fatal  charge  of  dynamite  seemed  to  have  entered  into 
his  very  being  and  remained  his  source  of  power. 

The  efficiency  of  these  two  cases,  as  of  that  of  Helen 
Keller,  cannot  be  explained  by  the  word  environment,  how- 
ever excellent  and  stimulating  this  may  have  been.    To  be 

*  This  paper  was  presented  by  Mr.  Allen  at  a  congress  of  the  American  School  Hygiene 
Association,  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  June  9,  1917. 

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sure  the  deaf  and  blind  girl  grew  up  under  rather  ideal 
surroundings,  especially  as  to  teacher;  however,  it  was  the 
pupil  who  always  pushed  ahead  and  the  teacher  who  held 
back.  But  there  attended  the  same  schools  with  these  and 
under  identical  influences  plenty  of  companions,  many  of 
whom  would  be  accounted  better  off  and  more  promising 
because  less  evidently  handicapped,  and  yet  they  amounted 
to  much  less  as  adults  and  citizens.  What  is  the  explana- 
tion? Is  it  not  that  the  element  of  efficiency  is  primarily 
not  physical  but  mental:  — not  ears  and  eyes  and  arms  and 
legs,  but  ginger?  Military  trainers  tell  me  that  it  is  not  so 
much  a  man's  education  and  opportunities  that  lead  to  pro- 
motion as  it  is  his  natural  capacity  for  leadership. 

Now,  while  we  may  admit  the  truth  of  the  above  proposi- 
tions, we  will  scarcely  admit  that  potentiality  is  all  and  that 
environment  is  nothing,  for  we  are  unable  to  tell  how  much 
a  contributory  cause  of  success  environment  was  even  in 
such  cases  as  the  three  cited.  Environment,  we  believe,  is 
so  often  a  determining  factor  that  educators  strive  to  make 
the  utmost  use  of  it  through  the  instrumentality   of  the 

school. 

It  has  long  been  a  theory  of  mine  that  visual  beauty  can 
exert  a  shaping  effect  upon  the  blind,  a  hygienic  effect  that  is 
tremendously  worth  while.  Never  mind  attempting  to  ex- 
plain why  this  is  so,  but  let  us  rather  accept  the  statement 
as  of  fact.  The  first  institution  for  the  blind  which  was 
rehabilitated  with  simple  beauty  as  one  of  the  architect's 
requirements  was  that  of  Philadelphia.  This  was  in  the 
year  1899.  Since  then  nine  others  have  followed  or  are 
about  to  follow  suit;  for  the  Pennsylvania  institution  was 
soon  seen  to  have  set  a  pace  that  must  be  kept  up  with. 


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Within  a  bare  half  dozen  years  its  efficiency  seemed  to  have 
doubled.  The  single  comprehensive  explanation  is  that  its 
atmosphere  and  influence  had  become  dynamic.  It  had 
gone  out  into  the  suburbs,  provided  for  a  maximum  of  sun- 
shine and  fresh  air,  surrounded  itself  with  ample  grounds, 
an  athletic  field,  trees,  gardens.  In  short,  everything  about 
it  was  so  attractive  that  it  soon  became  a  great  resort  of 
visitors,  and  even  the  neighborhood  that  had  at  first  resented 
the  encroachment  of  an  institution  came  to  rejoice  in  its 
presence.  And  this  was  immediately  reflected  in  the  pupils' 
bearing  and  in  an  increased  recognition  of  their  oppor- 
tunities. 

One  of  the  first  things  then  for  a  worker  in  such  a  place  is 
to  recognize  that  light,  color  and  visual  beauty  are  tonic 
elements  even  with  those  who  have  no  eyes  to  see  them. 
The  mere  consciousness  that  these  elements  are  present 
suffices.  Besides,  if  the  old  adage  "as  is  the  teacher,  so  is 
the  school"  be  true,  and  I  am  convinced  it  is,  it  requires 
attractive  surroundings  not  only  to  keep  the  teachers  fresh 
and  sweet  but  to  keep  them  there,  —  not  needing  to  run 
away  to  other  scenes  for  daily  refreshment.  The  superin- 
tendent who  favors  having  his  teachers  live  outside,  because 
they  can  be  sources  of  trouble,  does  not  know  the  sweetening 
influences,  even  to  them,  of  an  environment  of  beauty  and 
concord;  and  how  much  these  factors  count  in  education 
that  must  be  kept  inspirational.  The  recent  reconstruction 
of  so  many  residential  schools  on  the  cottage  plan  hardly 
points  to  the  extinction  of  the  institution  as  an  effective 
instrumentality  of  education  but  rather  to  the  realization  of 
the  fact  that  there  can  be  institutions  and  institutions. 

An  educator  once  said  to  me:    "I  perceive  that  in  order 


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for  a  child  to  get  into  the  best  kind  of  school  for  him  he 
must  be  either  black  or  red  or  deaf  or  blind,  or  an  orphan, 
or  at  least  be  something  unusual."  Perhaps  so.  Certainly 
the  unusual  child  needs  an  unusual  environment. 

In  order  to  understand  something  of  how  the  present-day 
institution  for  the  blind  aims  to  educate  its  pupils,  let  us 
make  a  considerable  visit  to  one  of  them,  the  Perkins  In- 
stitution, and  study  its  daily  life  and  sense  its  atmosphere. 
This  residential  school  is  now  located  at  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, a  fair-sized  town  near  enough  to  Boston  and  to 
several  colleges  to  invite  mutual  visiting.  Young  people  to 
be  fitted  for  life  must  experience  life  conditions  while  grow- 
ing up.  A  few  of  the  children  live  near  enough  to  be  day 
pupils.  More  go  home  over  the  week  ends,  and  all  during 
the  long  vacations.  The  school  being  necessarily  unde- 
nominational, all  who  remain  over  Sunday  attend  some  local 
church  and  Sunday  school,  where  an  ejffort  is  made  to  dis- 
tribute them  in  classes  with  other  boys  or  girls.  Acquaint- 
ances are  thus  made,  and  invitations  follow  as  a  matter  of 
course.  Our  pupils  go  out  to  call,  and  their  friends  come  in 
to  see  them.  They  have  their  own  social  affairs,  musicales, 
dances  and  parties,  to  which  they  invite  their  inside  and 
outside  friends.  These  affairs  they  arrange  and  conduct 
entirely  by  themselves.  Many  of  the  pupils  go  to  concerts, 
lectures  and  theaters  in  Boston;  and  whenever  school  con- 
certs, lectures  and  dramatics  are  given  at  the  institution 
the  public  is  invited  in  and  comes.  Twice  have  outside 
amateur  dramatic  troupes  given  performances  on  our  stage 
for  the  pleasure  of  the  school,  and  twice  have  the  blind  of 
Greater  Boston,  including  the  school  pupils,  been  given 
special  performances  on  the  professional  stage. 


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We  have  a  Camp  Fire  organization  which  meets  some- 
times in  one  of  our  cottages,  often  with  a  visiting  "fire," 
but  sometimes  going  as  visitors  to  a  neighboring  town.  In 
1916  the  Council  of  Camp  Fires  of  the  adjacent  city  of 
Newton  held  its  annual  meeting  at  the  institution,  our  own 
"fire"  participating.  In  1917  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Guhck,  after  \'isit- 
ing  at  Watertown,  invited  our  "fire"  to  participate,  first  in 
leading  the  singing  at  a  large  meeting  of  the  organization  in 
Boston  and  again  in  the  Grand  Council  Meet  of  some  2,000 
girls  from  Greater  Boston.  The  local  post  of  Sons  of  Vet- 
erans has  this  winter  of  1917  given  four  patriotic  lectures 
in  the  institution  hall;  and  a  Watertown  music  society  has 
given  an  invitation  musicale  there.  The  boys  have  twice 
repeated  their  performance  of  "The  Merchant  of  Venice" 
for  the  benefit  of  the  blinded  soldiers  abroad  and  have  cleared 
$900  for  them.  The  girls  have  done  their  bit,  too,  since 
the  opening  of  the  great  war,  by  knitting  and  making  nu- 
merous things  for  the  Belgians  and  for  the  Red  Cross.  While 
speaking  of  the  war  let  me  add  that  we  have  been  able  to 
assist  several  women  who  were  anxious  to  fit  themselves  for 
service  among  the  war  blinded.  One  of  these  women  stayed 
a  month  with  us.  We  have  made  for  the  blinded  French 
over  1,000  adapted  table  games.  The  Perkins  Institution  is 
glad  to  be  able  to  serve  in  any  way  and  at  any  time.  It  has 
exchanged  graduate  pupils  with  a  great  sister  school.  It 
has  entertained  for  longer  or  shorter  periods  students  of  the 
workings  of  its  spirit.  It  has  helped  initiate  and  support 
classes  of  semi-sighted  children  in  the  public  schools  of  the 
State.  It  has  made  possible  sight-saving  follow-up  work  in 
an  eye  hospital,  and  otherwise  contributed  to  the  prevention 
of  blindness.  Its  kindergarten  department,  being  adequately 
as  well  as  separately  endowed  makes  social  service  of  the 


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kind  possible  to  us.    All  this  keeps  the  institution  in  touch 
with  the  world  outside. 

It  has  been  said  that  the  keynote  of  our  civilization  is 
participation,  not  competition.  The  spirit  of  the  Perkins 
Institution  is  in  harmony  with  this  note.  It  has  also  been 
said  that  the  institution's  gaze  is  now  "outward,  not  inward, 
and  that  its  relation  to  the  world  outside  is  a  matter  of  prime 
importance  in  educational  procedure." 

The  atmosphere  begotten  through  its  cottage  family  plan 
both  helps  this  matter  along  and  is  helped  by  it,  I  need  not 
dwell  upon  this  plan,  though  it  is  the  fundamental  feature 
of  the  new  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  of  which  I 
am  speaking.  As  you  know,  the  300  possible  pupils  and  the 
100  teachers,  oflficers  and  servants  live  distributed  in  13 
families,  one  of  these  the  little  one  for  the  intensive  practice 
of  domestic  science  by  the  older  girls.  There  is  a  minimum 
of  servants  because  everybody  contributes  to  the  daily 
housework.  The  small  bedrooms  and  dining  rooms  and 
pantries,  repeated  in  each  cottage  as  they  are,  can  readily 
be  cared  for  by  the  pupils.  But  the  fact  that  everybody 
helps  has  a  wonderful  effect.  A  sense  of  ownership,  part 
proprietorship  is  fostered,  and  with  this  much  of  the  disci- 
pline usual  in  institutions  disappears.  The  buildings  are  two- 
story,  necessarily  covering  much  ground.  The  \'irtue  of  this 
is  that,  while  much  walking  on  a  level  is  had  daily,  there  is 
little  up  and  down  stairs.  The  housework  is  also  facilitated 
thereby;  moreover,  there  is  even  less  fear  of  fire  than  though 
the  construction  were  merely  fire-proof  and  first-class,  which 
it  is.  There  are  no  basement  or  congregate  lavatories  but 
two  generous  ones  on  the  sleeping  floors  of  each  cottage, 
where  there  are  also  ample  shower-bath  facilities  for  the 
morning  wake-up.    There  is  nothing  typical  of  the  old-time 


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congregate  institution.  Even  the  administration  is  reason- 
ably decentralized,  there  being  no  single  head  matron,  for 
instance,  but  rather  twelve  of  them,  each  in  full  charge  of 
her  household.  When  a  pupil  is  ill  his  matron  telephones 
for  the  attending  physician  who  goes  to  her  house  just  as  he 
would  to  any  private  house.  There  is  in  each  of  the  houses 
a  spare  room  where  the  patient,  if  not  very  ill,  may  be  kept 
quiet  and  cared  for  by  the  motherly  matron,  just  as  a  real 
mother  would  do.  An  occasional  guest  may  occupy  this 
spare  room,  —  either  a  former  pupil,  a  visitor  from  another 
school,  a  friend  of  matron  or  teacher,  or  some  member  of  a 
pupil's  family.  At  the  time  of  a  recent  school  play  twelve 
relatives  or  friends  of  the  boy  actors  spent  the  night  at  the 
school.  All  this  sort  of  thing  makes  for  a  good  wholesome 
spirit  and  atmosphere,  —  a  hygienic  factor  of  the  first  im- 
portance, it  seems  to  me. 

Hopefulness,  a  state  of  mind  very  important  to  any  one 
but  essential  to  the  blind  who  make  good  in  anything,  is 
dependent  on  physical  vitality.  This  matter  the  new  school 
has  recognized  by  provision  in  every  feature  of  its  layout. 
The  grounds  in  which  all  its  boarding-school  homes  are  set 
are  ample,  as  stated.  The  boys  have  their  boat  on  the 
Charles  River  near  by;  the  girls,  theirs  on  the  institution 
pond.  On  this  pond  all  hands  may  skate  in  winter;  but 
they  may  enjoy  skating  in  summer  weather,  too,  using  roller 
skates  on  the  gymnasium  roof.  There  a  few  boys  at  a  time 
may  also  play  hocke3^  There  is  a  large  central  gymnasium 
and  a  swimming  pool,  both  very  popular.  However,  in  fit 
weather  all  hands  exercise  under  teacher  leadership  in  the 
great  out-of-doors,  either  on  the  athletic  field  or  in  hiking 
over  the  country  roads.  The  cottage  picnics  come  regularly 
in  the  month  of  June. 


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Intercottage  contests  for  the  greatest  number  of  points 
have  been  held  winters  in  the  gymnasium  and  in  June  on  the 
athletic  field.  There  has  come  this  spring  an  invitation  to 
the  champions  in  field  sports  of  four  institutions  to  meet  at 
the  Pennsylvania  Institution  where  they  will  be  entertained 
for  three  days,  on  one  of  which  they  will  compete  in  running, 
jumping  and  shot  putting.  The  school  athletic  societies  will 
meet  traveling  expenses. 

There  is  a  constant  stream  of  visitors  to  the  school,  which 
fact,  however,  does  not  interrupt  class-work  but  rather  is 
made  to  serve  a  purpose  of  the  institution,  viz.,  the  better 
mutual  acquaintance  of  the  public  and  the  blind.  This 
public,  by  the  way,  has  got  in  the  habit  of  dropping  in 
between  three  and  four,  afternoons,  when  the  school  chorus 
rehearses.  At  that  time  and  at  the  daily  morning  assembly 
the  great  Howe  Building  is  filled  with  the  harmony  of  song. 
Who  can  tell  the  morally  hygienic  effect  it  is  to  all  of  us 
who  live,  breath  and  have  our  being  in  so  much  melody? 

After  morning  assembly  I  speak  for  a  few  minutes  daily  on 
current  events,  and  you  may  be  sure  the  topics  suggested  by 
the  world  war  have  been  seized  and  made  as  vital  as  possible. 
Besides,  current  events  are  treated  as  a  school  subject,  every 
reasonable  effort  being  made  to  keep  our  pupils,  whose  con- 
dition would  naturally  shut  them  in,  not  only  in  touch  with 
the  times  but  feeling  themselves  as  part  of  them. 

The  important  functions  of  the  classroom,  —  teaching 
young  people  by  means  of  all  the  common  English  branches 
through  high  school,  —  are  emphasized  through  demand  for 
good  work.  And  little  excursions  are  even  made  into  socio- 
logical topics  and  astronomy,  —  the  latter  seeming  to 
broaden  the  conceptions  of  intellectual  and  moral  laws. 
While  these  class  studies  are  varied  and  balanced  by  the 


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abundant  activities  of  manual  training,  and  music,  and 
physical  exercise,  the  central  factor  of  all  is  that  of  socialized 
education  as  participated  in  through  living  together  and 
learning  how  to  do  so  harmoniously  and  efficiently.  Is  it 
not  true  that  a  good  mixer  at  school  will  the  more  likely 
remain  a  good  mixer  after  school  days?  At  any  rate 
Perkins  Institution  strives  and  struggles  to  have  its  pupils 
grow  up  to  be  as  much  like  other  people  as  possible;  and 
to  a  certain  encouraging  extent  it  succeeds.  While  its  older 
pupils  study  and  study  hard,  the  vocational  pursuits  open 
to  them,  • —  such  as  the  handicrafts,  housework,  school  and 
piano  teaching,  business  salesmanship,  and  piano  tuning,  — 
the  majority  of  those  who  finish  its  course  making  good  in 
life,  ■ —  nevertheless,  the  emphasis  while  at  school  is  for 
every  one  to  be  and  become  a  contributing  member  of  the 
institutional  society.  Its  community,  furnishing  as  it  does 
one  seeing  adult  to  every  three  of  its  pupils,  is  a  pretty 
normal  community.  There  is  the  spur  of  making  good  in 
whatever  department  of  the  school  one  may  be  in;  but  just 
so  there  is  the  spur  of  being  acceptable  every  day  and  every- 
where. The  ideal  of  efficiency  and  the  ideal  of  acceptability 
are  held  continuously  before  the  pupils,  and  they  can  not 
but  come  to  see  the  vital  importance  of  attaining  them.  The 
Perkins  graduate  associations,  the  alumni  and  the  alumnae, 
are  welcome  visitors,  for  the  administration  recognizes  there 
is  no  more  forceful  encouragement  to  its  pupils  than  ex- 
amples of  the  efficient  blind  themselves. 

As  it  is  difficult  for  even  the  trained  blind  to  get  employ- 
ment, the  institution  tries  to  place  those  for  whom  it  can 
find  chances.  Knowing  this  the  pupils  labor  with  redoubled 
ardor  and  perseverance.     Working  now  with  the  institution 


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is  a  placement  agent  of  the  Massachusetts  Commission  for 
the  Blind,  whose  success  in  securing  jobs  has  become  a 
factor  of  utmost  encouragement. 

The  ideal  of  the  school  is  not  that  of  knowing  but  rather 
that  of  being  and  of  doing.  And  it  works,  making  as  it  does 
for  that  continued  state  of  mind,  an  all-important  psycho- 
logical factor,  resulting  in  life  efficiency. 

Let  me,  then,  summarize  what  I  consider  the  present-day 
factors  in  the  education  of  the  blind,  as  emphasized  at 
Watertown.     These  are: 

A  beautiful,  healthful  environment. 

The  cottage  family  plan.  Pupils  divided  into  small  groups 
with  one  housemother,  four  teachers,  all  living  together  as 
one. 

Contributory  housework  on  the  part  of  teachers,  officers 
and  pupils. 

Physical  exercise  to  increase  independence  and  vitaUty. 

Ample  opportunity  through  many  departments  to  keep  all 
pupils  busy  at  varied  and  balanced  work. 

Hopeful  aspirations  and  confidence  definitely  encouraged 
through  morning  talks  and  keeping  the  student  body  in  touch 
with  successful  alumni  and  alumnae. 

Pupils  kept  in  touch  with  the  world  outside  through  simple 
social  communication  and  as  close  association  with  their 
homes  as  possible. 

Training  for  society  through  unselfish,  helpful  living  with 
one's  fellows. 

Keeping  in  touch  with  former  pupils  as  much  as  possible 
with  efforts  to  place  such  as  we  are  able. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN. 


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TENTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 

School  for  the  Blind 

In  the  Assembly  Hall  of  the  School  at  Watertown 

Tuesday  Evening,  May  14,  1918,  at  8  o'clock. 

The  Program. 
Scenes  from  the  Song  of  Hiawatha,      .       .       .       S.  Coleridge-Taylor 

PART  one. 
The  Death  of  Minnehaha. 

PART  TWO. 

Hiawatha's  Departure. 

The  Choir  will  have  the  assistance  of 
Miss  Ethel  Frank,  Soprano,  Mr.  Walter  H.  Kidder,  Baritone,  Mr. 

J.  Garfield  Stone,  Tenor. 
Of  the  faculty   Miss  Gustafson  and  Mr.  Hartwell,  Accompanists, 

Mr.  Gardiner,  Director. 


GRADUATING   EXERCISES   OF   THE   PERKINS    INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 
Tuesday,  June  18,  1918,  10.30  a.m. 

Program. 
Chorus,  "The  Lost  Chord," SvlUvan 

Essays : 
Ancient  Story-Telling,        .       .       .  Ethel  Elaine  Montgomery 

A  Famous  Story-Teller Marie  Eleanor  Flynn 

Modern  Story-Tellers  and  their  Work,    .       .    Alice  Louisa  Stewart 
Time's  Changing  Attitude  toward  Dancing, 

Mary  Agnes  Thompson 

The  Growing  Need  of  Studying  Spanish,    .       .       .    Eleanor  Kimball 

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Part  Song,  "Forget-me-not," Geise 

Girls'  Glee  Club. 
Essays : 

The  Recapture  of  Jerusalem, Alice  Cohen 

The  Influence  of  the  War  on  Fashion,     .         Angela  Miriam  Coffey 

"Farmerettes," Mary  Catherine  Vilaine 

The  Perkins  Library, Agness  Gertrude  French 

Organ,  Grand  Chorus  in  E  Flat, Guilmant 

Malcolm  Langdon  Cobb, 
Essays : 
The  Prohibition  Movement  in  the  United  States, 

Arthur  Bertrand  Buck 
A  League  to  Enforce  Peace,  .  .  .  Emil  Andrew  Johnson 
The  Development  of  Railroads  in  the  United  States, 

Burton  Roger  Beavon 

Facts  about  Uncle  Sam's  Coal  Supply,    .       ,      Francis  John  Mack 

Causes  of  the  Russian  Revolution,   .       .    Arvid  Norman  Hohnberg 

Presentation  of  diplomas  and  certificates. 

Chorus,  "The  Twenty-Third  Psahn,"         .       .       .     Schubert-Stainer 

Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1918. 
Burton  Roger  Beavon.  Arvid  Norman  Holmberg. 

Arthur  Bertrand  Buck.  Emil  Andrew  Johnson. 

Malcolm  Langdon  Cobb.  E'eanor  Kimball. 

Angela  Miriam  Coffey.  Francis  John  Mack. 

Alice  Cohen.  Ethel  Elaine  Montgomery. 

Marie  Eleanor  Flynn.  Alice  Louisa  Stewart. 

Agness  Gertrude  French.  Mary  Agnes  Thompson. 

Mary  Catherine  Vilaine. 

Pianoforte  Tuning  Department. 
Arthur  Bertrand  Buck.  Francis  John  Mack. 

Paul  Aloysius  Tobin. 

Class  Colors:  Blue  and  Gold. 

Class  Flower:  The  Forget-me-nOt. 

Class  Motto:  Excelsior. 


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CHRISTMAS  CAROLS 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 

School  for  the  Blind  and  the  Children's  Choir 

OF   THE  Kindergarten    for  the  Blind 

In  the  Assembly  Hall  of  the  School  at  Watertown 

Tuesday  Evening,  December  18,  1917,  at  8  o'clock. 

Thursday  Afternoon,  December  20,  1917,  at  half  past  2  o'clock. 

Program. 
Anthem  for  Christmastide,  "Rejoice  Greatly,"         .         John  E.  West 
Old  English  Carol,  "The  First  Noel,"         .       .       .    Sir  John  Stains 

Christmas  Hymn,  "  Silent  Night," Franz  Gruber 

Four-part  Chorus,  "To  us  is  born  Immanuel,"  .  .  Prcetorius 
Besangon  Carol,  "Shepherds!  Shake  off  your  Drowsy  Sleep," 

Harmonized  by  Sir  John  Stainer 
Noel  Dauphinos,  "  Naught  is  so  Sweet,"  .  .  .  Michel  Eymieu 
"O'er  the  Cradle  of  a  King,"  ....  Old  Breton  Melody 
Old  French  Noel,  "Sleep  of  the  Child  Jesus,"  ....  Gevaert 
Haytian  Cradle  Song,  "Thou  dear  Babe  divine,"     .  Dickinson 

Anthem  for  Christmastide,  "Drop  down  ye  heavens,"  Joseph  Barnby 
Christmas  Carol,  "The  Shepherds' Song,"  .  .  Tertius  Noble 
Old  Normandy  Noel,  "Meadows  and  Woods," 

Arranged  by  Harvey  B.  GauL 
Austrian  Folk  Song,  1810,  "Shepherds'  Christmas  Song,"  Reimann 
Song  of  Adoration,  "Sleep,  Holy  Babe,"     .       .       .       .    J.  B.  Dykes 

Shepherds'  Noel  of  1750, Gevaert 

Christmas  Carol,  "In  Excelsis  Gloria,"       .       .         Waddington  Cooke 

The  Cornish  Bells, Tertiics  Noble 

The  Virgin's  Lullaby, Old  Alsatian  Carol 

Anthem  for  Christmastide,  "Sing,  0  Heavens,"       .       Berthold  Tours 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Concerts,    Recitals    and 

Plays. 

To  Major  Henry  Lee  Higginson,  through  Mr.  C.  A. 
Ellis,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts 
in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mr.  L.  GooDBAR,  for  six  tickets  for  a  recital  by  Mrs. 
Goodbar  and  Mrs.  H.  H.  A.  Beach  in  Jordan  Hall. 

To  Mrs.  Robert  S.  Sturgis,  for  one  ticket  for  a  piano- 
forte recital  by  Miss  Estelle  Neuhaus. 

To  Mr.  Charles  J.  Norris,  secretary,  for  seventy-two 
tickets  for  one  and  thirty-six  tickets  for  another  of  the 
concerts  by  the  Cecilia  Society. 

To  Mr.  G.  F.  Harwood,  for  two  tickets  for  a  concert  by 
the  Apollo  Club. 

To  Mrs.  J.  H.  MoRisoN,  for  twenty  tickets  for  a  Sym- 
phony Pension  Fund  concert. 

To  Mrs.  Frances  A.  M.  Bird,  for  eight  tickets  for  a  piano- 
forte concert  by  INIr.  George  Copeland. 

To  Miss  Celia  R.  Parks,  for  two  tickets  for  the  oratorio 
"The  Redemption"  by  the  Handel  and  Haydn  Society. 

To  Mrs.  Louis  Rosenbaum,  for  forty-eight  tickets  for  a 
performance  of  '"The  Wanderer"  at  the  Boston  Opera 
House. 

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II.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Recitals  and  Lectures  in 

OUR  Hall. 

To  Prof.  Arlo  Bates,  for  a  talk  on  his  observations  in 
China. 

To  Miss  Mary  Boyle  O'Reilly,  for  a  lecture  on  "1000 
Days  at  the  Front." 

To  Miss  Maria  L.  Baldwin,  for  a  lecture  on  "Paul 
Laurence  Dunbar." 

To  Mr.  John  Orth,  for  a  pianoforte  recital  and  talk  on 
"Liszt." 

To  Dr.  Oscar  S.  Creeley,  for  three  lectures  on  medical 
subjects. 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  two  pianoforte  recitals. 

To  Mrs.  Lucia  Ames  Mead,  for  a  lecture  on  "After  the 
War  What?" 

To  Miss  LoTTA  Clark,  for  a  lecture  on  "Patriotic  Festi- 
vals." 

To  Mr.  Herman  O.  Templeton,  for  a  talk  to  our  Boy 
Scouts. 

To  Miss  Alice  Allen,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Miss  Rachel  Snow,  for  a  talk  on  her  journey  through 
Japan,  China  and  Korea. 

To  the  Rev.  Warren  P.  Landers,  for  a  lecture  on  tem- 
perance. 

To  Miss  Myrtle  O.  Shane,  for  a  talk  on  her  work  for 
the  Armenians  at  Bitlis,  Turkey. 


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III.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Periodicals  and  News- 
papers. 
American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  California  News,  Christian 
Record  (embossed).  Christian  Register,  Christian  Science 
Journal,  Colorado  Index,  Illuminator  (embossed),  McClure's 
Magazine,  Matilda  Zeigler  Magazine  for  the  Blind  (em- 
bossed), the  jMentor,  Michigan  Mirror,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Our 
Dumb  Animals,  The  Silent  Worker,  The  Theosophical  Path, 
The  Well-Spring,  West  Virginia  Tablet,  Woman  Citizen, 
Youths'  Companion. 

IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

Dr.  Henry  Hawkins,  for  professional  services. 

Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  Peter  Bent  Brigham 
Hospital,  and  Psychopathic  Department  of  Boston 
State  Hospital,  for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Claflin,  for  a  sleigh  ride  in 
memory  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Mack  and  in  kindly  continuance 
of  her  gracious  custom. 

Mr.  H.  P.  Leighton,  for  an  automobile  ride  for  the 
kindergarten  boys. 

Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Miss  Elizabeth  Atwood  and 
Mrs.  Lucy  E.  Wright,  for  gifts  of  money. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Mr.  W.  S.  Fielding,  Mr. 
Leroy  S.  Eaton,  Miss  Beulah  O.  Berry,  Mrs.  F.  C. 
Bailey,  and  Mr.  L.  W.  Cronkhite,  for  fruit,  confectionery 
and  maple  syrup;   and  Mr.  Cronkhite,  for  toys. 

Mrs.  J.  Verner  Critchley  and  Mrs.  Harper,  for  Christ- 
mas and  Easter  gifts. 


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Miss  Emily  Weeks,  for  bookcases;  and  Mrs.  F.  C. 
Bailey,  for  chairs. 

Mrs.  F.  Spears,  Mrs.  Charles  Gossman,  Mrs.  Myron 
Silverman,  and  the  Committee  for  the  Blind  of  Temple 
Israel,  through  Mrs.  Fannie  L.  Rosenbaum,  Chairman,  for 
clothing;  and  the  latter  committee,  for  parties  for  the 
several  departments  of  the  school,  for  gifts  of  embossed 
books  and  typewriter,  and  for  a  summer  outing  of  three 
weeks  in  the  country  for  eighteen  pupils. 

The  Jordan  Marsh  Company,  for  artificial  flowers;  and 
Mrs.  David  Evans,  for  a  stuffed  blue  jay  and  for  a  party  for 
the  children. 

Miss  Eleanor  T.  Hart,  Mrs.  S.  K.  Casso,  and  Miss 
RosNOSKY,  for  sociables  for  the  pupils. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  UPPER   SCHOOL. 


Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Allen,  Margaret  E.  B. 
Benoit,  Josephine. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Brown,  Marion  S. 
Butler,  Alice  May. 
Casey,  Rose. 
Clancy,  Elizabeth. 
Collins,  Veronica. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Davenport,  Anna  A. 
Davis,  Ruth  M. 
Dompierre,  Inez. 
Doucha,  Armen. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Evans,  Lillian  M. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fetherstone,  Mae  E. 
Fishman,  Eva. 
Fiske,  Dorothy  T. 
Fiske,  Mattie  E.  L. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L. 
Girouard,  Blanche. 
Graham,  Marguerite  A. 
Guild,  Bertha  H. 
Guiney,  Julia. 
Hart,  Doris  L. 


Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Doroth}^  M. 
lazzetti,  Emma  I. 
Irwin,  Helen  M, 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Leppanen,  Mary. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Locatelli,  Adele. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Malatesta,  Mary. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
Martin,  Lea. 
Martin,  Libby. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McGill,  Marie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Miles,  Mildred  C. 
Najarian,  Nevart. 
Noon  an,  M.  Loretta. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Ramsey,  Mildred  M. 
Ross,  Lena. 
Rousseau,  Lillian. 
Rowe,  Margaret  C. 
Samson,  Bertha. 
Samson,  Rose  Mary. 


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Sannicandro,  Josephine. 
Smith,  Gladys  B. 
Sokol,  Marion  G. 
Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Thompson,  Mary. 
Thwaites,  Ellen. 
Tuttle,  Harriet  C. 
Uhrig,  Mary  G. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Willey,  Dorothy  E. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Beavon,  Burton. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Childers,  Lemuel  J. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Cooney,  John. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Cushman,  Ralph. 
Deslauries,  Laurence. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Duffy,  John  J.  A. 
Dugal,  J.  Ernest. 
Durfee,  Sidney  B. 
Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 
Evans,  Frederic  P. 
Fenton,  Walter  F. 
Ferron,  Homer. 
Fiske,  Martin  H. 
Fournier,  Eugene. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Fulton,  James. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Ginsberg,  Aaron. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 


Hoxsie,  Asa  T. 

Inglis,  John  S. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Johnson,  Emil. 
Katwick,  Arthur  D. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Lamagdeleine,  Armand, 
Le  Roi,  Francis  H. 
Liberacki,  Edward. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  H. 
Maziall,  John  H. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Moran,  Francis. 
Munn,  Daniel  J. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Nesbitt,  Hazen  P. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
O'Neill,  Ralph  L. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Pedersen,  Edward  M. 
Pendergast,  Jerome. 
Perreault,  John  E. 
Philpot,  William  R. 
Quirk,  Arthur  L. 
Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Read,  J.  Elmer. 

St.  George,  William. 

Sharp,  William  F. 

Silvera,  Manuel. 

Soorkis,  Morris. 

Stellaty,  Alberte. 

Stone,  Walter  C. 

Tansey,  Frederick. 

Tavlin,  Alexander  R. 

Vance,  Alvin  L. 

Vetal,  Herbert  M. 

Walker,  Roger  T. 

Ward,  Leroy  M. 

Youk,  Kim  K. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE   LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Baker,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Beliveau,  Leontine  T. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Buckley,  Alice. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Cambridge,  Mollie. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Costa,  Marianna. 
Coughlin,  Helen. 
Cox,  Annie  E. 
De  Dominicis,  Edith. 
Demers,  Germaine  M. 
Doherty,  Kathleen  E. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Du  verger,  Loretta  V. 
Elliott,  Mary. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Harasimowicz,  Alice. 
Haswell,  Thelma  R. 
Hinckley,  Geraldine. 
Ingersoll,  Dorothy. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 


Kelley,  Beulah  C. 
King,  Erica. 
Kret,  Amelia. 
Landry,  Edwina. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
Lyons,  Mary  L. 
MacDonald,  Katherine. 
McGovern,  Velma. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
McMullin,  Beatrice  M. 
Miles,  Winifred  M. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Ogilvie,  Hilda  M. 
Rapoza,  Evangeline  S. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Samon,  Stacey. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Scott,  Arline  R. 
Shea,  Mary  E. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Smith,  Dorothy  L. 
Stanievicz,  Mary. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Wands,  Hazel  C. 
Wheeler,  Theresa. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Wilcox,  Ednamay  L. 
Witham,  Beatrice  L. 
Abbott,  Dana  H. 


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Amiro,  Gilbert. 
Barrett,  Robert  C. 
Caisse,  George  T, 
Case,  William  A. 
Conley,  Michael  J. 
Costa,  Manuel. 
Crapowitch,  John. 
Cullen,  George  F. 
Donovan,  Thomas  J. 
Dow,  Ralph  E.  F. 
Dunbar,  Kenneth  A. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Egan,  Robert  J. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Evans,  Walter  C. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Gilmore,  Clarence  J. 
Goguen,  Raoul. 
Grime,  G.  Edward. 
Hannon,  James  E. 
Hebert,  Arthur  D. 
Holmes,  Rutherford  B. 
Houle,  Walter. 
Hurley,  Arnold  E. 
Jablowski,  Joseph. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Krafve,  Karl  H. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Lemieux,  Bertrand  E. 
Libby,  Arthur  C. 


Logan,  Walter  J. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 
Matsson,  Harry  N. 
McDonald,  Edmond  J. 
McGillicuddy,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Meuse,  Lawrence  A. 
Morse,  Kenneth. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Noble,  Clark  W. 
O'Neil,  John. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Rainville,  Ernest  A. 
Rainville,  Harvey  L. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Remington,  Joseph  H. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
Shulman,  George. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Simoneau,  Henry  J. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Slade,  Winton  C. 
Sliney,  J.  Francis. 
Smith,  Lowell. 
Spencer,  Merton  S. 
Stott,  Lester  W. 
Thibeault,  Joseph. 
Walsh,  Louis. 
Wesson,  Kermit  O. 
Withers,  Harold. 


SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR   THOMAS   STRINGER. 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 
[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  li\ing,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  Wind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

A  friend,        ...........  $50  00 

Income  from  the  Glover  Fund,                              .          .          .                    .  75  00 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E 25  00 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D 25  00 


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STATEMENT 


Messrs.  Wabren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins  Institution 
Gentlemen:  —  We   hereby  certify  that  the  following  statements   of   the 
August  31,  1918. 


Statements  of  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer  of  the  Perkins 

Year  ending 

Institution  Accottnt. 

Balanceonhand  August  31,  1917,  ..." $19,120  33 

Donations $13,756  50 

Annuities, 1,200  00 

Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 37,500  00 

Other  New  England  States, 12,892  60 

Income  from  investments,     ........  31,549  81 

Kindergarten  and  Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund,  adjusting  main- 
tenance, administrative  and  management  expense  accounts,    .  49,859  20 

Miscellaneous  income, 7,703  09 

Works  Department  income,  ........  32,449  64 

Legacies,          ...........  7,865  19 

Maria  Kemble  Oliver  Fund  (additional),      .        .        .        .        .  1,543  40 

Loans 14,000  00 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 38,801  18 

249,120  61 


$268,240  94 


Howe  Memorial  Phess  Fund  Account. 
Receipts. 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1917 $3,035  48 

Income  from  investments,      ........  $11,544  37 

Loans 9,000  00 

Miscellaneous  income 2,493  80 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 43,076  66 


5,114  83 


$69,150  31 


Kindergarten  Account. 

Balanceonhand  August  31,  1917,  ..." $10.060  79 

Donations $32  00 

New  England  States 10,742  28 

Income  from  investments,     ........  71,668  52 

Interest  on  loans  and  notes, 593  00 

Loans, 13,600  00 

Notes  receivable,    ..........  3,700  00 

Interest  on  Martha  R.  Hunt  legacy, 2,944  45 

Legacies 21,620  00 

Miscellaneous, 1,714  14 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 171,626  77 

298,241  16 


$308,301  95 


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OF  ACCOUNTS. 

Boston,  October  Ninth,  1918. 
and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertovm,  Massachusetts. 
Treasurer  correctly  show  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDWIN  L.  PRIDE  AND   CO.  (Incorporated), 
By  Edwin  L.  Pride, 

Certified  Public  Accountant. 

Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  for  the 
August  31,  1918. 

iNSTirtmoN  Account. 

Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director , *'^^'?2?  22 

Addunexpendedbalance  August  31,  1917, 264  60 

$177,264  60 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31 ,  1918, 2M  90    ,,-„  ggg -q 

Administrative  and  management  expenses S776  52 

Interest  on  loans.    .        ;•:::;;;:  14,000  00 

Legacy  to  Kindergarten  (Martha  R.  Hunt)  ....  10,000  00 

Interest  on  Martha  R.  Hunt  legacy ^"44  45 

Miscellaneous  expenses, ^I'lic  \a 

I-ve«ted _J8796_06        ^^^^^^  ^^ 

Treasurer'sbalanceonhand  August  31,  1918 ^'Jo^  ^ 

Director's  balance  on  hand  August  31,  1918 ^^*  ^ 

$268,240  94 

Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund  Account. 
Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director *-°'^??  ?2 

Add  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1917 1^  ^" 

$20,114  48 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1918 ^^^  ^"^      $19  845  61 

Miscellaneous  expenses, «  Jaa  li 

Xjoans  y.ouu  w 

Note.HarryBest,  ; oHm^n 

TnvBit^fi  33,700  50 

investea ^  ^.g  gi 

Treasurer'sbalanceonhand  August  31,  1918 ^'lllli 

Director's  balance  on  hand  August  31,  1918, '"°  ''' 

?69,150  31 

KiNDEROARTEN  ACCOUNT. 

Expendilures. 

Drafts  to  director •^^'^59  59 

Addunexpendedbalance  August  31,  1917 60  06 

$88,860  06 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1918 1^  ^^      J88  840  91 

Administrative  and  management  expenses fx'^ll  ji 

Loans 13,600  00 

Interest  on  loans,    .         .         -         •       , oor  rr 

Interest  on  Emeline  Morse  Lane  Fund its  07 

Miscellaneous ion  tIr  ?q 

investea ; 197,012  93 

Treasurer'sbalanceonhand  August  31,  1918 ^^'^Tq  ?^ 

Director's  balance  on  hand  August  31,  1918, ^^  ^^ 

$308,301  95 

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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1, 
1918:  — 

I  '  ■  I 

Investments,  securities, $421,837  66 

Investments,  real  estate, 211,144  15 

Buildings  and  grounds,  Watertown 678,548  10 

Equipment,  Watertown, 15,945  27 

Music  Department,  Watertown,         ....  19,875  00 

Library  Department,  Watertown 55,722  92 

Tuning  Department,  Watertown,       ....  389  50 

Building,  Workshop,  South  Boston,  ....  8,647  74 

Equipment,  etc..  Workshop,  South  Boston,      .        .  19,483  83 

Rents  and  accounts  receivable, 525  76 

Stamp  fund 50  00 

Cash,  Treasurer, 2,185  63 

Cash,  Director,  etc., 1,667  87 

$1,436,023  43 


The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


INSTITUTION   FUNDS. 

General  fund $455,599  48 

Funds  and  legacies:  — 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,          .        .        .  $4,000  00 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb  and  blind),  4,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover  Fund  for  Blind  and  Deaf,     .  5,000  00 

Maria  Kemble  Oliver 15,000  00 

Elizabeth  P.  Putnam 1,000  00 


29,000  00 


Elizabeth  B.  Bailey $3,000  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Calvin  W.  Barker 1,859  32 

Lucy  B.  Barker 5,953  21 

Francis  Bartlett 2,500  00 

Mary  Bartol 300  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Charlotte  Billings 40,507  00 

Robert  C.  Billings 25,000  00 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell 5,832  66 

William  T.  Bolton 555  22 


Amounts  carried  forward $88,329  91      $484,599  48 


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Amounts  brought  forward $88,329  91      $484,699  48 


Funds  and  legacies  —  Continued. 
George  W.  Boyd,  . 
J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 
Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 
J.  Edward  Brown, 
T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham, 
Stoddard  Capen,    . 
Fanny  Channing,  . 
Ann  Eliza  Colburn, 
Susan  J.  Conant,  . 
Louise  F.  Crane,    . 
Harriet  Otis  Cruft, 
David  Cummings, 
Chastine  L.  Cushing, 
I.  W.  Danforth,     . 
Susan  L.  Da\'is,     . 
Joseph  Descalzo,    . 
John  H.  Dix, 
Alice  J.  H.  Dwinell, 
Mary  E.  Eaton,     . 
Stephen  Fairbanks, 
Mortimer  C.  Ferris  Memorial, 
Mary  Helen  Freeman, 
Martha  A.  French, 
Thomas  Gaffield,   . 
Albert  Glover, 
Joseph  B.  Glover, 
Charlotte  L.  Goodnow, 
Harris  Fund, 
Hattie  S.  Hathaway, 
Charles  H.  Hayden, 
John  C.  Haynes,    . 
Joseph  H.  Heywood, 
Margaret  A.  Holden, 
Benjamin  Humphrey, 
Charles  Sylvester  Hutchison, 
Catherine  M.  Lamson, 
William  Litchfield, 
Hannah  W.  Loring, 
Susan  B.  Lyman,  . 
Stephen  W.  Marston,    . 
Charles  Merriam, 
Sarah  Irene  Parker, 
George  Francis  Parkman, 
Jonathan  E.  Pecker, 
Richard  Perkins,    . 

Amounts  carried  forward, 


5,000  00 

268,391  24 

10,508  70 

100,000  00 

5,000  00 

13,770  00 

2,000  00 

5,000  00 

500  00 

6,000  00 

6,000  00 

7.723  07 

600  00 

2,500  00 

1,500  00 

1,000  00 

10,000  00 

200  00 

5,000  00 

10,000  00 

1,000  00 

1.000  00 

164  40 

6,450  00 

1,000  00 

5,000  00 

6.471  23 

80,000  00 

500  00 

20,200  00 

1,000  00 

600  00 

3,708  32 

25,000  00 

2,156  00 

6,000  00 

7.951  48 

9,500  00 

4.809  78 

5,000  00 

1,000  00 

699  41 

50,000  00 

950  00 

20,000  00 


$807,983  64     $484,699  48 


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Amounts  brought  forward $807,983  54      $484,599  48 

Funds  and  legacies  —  Concluded. 

Edward  D.  Peters, 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce, 20,000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt, 1,000  00 

Matilda  B.  Richardson, 300  00 

Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2,640  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer 2,174  77 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Esther  W.  Smith, 5,000  00 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .  15,000  00 

Henry  F.  Spencer, 1,000  00 

Mary  Lowell  Stone, 2,000  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey, 5,000  00 

Sophronia  S.  Sunbury, 365  19 

Mary  F.  Swift, 1,391  00 

WUliam  Taylor, 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson, 1,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner, 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton, 10,000  00 

Anne  White  Vose, 12,994  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh, 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Harriot  Ware, 1,952  02 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested 

remainder  interest  under  his  will) ,  11,500  00 

Mary  Ann  P.  Weld, 2,000  00 

Opha  J.  W^heeler, 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  W^hitney, 1,000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson, 543  75 

Thomas  T.  Wyman 20,000  00 

Charles  L.  Young, 5,000  00 

945,824  40 

Accounts  payable, 4,494  14 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 190  52 

Income  on  special  funds, 914  89 


$1,436,023  43 


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DONATIONS,  INSTITUTION  ACCOUNT. 


De  Witt,  Alexander $5  00 

Hammond,  Miss  Ellen, 5  00 

Kinnicutt,  Lincoln  N., 5  00 

Palfrey,  Ann  R 100  00 

Peabody,  Philip  G.,  gift  of  house  and  land  at  1  and 

3  Pilgrim  Place,  Dorchester,        ....  4,200  00 
Committee  of  the  Permanent  Charity  Fund,  In- 
corporated  5,000  00 

$9,315  00 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society 4,441  50 


$13,756  50 


WORKS  DEPARTMENT. 


Profit  and  Loss  Account  for  the  Year  ending  August  31,  1918. 

Revenue. 
Sales,  repairs,  etc.,  * $31,625  63 

Expenditures. 

Material  used $9,671  12 

Salaries  and  wages, 16,666  43 

General  expense 4,429  58 

Total  expenditures, 30,767  13 

Profit $858  60 

Deduct:  — 
Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,      .  $312  66 

Bad  accounts  written  off 499  61 

Total $812  27 

Less :  — 

Recovered  from  bad  debts,  30  40 

781  87 

Total  profit  for  year  ending  August  31,  1918,  .        .        .  $76  63 

1  As  by  the  books,  actual  cash  receipts  for  the  year,  $32,449.64. 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund 
September  1,  1918:  — 


Investments,  securities, $167,784  27 

Accounts  receivable 447  40 

Note  receivable, 1,300  00 

On  account  of  new  printing  plant,      ....  874  59 

Embossing 26,026  91 

Printing 11,647  22 

Appliances  manufactured, 4,024  57 

Appliances  purchased,           ......  555  02 

Machinery  and  equipment, 5,549  00 

Stationery  for  sale, 342  54 

Cash,  Treasurer 4,979  62 

Cash,  Director 318  87 

$223,850  01 


The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


HOWE   MEMORIAL  PRESS   FUNDS. 

General  fund, $207,045  81 

Funds  and  legacies:  — 

Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  Fund, 5,000  00 

Joseph  H.  Center $1,000  00 

Augusta  Wells 10,290  00 

11,290  00 

Accounts  payable, 70  96 

Income  on  special  fund, 443  24 


$223,850  01 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Kindergarten  September  1, 
1918:  — 


Investments,  securities, 
Investments,  real  estate, 
Buildings  and  grounds,  Watertown, 
Equipment,  Watertown, 
Rents  and  accounts  receivable,  . 
Note  receivable,     .... 
Cash,  Treasurer,    .... 
Cash,  Director,  etc 


$845,237  63 

419,946  43 

528,440  33 

18,860  56 

944  75 

2,300  GO 

22,428  96 

362  92 


$1,838,521  68 


The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same:  — 


KINDERGARTEN   FUNDS. 

General  fund $353,743  80 

Funds  and  Legacies:  — 

William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,  Memorial,        .  $1,000  00 

In  memoriam,  A.  A.  C, 500  00 

Helen  G.  Coburn, 9,980  10 

M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  Fund,         .        .  10,000  00 

Eliza  J.  Bell  Draper  Fund 1,500  00 

Helen  Atkins  Edmands  Memorial,     .        .        .  5,000  00 

Mary  Eveleth, 1,000  00 

Susan  W.  Farwell 500  00 

Albert  Glover 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  Fund 9,935  95 

Charles  Lamed 5,000  00 

George  F.  Parkman 3,500  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,          .        .  15,600  00 

Caroline  O.  Seabury 1,000  00 

Eliza  Sturgis  Fund 21,729  52 

Glover  Fund  (Albert  Glover) 1,840  00 

Emeline  Morse  Lane 1,000  00 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Room,     .        .        .  4,000  00 

94,085  57 

Emilie  Albee $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen, 748  38 

Amounts  carried  forward $898  38     $447,829  37 


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Amounts  brought  forward $898  38      $447,829  37 

Funds  and  legacies  —  Continued. 

Michael  Anagnos 3,000  00 

Harriet  T.  Andrew, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton, 18,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey 500  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker, 2,500  00 

Ellen  M.  Baker, 13,053  48 

Mary  D.  Balfour 100  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  Fund 500  00 

Sidney  Bartlett 10,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter, 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 10,000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden, 4,675  00 

Sarah  Bradford 100  00 

Helen  C.  Bradlee, 140,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 6,130  07 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown 1,000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown, 3,073  76 

Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2,000  00 

John  W.  Carter, 500  00 

Adeline  M.  Chapin 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5,000  00 

Charles  H.  Colburn, 1,000  00 

Helen  Collamore, 5,000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge 45,138  16 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis 300  00 

Sarah  Silver  Cox,  .        , 5,000  00 

Susan  T.  Crosby 100  00 

James  H.  Danforth 1,000  00 

Catherine  L.  Donnison  Memorial,     .        .        .  1,000  00 

Caroline  T.  Downes, 12,950  00 

George  E.  Downes 3,000  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Lucy  A.  Dwight, 4,000  00 

Mary  B.Emmons 1,000  00 

Eugenia  F.  Farnham 1,015  00 

Sarah  M.  Fay 15,000  00 

John  Foster 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  W.  Gay, 7,931  00 

Ellen  M.  Gifford 5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 5,000  00 

Matilda  Goddard 300  00 

Maria  L.  Gray 200  00 

Mary  L.  Greenleaf 5,157  75 

Josephine  S.  Hall 3,000  00 

Amounts  carried  forward, 1546,170  47      $447,829  37 


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Amounts  brought  forward $546,170  47      $447,829  37 

Funds  and  legacies  —  Continued. 

Olive  E.  Hayden 4,622  45 

Jane  H.  Hodges, 300  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden, 2,360  67 

Marion  D.  Hollingsworth, 1,000  00 

Frances  H.  Hood 100  00 

Abigal  W.  Howe 1,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt 10,000  00 

Ellen  M.  Jones 500  00 

Moses  Kimball 1,000  00 

Ann  E.  Lambert 700  00 

William  Litchfield 5,000  00 

Mary  Ann  Locke 5,874  00 

Robert  W.  Lord 1.000  00 

Elisha  T.  Loring 5,000  00 

Sophia  N.  Low 1,000  00 

Thomas  Mack, 1,000  00 

Augustus  D.  Manson, 8,134  00 

Calanthe  E.  Marsh 20,11120 

Sarah  L.  Marsh 1,000  00 

Annie  B.  Matthews 15,000  00 

Rebecca  S.  Melvin, 23,545  55 

Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Mary  Abbie  Newell 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis, 1,000  00 

Jeannie  Warren  Paine 1,000  00 

•      Anna  R.  Palfrey, 50  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker. 699  41 

Helen  M.  Parsons 500  00 

Catherine  P.  Perkins 10,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Mary  J.  Phipps, 2,000  00 

Caroline  S.  Pickman, 1,000  00 

Katherine  C  Pierce 5,000  00 

Helen  A.  Porter 50  00 

Sarah  E.  Potter  Endowment 425,014  44 

Francis  L.  Pratt 100  00 

Mary  S.  C.  Reed 5,000  00 

Jane  Roberts 98,025  55 

John  M.  Rodocanachi, 2,250  00 

Dorothy  Roffe 500  00 

Rhoda  Rogers 500  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch 8,500  00 

Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

Rebecca  Salisbury 200  00 

Joseph  Scholfield, 3,000  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $1,234.807  74      $447.829  37 


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Amounts  brought  forward, 


$1,234,807  74     $447,829  37 


Funds  and  legacies  —  Concluded. 

Eliza  B.  Seymour 5,000  00 

Esther  W.  Smith, 5,000  00 

Annie  E.  Snow 9,903  27 

Adelaide  Standish, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  G.  Stuart, 2,000  00 

Abby  K.  Sweetser, 25,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser, 5,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer, 2,000  00 

Harriet  Taber  Fund, 622  81 

Sarah  W.  Taber, 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot, 630  00 

Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer, 10,000  00 

Delia  D.  Thorndike, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  L.  Tilton, 300  00 

Betsey  B.  Tolman 500  00 

Transcript  ten  dollar  fund, 5,666  95 

Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner, 24,082  00 

Rebecca  P.  Wainwright, 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales 5,000  00 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales, 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware, 4,000  00 

Rebecca  B.  Warren, 5,000  00 

Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse,    ....  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson, 100  00 

Ralph  Watson  Memorial, 237  92 

May  Rosevear  White 500  00 

Mary  Whitehead, 666  00 

Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney,       .        .        .        .        .        .  150  62 

Betsey  S.  Wilder, 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  W^iley, 200  00 

Mary  W.  Wiley 150  00 

Mary  Williams 5,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow, 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott, 5,532  00 

1,388,104  85 

Accounts  payable 1,931  68 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 17  94 

Income  on  special  funds 637  74 


$1,838,521  58 


60 


DONATIONS,  KINDERGARTEN  ACCOUNT. 


Brett,  Miss  Anna  K., $10  00 

"Children  of  the  King,"  Church  of  the  Disciples, 

Boston, 3  00 

Hill,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.,  by  C.  S.  Hill 1  00 

Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union 
Congregational  Church  of  Weymouth  and  Brain- 
tree 18  00 

$32  00 


61 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  Sarah  A. 
Stover,  Treasurer:  — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,351  50 

Donations, 1,721  00 

Cambridge  Branch, 210  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 63  00 

Lynn  Branch, 52  00 

Milton  Branch, 44  00 


t,441  50 


ANNUAL    SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR   THE   PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 
Abbott,  Mrs.  J., 
Adams,  Mr.  George, 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo, 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H., 
Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Alley,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Wm., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Wm.,  2d, 
Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C., 
Archer,  Mrs.  E.  M.  H., 
Atkins,  Mrs.  Edwin  F., 

Amount  carried  forward, 


,     $1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.        10 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

.       25 

00 

6 

00 

.       25 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.     $90  00 

Amount  brought  forward, 


$90  00 


Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P., 

5  00 

Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 

2  00 

Baer,  Mrs.  Louis, 

5  00 

Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 

5  00 

Baldwin,  Mr.  E.  L.,      . 

2  00 

Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 

5  00 

Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R., 

10  00 

Barnard,  Mr.  Simon,    . 

2  00 

Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 

20  00 

Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 

5  00 

Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R., 

5  00 

Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 

10  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $166  00 


62 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $166  00 


Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G..      . 

2  00 

Bigelow,  Mrs.  Alanson, 

1  00 

Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 

3  00 

Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W., 

5  00 

Blake,  Mrs.  Francis,     . 

5  00 

Boardman,  Mrs.  W.  D., 

5  00 

Boardman,  Miss  E.  D., 

2  00 

Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

5  00 

Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.,  . 

5  00 

Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,    . 

1  00 

Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S., 

5  00 

Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 

10  00 

Brush,  Mrs.  C.  N., 

10  00 

Burns,  Mr.  Walter  G., 

2  00 

Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C., 

10  00 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,    . 

50  00 

Gary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 

10  00 

Cassoa,  Miss  Etta  B., 

1  00 

Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 

5  00 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 

5  00 

Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 

5  00 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 

5  00 

Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E.  C. 

2  00 

Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R., 

1  00 

Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C, 

2  00 

Clark,    Mr.    B.    Preston,    ir 

memory     of    his    mother 

Mrs.  B.  G.  Clark,      . 

5  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 

10  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  John  Dudley, 

25  00 

Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen, 

5  00 

Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 

3  00 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 

5  00 

Cochrane,  Mrs.  Alex., 

5  00 

Godman,      Miss      Catherine 

Amory,    . 

10  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph 

25  00 

Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D.,       . 

2  00 

Cox,  Mrs.  William  E., 

10  00 

Crnig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 

5  00 

Craigin,  Dr.  George  A., 

5  00 

Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 

10  00 

Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Miss  M.  G., 

5  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W., 

5  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W.,    . 

2  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G., 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  S477  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $477  00 


Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 
Gutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Cutts,  Mrs.  H.  M., 
Dale,  Mrs.  Eben, 
Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 
Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 
Day,  Mrs.  Lewis, 
Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 
Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C,     . 
Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket,    . 
Drost,  Mr.  C.  A., 
DuBois,  Mrs.  L.  G.,     . 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 
Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant, 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 
Elms,  Mrs.  Edward  E., 
Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 
Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  G., 
Ernst,  Mrs.  G.  W., 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  G., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 
Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B., 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,     . 
Forbes,  Mrs.  Francis  B., 
Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N., 
Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel,     . 
Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,  . 
Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon, 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Randolph, 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert, 
Gill,  Mr.Abbott  D. (191 7-18), 
Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,    . 
Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer  H., 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,    . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Charles  H., 
Grant,  Mrs.  Robert,     . 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,  . 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Greenleaf,  Mrs.  L.  B., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  G.  P., 
Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 


1  00 


10  00 
5  00 
1  00 
5  00 

10  00 
3  00 
5  00 
1  00 

35  00 
5  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

25  00 
5  00 

10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


1  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

25  00 

2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    .   $761  00 


63 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $761  00 


Harrington,  Mrs.  Francis  B. 

5  00 

Harrington,  Dr.  Harriet  L. 

2  00 

Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 

2  00 

Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W., 

5  00 

Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 

3  00 

Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G., 

10  00 

Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 

5  00 

Higginson,   Mrs.   F.   L.    (foi 

1917),      . 

10  00 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 

5  00 

Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,  . 

5  00 

Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 

3  00 

Homans,  Mrs.  John,     . 

10  00 

Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 

5  00 

Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 

15  00 

Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,  . 

2  00 

Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 

10  00 

Howland,  Mrs.  D.  W., 

2  00 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 

25  00 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

25  00 

Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D.,       . 

1  00 

Ireson,  Mrs.  S.  E., 

5  00 

Jacobs,  Mrs.  Fred  W., 

3  00 

Jennings,  Miss  Julia  F., 

3  00 

Jewett,  Miss  Annie, 

3  00 

Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 

5  00 

Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C., 

25  00 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H., 

5  00 

Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 

10  00 

Jordan,  Mrs.  Eben  D., 

10  00 

Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S.,    . 

5  00 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

10  00 

Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L., 

1  00 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 

25  00 

Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 

10  00 

Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 

50  00 

Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 

1  00 

Klous,  Mr.  Isaac, 

2  00 

Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix,   . 

1  00 

Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 

2  00 

Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A., 

2  00 

Lane,  Mrs.  D.  H., 

1  00 

Larkin,  The  Misses,     . 

2  00 

Lautterstein,  Mrs.  Josie, 

1  00 

Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 

5  00 

Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph, 

100  00 

Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 

1  00 

Le\i,  Mrs.  Harry, 

2  50 

Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $1,206  60 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,206  50 


Locke,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Lockwood,  Mrs.  T.  S., 
Loring,  Judge  W.  C,   . 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C,      . 
Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B., 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  Thornton  K. 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 
Lovering,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,  . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M.,     . 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Mixter,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Monks,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Morse,  Mrs.  J.  P., 
Morss,  Mrs.  Everett,    . 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Moses,  Mrs.  George,    . 
Moses,  Mrs.  Joseph,     . 
Moses,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob,    . 
Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,  . 
Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 
Olmsted,  Mrs.  J.  C,     . 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 
Paine,  Mrs.  Wm.  D.,    . 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J., 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 
Peirce,  Mrs.  Silas, 
Perry,  Mrs.  Clarabel  N., 
Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman, 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  . 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 
Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M 
Proctor,  Mrs.  Henry  H., 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George, 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A., 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,591  60 


.       10  00 

10  00 

.       25  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

,       50  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

3  00 

50  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

.       10  00 

4  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

3  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

10  00 

3  00 

2  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

,       10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

64 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,59150  Amount  brought  forward,    $1,94150 


2 

00 

2 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   30 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

.   10 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.   25 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5  00 


Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Reed,  Mrs.  John  H.,    . 
Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell, 
Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 
Rice,  Mrs.  Wm.  B., 
Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 
Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 
Richards,  Mrs.  C.  A.,  . 
Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  . 
Robbins,   Mrs.  Reginald  L 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal,  . 
Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K.,     . 
Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S., 
Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Rosenbaum,  Miss  Loraine, 
Rotch,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,    . 
Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S., 
Russell,   Miss  Catherine  E. 
Sabine,  Dr.  G.  K.,  in  mem 

ory  of  Mrs.  Sabine,  . 
Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M. 
in  memory  of  his  mother 
Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall 
Sanborn,  Mrs.  C.  W.  H., 
Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W.,    . 
Sargent,  Mrs.  Winthrop, 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E., 
Schouler,  Mr.  James,  . 
Scudder,  Mrs.  Charles  L., 
Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem 
ory   of  her  mother,    Mrs 
N.  M.  Downer, 
Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 
Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 
Shattuck,  Mrs.  George  B., 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Rowland, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 
Short,  Mrs.  Y.  S., 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D., 
Sias,  Miss  Martha  G., 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Smith,  Miss  Ellen  V.,  . 
Smith,  Mrs.  Phineas  B., 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Sprague,  Mrs.  H.  B.,   . 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,941  50 


1,   10 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

.   20 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   25 

00 

5 

00 

.   15 

00 

5 

00 

5  00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.   25 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D., 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana, 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett 
Stearns,  Mr.  Wm.  B., 
Steese,  Mrs.  Edward,  . 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex.,     . 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil,     . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Sweetser,  Mrs.  Frank  E., 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 
Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 
Thomas,  Miss  Catherine  C 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C, 
Thorndike,    Mrs.   Alden   A 

(for  1917), 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Thorndike,    Mrs.    Augustus 

L 

Tucker,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S 
Tudor,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C, 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett,     . 
Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F., 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A.,    . 
Ware,  Miss  Marj'  Lee, 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard, 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador, 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge, 
Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A., 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P., 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor, 
Weld,  Mrs.  W.  G., 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M., 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 


2  00 

5  00 

10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 


2 

5 

5 

2 

5 
15  00 

5  00 
10  00 

3  00 
25  00 
25  00 
10  00 

1  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 

2  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 

1  00 

2  00 
25  00 

5  00 
2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     $2,246  50 


65 


Amount  brought  forward, 

Whittington,  Mrs.  Hiram, 
Williams,  The  Misses, 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mr.  Moses,  . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses, 


Amount  carried  forward,     $2,321  60 


$2,246  50 

1 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   50 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

$2,321 

60 

Amount  brought  forward,    $2,321  50 


Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Wingersky,  Mrs.  Harris, 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest,  . 
Wolcott,  Mrs.  Roger,  . 
Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Wright,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 


5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

10 

00 

$2,351 

50 

DONATIONS. 


A  friend,     . 

Adams,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Adams,  Mrs.  Henry  J., 
Aiken,  Miss  Susan  C, 
Alden,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas,    . 
Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 
Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C, 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,  . 
Baker,  Miss  S.  P., 
Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R.,      . 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot 
Bemis,  Mr.  J.  M., 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James, 
Bullard,  Mr.  Alfred  M., 
Bullens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred, 
Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
C.     . 

Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  C,    . 
Cary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Case,  Mrs.  James  B.,   . 
Chase,  Mrs.  S.  R., 
Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Codman,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C, 


$5  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 

10  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 

15  00 
5  00 

25  00 


10  00 

10  00 

10  00 

100  00 

5  00 

25  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $338  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $338  00 


Cole,  Mrs.  E.  E., 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F., 
Cotting,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles,   . 
F.,      . 

Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B., 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,    . 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Flood,  Mrs.  Hugh, 
French,  Miss  Cornelia  A., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Louis  A. 
Ginzberg,  Mrs.  Barnard, 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R., 
Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 
Grosberg,  Mrs.  O., 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,    . 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 
Heath,  Mr.  Nathaniel, 
Hobbs,  Mrs.  Warren  D., 
Homans,  Mrs.  John,     . 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C, 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,  . 
Hubbard,  Mr.  Gorham, 
Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F., 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis, 


Amount  carried  forward,    .   $747  00 


1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

.  100 

00 

2 

00 

,   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   25 

00 

1 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

15 

00 

25 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

,   50 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

.,   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

.   25 

00 

5 

00 

2  00 

66 


$747  00 


lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 

.       10  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Georg( 

H.  Eager, 

.       10  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harrie 

L.   Thayer,   through   Mrs 

Hannah  T.  Brown,   . 

5  GO 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S., 

.       10  00 

JoUiffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 

5  CO 

Keene,  Mrs.  S.  W.,       . 

2  00 

Kimball,  The  Misses,  . 

25  00 

Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 

.       10  00 

Linder,  Mrs.  George,    . 

25  00 

Loring,  Mrs.  A.  P., 

10  00 

Lovett,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  S. 

5  00 

Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H., 

10  00 

Manning,  Miss  A.  F.,  . 

5  00 

Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 

10  00 

Means,  Miss  Anne  M., 

10  00 

Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank, 

10  00 

Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T.. 

5  00 

Monroe,  Mrs.  G.  H.,    . 

5  00 

Morrill,  Miss  Amelia,  . 

50  00 

Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W., 

50  00 

Morse,  Dr.  Henry  Lee, 

10  00 

Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 

5  00 

Nazro,  Mrs.  F.  W., 

3  00 

Peabody,  Mr.  Harold, 

5  00 

Pearson,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

5  00 

Perry,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 

3  00 

Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,    . 

10  00 

Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,  . 

3  00 

Pitman,    Mrs.   Benjamin   F 

(for  1917-18), 

15  00 

Potter,  Mrs.  W.  H.,      . 

3  00 

Punchard,  Miss  A.  L., 

10  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 

5  00 

Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H.,     . 

10  00 

Rand,  Mrs.  Arnold  A., 

2  00 

Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher, 

5  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W., 

10  00 

Richardson,  The   Misses,  in 

memory  of  M.  A.  E.  and 

C.  P.  P 

2  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C, 

5  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick, 

5  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 

3  00 

Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E., 

25  00 

Rodman,  Miss  Emma, 

10  00 

Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     $1,178  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,178  00 


Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,  . 
Rust,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P.,  . 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E., 
Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 
Sever,  Miss  Emily, 
Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 
Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Silsbee,  Mrs.  G.  S.,       . 
Slattery,  Mrs.  Wm.,     . 
Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 
Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P., 
Spring,  Mrs.  Romney, 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,  . 
Swann,  Mrs.  John, 
Taylor,  Mrs.  E.  B.,      . 
Temple  Israel  Sunday  School 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley, 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Wm.  G., 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  B., 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A., 
Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  W.  Austin 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H.,    . 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A.,    . 
Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H.,     . 
Watson,  Mrs.  R.  C,     . 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,     . 
Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.,    . 
Wesson,  Miss  Isabel,    . 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 
Willcomb,  Mrs.  George, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,  . 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T., 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 


5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       20  00 

3  00 

.       75  00 

.       20  00 

5  00 

5  GO 

3  GO 

.       25  GO 

2  00 

10  00 

10  GO 

2  GO 

.       10  GO 

5  00 

1  GO 

5  GO 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  GO 

.       10  GO 

.       10  GO 

5  00 

1  00 

.       10  GO 

2  GO 

,       20  00 

.       10  GO 

2  00 

.       10  GO 

5  GO 

.       20  GO 

.       25  GO 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  GO 

.       25  GO 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.       25  GO 

5  GO 

5  GO 

.       50  00 

5  00 

.       15  00 

$1,721  00 

67 


CAMBRIDGE  BRANCH. 


$20  00 
1  00 

10  00 
1  00 

10  00 


Agassiz,  Mr.  Max  (donation), 
Aldrich,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 
Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona- 
tion), 
Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Brewster,  Mrs.  William  (do- 
nation), . 
Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 

(donation), 
Cary,  Miss  Emma  F., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C, 
Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B., 

(donation), 
Farley,  Miss  Christine  A., 
Farlow,   Mrs.  Wm.  G.    (do- 
nation), . 
Foster,     Mrs.     Francis     C 

(donation), 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno,    . 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E. 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 
Green,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  James  W., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .   $118  00 


6  00 


30  00 


3 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .   $118  00 


Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 

(donation), 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Ireland,    Miss   Catharine 

(donation), 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,  . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Longfellow,  Mrs.  W.  P.  P 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Perrin,  Mrs.  Franklin, 
Richards,  Miss  L.  B.,  . 
Saville,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Sawyer,  Miss  Ellen  M.  (do- 
nation), . 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  Robert  N., 
Wesselhoeft,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W., 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.       20 

00 

2 

00 

$210  00 


DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  Susan  E., 

$1  00 

Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  (do- 

nation), .... 

5  00 

Burditt,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 

2  00 

Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S., 

2  00 

Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  . 

1  00 

(donation). 

1  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 

1  00 

Eliot,  Mrs.  C.  R., 

1  00 

Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewall  A., 

1  00 

Hall,  Mrs.  Henry, 

1  00 

Haven,       Mrs.       Katharine 

Stearns,  .... 

1  00 

Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 

1  00 

Humphreys,    Mrs.    Richard 

C.  (donation). 

5  00 

Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A., 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward. 


$26  00 


Amount  brought  forward, 

Murdock,  Mrs.  Harold, 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W., 

(donation), 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K., 
Nightingale,  Mrs.  C,  . 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Laban, 
Preston,  Miss  Myra  C.  (do 

nation),  . 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem 

ory  of ,     . 

Amount  carried  forward, 


$25  00 


2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.     $48  00 

68 


Amount  brought  forward, 


00 


Whitcher,     Mr.     Frank  W. 

(donation),  .  5  00 

Whiten,  Mrs.  Royal,    .  .  1  00 

Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S.,  2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .     §56  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     S56  00 

Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P.,      .  1  00 

Woodberry,  Miss  Mary  (do- 
nation), .  .  .         1  00 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P..       .  .5  00 


$63  00 


Blood,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  K 

(donation). 

$10  00 

Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F., 

1  00 

Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A., 

5  00 

Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,  . 

1  00 

Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J., 

5  00 

Haven,     Miss     Rebecca     E 

(donation) , 

5  00 

LYNN   BRANCH. 

Amount  brought  forward. 


HoUis,  Mrs.  Samuel  J., 
Sheldon,  Mrs.  Chauncey  C, 
Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B.  (do- 
nation), .... 
Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.  (do- 
nation), .... 


Amount  carried  forward, 


$27  00 


$27  00 

10  00 
5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

$52  00 


MILTON   BRANCH. 


Brewer,    Miss    Eliza    (dona- 
tion), 
Clark,  Mrs.  D.  Oakes, 
Clum,  Mrs.  Allston  B., 
Cunningham,  Mrs.  C.  L., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray, 


Amount  carried  forward,     .     $24  00 


$10 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $24  00 


Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L., 

10  00 

(donation). 

5  00 

Klous,  Mrs.  Henr>'  D., 

2  00 

Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar, 

2  00 

Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R. 

R., 

1  00 

$44  00 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respedfvily  requested  to  -peruse  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  Albert  Thorxdike,  Treasurer,  No. 
19  Congress  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen,  Water- 
t<ywn,  any  o7nissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Treasurer. 
No.  19  CoKGRESS  Street,  Boston. 


69 


FOBM  or  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Conunonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows:  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 

follows: 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

No.  19  Congress  Street, 

Boston. 


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Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  vSchool 
For  the  Blind 


EIOHTY-EIGHTH   ANNUAL   REPORT 
OF  THE   TRUSTEES 


1919 


BOSTON     J*     ^     ^     ^     ^     1920 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


QIJ|f  Ql0mtn0mtt0aItIj  of  maBaarljua^tta 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  20,  1919. 

To  the  Hon.  Albert  P.  Langtry,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for 
the  use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-eighth  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE   CORPORATION. 


1919-1920. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOARD   OF  TRUSTEES. 


Mrs.  GEORGE   ANGIER. 

FRANCIS   HENRY   APPLETON. 

WILLIAM   ENDICOTT. 

Mis8  ROSAMOND   FAY. 

THOMAS   J.  FAY. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 


ROBERT   H.  HALLOWELL. 
JAMES   ARNOLD   LOWELL. 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
RICHARD    M.  SALTONSTALL. 


STANDING     COMMITTEES. 
Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


January,  . 
February, 
March,     . 
April, 
May,  . 
June,  . 


1920. 

Francis  Henry  Appleton. 
Mra.  George  Angier. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
Paul  R.  Frothingham. 
J.\MES  A.  Lowell. 
Thomas  J.  Fay. 


August,  . 
September, 
October,  . 
November, 
December, 


1920. 

Miss  Rosamond  Fat. 
George  H.  Richards. 
William  L.  Rich.a.rdson. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 
William  Endicott. 


Executive  Committee. 
George  H.  Richards. 
Mrs.  George  Angier. 
James  A.  Lowell, 
Richard  M.  Saltonst.^ll. 


Finance  Committee. 
George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
James  A.  Lowell. 


Auditors  of  Expenses. 

George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
Edwin  L.  Pride  &  Co.  (Incorpor.vted),  Certided  Public  Accountants. 


OFFICERS   OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS   AND    OFFICERS   OF   THE   UPPER    SCHOOL. 
LITERABY   DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  JESSICA  L.  LANGWORTHY. 

Miss  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

ARTHUR  E.  HOLMES. 

Miss  FEODORE   M.  NICHOLLS. 

Miss  ETHEL   D.  EVANS. 

Miss  ETHEL  WELLS. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  ELLEN   H.  PACKARD. 
Miss  ANNIE   L.  BRADFORD. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  ESTELLE   M.  HARRIS. 
Mrs.  ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 
Miss  JULIA   E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  of  Home  Economics. 

Miss  MEREDITH  PEIRCE. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL   TRAINING. 

GEORGE   S.  CHAMBERLAIN.  |    Miss  ESTELLE   M.  HARRIS. 

Miss  LENNA   D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  MUSIC. 
EDWIN   L.  GARDINER. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 


Miss  ALVERA   C.  GUSTAFSON. 
Miss  BLANCHE   A.  BARDIN. 
Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,   Voice. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   MANUAL   TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN   H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 
Miss  MARY  B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Girls'  Section. 
Miss  FRANCES   :SI.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ELIZABETH   O.  PIERCE. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   TUNING   PIANOFOETES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,   CLERKS   AND   BOOKKEEPERS. 


Misa  LAURA    M.    SAWYER,    Librarian. 
Miss  HARRIET  E.  BOSWORTH, 

Assistant. 
Miss  ANNA   GARDNER   FISH,  Clerk. 

Mrs.  SARAH   A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


Miss  ELLEN   THOMPSON,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI   L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD    B.   CHANDLER,   M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,   M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


DOMESTIC    DEPARTMENT. 

FREDERICK   A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Housekeepers  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 
Miss  CLARISSA   A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  JOSEPHINE   H.  MANSUR. 
Miss  LUCY   B.  GETCHELL. 
Mrs.  FANNIE   L.  HEAD. 


Girls'  Section. 
Mrs.  ISABELLA   P.  HEARD. 
Mrs.  CORA   L.  GLEASON. 
Mrs.  M.  M.  EASTMAN,  Substitute. 
Mrs.  AGNES   C.  LUMMUS. 
Mrs.  BERTHA   C.  MAXWELL. 


PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS,  Printer.  I    Miss  MARY   L.  TULLY,  Printer. 


WORKSHOP  FOR  ADULTS. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Miss  EVA  C.  ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS   AND   OFFICERS    OF   THE   LOWER   SCHOOL. 
KINDERGABTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Mrs.  Emma  H.  McCraith,  Assistant. 
Miss  Carolyn  M.  Burrell,  Kindergartner . 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Sadie  Turner,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 

Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Lorinq.  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 


Miss  Louise  E.  Spencer,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Margaret  McKenzie,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 

Miss  Eleanor  E.  Kelly,  Field  Worker. 

Miss  Kathryn  E.  MAXtiELO,  Psychologist. 


PRIMARY   DEPARTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miss  Reba  M.  Sawyer,  Teacher. 


Miss  Ida  E.  Stratton,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Miss  ViNNiE  F.  FoRBUSH,  Teacher  to  Deaf-Blind  Pupil. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 


Miss  Lizzie  R.  Kinsman,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Gring,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'  VISITING   COMMITTEE   TO   THE   KINDERGARTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Secretary. 


Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  .     January. 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge,   .     February. 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Cabot,      .      .      .     March. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,       .1 
Mrs.  John  B.  Thomas,    .      .  J  ^     ' 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard,     .      .     May. 


Mrs.  Ronald  Lyman, 
Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent, 


June. 

October. 

November. 

December, 


General  Visitors. 

Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker. 
Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 
Mrs.  William  R.  Livermore. 


Honoraxy  Members. 

Mrs.  Kingsmill  Marrs. 
Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE   CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs,  M.  T.,  Cambridge. 
Adams,  Melvin  O.,  Boston. 
Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 
Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 
Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 
Appleton,   Hon.   Francis   Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Francis    Henry,    Jr., 

Boston. 
Appleton,    Mrs.   Francis   Henry, 

Jr.,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 
Atherton,  Mrs.  Caroline  S.,  Grove 

Hall. 
Bacon,  Caspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Baldwin,    S.    E.,    New    Haven, 

Conn. 
Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 
Bancroft,      Miss     Eleanor     C, 

Beverly. 
Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 
Beatley,  Mrs.  Clara  B.,  Boston. 
Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 
Benedict,    Wm.    Leonard,    New 

York. 
Bennett,  Miss  Gazella,  Worcester. 
Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 
Blake,  George  F.,  Worcester. 
Blunt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 


Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence, 
R.  I. 

Bowditch,  IngersoU,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brigham,  Charles,  Watertown. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 

Brj^ant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 

Burditt,  Miss  Alice  A.,  Boston. 

Burnham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 

Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 

Burr,  I.  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 

Callender,  Walter,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Water- 
town. 

Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 

Chace,  J.  H.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  L 

Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 

Clement,  Edward  H.,  Concord. 

Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  L 

Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 

Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crane,  Zenas  M.,  Pittsfield. 


Crosby,  Sumner,  Brookline. 

Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 

Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 

Damon,  Willard  A.,  Springfield. 

Davies,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F., 
Springfield. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

De  Witt,  Alexander,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dolan,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Everett,  Dr.  Oliver  H.,  Worcester. 

Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Faj-^,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Rosamond,  Boston. 


Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  ISIiss  S.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Thomas  J.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover,  N.  H. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston, 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gage,  Mrs.  Homer,  Shrewsbury. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston, 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H,,  Boston, 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Need- 
ham. 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskill,  George  A.,  Worcester. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

Gaylord,  Emerson  G.,  Chicopee. 

Geer,  Mrs.  Danforth,  Jr.,  New 
York. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence, 
R.  I. 

Gilbert,  Wm.  E.,  Springfield. 

Gleason,  Mrs.  Cora  L.,  Water- 
town. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

Glidden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goddard,  Harry  W.,  Worcester. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Boston. 


Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Richard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Florence  Howe,  New 
York. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hallowell,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 

Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Toronto, 
Ont. 

Homans,  Robert,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 

Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 

Hurmewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi.  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 


Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilham,  Miss  Annie  M.,  Beverly. 

Kihner,  Frederick  M.,  Water- 
town. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 

King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Kinnicutt,  Lincoln  N.,  Worcester. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Lincohi,  Waldo,  Worcester. 

Littell,  Miss  Harriet  A.,  Boston. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Nahant. 

Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Loring,  Miss  Katharine  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Mrs.  Wm.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 


Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  John,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Luce,  Hon.  Robert,  Waltham. 

Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 

Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 

Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston. 

Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 

McElwain,  R.  Franklin,  Holyoke. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 

Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 

Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 

INIinot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 

Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 

Minot,  William,  Boston. 

Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 

Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 

Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 

Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 

Noyes,  Mrs.  Lucia  C,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Oliver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 

Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hope- 
dale. 

Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 

Partridge,  Fred  F.,  Holyoke. 

Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 

Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Philip  G.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 


Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 

Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 

Pickering,  Henry  G.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 

Plunkett,  W.  P.,  Adams. 

Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Poulsson,  Miss  Emilie,  Boston. 

Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H.,  Newton. 

Pratt,  George  Dwight,  Spring- 
field. 

Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 

Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 

Putnam,  F.  Delano,  Boston. 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 

Read,  Mrs.  Robert  M.,  Medford. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 

Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 

Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 

Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 

Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richards,  Henry  H.,  Groton. 

Richardson,  John,  Boston. 

Richardson,  John,  Jr.,  Readville. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John,  Jr.,  Read- 
ville. 

Richardson,  Miss  M.  G.,  New 
York. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 

Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  AUston. 

Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 

Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston. 

Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 

Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 


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Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 
Saltonstall,  Leverett,  Westwood. 
Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Leverett,  West- 
wood. 
Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 
Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 
Sears,  Mrs.  Rnj^v^et  W.,  Boston. 
Sears,  WiUard  T.,  Boston. 
Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 
Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 
Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 
Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 
Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 
Smith,  Joel  West,  East  Hampton, 

Conn. 
Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 
Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 
Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Charles  M.,  Worcester. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Thorndike,    Miss    Rosanna    D., 
Boston. 

Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  I^Iilton. 


Tingley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  L 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 
Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 
Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 
Underwood,    Wm.    Ljmian,    Bel- 
mont. 
Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 
Wallace,  Andrew  B.,  Springfield. 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 
Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Washburn,     Hon.     Charles     G., 

Worcester. 
Washburn,    Mrs.    Frederick    A., 

Boston. 
Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 
Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Boston. 
Wendell,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston 

Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 

Williams,  Mrs.  H.  C,  Framing- 
ham. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,    James    B.,    Providence, 
R.  L 

Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Wright,  Burton  H.,  Worcester. 

Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS 


ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watbrtown,  October  8,  1919. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order 
by  the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  report  of  the  treasurer  was  accepted  and  ordered  on 
file. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are  hereby 
ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  Albert  Thorndike. 

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Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Appleton, 
William  Endicott,  Robert  H.  Hallowell,  James  A.  Lowell, 
George  H.  Richards,  and  Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 

Voted,  To  authorize  the  Trustees  to  fill  any  vacancy  on  their 
Board. 

The  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected  members 
of  the  corporation:  —  Mr.  Harry  G.  Fisk,^  Mr.  William  E. 
Gilbert,  Mr.  Willard  A.  Damon,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F.  Davies, 
Mr.  Emerson  G.  Gaylord,  Mr.  Fred  F.  Partridge,  I\Ir.  George 
B.  McCallum,^  Mr.  R.  Franklin  McElwain,  ]\Ir.  Charles  M. 
Thayer,  Mr.  Harry  W.  Goddard,  Mr.  George  A.  Gaskill,  Mr. 
Burton  H.  Wright  and  Mr.  George  F.  Blake. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 

>  Declined  the  election. 


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REPORT  OF  THE   TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  8,  1919. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  As  reported  last  year, 
the  institution  reopened  in  September,  1918,  with 
fewer  pupils  than  usual.  Two  of  its  men  teachers 
were  absent  in  government  service.  For  this  double 
reason  only  three  of  the  four  boys'  families  of  the 
upper  school  were  run,  the  teachers  of  Tompkins 
Cottage  and  a  few  of  the  older  boys  keeping  their 
rooms  but  going  to  the  other  cottages  for  meals. 
This  arrangement  answered  very  well  because  every- 
body, especially  the  three  matrons  affected,  accepted 
the  extra  work  in  good  spirit  in  spite  of  the  anoma- 
lous situation  of  the  servant  question.  As  to  this, 
most  of  the  institution  families  were  and  still  are 
inconvenienced  but  would  have  been  much  more 
troubled  had  we  not  built  for  group  living  in  house- 
holds planned  to  further  the  participation  in  house- 
work by  every  member.  The  helpfulness  of  every  one 
this  past  year  cannot  be  too  highly  commended. 

In  the  absence  on  leave  of  Mr.  Molter,  Miss  Jessica 
L.  Langworthy  acted  as  principal  teacher  to  the  boys 
and  met  her  responsibilities  splendidly.    Indeed,  all 

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departments  of  the  institution  were  running  well 
when,  in  October,  the  plague  of  influenza  fell  upon 
Watertown.  But,  though  strict  rules  were  quickly 
put  in  force  against  street-car  riding  or  going  into 
crowds  —  to  church  or  even  for  a  period  to  classes 
—  and  though  the  pupils  were  kept  out  of  doors 
walking,  rowing,  playing,  and  competing  in  field 
sports  and  going  off  on  long  or  short  tramps,  one 
after  another  of  both  pupils  and  staff  succumbed 
until,  within  the  three  months  affected,  over  one- 
third  of  the  entire  institution  had  had  the  malady, 
most  of  them  fortunately  in  mild  form.  But  two 
died,  a  pupil,  Ellen  Thwaites,  at  an  outside  hos- 
pital, and  a  teacher.  Miss  Inez  Swenson,  at  the  in- 
stitution, both  of  pneumonia.  Special  nurses  relieved 
the  cottage  matrons  as  far  as  possible.  Because  of 
this  epidemic  the  usual  Christmas  holiday  period  was 
extended  to  three  weeks,  the  school  singing  its  Christ- 
mas Carols  in  January.  By  February  most  things 
were  again  normal,  and  a  good  day  brought  a  very 
large  number  of  visitors  to  the  Washington's  Birth- 
day exhibition,  held  by  custom  every  year  at  the 
Perkins  Institution.  In  April  Miss  Langworthy  and 
her  boys  presented  "The  Tempest,"  a  Shakesperian 
play  being  another  annual  event,  as  are  the  Christ- 
mas Carols  and  the  annual  concert.  The  Director 
and  staff  of  teachers  felt  that  by  the  close  of  the 
academic  year  in  June  the  school  had  practically 
caught  up  with  its  routine  work  and  that  the  classes 
could  justly  be  promoted.     One  boy  and  two  girls 


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were  graduated  with  high  school  diplomas,  and  two 
girls  with  certificates  as  piano  teachers. 

One  of  the  most  beneficent  special  gifts  that  has 
come  to  our  institution  in  recent  years  is  the  Maria 
Kemble  Oliver  Fund,  the  income  of  which  is  utilized 
for  the  purchase  of  tickets  to  certain  concerts  and 
recitals.  This  gives  to  our  advanced  music  students 
an  added  opportunity  to  hear  fine  music  splendidly 
interpreted,  an  opportunity  which  cannot  fail  to  be 
broadening  in  effect  and  educational  in  value.  Dur- 
ing the  past  year  this  fund  has  provided  for  a  total 
number  of  382  tickets  for  symphony  concerts,  for  the 
Sunday  afternoon  concerts  and  recitals  at  Symphony 
Hall  and  for  such  special  musical  events  as  recitals 
by  Harold  Bauer  and  the  Flonzaley  Quartet,  and  the 
oratorios  by  the  Handel  and  Haydn  Society. 

The  continued  success  of  the  placement  agent  of 
the  Massachusetts  Commission  for  the  Blind  in  plac- 
ing with  employers  pupils  trained  at  the  institution 
is  most  gratifying.  Her  success  obviously  means  that 
she  has  been  careful  in  the  choice  of  both  work  and 
worker;  but  it  also  means  that  these  pupils  have  been 
well  trained,  especially  in  the  fundamentals,  one  of 
which  is  the  English  language.  A  field  into  which 
the  blind  are  entering  is  that  of  typists  in  offices  where 
the  dictaphone  is  in  use.  Fourteen  of  our  graduates, 
mostly  girls,  are  now  so  employed,  and  it  is  a  fact 
that  nearly  every  one  of  these  made  good  from  the 
start.  The  well-trained  blind  who  have  good  per- 
sonalities usually  have  this  advantage  over  the  aver- 


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age  wage-earner,  —  they  know  well  what  they  know 
and  they  realize  that  they  cannot  afford  to  fail.  Em- 
ployers wishing  dependable  assistants  might  well  find 
them  also  among  the  physically  handicapped,  for  a 
handicap  often  tends  to  strengthen,  to  deepen  and 
to  stabilize. 

Within  the  year  the  Massachusetts  Civil  Service 
Commission  has  admitted  the  blind  to  examination 
as  dictaphone  typists.  This  fact  has  profoundly 
affected  the  institution's  viewpoint  in  teaching  type- 
writing. It  is  now  taught  vocationally  instead  of 
avocationally,  as  heretofore.  Even  so,  having  bhnd 
pupils  finish  up  with  a  short  intensive  course  at  a 
business  school  is  almost  imperative,  the  competing 
on  equal  terms  with  seeing  students  giving  the  ad- 
vanced student  who  is  blind  something  which  the 
institution  can  rarely  supply.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
most  of  the  typists  above  referred  to  were  no  longer 
our  pupils  and  were  given  such  a  course  by  the  Massa- 
chusetts Commission  for  the  Blind;  but  we  sent  one 
pupil  daily  from  Watertown. 

Fifteen  of  our  former  pupils  are  regularly  employed 
by  the  Commission  —  not  to  give  work  to  blind  peo- 
ple but  to  get  it  done  in  the  best  manner.  In  certain 
fields  the  handicap  becomes  an  asset.  We  are  refer- 
ring here  particularly  to  those  who  are  employed  on 
its  staff  as  field  agents,  investigators,  home  teachers, 
and  the  like.  One  who  until  last  year  was  employed 
there  as  head  of  the  employment  work  for  men  is 
to-day  director  of  the  new  Canadian  National  Insti- 


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tute  for  the  Blind,  with  central  office  at  Toronto. 
Two  other  Perkins  ex-pupils  are  working  under  him, 
one  of  them  having  left  for  field  work  among  the  adult 
blind  a  good  position  as  teacher  of  tuning  in  a  school 
for  the  young  blind.  The  former  pupil  who  has  been 
giving  courses  of  lectures  to  women  wishing  to  do 
social  service  among  the  blind  has  had  her  success 
recognized  by  a  public  luncheon  given  her  at  the 
Boston  Woman's  City  Club.  Another,  a  young 
woman  of  exceptional  ability  who  has  developed  a 
gift  in  the  use  of  spoken  language,  is  conducting  in 
different  cities  classes  in  current  events.  Another  of 
our  recent  graduates,  whom  we  sent  daily  for  a  year 
from  Watertown  to  the  Boston  School  for  Social 
Work,  has  since  risen  to  local  prominence  in  the 
American  Red  Cross. 

A  Perkins  graduate  of  the  class  of  1883,  who  died 
last  year,  led  so  serviceable  a  life  as  a  masseuse  and 
physical  therapeutist  that  the  late  Dr.  James  J.  Put- 
nam of  Boston,  specialist  in  nervous  disorders,  pub- 
lished a  remarkable  tribute  to  her  in  the  "Boston 
Medical  and  Surgical  Journal"  for  October  31,  1918. 
Last  June  Amherst  College  conferred  upon  another 
graduate,  a  member  of  our  class  of  1890,  the  honorary 
degree  of  A.M.  in  recognition  of  his  continued  success 
as  lecturer  and  writer. 

One  of  our  lads  who  has  been  attending  the  Water- 
town  High  School  was  graduated  in  June  a  close 
second  in  his  class  of  80,  and  has  now  matriculated  at 
Boston  University,  having  won  a  scholarship  through 

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the  Augustus  Howe  Buck  Beneficiary  Fund,  which 
may  be  held  for  eight  years,  —  four  of  college,  two  of 
graduate  study,  and  two  of  travel.  He  will  have  to 
maintain  a  certain  standing  to  keep  this  scholarship. 
There  is  another  lad  of  nineteen  still  at  the  institu- 
tion whose  motive  for  making  good  is  so  strong 
that  every  one  he  meets  wants  to  help  him.  One  of 
his  assets  is  a  winning  personality.  Having  spent 
his  last  Easter  vacation  rebottoming  chairs  at  a 
nearby  sanatorium,  he  was  invited  to  spend  his  sum- 
mer there  renovating  mattresses,  to  the  learning  of 
which  trade  he  had  given  his  previous  summer.  He 
accepted,  earned  his  keep  and  a  good  wage  and  is 
now  back  at  school  again,  a  far  more  self-respecting 
young  man  than  if  he  had  permitted  others  to  care  for 
him  during  vacations.  He  is  a  Korean,  sent  to  Per- 
kins from  Hawaii.  He  w^ill  eventually  return  home 
having  acquired  the  habit  of  success.  A  Perkins 
graduate  of  standing  in  the  middle  west,  who  both 
while  a  pupil  and  since  as  a  teacher,  has  been  a  living 
inspiration  to  others,  has  now  been  one  of  several  to  be 
chosen  for  this  very  reason  to  become  a  part  of  the 
environment  of  the  blinded  soldiers  at  the  Red  Cross 
Institute  for  the  Blind,  Baltimore.  He  and  three 
other  examples  of  the  successful  blind  are  there  to-day 
perhaps  as  a  result  of  the  public  appearance  in  this 
country  last  fall  of  Sir  Arthur  Pearson  and  the  proof 
to  thousands  which  he  gave  in  his  own  person  that 
blindness  may  achieve  some  things  which  even  sight 
seems  unable  to  do. 


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It  is  a  mistake  to  be  amazed  at  such  achievements. 
Few  people  do  so  well  that  they  might  not  do  better. 
What  wonder  then  that  those  blind  who  have  the 
motive  to  overcome  a  natural  inertia  should  excel 
those  of  their  seeing  brothers  and  sisters  who  have 
not.  Very  many  more  of  the  blind  would  develop 
sufficient  motive  to  make  good  than  do  were  there  a 
truly  sympathetic  understanding  between  them  and 
people  in  general. 

The  above  are  instances  of  what  blind  people  from 
anywhere  can  accomplish  if  they  but  will  it  and  go 
at  it  in  the  right  way.  Every  school  can  point  to 
similar  successes.  But  there  has  been  —  there  still 
is  —  a  real  prejudice  against  employing  handicapped 
people.  Many,  perhaps  most  of  those  who  are  handi- 
capped by  blindness,  never  succeed  in  overcoming 
that  prejudice  but  accept  it  as  insuperable.  We  are 
assured,  however,  that  employers  are  more  willing 
now  to  make  trial  of  the  blind  in  industry  than  ever 
before,  and  so  we  feel  that  out  of  the  great  evil  of 
the  war  will  come  good  to  the  general  cause  of  the 
blind.  It  is  for  this  reason  that  we  watch  with  anxious 
hope  the  reconstruction  work  now  being  done  for  the 
war-blinded  at  Baltimore  and  elsewhere,  knowing  well 
that  its  success  in  the  cases  of  these  comparatively 
few  will  enlarge  and  extend  the  fields  of  employment 
now  open  to  the  blind  in  general  and  so  make  for  the 
happiness  of  the  many  thousands  whose  bhndness 
should  also  be  considered  a  public  responsibility. 
Some  permanentjnstitute  or  agency  wisely  run  under 


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national  auspices  for  trying  out  new,  old  or  even 
abandoned  fields  and  for  fitting  the  civilian  blind  to 
enter  them,  also  for  persuading  employers  to  hire 
them  without  prejudice  —  something  of  this  sort  the 
schools  for  the  young  blind,  which  are  mainly  pre- 
vocational  in  aim,  would  welcome  as  a  much-needed 
adjunct  to  their  work. 

We  commented  last  year  on  the  practical  activities 
of  the  officers,  teachers  and  pupils  of  our  school  for 
the  blind  in  patriotically  doing  their  part  to  help  the 
government  finance  the  war.  The  amounts  sub- 
scribed this  year  again  to  the  Thrift  Stamp,  Red 
Cross,  Liberty  and  Victory  Loan  campaigns  are  very 
gratifying. 

Mr.  Harold  Molter,  the  boys'  excellent  and  de- 
voted principal  teacher  for  the  past  five  years,  re- 
signed last  August  in  the  spirit  of  continued  duty  to 
the  war-blinded.  We  were  as  sorry  to  lose  him  as 
he  was  to  go.  To  his  place  our  Miss  Jessica  L. 
Langworthy  has  been  deservedly  promoted.  Miss 
Louise  P.  Hunt,  who  was  our  faithful  and  accurate 
circulation  librarian  for  ten  years,  has  now  left  this 
for  other  work,  and  another  Simmons  College  gradu- 
ate, Miss  Harriet  E.  Bosworth,  has  been  installed  in 
her  stead. 

Miss  Julia  A.  Boylan,  whose  connection  with  the 
institution,  as  pupil  and  teacher,  was  perhaps  longer 
than  that  of  any  person  now  living,  felt  obliged  on 
account  of  failing  strength  to  sever  this  connection 
last  summer.     Miss  Boylan's  character  and  attain- 

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ments  made  her  a  marked  figure  in  the  life  of  the 
school.  Her  self -development  was  so  remarkable  and 
her  influence  for  high  thinking  and  noble  living  was 
so  vital  that  we  expect  later  to  have  her  story  written 
up  as  a  matter  of  record  and  of  inspiration. 

The  Centenary  of  the  birth  of  Julia  Ward  Howe 
fell  on  May  27,  1919.  The  institution  marked  the 
occasion  with  private  exercises.  But  the  connection 
of  this  remarkable  woman  with  the  Perkins  Institu- 
tion was  publicly  recognized  by  the  church  in  Boston 
of  which  she  was  a  member  by  making  Mr.  Allen 
chairman  of  its  celebration  in  her  honor,  and  by  in- 
viting a  select  choir  of  blind  pupils  to  furnish  the 
music. 

Alike  to  the  special  reference  library  on  the  blind 
and  to  the  teachers'  library  and  round  table  have 
been  added  this  year  many  books,  pamphlets  and 
other  documents  bearing  on  the  rehabilitation  of  the 
war-blinded  and  allied  topics. 

The  librarian  reports  that  there  are  16,001  em- 
bossed books  in  the  school  library;  that  the  year's 
school  circulation  of  these  books  was  5,151 ;  and  that 
the  number  sent  out  to  outside  readers  was  6,857,  or 
1,174  more  than  in  the  previous  year.  This  outside 
circulation,  while  smaller  than  that  of  several  public 
libraries  having  departments  for  the  blind,  is  yet  by 
far  the  largest  from  any  school  library,  as  its  field 
extends  to  all  states  of  the  United  States  and  its 
possessions. 

This  circulation  is  one  of  the  main  uses  of  the  Howe 


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Memorial  Press  Fund,  the  others  being  the  making  of 
books  and  of  appliances  and  the  filling  of  orders  for 
them.  A  matter  for  special  note  here  is  the  recent 
increased  output  of  these  appliances  for  writing  in 
the  embossed  type  called  Braille.  There  were  1,724 
''Braille  slates"  sold  at  cost  or  given  away  this  year, 
800  to  schools;  and  during  the  past  two  years,  3,091. 
Some  went  to  South  America.  The  manufacture  of 
carefully  made  slates  is  a  great  boon  alike  to  the  blind 
and  to  their  teachers.  Our  mechanics  are  now  work- 
ing on  an  improved  typewriter  for  writing  Braille. 

''The  Blind,"  a  new  and  authoritative  work  on 
"their  condition  and  the  work  being  done  for  them 
in  the  United  States,"  has  recently  been  published 
by  Macmillan.  We  welcome  the  coming  of  this 
timely  and  much-needed  book.  Its  author,  Dr.  Best, 
acknowledges,  in  his  introduction,  the  help  he  re- 
ceived from  our  librarian  and  from  our  special  col- 
lection of  literature  on  blindness  and  the  bUnd. 

The  demand  for  new  and  more  embossed  books 
having  increased  along  with  the  cost  of  making  them, 
Congress  has  been  induced  this  year  to  increase  the 
government  grant  to  the  American  Printing  House 
for  the  BUnd  from  $10,000  to  $50,000.  This  fact 
seems  to  promise  a  new  era  in  book  production  for 
the  blind  of  this  country. 

The  Perkins  Workshop  Department  for  Adults  has 
again  carried  on  its  work  for  the  year  without  direct 
loss  to  the  institution,  the  sales  from  this  period  hav- 
ing been  $36,474.97,  an  increase  over  the  previous 


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year  of  $4,826.51.  The  twenty  blind  men  and  women 
employed  were  paid  $10,404.70,  or  more  by  $1,225.45 
than  was  paid  them  last  year,  the  increase  being  due 
to  advances  in  the  piecework  rate. 

The  cost  of  carrying  on  the  institution  has  advanced 
abnormally  like  everything  else  of  late,  and  we  would 
respectfully  but  urgently  beseech  the  friends  of  the 
blind  to  continue  giving  as  they  have  so  nobly  done 
in  the  past.  We  need  additional  funds  and  must  get 
them  somehow.  We  have  asked  and  obtained  from 
the  Permanent  Charity  Fund  timely  aid  and  have 
raised  the  tuition  fee  for  non-Massachusetts  pupils 
from  $300  to  $350  at  the  loAver  school  and  to  $400  at 
the  upper.  We  have  also  made  a  new  arrangement 
with  the  State  Board  of  Education  whereby  we  shall 
receive  the  definite  sum  of  $300  for  each  Massachu- 
setts pupil  instead  of  the  lump  sum  we  had  been  ac- 
cepting ever  since  1869. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year,  1918-1919.  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
5;  Interstitial  keratitis,  3;  Interstitial  keratitis  and 
uveitis,  1;  Ulcerative  keratitis,  2;  Injury,  4;  Atrophy 
of  the  optic  nerve,  7;  Albinism,  1;  Congenital  am- 
blyopia, 5;  Congenital  cataracts,  6;  Buphthalmos, 
2;  Glaucoma,  1;  Choroiditis,  3;  Central  coloboma  of 
choroid,  1;  Iritis  bombe,  1 ;  Leucoma,  1;  Metastatic 
ophthalmia,  1;  Purulent  ophthalmia,  1;  Hyperme- 
tropia,  1;  Corneal  ulceration,  2;  Astigmatism  and 
nystagmus,  1. 


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At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1919,  the  number  of  blind  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  310,  or  seven  more  than  on 
the  same  date  of  the  previous  year.  This  number 
includes  77  boys  and  76  girls  in  the  upper  school,  64 
boys  and  60  girls  in  the  lower  school,  13  teachers  and 
officers,  and  20  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  There  have  been  54  admitted  and  47  dis- 
charged during  the  year. 

Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Mrs.  Cora  Crowninshield,  widow  of  Charles  Boy- 
den;  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  widow  of  James  Brown  Case; 
Alexander  Cochrane;  Miss  Jennie  M.  Colby; 
Orlando  W.  Dimick;  Carl  W.  Ernst;  Thomas  B. 
Fitzpatrick;  Mrs.  Phebe  A.  Hearst;  Patrick  T. 
Jackson;  John  Parkinson;  Frederic  H.  Robie; 
Miss  Marian  Russell;  Miss  Eleanor  Salton- 
stall. 

It  is  with  sorrow  that  we  record  the  loss  of  a  mem- 
ber of  our  Board  of  Trustees,  Mr.  Thomas  B.  Fitz- 
patrick, who  brought  to  his  duties  a  keen  interest  in 
all  matters  pertaining  to  education  and  served  with 
faithfulness  and  loyalty  in  behalf  of  this  institution, 
attending  the  meetings  of  the  Board  and  visiting  the 
institution  in  the  performance  of  his  duties,  and  in 
order  to  become  directly  acquainted  with  its  per- 
sonnel. 

In  the  death  of  Mr.  Patrick  T.  Jackson  the  Board 


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of  Trustees  recognizes  the  loss  of  one  always  ready  to 
help  in  an  emergency,  he  having  served  as  Treasurer 
pro  tempore  on  several  occasions  in  the  place  of  his 
brother,  our  former  long-time  Treasurer,  Mr.  Edward 
Jackson. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ANNIE   OILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 
ROSAMOND  FAY, 
THOMAS  J.   FAY, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL, 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL, 

Trustees. 


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ELEVENTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 
School  for  the  Blind 

In  the  Assembly  Hall  of  the  School  at  Watertown, 

Tuesday  Evening,  May  27,  1919,  at  8  o'clock. 

Program. 

The  Vagabonds, Eaton  Faning 

Chorus  for  Mixed  Voices. 

Lelawala, Henry  Hadley 

A  Legend  of  Niagara. 

The  Nights  o'  Spring, .    Frances  McCollin 

A  Madrigal  for  Mixed  Voices, 

(a)  Robin  Adair, Irish  Air,  "  Eileen  Aroon " 

(b)  Alice,  Wliere  Art  Thou?        ....        J.  Ascher  {1829-69) 

(c)  My  Old  Kentucky  Home,     .       .       .   Stephen  C.Foster  {1826-6  f^) 

Sonata  in  C  minor,  first  movement  (for  the  organ),       .       .      Salome 
Mr.  Malcolm  Cobb  (Class  of  1918). 

Hiawatha's  Wedding-Feast, S.  Coleridge-Taylor 

A  cantata  for  tenor  solo  and  chorus  with  pianoforte  accompaniment. 


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GRADUATING   EXERCISES    OF   THE    PERKINS   INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Tuesday,  June  21,  1919,  10.30  a.m. 

Peogram. 
Chorus,  The  Vagabonds, Eaton  Faning 

Essays : 
The  Importance  of  Beginnings 

Haeriet  Chamberlain  Tuttle. 

Julia  Ward  Howe,  an  Inspiration  to  Students 
Gladys  Loraine  Stevens. 

Organ,  "Marche  Religieuse," Gtdbnant 

Roger  True  Walker. 

Recitation,  "A  Message  to  Garcia,"  ....        Elbert  Hubbard 

John  Cooney. 

Essay,  The  Development  of  the  Organ 

Roger  True  Walker. 

Part  Song,  "A  Psalm  of  Life," Pinsuti 

Girls'  Glee  Club. 

Address, Rev.  Henry  McF.  B.  Ogilby 

Presentation  of  diplomas  and  certificates. 

Chorus,  "The  Twenty-Third  Psalm,"       ....        Neidlinger 

Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1919. 
Gladys  Loraine  Stevens. 

Harriet  Chamberlain  Tuttle. 

Roger  True  Walker. 

Pianoforte  Normal  Department. 
Helen  May  Irwin.  Marie  Agnes  McGill. 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Concerts,    Recitals    and 

Readings. 

To  Major  Henry  Lee  Higginson,  through  Mr.  W-  H. 
Brennan,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  con- 
certs in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  ]\Ir.  Edward  B.  Hill,  secretary',  for  twenty-five 
tickets  for  one  and  thirty-seven  tickets  for  another  of  the 
concerts  by  the  Cecilia  Society. 

To  Mr.  Homer  Humphrey,  for  six  tickets  for  his  joint 
recital  with  Mr.  DeVoto. 

To  Miss  M.  L.  Ware,  for  six  tickets  for  a  pianoforte 
recital  by  Miss  Virginia  Wainwright,  assisted  by  TNIr.  Primio 
Montanari,  tenor. 

To  Mr.  H.  B.  Williams,  for  sixteen  tickets  for  a  violon- 
cello recital  by  Mr.  Alwyn  Schroeder;  and  for  three  tickets 
for  Miss  Greta  Mason's  recital  in  Jordan  Hall. 

To  Miss  Charlotte  Woodruff,  for  sLx  tickets  for  her 
song  recital  in  Jacob  Sleeper  Hall. 

To  ]\Irs.  A.  M.  Peabody,  Miss  Mary  Haskell,  INIiss 
Annie  Brown  of  the  Lend  a  Hand  Society,  Mrs.  J.  G. 
Thorp  and  Ladies  of  the  Red  Cross  Society,  for  tickets  for 
"Birdland,"  a  lecture-recital  by  Mr.  Edward  Avis,  bird 
mimic. 

To  INIr.  Edwin  Klahre,  for  eighteen  tickets  for  his  piano- 
forte recital  in  Jordan  Hall. 

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To  Mrs.  S.  S.  Curry,  for  tickets  for  two  dramatic  read- 
ings at  the  Curry  School  of  Expression. 

To  Mrs.  Robert  F.  Clark,  through  Miss  Annie  E. 
Fisher,  for  an  invitation  to  six  pupils  to  a  concert  by  pupils 
of  the  South  End  Music  School. 

To  IMiss  Eleanor  Brigham,  for  twenty  tickets  to  a  "Pro- 
gram of  Italian  Music"  by  the  Junior  Practice  Club  at 
Jordan  Hall. 

II.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Recitals  and  Lectures  in 

OUR  Hall. 

To  Prof.  Dallas  Lore  Sharp,  for  readings  from  his 
writings. 

To  the  Rev.  M.  F.  Allbright,  for  a  talk  on  his  experi- 
ences at  the  front  with  the  103d  Artillery. 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mr.  Frank  Kalopothakes,  for  a  talk  on  present-day 
conditions  in  Greece. 

To  Prof.  Edward  Thompson,  for  dramatic  readings. 

To  Miss  Alice  Allen,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mr.  Arthur  F.  Sullivan,  for  a  talk  on  his  reclama- 
tion work  for  the  American  Red  Cross  Society. 

To  Miss  Rena  Flardo,  for  a  vocal  recital. 

III.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Periodicals    and    News- 

papers. 
American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  California  News,  Christian 
Record  (embossed),  Christian  Register,  Colorado  Index,  Il- 
luminator (embossed),  Matilda  Zeigler  Magazine  for  the 
Blind  (embossed),  the  Mentor,  Michigan  Mirror,  Ohio 
Chronicle,  Our  Dumb  Animals,  The  Silent  Worker,  The 
Theosophical  Path,  West  Virginia  Tablet,  Woman  Citizen. 

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IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

Dr.  Henry  Hawkins,  for  professional  services. 

Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

Mr.  Fred  M.  Blanchard,  for  a  pianoforte  and  chair. 

]Mr.  Wallace  L.  Pierce,  for  flowers  "in  memory  of  Mr. 
Anagnos." 

Mrs.  George  H.  Monks,  for  a  pair  of  andirons. 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Wescott,  for  a  knitting  machine. 

Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  for  a  gift  of  money  at  Christ- 
mas time. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Levy,  and  Marks  Brothers  Com- 
pany, for  dolls  and  toys. 

IMrs.  David  Evans,  Masters  Robert  and  Harry  Levy, 
the  Erema  Club,  through  the  Misses  Meyers  and  Selig,  and 
the  Committee  for  the  Blind,  Temple  Israel,  through  Mrs. 
Louis  Rosenbaibi,  for  parties  and  sociables,  and  for  a  sum- 
mer outing  for  some  of  our  pupils  through  the  latter  com- 
mittee. 

;Mrs.  RosENBAUM  and  ^Irs.  J.  Verner  Critchley,  for 
clothing. 

Mr.  John  P.  Cambridge,  for  plants. 

Mrs.  L.  M.  Young  and  Dr.  W.  D.  Inglis,  for  fruit  and 
confectionery. 

Mr.  A.  F.  Salmon,  for  books  and  a  spelling  board. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  UPPER   SCHOOL. 


Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Benoit,  Josephine. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Butler,  Alice  May. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Clancy,  Elizabeth. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Collins,  Veronica. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Davenport,  Anna  A. 
Davis,  Ruth  M. 
Doucha,  Armen. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Dunn,  Mary  C. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Evans,  Lillian  M. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fiske,  Dorothy  T. 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Girouard,  Blanche. 
Graham,  Marguerite  A. 
Guild,  Bertha  H. 
Guiney,  Julia. 
Hall,  Jane  A. 
Hallock,  Flora  B. 
Hanley,  Mary. 


Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
lazzetti,  Emma  I. 
Irwin,  Helen  M. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Leppanen,  Mary. 
L'Heureux,  Juhette. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Malatesta,  Mary. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Miles,  Mildred  C. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Najarian,  Nevart. 
Noonan,  M.  Loretta. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Person,  Erine  A. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Powers,  Dorothy. 
Rollins,  Mary  L. 
Ross,  Lena. 
Rousseau,  Lillian. 
Samson,  Bertha. 
Samson,  Rose  Mary. 
Shea,  Mary  Ellen. 


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Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Tuttle,  Harriet  C. 
Uhrig,  Mary  G. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Willey,  Dorothy  E. 
Wilson,  Ruth  Edris. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Beavon,  Burton. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Caisse,  George  T. 
Childers,  Lemuel  J. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Cooney,  John. 
Cornelissen,  Henry  L. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Cushman,  Ralph. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Dugal,  J.  Ernest. 
Durfee,  Sidney  B. 
Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 
Evans,  Frederic  P. 
Fenton,  Walter  F. 
Ferguson,  Milton  W. 
Ferron,  Homer. 
Fournier,  Eugene. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Fulton,  James. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Goguen,  Raoul. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Hague,  Raymond  A. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Hassett,  William  H. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 
Inglis,  John  S. 
Istas,  Henry  T. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Katwick,  Arthur  D. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 


Kim,  Kong  Y. 
Lamagdeleinc,  Armand. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Lemieux,  Bertrand  E. 
Le  Roi,  Francis  H. 
Liberacki,  Edward. 
MacGinnis,  Rajnnond  H. 
Maziall,  John  H. 
McCarthy,  Eugene  C. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Moran,  Francis. 
Muim,  Daniel  J. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Nesbitt,  Hazen  P. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
O'Neill,  Ralph  L. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Pedersen,  Edward  M. 
Pendergast,  Jerome. 
Perreault,  John  E. 
Philpot,  William  R. 
Quirk,  Arthur  L. 
Rainville,  Ernest  C. 
Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Read,  J.  Ehner. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Retting,  Buryl  W. 
St.  George,  William. 
Slade,  Winton  C. 
Soorkis,  Morris. 
Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Tansey,  Frederick. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Vetal,  Herbert  M. 
Walker,  Roger  T. 
Ward,  Frederick  C. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 
Zalolsky,  Hjonan. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Allen,  Elizabeth  M. 
Baker,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Man'. 
Beliveau,  Leontine  T. 
Buckley,  Alice. 
Cambridge,  Mollie. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Costa,  IMarianna. 
Coughlin,  Helen. 
Critchley,  Rosamond  M. 
Daniels,  Dorothj^  D. 
De  Dominicis,  Edith. 
Demers,  Germame  M. 
Doherty,  Kathleen  E. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Duverger,  Loretta  V. 
Edwards,  Eleanor  B. 
Elhott,  Marj'. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
GljTin,  Helen. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Gray,  Emma  R. 
HasweU,  Thelma  R. 
Hinckley,  Geraldine. 
IngersoU,  Dorothy. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Kazan]  ian,  Zaroohie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kelley,  Beulah  C. 


King,  Erica. 
Landry,  Edwina. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
Lenville,  Eva  Hilda. 
Lincoln,  Grace  D. 
Lyons,  Mary  L. 
MacDonald,  Katharine. 
Macdougall,  Mildred  D. 
McGovern,  Velma. 
McMuUin,  Beatrice  M. 
Miles,  Winifred  M. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Ogilvie,  Hilda  M. 
Peppers,  Mary  H. 
Pimental,  Mary  V. 
Rankin,  Margaret  D. 
Reese,  Helen. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Samon,  Stacey. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Scott,  Arline  R. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Smith,  Dorothy  L. 
Stanievicz,  Mary. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Wheeler,  Theresa. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  INL 
Wilcox,  Ednamaj^  L. 
Witham,  Beatrice  L. 


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Amiro,  Gilbert. 
Barrett,  Robert  C. 
Campbell,  Peter  F. 
Case,  William  A. 
Conley,  Michael  J. 
Cormier,  Alfred. 
Costa,  Manuel. 
CuUen,  George  F. 
Donovan,  Thomas  J. 
Dore,  Charles  W. 
Dow,  Ralph  E.  F. 
Dunbar,  Keimeth  A. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Egan,  Robert  J. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Evans,  Walter  C. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Gagnon,  Ren6. 
Gomes,  Sebastian. 
Grime,  G.  Edward. 
Hannon,  James  E. 
Hebert,  Arthur  D. 
Hohnes,  Rutherford  B. 
Houle,  Walter. 
Hurley,  Arnold  E. 
Jablowski,  Joseph. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Keller,  Frederick  H. 
Krafve,  Karl  H. 
Lamonica,  Joseph. 
Libby,  Arthur  C. 


Logan,  Walter  J. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 
Matsson,  Harry  N. 
McDonald,  Edmond  J. 
McGillicuddy,  John. 
Medeiros,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Meuse,  Lawrence  A. 
Meuse,  Paul  R. 
Monroe,  Franklin  G. 
Morse,  Kenneth. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Noble,  Clark  W. 
O'Neil,  John. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Rainville,  Harvey  L. 
Remington,  Joseph  H. 
Reynolds,  Waldo  F. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
Shaw,  Harris  E. 
Shulman,  George. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Simoneau,  Henry  J. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Smith,  Ernest. 
Spencer,  Merton  S. 
Stott,  Lester  W. 
Summerhayes,  Paul  R. 
Thibeault,  Joseph. 
Wesson,  Kemiit  0. 
Withers,  Harold. 
Yetter,  Charles  A. 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR   THOMAS   STRINGER. 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer.' 

[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Bhnd,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  Uving,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., $25  00 


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STATEMENT  OF  ACCOUNTS. 


INSTITUTION. 

Balance  Sheet  Year  ending  August  31,  1919. 
Assets. 


Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  South  Boston,  .        $8,647  74 

Real  estate,  Watertown,      .        .      678,677  37 


$687,325  11 


Equipment:  — 

Furniture  and  household, 
Music  Department, 
Library  Department,    . 
Works  Department, 
Tuning  Department,     . 


$20,415  77 

20,075  GO 

56,984  41 

17,251  30 

389  50 


115,115 


Investments:  — 

Real  estate $211,888  19 

Securities 438,625  66 


Rents  and  accounts  receivable, 
E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee,    . 
Cash  on  hand, 


,441  09 


650,513  85 

2,641  22 

733  90 

19,490  45 

$1,475,820  51 
Liabilities. 

General  account $438,530  66 

Funds  (see  page  39). 

Special, $51.667  00 

Permanent 201,328  77 

General,  1 778,627  02 


Unexpended  income,  special  funds. 
Gifts  for  fence,  clock  and  organ, 
Vouchers  payable, 


1,031,622  79 

1,601  10 

225  00 

3,840  96 

$1,475,820  51 


>  $381,108.94  of  general  fund  invested  in  plant. 

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Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1919. 

Rent  net  income $10,958  98 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes, 16,556  40 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds, 2,259  40 

Annuities, 1,200  00 

Donations, 6,699  50 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts,    ....      $17,895  00 
Tuition  and  board,  others, 17,152  63 

35,047  63 

Income 872,721  91 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  funds  accounts,        $2,259  40 
Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses,  .        .        .  342  76 

2,602  16 


Net  income, $70,119  75 

Net  charge  to  Director $82,582  44 

Additional  equipment  and  supplies,  ....  4,470  50 

Repairs,  faulty  construction, 1,360  05 

Income  overspent 18,293  24 

$88,412  99        $88,412  99 

Income,  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1918, $914  89 

Income  1918-19 2,259  40 

Distributed  1918-19 $1,573  19 

On  hand  August  31,  1919, 1,601  10 


$3,174  29  $3,174  29 


Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1919. 

Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $5,378  91 

Other  expenses, 812  83 

$6,191  74 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $18,399  56 

Other  expenses :  — 

Provisions $16,478  64 

Light,  heat  and  power,         .        12,342  31 

Household   furnishings   and 

supplies 2,236  66 

Insurance  and  water,    .        .  1,351  27 

Repairs 2,681  42 

Miscellaneous,        .        .        .  512  10 

35,602  40 

54,001  96 


Amount  carried  forward, $60,193  70 

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Amount  brought  forward, $60,193  70 

Instruction  and  school  supplies:  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $21,799  74 

Other  expenses, 1,175  22 

22,974  96 

Total $83,168  66 

Less  net  income.  Tuning  Department,      .        .        .  $447  48 

Less  net  income.  Works  Department,        .        .        .  138  74 

686  22 

$82,582  44 


INSTITUTION  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Special  funds :  — 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb  and  blind),  $4,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  blind  and  deaf),      .        .  5,000  00 

Harris  Fund  (Outdoor  Relief) 26,667  00 

Maria  Kemble  Oliver 15,000  00 

Elizabeth  P.  Putnam, 1.000  00 

Permanent  funds:  — 

Charlotte  Billings, $40,507  00 

Stoddard  Capen 13,770  00 

Jennie  M.  Colby,  in  memory  of,         ...  100  00 

Ella  Newman  Curtis  Fund 2,000  00 

Stephen  Fairbanks 10,000  00 

Harris  Fund  (General  Purposes) ,        .        .        .  53,333  00 

Benjamin  Humphrey, 25,000  00 

Prentiss  M.  Kent 2,500  00 

Jonathan  E.  Pecker, 950  00 

Richard  Perkins, 20,000  00 

Mrs.  Marilla  L.  Pitts,  in  memory  of,         .        .  5,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,          .        .        .  4,000  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer 2,174  77 

Timothy  Smith, 1.000  00 

Mary  Lowell  Stone, 2,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner 1.000  00 

Anne  White  Vose, 12,994  00 

Charles  L.  Young 6.000  00 

General  funds:  — 

Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, $3,000  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Calvin  W.  Barker, 1.859  32 

Lucy  B.  Barker 5,953  21 

Francis  Bartlett 2,500  00 

Mary  Bartol 300  00 

Thompson  Baxter, 322  60 

Robert  C  Billings,        ." 25,000  00 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell 5.832  66 

Amounts  carried  forward,        ....  $47,267  69 

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$61,667  00 


201,328  77 


$262,995  77 


Amounts  brought  forward, $47,267  69      $252,995  77 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

William  T.  Bolton 555  22 

George  W.  Boyd 5,000  00 

Caroline  E.  Boyden 1,898  39 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 268,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 10,508  70 

J.  Edward  Brown 100,000  00 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham 5,000  00 

Edward  F.  Gate 5,000  00 

Fanny  Channing, 2,000  00 

Ann  Eliza  Colburn 5,000  00 

Susan  J.  Conant 500  00 

Louise  F.  Crane 5,000  00 

Harriet  Otis  Cruft 6,000  00 

David  Cummings, 7,723  07 

.    Chastine  L.  Gushing, 500  00 

I.  W.  Danforth 2,500  00 

Susan  L.  Davis 1,500  00 

Joseph  Descalzo 1,000  00 

John  H.  Dix, 10,000  00 

Alice  J.  H.  Dwinell 200  00 

Mary  E.  Eaton 5,000  00 

Mortimer  G.  Ferris  Memorial 1,000  00 

Mary  Helen  Freeman 1,000  00 

Cornelia  Anne  French 8,500  00 

Martha  A.  French 164  40 

Thomas  Gaffield 6,450  00 

Albert  Glover, 1,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5,000  00 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow 6,471  23 

Hattie  S.  Hathaway 500  00 

Charles  H.  Hayden 20,200  00 

John  C.  Haynes 1,000  00 

Joseph  H.  Heywood, 500  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 3,708  32 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchison,      ....  2,156  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson 6,000  00 

William  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Hannah  W.  Loring 9,500  00 

Susan  B.  Lyman, 4,809  78 

Stephen  W.  Marston 5,000  00 

Charles  Merriam,       ' 1,000  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

George  Francis  Parkman 50,000  00 

Philip  G.  Peabody 4,200  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20.000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt 1,000  00 

Matilda  B.  Richardeon .'  300  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $659,154  93     $252,995  77 

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Amounts  brought  forward $659,154  93      8252,995  77 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2,640  00 

Joseph  Scholfield, 2,500  00 

Richard  Black  Sewall 25,000  00 

Margaret  A.  Simpson, 800  00 

Esther  W.  Smith 5,000  00 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .  15,000  00 

Henry  F.  Spencer 1,000  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey 5,000  00 

Sophronia  S.  Sunbury, 365  19 

Mary  F.  S^vift 1.391  00 

WUliam  Taylor, 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton 10,000  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Harriot  Ware, 1,952  02 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested 

remainder  interest  under  his  will),          .        .  11,500  00 

Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Cordelia  H.  Wheeler 800  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  Whitney 1,000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson 543  75 

Thomas  T.  Wyman 20,000  00 

778,627  02 


$1,031,622  79 


DONATIONS,  INSTITUTION  ACCOUNT. 

Hammond,  Miss  Ellen $5  00 

Kilhan,  Annie  M 10  00 

Committee  of  the  Permanent  Charity  Fund,  In- 
corporated  2,500  00 

$2,515  00 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society, 4,184  50 

$6,699  50 
Organ  Fund, 2  00 

$6,701  50 


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HOWE    MEMORIAL   PRESS   FUND. 

Balance  Sheet  Year  ending  August  31,  1919. 

Assets, 
Equipment:  — 

Printing  plant $874  69 

Printing 10,688  33 

Machinery  and  equipnaent,          ....  5,583  38 

Embossing 22,815  57 

Appliances  manufactured, 2,369  36 

Appliances  purchased, 469  80 

Stationery  for  sale, 308  80 

$43,109  83 

Investment:  — 

Stocks  and  bonds 172,688  87 

Notes  and  accounts  receivable, 1,926  85 

Cash  on  hand, 1,534  64 

$219,260  19 

Liabilities. 
General  account $202,689  98 

Funds:  — 

Permanent:  — 

Deacon  Stephen  Stickney,  ....        $5,000  00 
General :  — 

Joseph  H.  Center,         .        .        $1,000  00 
Augusta  Wells,       .        .        .        10,290  00 

11,290  00 

16,290  00 

Vouchers  payable, 280  21 


$219,260  19 


Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1919. 

Income :  — 

Interest  and  dividends, $10,453  50 

Other  income 49  91 

Income $10,503  41 

Less  Treasurer's  expenses, 40  00 

Net  income $10,463  41 

Net  charge  to  Director, $8,508  57 

Additional  equipment  and  supplies,  ....  855  55 

9,364  12 


Balance  of  income, $1,099  29 

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Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1919. 


Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant 
Salaries  and  wages. 
Other  expenses:  — 

Embossing, 

Printing, 

Appliances  manufactured, 

Appliances  purchased,  . 

Stationery  purchased,  . 

Miscellaneous, 


$8,697  36 


$65  87 
906  64 
846  88 
374  98 
449  19 
673  66 


3,317  22 


$12,014  58 

Library : — 

Salaries  and  wages, 669  18 

Total $12,683  76 

Less:  — 

Discounts S3  14 

Income  from  sale  of  appliances,  .        $2,572  56 
Income    from     sale    of     books, 

music,  etc 1,599  49 

4,172  05 


4,175  19 


$8,508  57 

During  the  year  the  Press  has  given  to  the  Institution,  and  to  others,  books 
and  appliances  worth,  at  the  prices  charged  by  the  Press,  $1,597.26,  the  actual 
cost  of  which  was  about  $4,000. 


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KINDERGARTEN. 

Balance  Sheet  Yeah  ending  August  31,  1919. 

Assets. 
Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  Watertown $529,265  24 

Equipment :  — 

Furniture  and  household,     .        .      $19,934  71 
Music  Department,       .        .        .  2,945  00 

22,879  71 

$552,144  95 

Investments:  — 

Real  estate $419,946  43 

Stocks  and  bonds 909,637  60 

1,329,584  03 

Rents  and  accounts  receivable, 3,897  94 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee, 175  83 

Cash  on  hand, 2.938  92 

$1,888,741  67 
Liabilities. 
General  account, $367,566  95 

Funds  (see  page  45) 

Special, $6,840  00 

Permanent 170,319  70 

General,  i 1,340,954  20 

1,518,113  90 

Unexpended  income,  special  funds, 816  84 

Vouchers  payable, 2,243  98 

$1,888,741  67 


Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1919. 

Rent  net  income, $14,991  02 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes, 43,144  36 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds, 349  55 

Donations, 60  00 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts,    ....      $18,675  00 

Tuition  and  board,  others 10,926  33 

29,601  33 

Income $88,146  26 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  funds  accounts,  $349  55 

Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses,  .        .        .  349  58 

699  13 

Net  income $87,447  13 

Amount  carried  forward, $87,447  13 

I  $188,529.87  of  general  fund  invested  in  plant. 

44 


Amount  brought  forward, S87,447  13 

Net  charge  to  Director, 871,904  89 

Additional  equipment  and  supplies 4,019  15 

Repairs,  faulty  construction, 2,563  96 

78,488  00 

Balance  of  income, $8,959  13 

Income,  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1918 $637  74 

Income  1918-19 349  55 

Distributed  1918-19 $170  45 

On  hand  August  31,  1919, 816  84 

$987  29  $987  29 

Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  ArcusT  31,  1919. 

Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $5,361  99 

Other  expenses, 1,728  75 

$7,090  74 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $21,055  56 

Other  expenses:  — 

Provisions,  ....  $15,180  57 
Light,  heat  and  power,  .  11,884  22 
Household   furnishings   and 

supplies 1,407  23 

Insurance  and  water,    .        .  1,273  12 

Repairs 2,600  31 

Miscellaneous,        .        .        .         2,698  81 

35,044  26 

56,099  82 

Instruction  and  school  supplies :  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $8,057  50 

Other  expenses 656  83 

8,714  33 

Total, $71,904  89 


KINDERGARTEN  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Special  funds:  — 

Glover  Fund  (Albert  Glover) $1,840  00 

Emeline  Morse  Lane, 1.000  00 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Room,    .        .        .         4,000  00 

$6,840  00 

Amount  carried  forward, $6,840  00 

45 


Amount  brought  forward, $6,840  00 

Permanent  funds :  — 

William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,  Memorial,        .  $1,000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden 4,675  00 

A.  A.  C,  In  Memoriam 500  00 

Helen  G.  Coburn 9,980  10 

M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  Fund,         .        .  10,000  00 

Caroline  T.  Downes 12,950  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Eliza  J.  Bell  Draper  Fund 1,500  00 

Helen  Atkins  Edmands  Memorial,     .        .        .  5,000  00 

George  R.  Emerson 5,000  00 

Mary  Eveleth 1,000  00 

Eugenia  F.  Farnham 1,015  00 

Susan  W.  Farwell 500  00 

Albert  Glover, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  Fund, 9,935  95 

Charles  Larned 5,000  00 

George  F.  Parlanan 3,500  00 

Catherine  P.  Perkins 10,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,          .        .        .  15,600  00 

Caroline  O.  Seabury, 1,000  00 

Eliza  Sturgis  Fund 21,729  52 

Abby  K.  Sweetser 25,000  00 

Mary  Rosevear  White, 500  00 

170,319  70 

General  funds:  — 

Emilie  Albee $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen, 748  38 

Michael  Anagnos 3,000  00 

Harriet  T.  Andrew 5,000  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton 18,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey 500  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Ellen  M.  Baker, 13,053  48 

Mary  D.  Balfour 100  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  Fund 500  00 

Sidney  Bartlett 10,000  00 

Emme  M.  Bass, 1,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings, 10,000  00 

Sarah  Bradford 100  00 

Helen  C.  Bradlee 140,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Biadstreet 6,130  07 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown 1,000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown 3,073  76 

Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2,000  00 

John  W.  Carter 500  00 

Adeline  M.  Chapin 400  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $386,469  43      $177,159  70 


46 


Amounts  brought  forward $386.469  43      $177,159  70 


General  funds  —  Continued 
Benjamin  P.  Cheney, 
Charles  H.  Colburn, 
Helen  Collamore,  . 
Anna  T.  Coolidge, 
Mrs.  Edward  Cordis, 
Sarah  Silver  Cox,  . 
Susan  T.  Crosby,  . 
James  H.  Danforth, 
Catherine  L.  Donnison  Memorial 
George  E.  Downes, 
Lucy  A.  Dwight,    . 
Mary  B.  Emmons, 
Mary  E.  Emerson, 
Annie  Louisa  Fay  Memorial 
Sarah  M.  Fay, 
Charlotte  M.  Fiske, 
John  Foster,   . 
Elizabeth  W.  Gay, 
Ellen  M.  Gifford,  . 
Joseph  B.  Glover, 
Matilda  Goddard, 
Maria  L.  Gray, 
Mary  L.  Greenleaf, 
Josephine  S.  Hall, 
Olive  E.  Hayden,  . 
Jane  H.  Hodges,    . 
Margaret  A.  Holden 
Marion  D.  Hollingsworth, 
Frances  H.  Hood, 
Abigal  W.  Howe,  . 
Martha  R.  Hunt,  . 
Ellen  M.  Jones, 
Moses  Kimball, 
Ann  E.  Lambert,  . 
William  Litchfield, 
Mary  Ann  Locke, 
Robert  W.  Lord,    . 
Elisha  T.  Loring,   . 
Sophia  N.  Low, 
Thomas  Mack, 
Augustus  D.  Manson, 
Calanthe  E.  Marsh, 
Sarah  L.  Marsh,     . 
Waldo  Marsh, 
Annie  B.  Matthews, 
Rebecca  S.  Melvin, 
Georgina  Merrill,  . 
Louise  Chandler  Moulton, 

Amounts  carried  forward, 


5,000  00 

1,000  00 

5,000  00 

45,138  16 

300  00 

5,000  00 

100  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

3,000  00 

4,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

15,000  00 

5,000  00 

5,000  00 

7,931  00 

5,000  00 

5,000  00 

300  00 

200  00 

5,157  75 

3,000  00 

4,622  45 

300  00 

2,360  67 

1,000  00 

100  00 

1,000  00 

10,000  00 

500  00 

1,000  00 

700  00 

5,000  00 

5,874  00 

1,000  00 

5,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

8,134  00 

20,111  20 

1,000  00 

500  00 

15,000  00 

23,545  55 

4,628  42 

10,000  00 


$634,972  63     $177,159  70 


47 


Amounts  brought  forward $634,972  63     $177,159  70 


General  funds  —  Continued. 
Mary  Abbie  Newell, 
Margaret  S.  Otis,  . 
Jeannie  Warren  Paine, 
Anna  R.  Palfrey,   . 
Sarah  Irene  Parker, 
Helen  M.  Parsons, 
Edward  D.  Peters, 
Henry  M.  Peyser, 
Mary  J.  Phipps,     . 
Caroline  S.  Pickman, 
Katherine  C.  Pierce, 
Helen  A.  Porter,    . 
Sarah  E.  Potter  Endowment, 
Francis  L.  Pratt,    . 
Mary  S.  C.  Reed. 
Jane  Roberts, 
John  M.  Rodocanachi, 
Dorothy  Roffe, 
Rhoda  Rogers, 
Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch, 
Edith  Rotch, 
Rebecca  Salisbury, 
Joseph  Scholfield, 
Eliza  B.  Seymour, 
Esther  W.  Smith, 
Annie  E.  Snow, 
Adelaide  Standish, 
Elizabeth  G.  Stuart, 
Hannah  R.  Sweetser, 
Benjamin  Sweet zer, 
Harriet  Taber  Fund, 
Sarah  W.  Taber,    . 
Mary  L.  Talbot,    . 
Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer, 
Delia  D.  Thorndike, 
Elizabeth  L.  Tilton, 
Betsey  B.  Tolman, 
Transcript,  ten  dollar  fund, 
Mary  B.  Turner,    . 
Royal  W.  Turner, 
Rebecca  P.  Wainwright, 
George  W.  Wales, 
Mrs.  George  W.  Wales, 
Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware, 
Rebecca  B.  Warren, 
Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse, 
Mary  H.  Watson, 
Ralph  Watson  Memorial, 

Amounts  carried  forward, 


500 

00 

1,000 

00 

1,000 

00 

50 

00 

699 

41 

500 

00 

500 

00 

3,000 

00 

2,000 

00 

1,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

50 

00 

425,014 

44 

100 

00 

5,000 

00 

93,025 

55 

2,250 

00 

500 

00 

500 

00 

8,500 

00 

10,000 

00 

200 

00 

3,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

9,903 

27 

5,000 

00 

2,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

2,000 

00 

622 

81 

1,000 

00 

630 

00 

10,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

300 

00 

500 

00 

5,666 

95 

7,582 

90 

24,082 

00 

1,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

10,000 

00 

4,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

565 

84 

100 

00 

237 

92 

$1,313,553  72     $177,159  70 


48 


Amounts  brought  forward,     ....         $1,313,55372      $177,15970 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Isabella  M.  Weld 14,795  06 

Mary  Whitehead, 666  00 

Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney, 150  62 

Betsey  S.  Wilder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Mary  W.  Wiley, 150  00 

Mary  Williams 5,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow, 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott, 5,532  00 

1,340,954  20 


Sl,518,113  90 


DONATIONS,  KINDERGARTEN  ACCOUNT. 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K $10  00 

"Children  of  the  King",  Church  of  the  Disciples, 

Boston, 3  00 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill, 25  00 

Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union 
Congregational     Church     of     Weymouth     and 

Braintree, 20  00 

Sabin,  G.  K., 2  00 


$60  00 


The  securities  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer  August  31,  1919,  were 
examined  by  the  Auditing  Committee  and  found  to  be  as  called  for 
by  the  books.  The  income  and  expenditures  for  the  year  were  audited 
and  certified  by  Messrs.  Edwin  L.  Pride  &  Co.,  Incorporated,  Certified 
Pubhc  Accountants. 


49 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE   PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Stover,  Treasurer:  — 

Annual  subscriptions $2,066  50 

Donations 1.754  00 

Cambridge  Branch 211  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 66  00 

Lynn  Branch 42  00 

MUton  Branch 45  00 

Donation  for  small  organ 2  00 

$4,186  50 


ANNUAL    SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR   THE    PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E., 
Adams,  Mr.  George, 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo, 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H., 
AUen,  Mrs.  F.  R.,  . 
Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W 
Amory,  Mrs.  Wm., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Wm.,  2d. 
Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F 
Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C, 
Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P., 
Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 
Baer,  Mrs.  Louis,    . 
Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 
Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 
Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Barnard,  Mr.  Simon, 
Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R.,    . 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $149  00 


$1  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    . 

$149  00 

1  00 

5  00 

Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 

10  00 

10  00 

Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 

1  00 

2  00 

Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G., 

2  00 

25  00 

Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 

3  00 

5  00 

Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W., 

5  00 

25  00 

Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

5  00 

1  00 

Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.,     . 

5  00 

2  00 

Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,      . 

1  00 

3  00 

Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S.,    . 

5  00 

5  00 

Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 

10  00 

2  00 

Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred, 

1  00 

10  00 

Burns,  Mr.  Walter  G.,  . 

5  00 

5  00 

Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C,    . 

10  00 

5  00 

Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 

10  00 

10  00 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,      . 

50  00 

2  00 

Gary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 

10  00 

20  00 

Casson,  Miss  Etta  B.,    . 

1  00 

5  00 

Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 

5  00 

5  00 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $293  00 


50 


Amount  brought  forward,    .$293  00  Amount  brought  forward,    .$575  00 


Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapman,  Mis.s  Jane  E.  C. 
Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R.,   . 
Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C,   . 
Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 
Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 
Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Amory, 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph 
Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Cox,  Mrs.  William  E.,    . 
Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 
Curtis,  Miss  M.  G., 
Cushing,  Mrs.  H.  W.,     . 
Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W., 
Cushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 
Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F., 
Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G., 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M.,  . 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Cutts,  Mrs.  H.  M., 

Dale,  Mrs.  Eben,    . 

Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 

Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 

Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 

Day,  Mrs.  Lewis,    . 

Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 

Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket, 

Drost,  Mr.  C.  A.,   . 

Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas,  . 

Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 

Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant, 

Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 

Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 

Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 

Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C, 

Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 

Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 

Estabrook,  Mrs.  Arthur  F., 

Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 

Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B.,  . 

Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott, 

Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N.,  . 

Amount  carried  forward, 


5  00 
5  00 
2  00 

1  00 

2  00 
10  00 

3  00 
5  00 

10  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 


5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

1  00 

5  00 

10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

35  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

25  00 

10  00 

S575  00 

Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel, 

Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A. 

Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,     . 

Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 

Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 

Gibbs,  Mrs.  H.  C, 

Gill,  Mr.  Abbott,    . 

Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,      . 

Ginzberg,  Mrs.  Barnard, 

Goldberg,  Mrs.  Simon,  . 

Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer  H. 

Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,      . 

Grant,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert 

Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,     . 

Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 

Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 

Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S.    . 

Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 

Harrington,  Mrs.  Francis  B. 

Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 

Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W.,    . 

Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G.,    . 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,   Mrs.   F.   L.    (for 

1918-19),      . 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,     . 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Homans,  Mrs.  John, 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B.,      . 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,     . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howland,  Mrs.  D.  W.,  . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C, 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 
Jordan,  Mrs.  Eben  D.,  . 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,    . 
Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Da\4d  P., 
Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 
King.  Mrs.  S.  G.,    . 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $976  00 


1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   25 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

r 

.   40 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   15 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   25 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

1 

00 

.   25 

00 

K 

00 

.   5C 

00 

r 

00 

51 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  S976  00  Amount  brought  forward,    $1,356  50 


Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 
Klous,  Mr.  Isaac,    . 
Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix, 
Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 
Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A., 
Lane,  Mrs.  D.  H.,  . 
Larkin,  The  Misses, 
Lauferty,  Mrs.  A.  S.,      . 
Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 
Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph,   . 
Leland,  Leslie  F.,    . 
Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 
Levi,  Mrs.  Harry,  . 
Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 
Little,  Mrs.  D.  M., 
Loring,  Judge  W.  C, 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C, 
Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B., 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 
Levering,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S.,  . 
Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M., 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Mixter,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  . 
Morse,  Mrs.  Joseph  P., 
Morss,  Mrs.  Everett, 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Moses,  Mrs.  George, 
Moses,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Moses,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,     . 
Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 
Olmstead,  Mrs.  J.  C,     . 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 
Paine,  Mrs.  W.  D., 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J.,  . 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 
Perry,  Mrs.  Clarabel  N., 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,356  50 


1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

6  00 

.  100  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  50 

5  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

6  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

3  00 

.   50  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

3  00 

2  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman,  . 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,     . 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 
Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M. 
Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,     . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George,   . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A.,  . 
Read,  Mrs.  Robert  M., 
Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Reed,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell, 
Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 
Rice,  Mrs.  Wm.  B., 
Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 
Richards,  Mrs.  C.  A.,     . 
Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,     . 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Reginald  L., 
Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K., 
Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S.,  . 
Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S., 
Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 
Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M., 
in  memory  of  his  mother, 
Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall, 
Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E.,    . 
Schouler,  Mr.  James, 
Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem- 
ory  of  her  mother,    Mrs 
N.  M.  Downer,    . 
Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 
Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D.,    . 
Sias,  Miss  Martha  G.,    . 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D.,  . 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett, 
Steams,  Mr.  Wm.  B.,     . 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex., 


2  00 
25  00 
10  00 
10  00 


25  00 
30  00 
15  00 
10  00 


10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 


5  00 
10  00 
25  00 
30  00 
15  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
3  00 

2  00 

3  00 


Amount  carried  fonvard,     $1,710  50 


52 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,710  50  Amount  brought  forward 


Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil, 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,   . 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Sweetser,  Mrs.  Frank  E., 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Wm.  O.,    . 
Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C,    . 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  L 
Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S. 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C, 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett, 
Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F., 
Vose,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A., 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee,  . 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard,   . 


5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

10  00 

10  00 


15  00 
2  00 
5  00 

10  00 
2  00 

25  00 

25  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     SI, 885  50 


Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador, 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge,  . 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P.,  . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor,  . 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman  H., 
Williams,  The  Misses,    . 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mr.  Moses,     . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses,   . 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest, 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Wolcott,  Mrs.  Roger, 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 


81,885 

50 

.   10 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

.   25 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   50 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

6 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.   15 

00 

.   10 

00 

$2,066  50 


DONATIONS. 


A  friend,  .... 
Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 
Adams,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Adams,  Mrs.  Henry  J., 
Alden,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Archer,  Mrs.  Ellen  M.  H., 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,     . 
Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R., 
Baker,  Miss  Susan  P.,    . 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W.,    . 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot 
Bemis,  Mr.  J.  M.,  . 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,  . 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Francis, 
Boardman,  Mrs.  W.  D., 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  81 


$1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

25 

00 

5 

00 

21 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $121  00 


Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Bronson,  Mrs.  Dillon,    . 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James,  . 
Bullard,  Mr.  Alfred  M., 
Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D.,  . 
C 


Carpenter,  Mrs.  G.  A., 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W.,   . 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,      . 
Gary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C,    . 
Cole,  Mrs.  E.  E.,    . 


5  00 
25  00 


10  00 
50  00 
5  00 
5  00 
15  00 
5  00 
1  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $271  00 


53 


Avwunt  brought  forward,    .  $271  00  Amount  brought  forward,    .  S916  00 


Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F. 
Cotting,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Crocker,  Mrs.  U.  H., 
Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R.,  . 
Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A., 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M. 
Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C, 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 
F 


Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,     . 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Louis  A., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Randolph 
Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L., 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R.,    . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Chas.  H., 
Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  EUot,      . 
Hersey,  Mrs.  A.  H., 
Hobbs,  Mrs.  Warren  D., 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B., 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C,  . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,     . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Gorham, 
Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,    . 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis,  . 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  George 

H.  Eager, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 
L.  Thayer,  through  Mrs 
Hannah  T.  Brown,  . 
Jenks,  Miss  Caroline  E., 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S., 
Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 
Keene,  Mrs.  S.  W., 
Kimball,  The  Misses,  . 
Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Lee,  Mrs.  George,  . 
Linder,  Mrs.  George, 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $916  00 


2  00 
1  00 

5  00 
100  00 

6  00 
10  00 

1  00 
10  00 

5  00 
50  00 

1  00 
5  00 

20  00 
10  00 
10  00 
25  00 
50  00 
5  00 

2  00 
5  00 

3  00 
25  00 

5  00 

100  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

1  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 

25  00 
5  00 

2  00 
10  00 

10  00 


5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

20 

00 

Locke,  Mrs.  C.  A., 
Loring,  Mrs.  A.  P., 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 
Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Magee,  Mr.  John  L., 
Manning,  Miss  A.  F.,     . 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M.,  . 
Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 
Means,  Miss  Anne  M., 
Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank,    . 
Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T.,  . 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W., 
Morse,  Dr.  Henry  Lee, 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,     . 
Otis,  Mrs.  Herbert  F.,  . 
Peabody,  Mr.  Harold,    . 
Perry,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  . 
Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,       . 
Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,     . 
Pitman,  Mrs.  Benjamin  F., 
Potter,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Punchard,  Miss  A.  L.,    . 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H., 
Rand,  Mrs.  Arnold  A.,  . 
Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher,  . 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  M.,  . 
Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
RUey,  Mr.  Charles  E.,   . 
Ripley,  Mr.  Frederick  H., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma,  . 
Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Rosenbaimi,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Rosenbaum,  Miss  Loraine, 
Rosenbaiim,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,     . 
Rotch,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,      . 
Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P.,    . 
Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 
Sever,  Miss  Emily, 
Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 
Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Slattery,  Mrs.  Wm., 
Smith,  Mrs.  Phineas  B., 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,366  00 


.   10  00 

.   25  CO 

5  00 

10  00 

.   25  00 

3  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  CO 

5  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.   75  00 

.   20  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

54 


Amount  brought  forward,    SI, 366  00 


Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 
Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P., 
Spring,  Mrs.  Romney,    . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,     . 
Temple  Israel  Sunday  School 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley, 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.,  . 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  B.,    . 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A., 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A.,  . 
Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F., 
Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  W.  Austin, 


Amount  carried  fonvard,    $1,508  00 


.       10 

00 

10 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

,       10 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

.       10 

00 

35 

00 

2 

00 

.       20 

00 

AmourU  brought  forward,    $1,508  00 


Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H.,       . 

10  00 

Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A., 

15  00 

Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.,      . 

50  00 

Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary  C., 

5  00 

Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 

25  00 

Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 

10  00 

Willcomb,  Mrs.  George, 

10  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 

1  00 

Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 

25  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,     . 

5  00 

WiUson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 

5  00 

Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T.,  . 

50  00 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thos.  Lindal 

1,     25  00 

Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis,   . 

10  00 

J1.754  00 

CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


S20 

00 

1 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

Agassiz,     Mr.     Max     (dona- 
tion),    .... 

Aldrich,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 

Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona- 
tion),    .... 

Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,  . 

Brewster,  Mrs.  William  (do 
nation), 

Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C.  (do 
nation), 

Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B., 
(donation),  . 

Farlow,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.  (dona 
tion) 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C.  (do 
nation), 

Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno, 

Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E. 

Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 

Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B.,  . 

Hayward,  Mrs.  James  W., 

Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 
(donation),  . 


Arnount  carried  forward,     .  $107  00 


5  00 


30 

00 

3 

00 

9 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $107  00 


Horsford,  Miss  Katharine  M 

(donation),  . 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Ireland,    Miss    Catharine    I 

(donation),  . 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,     . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M., 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Richards,  Miss  L.  B.,     . 
Roberts,  Mrs.  Coolidge  S., 
Sargent,  Dr.  D.  A., 
Sa\-ille,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Sawyer,  Miss  Ellen  M.  (do 

nation). 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  Robert  N., 
Wesselhoeft,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W., 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       10 

00 

2 

00 

6 

00 

5 

00 

.       20 

00 

2 

00 

$211  00 


55 


DORCHESTER   BRANCH. 


E 


Bartlett,  Miss  Susan  E., 
Brigham,     Mrs.     Frank 

(donation),  . 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S., 
Churchill,  Dr.  Anna  Quincy 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,     . 

(donation),  . 
Cashing,  Miss  Susan  T., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  C.  R.,  . 
Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewall  A., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry,  . 
Haven,       Mrs.       Katharine 

Stearns, 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 
Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C. 
Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A.,  . 
Murdock,  Mrs.  Harold, 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W.  (do 

nation), 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K.,    . 
Nightingale,  Mrs.  C,     . 


$1  00 


1  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 

00 

00 

00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 
5  00 
1  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .     $33  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $33  00 


Preston,  Miss  Myra  C, 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H.,    . 
Sharp,  Mr.  Everett  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem- 
ory of,  . 
Whitcher,     Mr.     Frank    W 

(donation),   . 
Whiton,  Mrs.  Royal, 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S.,  . 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P., 
Wood,  Mrs.  Wm.  A.,     . 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary  (do- 
nation) , 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P., 


1  00 


5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

$66  00 


LYNN   BRANCH. 


Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F., 
Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A.,   . 
Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,     . 
Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J.,  . 
Haven,  Miss  Rebecca  E.  (do- 
nation),        .        .        .        . 
Sheldon,  Mrs.  Chauncey  C, 

Amount  carried  forward,     . 


$1  00 
5  00 
1  00 
5  00 


$22  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $22  00 

Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,         .  10  00 
Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B.  (do- 
nation),        ....  5  00 
Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.  (dona- 
tion)   5  00 


$42  00 


MILTON   BRANCH. 


Brewer,    Misa   Eliza    (dona- 
tion),    .... 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray, 
Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L., 
Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D.,  . 
Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar, 

Amount  carried  forward. 


$10  00 

10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

$34  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $34  00 

Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R.,  .  1  00 
Ware,  Mrs.  Arthur  L.  (dona- 
tion)   10  00 


$45  00 


56 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  No. 
19  Congress  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen,  Water- 
town,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Treasurer. 

No.  19  Congress  Street,  Boston. 


57 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Pekkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporatioii  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows :  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 

follows: 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

No.   19  Congress  Street, 

Boston. 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  vSchool 
For  the  Blind 


EIGHTY-NINTH  ANNUAL   REPORT 
OF  THE  TRUSTEES 


1920 


BOSTON     ^     ^     ^     .>»     .^     1921 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


JSilt  CUmmmittmpaltli  of  ilaaHarlptB^tta 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  fob  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  20.  1920. 

To  the  Hon.  Ax,bert  P.  Langtry,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for 
the  use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-ninth  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD   E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS   OF  THE   CORPORATION. 

1920-1921. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOABD   or  TRUSTEES. 


ROBERT   AMORY. 
Mrs.  GEORGE   ANGIER. 
FRANCIS   HENRY   APPLETON. 
WILLIAM   ENDICOTT. 
THOMAS  J.  FAY. 
PAUL  E.  FITZPATRICK. 


Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 
ROBERT   H.  HALLOWELL. 
JAMES   ARNOLD    LOWELL. 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM    L.    RICHARDSON.    M.D. 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL. 


STANDING     COMMITTEES. 

Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  ia  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


1921. 

January,  .  .  Francis  Hbnbt  Appleton. 

February,  .  Mrs.  Georqe  Angibr. 

March,     .  .  Robert  H.  Hallowell. 

April,        .  .  Paul  R.  Frothingham. 

May,  .      .  .  James  A.  Lowell. 

June,  .      .  .  Thomas  J.  Fay. 


July,  .  . 
August,  . 
September, 
October,  . 
November, 
December, 


1921. 

Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick. 
Robert  Amort. 
George  H.  Richards. 
William  L.  Richardson. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall, 
William  Endicott. 


Executive  Committee. 
Francis  Henbt  Appu:ton,   President,   ex 

officio. 
Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  ex  officio. 
Edward  E.  Allen,  Secretary,  ex  officio. 
George  H.  Richards. 
Mrs.  George  Angier. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Finance  Committee. 

Albert  Thorndike,   Treasurer,  ex  officio. 
George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
J.^mes  a.  Lowell. 


Auditors  of  Expenses. 

George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
John  Montgomert,  Certified  Public  Accountant. 


OFFICERS   OF   ADMINISTRATION   AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS  AND   OFFICERS   OF   THE   UPPER   SCHOOL. 
UTERABT  DEPASTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

MiSB  JESSICA  L.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 
CHESTER   A.  GIBSON. 
BURTON  A.  WELCOME. 
Miss  LIZZIE   R.  KINSMAN. 
Miss  REBA  M.  SAWYER. 
Miss  FRANCES  KELLERT. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  ELLEN  H.  PACKARD. 
Miss  ANNIE  L.  BRADFORD. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE  M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  ESTELLE  M.  HARRIS. 
Mrs.  ELWYN  C.  SMITH. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE  H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  of  Home  Economics. 

MiBS  MEREDITH  PEIRCE, 


DEPABTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL  TBAININa. 

GEORGE   S.  CHAMBERLAIN,  |      Miss  ESTELLE  M.  HARRIS. 

Miss  LENNA   D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPABTSIENT   OF  MUSIC. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY   E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 


EDWIN  L.  GARDINER. 

Miss  ALVERA  C.  GUSTAFSON. 
Miss  BLANCHE   A.  BARDIN. 
Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPABTMENT  OF  MANUAL  TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 

JULIAN   H.  MABEY. 

ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 

HAROLD   W.  STANTON. 

Miss  MARY   B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES   M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ELIZABETH   V.  PIERCE. 


DEPAKTMENT   OF  TXTNINQ  PIANOFOETES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Imtructor. 


LIBRARIANS,  CLEBKS   AND  BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.  SAWYER,  Librarian. 
Miss  HARRIET  E.  BOSWORTH, 

Assistant 
Miss  ANNA  GARDNER   FISH,  Clerk. 

Mbs.  SARAH  A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Ainiliary  Society 


Miss  ELLEN   THOMPSON,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI   L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  CREELEY.  M.D.,  AUending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD   B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD    ARTHUR    LANE,     D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 

Miss  WINIFRED   MANTON,  AUending  Nurse. 


DOMESTIC   DEPARTMENT. 

FREDERICK   A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Housekeepers  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  CLARISSA  A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  JOSEPHINE  H.  MANSUR, 
Mbs.  CHESTER  A.  GIBSON. 
Mbs.  ETHEL  M.  PIKE. 


Girls'  Section. 
Mrs.  ISABELLA  P.  HEARD. 
Mrs.  M.  M.  EASTMAN. 
Mrs.  AGNES  C.  LUMMUS. 
Mrs.  MINNIE  C.  JENNESS. 


PRINTINa   DEPARTMENT. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS,  Printer.  I    Miss  MARY    L.  TULLY,  Printer. 


WORKSHOP   FOR  ADULTS. 

FRANK   C.   BRYAN,  Manager. 
Miss  EVA   C.  ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS  AND   OFFICERS    OF   THE   LOWER   SCHOOL. 


KINDESGABTEN. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss  CoRNBLiA  M.  LoRiNG,  Matron. 
Mrs.  Mart  E.  Whitney,  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Mrs.  Emma  H.  McCraith,  Assistant. 
Miss  Carolyn  M.  Burrell,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Sadie  Turner,  Teacher. 

Miss  Louise  E.  Spencer,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Margaret  McKenzie,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 

Miss  Eleanor  E.  Kelly,  Field  Worker. 

Samuel  P.  Hates,  Ph.D.,  Psychologist. 

Miss  Kathryn  E.  Maxfield,  Assistant  Psychologist. 


PBIMABY  DEPASTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miea  Ethel  D.  Evans,  Teacher. 


Miss  Ida  E.  Stratton,  Teacher. 

Misa  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Florence  W.  Towne,  Teacher  of  Expression, 


Mies  Ada  S.  Babtlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 
Miss  Margaret  Miller,  TecLcher. 


Oirls'  Section. 


Miss  Naomi  K.  Gring,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 
Miss  Esther  L.  Holmes,  Substitute. 


LADIES'  VISITINa  COMMITTEE  TO  THE  dNDEBQABTEN. 


Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Secretary. 


Mrs.  Algernon  Coolidge, 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Misa  Elizabeth  G.  Norton 
Miss  Elizabeth  Ward,   . 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard, 
Miss  Annib  C.  Warren, 


January. 
February. 
March. 
April. 

May. 


Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker, 
Mrs.  John  Chipman  Grat, 
Mrs.  Ronald  T.  Lyman, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 


June. 

September, 

October. 

November, 

December. 


Oeneral  Visitors. 

Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman. 
Mifls  Harriett  Dexter. 


Honorary  Members. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott. 
Mrs.  KiNGSMiLL  Marrs. 
Mrs.  Labz  Anderson. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  Edwin  H.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Adams,  Karl,  Boston. 

Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 

Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 

Amory,  Robert,  Boston. 

Anderson,  Mrs.  Larz,  Brookline. 

Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 

Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henry, 
Peabody. 

Appleton,  Francis  Henry,  Jr., 
Boston. 

Appleton,  Mrs.  Francis  Henry, 
Jr.,  Boston. 

Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 

Atherton,  Mrs.  Caroline  S.,  Grove 
HaU. 

Bacon,  Caspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 

Baldwin,  S.  E.,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 

Bancroft,  Miss  Eleanor  C, 
Beverly. 

Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 

Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 

Beatley,  Mrs.  Clara  B.,  Boston, 

Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 

Benedict,  Wm.  Leonard,  New 
York. 

Bennett,  Miss  Gazella,  Worcester. 


Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 

Blake,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Blunt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 

Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  O.,  Providence, 
R.  I. 

Bowditch,  IngersoU,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brigham,  Charles,  Watertown. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 

Brj^ant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullard,  Miss  Ellen,  Boston. 

Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 

Burditt,  Miss  Alice  A.,  Boston. 

Burnham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 

Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 

Burr,  I.  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Cabot,  Mrs.  Thomas  H.,  Boston. 

Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 

Callender,  Walter,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Water- 
town. 

Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 

Chace,  J.  H.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  L 

Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 

Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  L 

Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Algernon,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston, 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Harold  J.,  Boston. 


Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  Mrs,  J.  R.,  Boston. 

Getting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crane,  Zenas  M.,  Pittsfield. 

Crosby,  Sumner,  Cambridge. 

Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 

Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Damon,  Willard  A.,  Springfield. 

Davies,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F., 
Springfield. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

De  Witt,  Alexander,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Harriett,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dolan,  William  G.,  Boston, 

Draper,  George  A,,  Boston. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endioott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Everett,  Dr.  Oliver  H.,  Worcester. 

Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 


Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Rosamond,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B,,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  S.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Thomas  J.,  Boston, 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover,  Mass. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton, 

Fitz,  Mrs,  W,  Scott,  Boston, 

Fitzpatrick,  Paul  Edward,  Brook- 
line. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge, 

Freeman,  Miss  H,  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R,,  Boston. 

Fuller,  Geoi^e  F.,  Worcester. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gage,  Mrs.  Homer,  Shrewsbury. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston, 

Gammans,  Hon,  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Need- 
ham. 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston, 

Gardner,  Mrs,  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskill,  George  A.,  Worcester, 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

Gay  lord,  Emerson  G.,  Chicopee, 

Geer,  Mrs,  Danforth,  Jr.,  New 
Jersey, 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

GUbert,  Wm.  E.,  Springfield. 

Gleason,  Mrs.  Cora  L.,  Water- 
town. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

GUdden,  W.  T.,  Brookline, 

Goddard,  Harry  W,,  Worcester, 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R,  L 


Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R,  I, 

Gold th wait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Boston. 

Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman,  Bos- 
ton. 

Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Florence  Howe,  New 
York. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hallowell,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 

Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Toronto, 
Ont. 

Homans,  Robert,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 

Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 

Howland,  Mrs.  O.  0.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston, 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi.  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 


Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilham,  Miss  Annie  M.,  Beverly. 

Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Water- 
town. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 

King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Kinnicutt,  Lincoln  N.,  Worcester. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Lincoln,  Waldo,  Worcester. 

Littell,  Miss  Harriet  A.,  Boston. 

Livermore,  Mrs.  Wm.  R.,  New 
York. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Nahant. 

Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Loring,  Miss  Katharine  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Mrs.  Wm.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 


Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 

Lowell,  James  Arnold,  Boston. 

Lowell,  John,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Luce,  Hon.  Robert,  Waltham. 

Lyman,  Mrs.  Ronald  T.,  Boston. 

Marrett,  Miss  H,  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 

Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 

Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston, 

Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 

McElwain,  R.  Franklin,  Holyoke. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Roger  B.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston, 

Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 

Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 

Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 

Minot,  James  J.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Minot,  William,  Boston. 

Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 

Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 

Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 

Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 

Norton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Noyes,  Mrs.  Lucia  C,  Jamaica 
Plain. 


Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 

Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hope- 
dale. 

Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S.,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 

Partridge,  Fred  F.,  Holyoke. 

Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 

Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Philip  G.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 

Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 

Pickering,  Henry  G.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  D,  L.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 

Plunkett,  W.  P.,  Adams. 

Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Poulsson,  Miss  Emilie,  Boston. 

Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H.,  Newton. 

Pratt,  George  Dwight,  Spring- 
field. 

Prendergast,  J,  M.,  Boston. 

Proctor,  James  H,,  Boston. 

Putnam,  F.  Delano,  Boston. 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 

Read,  Mrs.  Robert  M.,  Medford. 

Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 

Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 

Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 

Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richards,  Henry  H.,  Groton. 

Richardson,  John,  Jr.,  Read\alle. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John,  Jr.,  Read- 
ville. 

Richardson,  Miss  M.  G.,  New 
York. 


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Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 

Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Allston. 

Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 

Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 

Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs,  W.  A.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Saltonstall,  Leverett,  Westwood, 

Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Leverett,  West- 
wood. 

Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 

Sargent,  Miss  Alice,  Brookline. 

Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Smith,  Joel  West,  East  Hampton, 
Conn. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 

Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 

Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 

Tha>^r,  Charles  M.,  Worcester. 

Thaj-er,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thomas,  Mrs.  John  B.,  Boston. 


Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Thorndike,    Miss    Rosanna    D., 
Boston. 

Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Ttngley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 

Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,   Wm.   Lyman,   Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Wallace,  Andrew  B.,  Springfield. 

Ward,  Miss  Elizabeth,  Boston. 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  Miss  Annie  C,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Washburn,     Hon.     Charles     G., 
Worcester. 

Washburn,    Mrs.    Frederick    A., 
Boston. 

Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Wendell,  WUliam  G.,  Boston. 

Wesson,  James  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 

Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,    James    B.,    Providence, 
R.  L 

Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Wright,  Burton  H.,  Worcester. 

Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Boston. 

Yoimg,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS 


ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watertown,  October  13,  1920. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order 
by  the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  report  of  the  treasurer  was  accepted  and  ordered  on 
file. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are  hereby 
ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  Albert  Thorndike. 

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Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Appleton, 
William  Endicott,  Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick,  Robert  H.  Hallowell, 
James  A.  Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  and  Richard  M. 
Saltonstall. 

The  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected  members 
of  the  corporation:  —  Mr.  Karl  Adams,  Mrs.  Larz  Anderson, 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard,  Mrs.  Thomas  Handasyd  Cabot,  Mrs. 
Algernon  Coolidge,  Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge,  Miss  Harriett 
Dexter,  Mr.  Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick,  Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Mrs.  William  R.  Livermore,  Mrs.  Ronald  T.  Lyman,  Mrs. 
Roger  B.  Merriman,  Mr.  James  J.  Minot,  Jr.,  Miss  Eliza- 
beth G.  Norton,  Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Miss  Alice  Sar- 
gent, Mrs.  John  B.  Thomas,  Miss  Elizabeth  Ward  and 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  13,  1920. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  Soon  after  the  re- 
opening of  school  last  fall,  a  Watertown  historical 
pageant  was  enacted  alongside  the  grounds  of  the 
institution.  In  this  several  of  our  officers  and 
teachers  and  twenty-four  pupils  took  part.  Com- 
munity participation  of  this  and  other  kinds  by  in- 
stitution people,  especially  the  pupils,  is  one  of  the 
best  things  in  the  world  for  them.  The  association 
may  also  be  helpful  to  the  townspeople.  In  this 
instance  the  institution  could  lend  some  of  its  facili- 
ties and  did  so,  —  the  use  of  its  large  hall  for  re- 
hearsals and  as  a  distributing  center  for  hired  cos- 
tumes, also  its  power  plant  and  engineer  for  helping 
light  the  scene  of  the  pageant  itself.  The  people  of 
Watertown,  Newton,  Waltham,  Brookline,  Belmont, 
Cambridge  and  other  western  settlements  of  greater 
Boston  visit  the  school  from  time  to  time,  attend 
its  exhibitions,  concerts,  and  plays.  They  are  very 
welcome,  just  as  our  institution  people  are  made 
welcome  to  participate  in  the  social  and  religious  Hfe 
of  the  town  in  which  we  are  located.    This  is  mutually 


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educating  and  socializing.  The  institution  grounds 
until  now  have  been  left  open  to  outsiders,  but  this 
has  been  found  to  be  a  mistake.  Had  there  been  a 
fence  about  the  grounds  from  the  beginning,  the 
privilege  given  might  have  been  respected  and  kept 
under  control.  As  it  was,  our  thirty-four  acres,  in- 
cluding playgrounds,  orchards  and  gardens,  have 
been  overrun  by  irresponsible  young  people,  against 
whose  further  trespassing  we  have  now  erected  a 
barrier  on  three  sides  in  the  form  of  a  seven-foot 
iron  fence.  We  shall  hope  soon  to  be  able  to  carry 
this  fence  all  the  way  around  and  to  erect  gates  and 
gateways. 

Fence  and  gates  are  not  needed  to  shut  our  own 
people  in.  Most  of  these  are  too  much  shut  in  al- 
ready by  their  bUndness  and  need  frequent  contact 
with  the  world.  The  pupils  are  free  to  visit  the  village 
often.  For  some  six  weeks  together  last  winter  this 
privilege  was  almost  cut  off  through  ice  and  snow; 
and  had  it  not  been  that  most  of  the  boys  had  their 
free  time  pretty  much  taken  up  then  in  rehearsals 
for  a  performance  of  "  JuUus  Csesar",  the  restlessness 
which  they  had  caught  from  the  rest  of  the  world, 
accentuated  as  it  was  through  unwonted  restraint, 
might  have  made  our  winter  a  somewhat  difficult 
one.  As  it  was,  we  passed  a  successful  year  of  social- 
izing school  Ufe,  with  much  strenuous  work  and  play, 
and  at  its  close  graduated  with  high-school  diploma 
a  class  of  thirteen,  certificated  two  as  piano  tuners 
and  one  as  teacher  of  the  piano. 


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The  year's  choir  was  an  especially  strong  one.  Its 
singing  of  the  Christmas  carols,  twice  at  the  school 
and  once  in  Boston,  also  of  its  annual  concert  in 
May,  was  enjoyed  by  large  and  enthusiastic  audi- 
ences. 

The  girls  and  the  boys  of  the  upper  school  were 
well  drilled  in  gymnastic  exercises  and  marching,  as 
they  proved  when  put  to  the  test  on  Washington's 
Birthday.  The  champions  of  the  boys  who  visited 
Philadelphia  in  June  to  meet  the  champions  of  the 
Pennsylvania  school  in  field  sports  returned  bringing 
the  cup  with  them. 

Our  teacher  of  dancing  steps  to  the  lower  school 
children,  and  her  helpers,  gave  in  May  a  very  credit- 
able pageant  in  the  institution  hall.  It  had  been 
prepared  for  out  of  doors,  but  because  the  day  was 
cold  it  had  to  be  transferred  to  the  hall,  —  not  an 
easy  thing  to  do  with  bUnd  children. 

A  very  great  deal  of  credit  is  always  due  all  our 
teachers  of  the  lower  school  for  their  success  in  train- 
ing their  Uttle  people  to  be  Hke  others.  When  these 
children  first  come  to  the  kindergarten  they  are  rather 
a  nondescript  lot,  nearly  always  self-centered  or  with 
very  httle  idea  of  give  and  take.  It  is  the  happy 
function  of  this  school  to  ''adjust  them  to  their  en- 
vironment" early.  As  an  initial  sociaHzing  agent 
the  kindergarten  is  singularly  successful.  A  Httle 
bUnd  child  ought  rarely  to  be  kept  away  from  such 
correcting  influences. 

We  have  two  kindergartens,  a  girls'  and  a  boys'. 


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With  each  family  of  about  thirty  children  there 
are  four  teachers  and  two  housemothers.  Most  of 
these  latter  have  served  for  many  years,  having 
begun  such  service  at  Jamaica  Plain.  Much  might 
be  said  of  their  devotion,  for  it  has  been  deep  and 
strong;  and  perhaps  it  is  especially  so  because  de- 
veloped in  the  early  years  of  the  kindergarten,  when 
that  organization  was  struggUng  with  its  beginnings. 
All  the  housemothers  or  matrons  who  knew  Jamaica 
Plain  were  still  with  us  last  year.  But  when  the 
time  came  for  reopening  this  fall  Mrs.  Josephine  M. 
Hill  had  to  give  up.  She  has  been  matron  of  Brad- 
lee  Cottage  for  twenty-eight  years,  or  from  the  open- 
ing of  the  girls'  kindergarten  in  1892.  Since  then 
304  children  have  passed  through  her  hands  and 
been  corrected,  shaped  and  started  right.  She  is 
proud  of  this  record,  and  well  she  may  be,  for  it  is 
a  splendid  one.  It  has  been  surpassed  by  only  one 
other  matron  who  is  still  with  us  and  as  faithful  as 
ever,  —  Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose  of  Anagnos  Cottage. 
She  has  served  thirty-three  years,  a  whole  genera- 
tion, for  the  children  of  others. 

There  is  many  another  member  of  his  staff  whose 
praises  our  Director  would  Hke  to  sing,  and  some 
are  newcomers  though  most  are  old  in  service.  There 
is  one,  however,  who,  though  she  may  come  back  to 
him  some  day,  has  now  withdrawn  because  of  her 
health,  —  Mrs.  Cora  L.  Gleason,  for  eighteen  years 
matron  of  B  House  at  South  Boston,  hence  lovingly 
called  by  her  girls  ''Mother  B,"  and  six  years  matron 


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of  Brooks  Cottage  at  Watertown.  The  Perkins 
Institution  has  enjoyed  and  still  enjoys  the  services 
of  many  consecrated  Uves.  It  has  rarely  had  one 
whose  joy  in  her  girls  and  whose  responsibility 
towards  maintaining  the  good  old  Perkins  spirit  has 
been  so  tactfully  and  yet  so  effectively  appUed  as  by 
Mrs.  Gleason.  Her  influence  spread  not  only  beyond 
her  immediate  family  and  duties  but  into  the  other 
famines  and  continued  to  follow  the  fortunes  of 
most  girls  after  leaving  school.  Hers  was  a  compre- 
hensive interest,  and  though  she  is  bodily  absent 
her  influence  abides. 

The  old  Perkins  plan  of  bringing  the  home  in 
touch  with  the  school  has  been,  first,  to  try  to  in- 
duce some  member  of  each  child's  family  to  visit 
the  institution  and  see  it  for  himself.  Many  a  parent 
has  been  entertained  there  at  a  meal  or  over  night. 
Secondly,  it  has  been  and  still  is  customary  for  the 
matrons  to  correspond  from  time  to  time  with  the 
parents  of  their  girls  or  boys.  In  this  way  a  more 
intimate  understanding  follows  than  if  all  communi- 
cation passed  through  the  office.  Thirdly,  the  grad- 
uation exercises  are  so  timed  that  parents  and  friends 
will  be  the  more  likely  to  attend  them  when  fetching 
their  children  home  for  the  vacation  or  at  the  end 
of  these  children's  school  careers. 

While  retaining  the  old  plan,  which  is  excellent  so 
far  as  it  goes,  the  new  one,  in  practice  for  the  past 
year,  goes  a  step  further,  following  the  principle 
that  the  message  you  carry  is  more  potent  than  the 


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one  you  send.  The  institution  now  has  a  field- 
worker  for  prospective,  present  and  past  pupils. 
Miss  Eleanor  E.  Kelly,  this  ''home- visitor,"  is  also 
pupils'  vocational  guide  at  the  school.  In  term  time 
she  lives  there,  and,  becoming  thoroughly  acquainted 
as  she  does  with  all  pupils,  she  learns  their  indi- 
vidualities, their  capacities  and  their  aspirations. 
She  spends  many  hours  counseling  the  older  ones 
A^ho  go  to  her  for  advice.  She  also  places  some  in 
vacation  positions,  in  this  particular  co-operating 
with  the  placement  agent  of  the  ''Division  of  the 
Blind,"  now  working  under  the  State  Department 
of  Education.  She  does  most  of  her  home-visiting 
in  vacation  time,  confining  herself  mainly  to  the 
New  England  states  outside  of  Massachusetts,  since 
these  remoter  homes  are  apt  to  be  least  in  touch 
with  the  school.  She  reports  being  invariably  wel- 
comed by  parents,  who  have  numerous  questions  to 
ask;  and  she  says  she  has  been  able  to  straighten 
out  so  many  natural  misunderstandings  that  her 
home-visiting  opportunities  seem  to  her  to  transcend 
her  vocational  guidance  and  placement  ones.  One 
of  her  objects  is  to  see  what  the  pupils  are  doing  in 
vacation,  or  after  quitting  school,  —  how  utilizing 
their  time  and  powers;  and  she  has  often  been  able 
to  bring  about  an  immediate  improvement.  Miss 
Kelly  made  140  calls  this  past  summer  in  Maine, 
New  Hampshire  and  Vermont. 

The  work  of  the  psychologist,  now  employed  at 
the  school  under  the  guidance  of  Prof.  Samuel  P. 


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Hayes  of  Mt.  Holyoke  College,  who  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  our  staff,  is  becoming  more  and  more  effective 
as  it  is  more  and  more  understood.  Office  and 
classroom  have  alike  come  to  rely  upon  her  findings 
as  to  each  pupil's  capacities  and  promise.  And  the 
pupils  themselves  are  interested.  The  tests  are  both 
individual  and  group,  the  latter  serving  to  supply 
quickly  answers  to  certain  doubtful  questions.  For 
example,  the  Efficiency  Committee  of  the  American 
Association  of  Instructors  of  the  Bhnd,  of  which 
Mr.  Allen  is  chairman,  needed  last  spring  to  have 
data  on  which  to  base  modifications  of  the  school 
curricula.  These  results  of  testings  of  groups  of 
pupils  supphed  the  data;  that  is,  told  how  the  old 
plans  and  methods  were  working  and  suggested 
possible  changes  and  improvements.  The  psychol- 
ogist and  the  field-worker  are  doing  excellent  team- 
work. 

We  have  not  made  recent  report  on  our  depart- 
ment of  piano  tuning.  This  department  teaches  a 
vocation  which  has  proved  about  the  best  one  for 
the  competent  bhnd  man  to  follow.  There  is  at  the 
school  a  Hst  of  75  men  whom  it  has  certificated  as 
tuners  since  1885,  —  averaging  two  a  year.  Of  these 
69,  or  92  per  cent,  are  considered  to  have  succeeded 
and  are  either  still  following  the  vocation  or  have 
used  it  as  a  stepping-stone  to  something  individu- 
ally more  suitable.  Many  have  added  piano  selling 
—  a  few,  phonograph  selhng  —  to  piano  tuning. 
These  men  are  scattered  over  the  country,  tuning 


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either  in  private  homes,  in  factories  or  warerooms. 
One  wrote  last  summer  that  he  was  president  of  a 
club  of  bUnd  tuners  in  Chicago  and  asked  for  a  sen- 
timent to  be  used  at  their  annual  dinner.  Blind 
tuners  are  often  unsurpassed  in  their  calHng,  as  some 
professional  pianists  know;  for  they  sometimes  send 
for  one  when  desiring  a  particularly  nice  job. 

Mr.  Fowler,  a  Perkins  graduate  and  for  the  past 
nine  years  instructor  and  manager  of  our  depart- 
ment of  piano  tuning,  took  the  course  four  years  ago 
in  the  care  and  tuning  of  the  piano  player  at  the 
Danquard  School  in  New  York  City,  and  since  then 
four  of  his  pupils  have  taken  it,  —  all  five  having 
passed  the  examination  with  the  highest  group 
rating  and  having  received  gold-seal  diplomas.  Mr. 
Fowler  finds  that  about  half  of  his  pupils  who  are 
capable  of  gaining  the  Perkins  certificate  for  caring 
for  and  tuning  pianos  are  also  capable  of  under- 
taking piano  player  work,  and  after  initiating  these 
at  Watertown  he  encourages  them  to  finish  at  a 
player-action  school.  Mr.  Fowler  has  given  to  a 
class  of  his  graduate  tuners  a  course  of  evening 
lectures  with  demonstrations  on  the  care  and  tuning 
of  the  piano  player. 

The  Howe  Memorial  Press,  which  manufactures 
its  'tangible  appliances"  at  South  Boston  and  its 
tangible  books  at  Watertown,  has  had  a  busy  year. 
It  spent  during  the  year  about  $14,000  and  received 
back  about  $4,000.  That  is,  from  its  income  it  de- 
voted about  $10,000  to  the  cause  of  the  bhnd,  — 


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say,  in  round  figures,  $4,000  used  for  books,  music 
and  appliances  given  away,  $3,800  loss  on  the  same 
sold  at  less  than  cost,  and  $2,200  in  the  circulations 
of  books.  The  appliance  on  which  it  labored  most 
is  its  new  Braillewriter,  concerning  whose  appear- 
ance on  the  market  there  is  eager  inquiry.  This 
"Press"  supphed  schools  and  individuals  with  1,579 
Braille  slates.  It  embossed  3,180  brass  plates  and 
from  these  struck  off  106,000  sheets,  which  it  has 
collated  and  fastened  into  books  and  pamphlets,  as 
well  as  62,000  sheets  which  were  reprints.  Much 
time  and  care  is  required  to  fill  orders  for  suppHes, 
which  come  in  from  all  over  the  country  and  even 
from  foreign  lands.  It  sends  twelve  copies  of  all 
new  publications  to  the  Perkins  Institution  Ubrary, 
for  general  circulation.  People  borrow  these  books 
from  far  and  near,  this  hbrary  being  the  circulation 
center  for  New  England.  The  full  time  of  one  of 
the  two  Hbrarians  is  given  to  circulation.  Last  year 
its  outside  borrowers  numbered  827.  To  these  it 
sent  out  7,142  books,  and  to  pupils  5,151  books  for 
voluntary  reading  and  class  work. 

Though  these  figures  mean  a  growing  circulation 
and  look  large,  they  are  really  not  so,  especially 
those  indicating  the  reading  done  by  the  bUnd  at 
home,  where  the  vast  majority  are.  About  one- 
quarter  of  our  outside  borrowers  were  once  pupils 
at  the  school;  most  of  the  rest  have  been  taught  by 
traveling  home  teachers  sent  out  by  the  state.  Only 
about  three-eighths  of  our  former  pupils  continue 


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to  draw  out  books.  Yet  we  are  constantly  em- 
bossing new  and  attractive  fiction,  and  we  publish 
the  fact  in  many  ways.  We  have  just  imported 
from  England  705  volumes  embossed  in  Moon's 
type,  the  big,  coarse  system  demanded  by  the  aged 
blind  and  those  other  of  the  adult  blind  who  have 
neither  courage  nor  patience  to  learn  Braille.  These 
705  volumes  represent  196  titles  or  complete  books. 
Twenty-two  of  these  are  new  pubhcations,  the  rest, 
old  ones,  having  been  ordered  either  to  increase  the 
number  of  copies  of  the  more  popular  works  or  to 
replace  those  worn  out  by  use. 

The  Perkins  workshop  at  South  Boston,  repre- 
senting as  it  has  done  for  many  years  our  chief 
direct  labors  for  the  adult  bhnd,  has  this  past  year 
been  kept  fully  as  busy  as  usual.  Its  main  rehance 
is  still  mattresswork.  It  conducts  a  shop  and  a 
salesroom,  employs  in  its  business  twenty-two  bhnd 
and  eight  seeing  people,  runs  two  automobile  trucks, 
and,  unlike  most  shops  for  the  bhnd,  meets  its  own 
expenses.  Of  this  fact  we  are  naturally  proud.  The 
increased  cost  of  running  the  business  has  been  met 
by  the  increased  income,  so  that  the  workers  have 
been  paid  in  wages  this  year  50  per  cent  more  than 
in  any  year  before  the  war.  It  is  now  not  uncommon 
for  a  bhnd  man  to  receive  during  the  busy  season 
$100  for  a  month's  piecework. 

The  late  Dr.  Henry  Kemble  Oliver  of  Boston, 
who  in  his  later  years  was  blind,  gave  to  the  Perkins 
Institution  between  the  years  1909  and  1918  $15,000 


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to  be  called  after  his  sister  the  Maria  Kemble  Oliver 
Fund.  She  had  once  been  a  pupil  of  this  school, 
had  been  musical,  and  had  evidently  derived  profit 
as  well  as  solace  from  attending  concerts.  Dr. 
OUver  stipulated  that  the  income  of  this  fund  was 
to  be  used  primarily  for  the  purchase  of  tickets  to 
such  musical  events  in  Boston  as  our  students  of 
music  would  not  be  likely  to  attend  otherwise.  For 
eight  years,  then,  parties  of  our  advanced  pupils 
have  been  taken  to  all  the  best  operas  and  concerts 
given  in  Boston.  The  opportunity  has  really  been 
a  wonderful  extension  of  our  instruction  in  music. 
Indeed,  we  feel  that  no  talented  student  of  music 
who  is  bhnd  could  find  elsewhere  in  America  con- 
ditions superior  to  those  afforded  at  Perkins  Insti- 
tution, coupled  as  they  are  with  the  opportunities 
of  the  OHver  music  fund  and  those  of  the  New 
England  Conservatory  of  Music.  Three  of  our  ad- 
vanced pupils,  two  of  whom  are  from  the  west,  are 
to-day  attending  this  Conservatory  from  Water- 
town.  Promising  pupils  now  in  schools  for  the  blind 
which  happen  to  be  located  in  small  towns  of  the 
north,  south  and  west  might  well  be  sent  for  a  year 
or  two  to  Perkins  if  we  had  a  few  scholarships  which 
would  make  this  possible.  Such  an  experience  would 
be  of  utmost  service  to  them.  Connecticut,  which 
has  a  school  of  its  own,  sends  its  most  talented 
music  students  to  Perkins  Institution. 

In   sundry   ways  an   estabhshed   institution  like 
ours  is  able  to  initiate  or  help  along  new  ventures 


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for  the  blind  in  other  places.  A  pupil  from  Porto 
Rico  whom  we  entertained  at  Watertown  for  the 
two  school  years  from  1917  to  1919  has  since  opened 
the  first  school  for  bhnd  children  in  her  native  land. 
She  came  to  us  in  order  to  prepare  herself  for  this 
very  thing.  We  have  sent  her  appliances,  and  one 
of  our  matrons  has  visited  her  school.  She  is  strug- 
ghng  along  as  best  she  can,  but  is  in  sore  need  of 
additional  help  and  encouragement. 

The  institution  is  never  quite  full,  and  while  most 
of  the  pupils  are  good  material  others  are  not  so. 
Since  we  have  the  room  we  often  retain  longer  than 
otherwise  would  be  expedient  some  who,  because 
unable  to  progress,  do  not  belong  at  Perkins.  All 
our  institutions  for  bhnd  youth  do  this,  and  they  do 
it  because  there  is  no  school  for  the  bhnd  defective. 
So  to  do  is  poor  economy  and  false  charity.  The 
two  kinds,  the  hopeful  and  the  hopeless,  whether 
bhnd  or  seeing,  should  never  be  domiciled  and  taught 
together.  The  association  is  depressing  for  both. 
We  always  have  a  few  private  pay  pupils  from  out- 
side of  New  England.  Applications  from  others 
who  would  like  to  come  to  us  are  not  infrequent, 
but  these  young  people  can  rarely  be  admitted  be- 
cause they  cannot  pay  our  tuition  fee  of  $400.  (The 
actual  cost  is  over  $600.)  Had  the  Perkins  Institu- 
tion adequate  income  to  cover  ordinary  expenses 
and  improvements,  it  could  not  do  better  than  to 
create  a  number  of  scholarships,  tenable  by  young 
blind  people  of  proved  capacity  and  promise  and 


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hailing  from  anyivhere.  Why  not?  We  have  pupils 
now  from  Arkansas,  California,  Michigan  and  South 
Dakota;  from  Asia  Minor,  China  and  Hawaii. 
Scholarship  pupils  are  not  only  promising  pupils; 
they  are  likely  to  be  real  students  —  those  who 
appreciate  their  opportunities  the  more  because 
they  have  merited  them  and  are  self-urged  to  con- 
tinue to  merit  them. 

There  is  little  doubt,  as  the  late  WilUam  James 
asserted,  that  men  habitually  use  only  a  small  part 
of  the  powers  which  they  actually  possess  and  which 
they  might  use  under  proper  conditions.  Now, 
while  knowledge  of  this  fact  does  not  seem  to  affect 
seriously  the  careers  of  people  in  general,  it  does 
often  profoundly  affect  those  of  the  handicapped,  — 
particularly  the  bUnd.  It  can  foster  a  state  of  mind 
which  is  the  best  earnest  of  victory.  The  system 
of  scholarships  held  by  a  great  sister  school  in  Eng- 
land, the  Royal  Normal  College  and  Academy  of 
Music  for  the  Blind,  has  done  just  this  thing  there. 
A  similar  system  would  do  the  same  here.  The 
talented  bhnd  not  only  merit  special  scholarship  aid 
quite  as  much  as  the  talented  seeing,  but  they  need 
it  vastly  more.  May  this  explanation  meet  with 
response  from  readers  of  this  report,  the  friends  of 
Perkins  Institution,  who  have  done  so  much  for  it 
already. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  has  drawn  up  and  put  in 
operation  a  new  set  of  rules  and  regulations  for  the 
conduct  of  its  affairs;  has  rearranged  its  standing 
committees,  having  created  a  new  one,  the  Execu- 

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tive  Committee,  to  meet  statedly  once  a  month; 
while  the  Board  itself  continues  to  meet  quarterly 
as  hitherto. 

The  tuition  for  all  resident  pupils  is  now  $400  a 
year,  which  is  about  two-thirds  of  the  actual  cost. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1920,  the  number  of  bhnd  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  304,  or  six  fewer  than  on 
the  same  date  of  the  previous  year.  This  number 
includes  78  boys  and  78  girls  in  the  upper  school,  55 
boys  and  57  girls  in  the  lower  school,  14  teachers 
and  officers  and  22  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  There  have  been  67  admitted  and  73  dis- 
charged during  the  year. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  year,  1919-1920.  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
13;  Interstitial  keratitis,  2;  Old  kerato-irido-cyclitis, 
2;  Purulent  conjunctivitis,  1;  Retinitis  pigmentosa, 
1;  Injury,  5;  Atrophy  of  the  optic  nerve,  10;  Al- 
binism, 1;  Congenital  amblyopia,  2;  Congenital 
defects,  4;  Congenital  cataracts,  8;  Congenital 
cataract  and  aniridia,  1;  Microphthalmos,  2;  Buph- 
thalmos,  2;  Glaucoma,  1;  Staphyloma,  1;  Corneal 
ulceration,  2;  Disorganized  globes,  1;  Separation  of 
retina,  1;  Coloboma  of  choroid,  1;  Optic  neuritis, 
1;   Hemorrhages,  1;   High  myopia,  1. 

Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 
Melvin  0.  Adams,  a  member  of  our  Board  of 
Trustees  from   1901  to   1903;    Peter  C.  Brooks; 
Edward    H.    Clement;    Mrs.    Mary   McGregor, 

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wife  of  Charles  H.  Dalton;  Henry  H.  Fay;  Fred- 
eric Higginson;  Henry  Lee  Higginson;  Mrs. 
Clara  Bertram,  wife  of  David  P.  Kimball;  Dr. 
Henry  K.  Oliver;  Miss  Annette  P.  Rogers; 
WiLLARD  T.  Sears;  Mrs.  Harriet  Caverly,  widow 
of  George  W.  A.  Williams. 

In  recording  the  death  of  Miss  Annette  P.  Rogers 
we  desire  to  pay  tribute  to  the  helpfulness  of  this 
member  of  our  Board  of  Trustees  from  1907  to  1918. 
Always  sympathetic  but  practical  in  her  sympathies, 
she  devoted  her  days  to  the  service  of  others,  with 
special  helpful  regard  to  the  problems  of  the  sight- 
less, whose  affliction  she  shared  in  her  later  years. 
Her  loss  will  be  felt  by  many  who  had  come  to 
depend  upon  her  wise  counsels  and  generous  spirit. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ROBERT  AMORY, 
ANNIE   OILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 
THOMAS  J.  FAY, 
PAUL  E.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL, 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
RICHARD  M.  SALTONSTALL, 

Trustees. 


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ANSWERING   MANY  QUESTIONS  THAT 
HAVE     BEEN    ASKED     IN    RELA- 
TION TO  THE  TEACHING  OF 
MUSIC   IN   THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


The  Perkins  Institution  a  Boarding  School. 

The  Perkins  Institution  is  a  boarding  school  where  pupils 
between  the  age  of  five  and  twenty  who  have  defective  sight 
or  who  are  without  sight  are  received  for  educational  training. 

The  school  year  coincides  with  that  of  the  public  schools 
and  the  pupils  go  to  their  homes  during  the  vacation  periods. 

The  hours  of  study,  practice,  and  recitation  begin  at 
8.15  A.M.,  directly  after  the  morning  assembly,  and,  with  suit- 
able provision  for  the  dinner  hour,  continue  until  5  o'clock. 
One  hour  of  study  in  the  classrooms  is  required  in  the  even- 
ing, and  regular  school  work  is  conducted  on  Saturdays  until 
12  o'clock,  noon. 

The  Music  Department  One  of  Several. 
The  music  school  is  one  of  several  departments,  each  of 
which  has  its  peculiar  value  and  place  in  the  general  curricu- 
lum. Music  is  taught  for  its  educational  value,  and  practice 
and  lessons  are  conducted  exactly  as  study  and  recitations 
in  grammar  and  mathematics  might  be.  Pupils  go  to  their 
appointed  music  study,  lessons  or  supervised  practice  as  they 
go  to  their  geography  classes  or  to  the  gymnasium.  From 
this  regular  study  and  practice  there  is  no  escape. 

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The  Music  Faculty. 
The  music  faculty  numbers  twelve  teachers,  each  one  of 
whom  is  trained  for  special  instruction  in  some  particular 
branch  of  music. 

The  Organization. 

We  are  organized  in  three  groups  as  follows :  — 

The  kindergarten  and   primary  group  of  three  teachers; 

the  girls'  upper  school  with  four  teachers;    and  the  boys' 

upper  school  with  four  teachers. 

The  music  director  and  the  teacher  of  musical  science  have 

classes  in  both  the  girls'  and  the  boys'  schools. 

The  Equipment. 
We  have  45  music  rooms,  61  pianofortes,  and  1  large  three- 
manual  pipe  organ.  In  addition  we  have  a  very  fine  collec- 
tion of  orchestral  instruments  which  are  used  in  the  theory 
classes  to  familiarize  the  pupils  with  their  tone  qualities,  their 
use  in  orchestral  writing,  and  their  size  and  shape. 

Music  Library. 

Our  music  library  is  a  large  one  and  is  valued  at  approxi- 
mately S4,000.  It  is  well  housed  in  a  fine  large  room  equally 
accessible  to  both  the  boys'  and  the  girls'  music  corridors. 
It  is  conducted  by  the  teacher  of  musical  science,  who  finds 
it  a  most  convenient  place  in  which  to  receive  classes  from 
either  the  girls'  or  the  boys'  music  departments. 

The  Braille  music  of  this  library  is  freely  loaned  without 
charge  to  blind  musicians  throughout  the  country  and  its 
usefulness  is  very  great. 


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Course  of  Study,  First  Lessons. 

Our  music  course  is  conducted  on  logical  methods.  The 
first  lessons  are  devoted  to  the  study  of  ear  training  and  of 
solfeggio.  To  this  are  added  tone  production,  staff,  and 
Braille  notation  of  music,  and  music  fundamentals.  Chorus 
singing  is  also  included  in  this  early  training. 

Pupils  in  small  classes,  during  their  connection  with  the 
kindergarten  and  the  primary  schools,  have  daily  appoint- 
ments with  the  teacher  of  solfeggio  and  singing,  and  they 
are  not  permitted  to  begin  the  study  of  the  pianoforte  until 
recommended  by  this  teacher  as  qualified  for  instrumental 
instruction. 

Pianoforte  Instruction. 

When  prepared  for  it,  pupils  may  begin  the  practice  of  the 
pianoforte,  at  first  in  small  classes  which  meet  the  teacher 
daily,  and  afterward  in  still  smaller  groups  or,  it  may  be, 
individual  instruction  is  given  on  alternate  days. 

Chorus  singing  and  solfeggio  are  still  required,  however,  as 
well  as  thorough  grounding  in  scale  and  chord  formation, 
rhythm  and  general  music  fundamentals.  Proficiency  in 
writing,  reading,  and  singing  music  is  required. 

Promotion  to  the  Upper  School. 

With  promotion  to  the  upper  school  the  study  of  solfeggio 
is  discontinued.  The  girls  are  immediately  drafted  into  the 
large  chorus,  while  the  boys  delay  chorus  singing  until  their 
voices  change  and  become  settled. 

The  pupils  quite  generally  continue  the  study  of  the  piano- 
forte when  promoted  and  a  very  few  begin  the  study  of  the 
pipe   organ,    while    a    much    larger   number   receive    special 

lessons  in  singing. 

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Music  Science  Study  encouraged. 
Pupils  are  encouraged  to  study  the  science  of  music,  and 
to  obtain  an  intimate  knowledge  of  its  content  and  structure. 
Talented  pupils  may,  with  consent  of  the  faculty,  elect  to 
study  harmony,  counterpoint  and  theory  after  completing  a 
course  in  algebra,  and  credits  are  given  them  toward  the 
school  diploma  for  work  done  in  these  subjects. 

Chorus  Singing. 

Chorus  singing  is  required  of  all  music  pupils  and  of 
others  who  may  have  received  sufficient  training  in  solfeggio 
and  tone  production  to  make  them  efficient  members  of  the 
choir. 

The  large  chapel  choir  numbers  from  eighty  to  one  hun- 
dred singers.  They  meet  for  rehearsal  on  Mondays,  Tues- 
days, Thursdays  and  Fridays  at  3.15  p.m.,  when  visitors  are 
always  welcome.  They  also  sing  every  day,  except  Sunday, 
at  the  morning  assembly  of  the  school. 

The  music  used  by  this  choir  is  the  Braille,  which  is  read 
by  the  sense  of  touch,  and  the  young  singers  commit  it  to 
memory  paragraph  by  paragraph  as  directed. 

Girls'  Glee  Club. 

On  Wednesdays  and  Saturdays  the  singing  hour  is  given 
to  the  Girls'  Glee  Club,  whose  membership  is  composed 
largely  of  the  older  and  more  experienced  singers  of  the 
girls'  school. 

Participation  of  this  club  in  church  socials,  public  meet- 
ings of  women's  clubs  and  the  like  has  elicited  favorable 
comment  and  afforded  the  club  girls  much  enjoyment. 


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Pianoforte  Normal  Department, 
Post  graduates  who  wish  to  adopt  music  as  a  vocation  in 
Hfe  are  required  to  participate  in  the  three-year  course  of  the 
Pianoforte  Normal  Department.  Seeing  children  from  sur- 
rounding towns  visit  our  school  twice  each  week  for  instruc- 
tion in  music  from  these  post  graduates  who  conduct  this 
teaching  under  the  immediate  direction  of  a  qualified  member 
of  our  faculty.  With  the  satisfactory  completion  of  this 
course  the  young  teacher  is  given  a  certificate,  and  should 
the  recipient  also  complete  the  instrumental  course  at  the 
New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  this  certificate  is  ac- 
cepted by  that  school  in  lieu  of  the  normal  work  required 
there. 

Concert  Attendance. 

Through  the  kindness  of  friends,  our  pupils  have  for  years 
enjoyed  the  privilege  of  attendance  on  the  opera,  symphony 
concerts,  and  recitals  in  Boston.  This  invaluable  advantage 
has  recently  been  very  greatly  enlarged  by  the  generosity  of 
another  friend  who  has  invested  for  us  the  sum  of  $10,000, 
the  income  from  which  we  are  at  liberty  to  use  in  the  pur- 
chase of  tickets  to  such  musical  events  as  the  director  deems 
advisable. 

This  frequent  hearing  of  good  music  given  in  the  best  pos- 
sible manner,  coupled  with  thorough  study,  is  largely  respon- 
sible for  the  superior  average  musicianship  found  among  our 

pupils. 

Lack  of  Sight  not  a  Sign  of  Talent. 

The  lack  of  sight  in  no  way  increases  the  amount  of 
musical  talent  in  any  individual,  and  our  pupils  are  neither 
more  nor  less  talented  than  the  average  public  school  children. 

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They  all  do,  however,  live  in  an  atmosphere  of  music  and 
they  may  have  a  keener  zest  in  the  pursuit  of  musical  at- 
tainment than  most  young  people,  and  yet,  other  things 
being  equal,  this  last  statement  is  open  to  debate. 

While  large  numbers  of  our  pupils  do  become  more  or  less 
proficient  in  instrumental  music,  in  singing,  or  in  musical 
science,  only  a  limited  number  who  show  decided  aptitude 
are  encouraged  or  permitted  to  continue  the  advanced  study 
of  music  as  a  vocation. 

Music  as  an  Avocation. 

As  an  avocation,  for  its  invaluable  merit  and  worth  in  the 
building  of  character,  —  as  a  social  asset,  —  music  study  is 
permitted  and  encouraged  up  to  a  point  where  pupils  should 
begin  to  devote  their  maximum  time  and  effort  to  their  life 
pursuit. 

Thus,  if  our  pupils  generally  appear  to  know  more  about 
musical  subjects  than  other  children,  it  is  because  of  their 
training,  and  opportunities  for  hearing  and  practicing  music 
under  exceptionally  advantageous  circumstances. 

Stereotyping  Music. 
In  order  that  our  department  may  be  truly  eflBcient,  and 
that  self-reliance  shall  be  promoted,  we  are  obliged  to  spend 
much  time  and  money  in  embossing  music  into  the  Braille 
system  for  general  use  in  the  school.  With  the  aid  of  a 
power  machine,  music  is  translated  into  the  Braille  on  brass 
sheets  which  are  proof-read  until  all  errors  are  eliminated, 
after  which  these  plates  are  forwarded  to  our  press  room, 
where  paper  editions  in  quantity  are  made. 


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Final  Word  —  why  we  teach  Music. 
In  teaching  music  to  so  many  of  our  pupils  in  this  logical, 
systematic,  and  thorough  manner  we  wish  it  to  be  under- 
stood that  no  attempt  is  being  made  to  urge  many  of  them 
into  the  field  of  music  as  a  profession.  In  fact  there  are  com- 
paratively few,  whether  with  or  without  sight,  who  should 
attempt  the  study  of  music  as  a  vocation.  We  teach  music 
to  our  pupils  because  it  is  the  only  fine  art  which  they  can 
pursue  on  an  equality  with  the  seeing,  and  because  we  be- 
lieve that  any  system  of  education  which  omits  this  subject 
or  which  leaves  it  to  chance  is  seriously  defective.  We  teach 
music  logically,  systematically,  and  thoroughly  because  we 
know  that  anything  that  is  worth  doing  at  all  is  worth  doing 
well.  We  hope  that  all  our  pupils  may  have  an  intelligent 
and  discriminating  appreciation  of  music.  We  wish  for  them 
to  play  or  to  sing  well,  but  we  sincerely  advise  that  only 
those  with  genuine  talent  and  all-round  ability  should  under- 
take the  mastery  of  music  as  a  vocation. 

EDWIN  L.  GARDINER. 


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TWELFTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 

School  FOR  the  Bund 

In  Jordan  Hall,  Boston, 

Sunday  Afternoon,  May  16,  1920,  at  3.30  o'clock. 

The  Perkins  Choir,  with  the  assistance  of  — 
Miss  LoRETTA  NooNAN,  ^  Sopmiio. 
Mr.  Antonio  Martone,  ^  Tenor. 
Mr,  Walter  H.  Kidder,  Baritone. 
Miss  Gustafson,  Pianist,  "i 
Mr.  Hartwell,  Organist,   >  of  the  faculty. 
Mr.  Gardiner,  Director,    J 

The  Program. 

PART   I. 

Out  of  the  Silence, Galhraith 

Part  song  for  mixed  chorus  with  pianoforte  accompaniment. 

Hymn  to  the  Madonna, Kremser-Spicker 

For  soprano  solo  and  chorus  with  accompaniment  of  organ  and 

pianoforte. 

By  Babylon's  Wave, Gounod 

Chorus  for  mixed  voices  with  organ  accompaniment. 

PART  II. 
Messe  Solennelle  (St.  Cecilia), Gounod 

For  mixed  chorus  and  solo  voices  and  accompaniment  of  organ 
and  pianoforte. 


1  Graduate  of  this  achool. 

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GRADUATING    EXERCISES   OF   THE   PERKINS    INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Tuesday,  June  22,  1920,  10.30  a.m. 


Program. 
Chorus,  "Prayer  of  Thanksgiving,"     ....   Dutch  Folk  Song 

Essays  —  Humor  and  the  Humorists: 

Famous  Definitions  of  Humor 

Josephine  BENorr. 

The  Modern  Demand  for  Hiunor 

Lena  Ross. 

"Laughter  Holding  Both  His  Sides" 

Marie  Angelina  Menard. 

"Heart-Easing  Mirth" 

Margaret  Lillian  Galvin. 

"Youthful  Jollity,"  at  Perkins 

Mabel  Olson. 

"To  the  Well  Trod  Stage" 

Bertha  Helenea  Guild. 

The  Serious  Purpose  of  the  Humorists 

Edith  Mary  Matthews. 

Pianoforte  solo,  "Rondo  Capriccioso"         ....   Mendelssohn 

Anna  Alling  Davenport. 
Essays: 
The  Golden  Age  of  Song 

Annie  Elizabeth  O'Neil. 

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The  Development  of  the  Pianoforte  ^ 

Anna  Alling  Davenport. 

The  Plymouth  Colony 

Frederick  Joseph  Tansey. 

Reconstruction  Problems  in  Europe 

Ralph  Hazen  Cushman. 

The  Reindeer  Industry  in  Alaska 

Sidney  Borden  Durfee. 

How  the  World  Plays 

John  M.  Cooney. 

Soprano  solo,  "With  Verdure  Clad,"  from  "The  Creation,"  .     Haydn 
Edith  Mary  Matthews. 

Presentation  of  diplomas  and  certificates. 

Chorus,  "The  Twenty-Third  Psahn,"         ....      Neidlinger 

Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1920. 
Josephine  Benoit.  Bertha  Helenea  Guild. 

John  M.  Cooney.  Edith  Mary  Matthews. 

Ralph  Hazen  Cushman.  Marie  Angelina  Menard. 

Anna  Alling  Davenport.  Mabel  Olson. 

Sidney  Borden  Durfee.  Annie  Elizabeth  O'Neil. 

Margaret  Lillian  Galvin.  Lena  Ross. 

Frederick  Joseph  Tansey. 

Certificate  from  the  Pianoforte  Normal  Department. 
Marian  Loretta  Noonan. 

Certificates  from  the  Pianoforte  Tuning  Department. 
James  Fulton.  Emil  Andrew  Johnsen. 

•  Reading  omitted. 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Concerts,    Recitals    and 

Dramatics. 

To  Mr.  W.  H.  Brennan,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course 
of  symphony  concerts  in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mr.  Edward  B.  Hill,  secretary,  for  thirty  tickets  for  a 
concert  by  the  CeciHa  Society. 

To  Mr.  H.  B.  Williams,  manager,  for  six  tickets  for  a 
pianoforte  recital  by  Mr.  Lee  Pattison. 

To  Mrs.  N.  P.  Hallowell,  for  sixteen  tickets  for  a  con- 
cert by  Mme.  Sundelius  and  Mr.  Pablo  Casals  in  Symphony 
Hall,  Boston. 

To  the  Junior  Red  Cross  Society,  through  Mrs.  George 
S.  Derby,  for  an  invitation  to  thirty  children  to  attend 
Marie  Dressler's  performance  of  "  Tillie's  Nightmare,"  given 
for  handicapped  children  at  the  Boston  Opera  House. 

To  the  Boston  Conservatory  of  Music,  through  Mr. 
Agide  Jacchia,  director,  for  fourteen  tickets  for  the  pop 
concert  of  June  29  in  Symphony  Hall,  Boston. 

IL  —  Acknowledgments    for    Recitals,    Lectures    and 
Readings  in  Our  Hall. 

To  Mr.  Thomas  A.  Watson,  for  a  talk  on  "  The  Birth  and 
Babyhood  of  the  Telephone." 

To  Mr.  Robert  J.  White,  historian  of  Watertown  Post, 
American  Legion,  for  a  talk  on  the  American  Red  Cross 
Society  at  the  war  front. 

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To  Prof.  P.  Rice,  for  a  talk  on  "The  Peace  Legion." 

To  Mr.  Alfred  Bunker,  for  readings  of  poetical  selec- 
tions. 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mrs.  Lucia  Ames  Mead,  for  a  lecture  on  "  The  League 
of  Nations." 

To  Mr.  William  Justin  Mann,  for  a  talk  on  "Abraham 
Lincoln." 

To  Miss  Adeline  Packard,  violinist,  and  Mr.  Chester 
Cook,  pianist,  for  a  recital. 

To  Mr.  L.  W.  Wallace,  director  of  the  Red  Cross  In- 
stitute for  the  Blind,  Baltimore,  Md.,  for  an  illustrated 
lecture  on  "The  Blind  in  the  Industries." 

III.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Periodicals  and  News- 
papers. 
California  News,  Christian  Record  (embossed),  Colorado 
Index,  Illuminator  (embossed),  Matilda  Zeigler  Magazine 
for  the  Blind  (embossed),  the  Mentor,  Michigan  Mirror, 
Ohio  Chronicle,  Our  Dumb  Animals,  The  Silent  Worker, 
The  Theosophical  Path,  West  Virginia  Tablet,  Woman 
Citizen. 

IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

To  Dr.  Henry  Hawkins  and  Dr.  Harold  B.  Chandler, 
for  professional  services. 

To  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmary, for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

To  Mrs.  George  H.  Monks,  for  three  pairs  of  andirons. 

To  Mr.  Herbert  S.  Tapley,  executor  of  the  will  of  Miss 
Jessie  P.  Fuller,  for  embossed  books,  typewriter  and  Braille- 
writer,  bequeathed  to  the  institution. 

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To  Miss  Susan  Upham,  for  embossed  books. 

To  Mr.  C.  D.  GuRNEY,  for  a  flute. 

To  Mr.  Wallace  L.  Pierce,  for  flowers  "  in  memory  of 
Mr.  Anagnos." 

To  Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Mrs.  Dacre  Bush  and  Miss 
LoTTA  McCrea,  for  gifts  of  money  at  Christmas  time. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Claflin,  for  a  sleighride 
for  the  children  "  in  memory  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Mack." 

To  Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Mrs.  James  H.  Proctor, 
Dr.  Francis  I.  Proctor  and  Dr.  W.  D.  Inglis,  for  fruit. 

To  Mrs.  Alice  M.  Farnham,  for  a  doll  house. 

To  Mrs.  Lucius  Barnet,  for  clothing. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  C.  Burrage,  Mr.  S.  J.  Kafelas, 
and  Mr.  John  P.  Cambridge,  for  flowers  and  plants. 

To  Miss  Emma  L.  Byam,  Mrs.  Walter  H.  James,  Mrs. 
David  Evans  and  the  Committee  for  the  Blind,  Temple 
Israel,  through  Mrs.  A.  Kopf,  chairman,  for  parties,  sociables 
and  entertainment  of  pupils,  and  for  a  summer  outing  for 
some  of  our  pupils  through  the  latter  committee. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  UPPER  SCHOOL. 


Adams,  Louise. 
Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Billow,  Ruth  K. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Brustuen,  Sonora  I. 
Butler,  Alice  May. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Clancy,  Elizabeth. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Collins,  Veronica. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Critchley,  Rosamond  M. 
Davis,  Ruth  M. 
Dawley,  Sarah  F. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Dunn,  Mary  C. 
Eastman,  M.  Albertina. 
ElUott,  Ethel  S. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fiske,  Dorothy  T. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Girouard,  Blanche. 
Graham,  Marguerite  A. 
Guiney,  Julia. 
Haigh,  Laura  A. 
Hall,  Jane  A. 


Hallock,  Flora  B. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Kababdjian,  Nouritza. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kelley,  Beulah  C. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Leppanen,  Mary. 
L'Heureux,  Juliette. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Lyon,  Hazel. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Miles,  Mildred  C. 
Miles,  Winifred  M. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Najarian,  Nevart. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Person,  Erine  A. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Rollins,  Mary  L. 
Rowe,  Margaret  C. 
Saladino,  Rose  M. 
Samson,  Bertha. 
Severance,  Georgia  M. 
Shea,  Mary  Ellen. 
Shepard,  Priscilla. 


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Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Trudel,  Olive  C. 
Weathers,  Dorothy, 
Willey,  Dorothy  E. 
Wilson,  Ruth  Edris. 
Adams,  Lyman  H. 
Amiro,  Gilbert. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Bowen,  Frederick  W. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
DiMartino,  Matthew. 
Dugal,  J.  Ernest. 
Durfee,  Sidney  B. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Evans,  Frederic  P. 
Frende,  John. 
Gaffney,  George  J. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Gallant,  M.  John. 
Goguen,  Raoul. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Hebert,  Arthur  D. 
Hussey,  Juhan  H. 
Inglis,  John  S. 
Istas,  Henry  T. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Katwick,  Arthur  D. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Kim,  Kong  Y. 
Krafve,  Karl  H. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 


Le  Roi,  Francis  H. 
Liberacki,  Edward. 
Logan,  Walter  J. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  H. 
Maziall,  John  H. 
McCarthy,  Eugene  C. 
McGilUcuddy,  John. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Medeiros,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Munn,  Daniel  J. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Nesbitt,  Hazen  P. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
O'Neill,  Ralph  L. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Paraboschi,  Joseph. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Pedersen,  Edward  M. 
Pendergast,  Jerome. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Philpot,  William  R. 
Quirk,  Arthur  L. 
Rainville,  Ernest  C. 
Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Read,  J.  Elmer. 
Retting,  Buryl  W. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
St.  George,  WiUiam. 
Silvera,  Manuel. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Smith,  Ernest. 
Smith,  Louis  W. 
Soorkis,  Morris. 
Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Vetal,  Herbert  M. 
Walker,  Roger  T. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 
Winton,  Henry  W. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Allen,  Elizabeth  M. 
Baker,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Beliveau,  Leontine  T. 
Bolduc,  Rose. 
Braley,  Ruth  I. 
Buckley,  Alice. 
Cambridge,  Mollie. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Corsi,  Angelina. 
Costa,  Marianna. 
Coughlin,  Helen. 
Curran,  Catherine. 
Daniels,  Dorothy  D. 
De  Dominicis,  Edith. 
Demers,  Germaine  M. 
Doherty,  Kathleen  E. 
Duverger,  Loretta  V. 
Edwards,  Eleanor  B. 
Elliott,  Mary. 
Fanning,  Gladys  L. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Goodwin,  Helen  J. 
Gray,  Emma  R. 
Harasimowicz,  Alice. 
Haswell,  Thelma  R. 
Hinckley,  Geraldine. 
Holland,  Doris  A. 
Ingersoll,  Dorothy. 
Kazanjian,  Zaroohie. 
Knap,  Oi  Lin. 
Landry,  Edwina. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
Laurenzo,  CaroUna. 


Lincoln,  Grace  D. 
Lyons,  Mary  L. 
MacDonald,  Katherine. 
Macdougall,  Mildred  D. 
McGovern,  Velma. 
McMuUin,  Beatrice  M. 
Ogilvie,  Hilda  M. 
Pimental,  Mary  V. 
Rankin,  Margaret  D. 
Reese,  Helen. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Samon,  Stacey. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Saverino,  Maimie. 
Scott,  Arline  R. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Smith,  Dorothy  L. 
Stanievicz,  Mary. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Tirrella,  Helen. 
Wheeler,  Theresa. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Williams,  Dorothy  M. 
Barrett,  Robert  C. 
Berube,  Walter. 
Butt,  Lawrence  W. 
Campbell,  Peter  F. 
Carlos,  Antone  F. 
Case,  William  A. 
Casella,  Charles. 
Combs,  Raymond  L. 
Cormier,  Alfred. 
Costa,  Manuel. 
CuUen,  George  F. 
Davy,  Horace. 


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Donovan,  Thomas  J. 
Dore,  Charles  W. 
Dow,  Ralph  E.  F. 
Dunbar,  Kenneth  A. 
Egan,  Robert  J. 
Evans,  Walter  C. 
Ferguson,  George  A. 
Fletcher,  Earl  H. 
Gagnon,  R^ne. 
Grime,  G.  Edward. 
Hannon,  James  E. 
Hatch,  Arthur  F. 
Hendrick,  Horatio  W. 
Holmes,  Rutherford  B. 
Houle,  Walter. 
Hurley,  Arnold  E. 
Jablonski,  Joseph. 
Keller,  Frederick  H. 
Lamarine,  William  L. 
Leone,  Amadeo. 
Libby,  Arthur  C. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 
McDonald,  Edmond  J. 


Meuse,  Lawrence  A. 
Meuse,  Paul  R. 
Michaud,  J.  Armand. 
Morse,  Kenneth. 
Munro,  George  H. 
Naatz,  John  K. 
Noble,  Clark  W. 
O'Neil,  John. 
Pike,  Norman  N. 
Rainville,  Harvey  L. 
Remington,  Joseph  H. 
Reynolds,  Waldo  F. 
Shaw,  Harris  E. 
Shulman,  George. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Simoneau,  Henry  J. 
Spencer,  Merton  S. 
Stott,  Lester  W. 
Summerhayes,  Paul  R. 
Wesson,  Kermit  0. 
Withers,  Harold. 
Yetter,  Charles  A. 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THOMAS  STRINGER. 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 
[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  living,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

Seabury,  Misa  Sarah  E., $25  00 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D 25  GO 


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STATEMENT  OF  ACCOUNTS. 


Boston,  October  Ninth,  1920. 

Messrs.  Warren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins 
Instityiion  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Gentlemen:  —  I  have  audited  the  accounts  of  Albert  Thorndike, 
Treasurer  of  the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal  year  endmg  August  31, 
1920,  and  have  found  that  all  income  from  investments  and  proceeds 
from  sales  of  securities  have  been  accounted  for,  and  that  the  dona- 
tions, subscriptions,  and  miscellaneous  receipts,  as  shown  by  the 
books,  have  been  deposited  in  bank  to  the  credit  of  the  Treasurer  of 
the  Institution. 

I  have  vouched  all  disbursements,  verified  the  bank  balances  as  at 
the  close  of  the  fiscal  year. 

The  stocks  and  bonds  in  the  custody  of  the  Treasurer  on  August 
31,  1920,  were  counted  by  the  Auditing  Committee,  and  the  schedules 
of  the  securities,  as  examined  by  them,  were  then  submitted  to  me 
and  found  to  agree  with  those  called  for  by  the  books. 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  following  statements  covering  the  Insti- 
tution, Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund,  and  Kindergarten  correctly  set 
forth  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August 
31,  1920. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JOHN  MONTGOMERY, 
Certified  Public  Accountant. 


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INSTITUTION. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1920. 
Assets. 
Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  South  Boston, $8,647  74 

Real  estate,  Watertown 678,917  37 

$687,565  11 

Equipment:  — 

Furniture  and  household $12,423  83 

Tools,  etc., 706  73 

Music  department 20,325  00 

Library  department, 59,028  80 

Works  department 19,205  94 

Tuning  department 500  00 

112,190  30 

Investments:  — 

Real  estate, $207,688  19 

Stocks  and  bonds,         .        .        .    $479,901  66 

Stocks  and  bonds:  — 

Varnum  Fund,       .        .        .        82,201  75 

562,103  41 

769,791  60 

Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies, 1 ,326  25 

Accounts  receivable 2,072  75 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 733  90 

Cash  on  hand 11,919  31 

Total,       . $1,585,599  22 

Lidbilities, 

General  account, $434,150  76 

Funds:  — 

Special, $52,667  00 

Permanent, 284,638  40 

General, 804,144  40 

1,141,449  80 

Unexpended  income,  special  funds, 8,148  35 

Gifts  for  fence,  clock  and  organ, 244  00 

Vouchers  payable 1,606  31 

Total, $1,585,599  22 

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Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1920. 

Rent  net  income $9,502  74 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes, 25,360  90 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds, 2,482  87 

Annuities, 1,200  00 

Donations, 9,270  50 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts $36,135  00 

Tuition  and  board,  others, 18,753  85 

54,888  85 

Total $102,705  86 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accounts,        $2,482  87 
Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses,  .        .  569  37 

3,052  24 

Net  income $99,653  62 

Net  charge  to  Director, $97,540  12 

Repairs,  faulty  construction, 887  19 

98,427  31 

Balance  of  income, $1,226  31 

Income,  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1919, $1,601  10 

Income  of  prior  years  not  credited,    ....  5,893  33 

Income  1919-1920 2,482  87 

$9,977  30 

Distributed $1,828  95 

Onhand  August  31,  1920 8,148  35 

$9,977  30 

Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1920. 

Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $5,594  93 

Other  expenses 744  13 

$6,339  06 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant :  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $22,232  02 

Other  expenses:  — 

Provisions,      ....      $18,291  61 


Light,  heat  and  power, 
Household   furnishings   and 

supplies. 
Insurance  and  water,    . 
Repairs,  .... 
Depreciation    on    furniture 

and  equipment. 
Miscellaneous, 


14,561  28 

2,215  21 
1,349  84 
3,606  70 

1,353  57 
1,026  56 

42,404  67 

64,636  69 


Amount  carried  forward, $70,975  75 

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Amount  brought  forward, $70,975  75 

Instruction  and  school  supplies:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $25,681  00 

Other  expenses .        .  1,703  29 

27,384  29 

Total, $98,360  04 

Less  net  income.  Tuning  Department,       .        .        .  $261  80 

Less  net  income,  Worka  Department,        .        .        .  558  12 


Net  charge  to  Director, 


819  92 


$97,540  12 


WORKS  DEPARTMENT. 

Profit  and  Loss  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1920. 

Revenue. 

Sales,  repairs,  etc., $51,613  80 

Expenditure. 

Materials  used $21,367  28 

Salaries  and  wages, 22,738  28 

General  expense, 5,711  40 

Depreciation  and  loss  from  bad  accounts,        .        .  1,238  72 

Total  expenditures, 51,055  68 

Profit  for  the  year, $558  12 


INSTITUTION  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 


Special  funds:  — 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb  and  blind), 
Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  blind  and  deaf), 
Harris  Fund  (Outdoor  Relief),    . 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  (Music),    . 
Elizabeth  P.  Putnam  (Higher  Education), 
A.  Shuman  (Clothing  Fund), 


Permanent  funds :  — 
Charlotte  Billings, 
Stoddard  Capen,    .... 
Jennie  M.  Colby,  in  memory  of, 
Ella  Newman  Curtis  Fund, 
Stephen  Fairbanks, 
Harris  Fund  (General  Purposes), 


$4,000  00 

5,000  00 

26,667  00 

15,000  GO 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 


$40,507  00 

13,770  00 

100  00 

2,000  00 

10,000  00 

53,333  00 


$52,667  00 


Amounts  carried  forward. 


$119,710  00       $52,667  00 


50 


Amounts  brought  forward, $119,710  00        $52,667  00 

Permanent  funds  —  Concluded. 

Benjamin  Humphrey 25,000  00 

Prentiss  M.  Kent 2,500  00 

Jonathan  E.  Pecker 950  00 

Richard  Perkins, 20,000  00 

Mrs.  Marilla  L.  Pitts,  in  memory  of,         .        .  5,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,          .        .        .  4,000  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer 2,174  77 

Timothy  Smith 2,000  00 

Mary  Lowell  Stone, 2,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner 1,000  00 

Anne  White  Vose 12,994  00 

Charles  L.  Young 5.000  00 

William  Varnum  Fund 82,309  63 

284,638  40 

General  funds:  — 

Elizabeth  B.  Bailey $3,000  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Calvin  W.  Barker, 1 ,859  32 

Lucy  B.  Barker, 5,953  21 

Francis  Bartlett 2,500  00 

Mary  Bartol 300  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 25,000  00 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell 5,832  66 

William  T.  Bolton 555  22 

George  W.  Boyd 5,000  00 

Caroline  E.  Boyden, 1,930  39 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 268,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 10,508  70 

J.  Edward  Brown. 100,000  00 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham 5,000  00 

Edward  F.  Gate 5,000  00 

Fanny  Channing 2,000  00 

Ann  Eliza  Colburn, 5,000  00 

Susan  J.  Conant 500  00 

Louise  F.  Crane, 5,000  00 

Harriet  Otis  Cruft 6,000  00 

David  Cummings, 7,723  07 

Chastine  L.  Gushing 500  00 

I.  W.  Danforth 2,500  00 

Susan  L.  Davis 1,500  00 

Joseph  Descalzo, 1,000  00 

John  H.  Dix, 10,000  00 

Alice  J.  H.  Dwinell 200  00 

Mary  E.  Eaton. 5.000  00 

Mortimer  C.  Ferris  Memorial.    ....  1 ,000  00 

Mary  Helen  Freeman, 1,000  00 

Cornelia  Anne  French 10,000  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $502,576  31     $337,305  40 

51 


Amounts  brought  forward, $502,576  31      $337,305  40 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Martha  A.  French 164  40 

Jessie  P.  Fuller 200  00 

Thomas  Gaffield, 6,685  38 

Albert  Glover, 1,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5,000  00 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow 6,471  23 

Hattie  S.  Hathaway 500  00 

Charles  H.  Hayden 20,200  00 

John  C.  Haynes. 1.000  00 

Joseph  H.  Heywood 500  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 3,708  32 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchison 2,156  00 

Ernestine  M.  Kettle, 10,000  00 

Lydia  F.  Knowles 50  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson 6,000  00 

WUliam  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Hannah  W.  Loring 9.500  00 

Susan  B.  Lyman 4,809  78 

Stephen  W.  Marston, 5.000  00 

Charles  Merriam 1.000  00 

Joseph  F.  Noera 2,000  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

George  Francis  Parkman, 50,000  00 

Grace  Parkman 500  00 

Philip  G.  Peabody 1.200  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20.000  00 

Sarah  E.Pratt 1.000  00 

Matilda  B.  Richardson 300  00 

Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Marian  Russell 5,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2,640  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Richard  Black  Sewell, 25,000  00 

Margaret  A.  Simpson 800  00 

Esther  W.  Smith 5,000  00 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .  15,000  00 

Henry  F.  Spencer. 1.000  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey. 6.000  00 

Sophronia  S.  Sunbury. ^65  19 

Mary  F.  Swift 1-391  00 

WUliam  Taylor 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson, 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton 10.000  00 

AbbieT.Vose. 1.000  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait ^  3.000  00 

Harriot  Ware 1.952  02 


Amounts  carried  forward $757.213  88     $337,305  40 

52 


Amounts  brought  forward $757,213  88     $337,305  40 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested 

remainder  interest  under  his  will) ,          .        .  11 ,500  00 

Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Cordelia  H.  Wheeler 800  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler, 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  Whitney 1,000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson, 543  75 

Thomas  T.  Wyman 20,000  00 

Fanny  Young, 8,000  00 


804,144  40 


1,141,449  80 


DONATIONS,  INSTITUTION  ACCOUNT. 

Clapp,  Mrs.  Mary  L $10  00 

Kilham,  Miss  Annie  M., 10  00 

Committee  of  the  Permanent  Charity  Fund,  In- 
corporated,          4,750  00 

Phelps,  Miss  Evelyn  Y., 1  00 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E 75  00 

$4,846  00 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society, 4,424  50 


$9,270  50 
Organ  Fund:  — 

Dunbar,  Mrs.  Harriet  W $10  00 

Mayo,  Helen  1 9  00 

19  00 

$9,289  50 


53 


HOWE  MEMORIAL  PRESS  FUND. 
Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1920. 

Assets. 
Equipment:  — 

Printing  plant, $874  59 

Printing  inventor5% 13,985  02 

Machinery  and  equipment,          ....  5,210  41 

Embossing  inventory, 20,978  68 

Appliances  manufactured 5,180  73 

Appliances  purchased, 459  08 

Stationery 575  55 

$47,264  06 

Investments :  — 

Stocks  and  bonds, 169,200  84 

Notes  and  accounts  receivable 2,359  51 

Cash  on  hand, 737  48 

Total, $219,561  89 

Lidbilitiea. 

General  account, $203,201  13 

Funds:  — 

Permanent:  — 

Deacon  Stephen  Stickney $5,000  00 

General :  — 

Joseph  H.  Center,         .        .       $1,000  00 
Augusta  Wells,     .         .        .        10,290  00 

11,290  00 

16,290  00 

Vouchers  payable 70  76 


Total, $219,561 


Condensed  Teeasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1920. 

Income:  — 

Interest  and  dividends, $10,628  18 

Other  income 53  56 

Total, $10,681  74 

Less  Treasurer's  expenses, 65  81 

Net  income, $10,615  93 

Net  charge  to  Director,        .        . 10,049  18 

Balance  of  income, §566  75 

54 


Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1920. 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Embossing,  wages  and  expenses,         .        .        .  $4,387  61 
Printing,  wages  and  expenses,     ....  784  91 
Appliances  manufactured,  wages  and  expenses,  3,019  34 
Appliances   purchased,   merchandise   and   ex- 
penses,           Ill  63 

Stationery  purchased, 57  07 

Depreciation  on  machinery  and  equipment,     .  635  93 

Library  wages  and  expenses 2,236  63 

Scale  of  type  tests 96  93 

Miscellaneous,  wages  and  expenses,   .        .  2,916  77 


$14,246  82 


Less: 


Discounts, 

Income  from  sale  of  appliances,  . 

Income  from  sale  of  books,  music, 

etc 


Net  charge  to  Director, 


$2,587  74 
1,594  83 


$15  07 


4,182  57 


4,197  64 


$10,049  18 


55 


KINDERGARTEN. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1920. 

Assets. 

Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  Watertown $530,462  93 

Equipment:  — 

Furniture  and  household $12,362  10 

Tools,  etc., 656  64 

Music  department 2,945  00 

15,963  74 

Investments :  — 

Real  estate $419,946  43 

Stocks  and  bonds 945,722  22 

1,365,668  65 

Iron  fence  (cost  to  date) , 1,008  06 

Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies, 1,326  25 

Accounts  receivable 1,229  30 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 175  83 

Cash  on  hand 5,754  86 

Total $1,921,589  62 

Liabilities. 

General  account $391,846  44 

Funds:  — 

Special $6,840  00 

Permanent 180,319  70 

General 1,340,099  58 

1,527,259  28 

Unexpended  income  special  funds, 1,151  93 

Vouchers  payable, 1,278  41 

Account  payable, 53  56 

Total $1,921,589  62 


Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1920. 

Rent  net  income $17,728  96 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes, 49,286  41 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds 337  80 

Donations, 101  75 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts,    ....      $31,185  00 

Tuition  and  board,  others 11,821  68 

43,006  68 

Total $110,461  60 

Amount  carried  forward $110,461  60 

56 


Amount  brought  forward, $110,461  60 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accounts,  .  S337  80 

Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses,  .  .  595  73 

933  53 

Net  income $109,528  07 

Net  charge  to  Director, $83,463  27 

Repairs,  faulty  construction, 1,536  42 

84.999  69 

Balance  of  income $24,528  38 

Income,  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1.  1919. $816  84 

Income  of  prior  years  not  credited.    ....  123  33 

Income  1919-1920 337  80 

$1,277  97 

Distributed  1919-1920 $126  04 

Onhand  August  31,  1920. 1,15193 

$1,277  97 


Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1920. 

Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $5,634  94 

Other  expenses 1,420  00 

$7,054  94 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant :  — 

Salaries  and  wages $25,222  44 

Other  expenses:  — 

Provisions,          ....      $17,375  56 
Light,  heat  and  power.     .  14.013  17 
Household  furnishings  and  sup- 
plies   1.154  28 

Depreciation  on  furniture  and 

household  equipment,  .  1.318  09 

Insurance  and  water,        .        .  1,252  77 

Repairs, 2,339  93 

Miscellaneous 3,636  87 

41,090  67 

66,313  11 

Instruction  and  school  supplies:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $9,220  00 

Other  expenses, 875  22 

10,095  22 

Net  charge  to  Director $83,463  27 


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KINDERGARTEN  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Special  funds:  — 

Glover    Fund     (Albert    Glover,     Blind    deaf 

mutes), S1.840  00 

Emeline  Morse  Lane  (Books),   ....  1,000  00 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Boom,     .        .        .  4,000  00 

$6,840  GO 

Permanent  funds:  — 

William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,  Memorial,        .  $1,000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden, 4,675  00 

A.  A.  C.,  In  Memoriam, 500  00 

Helen  G.  Coburn 9,980  10 

M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  Fund,         .        .  10,000  00 

Caroline  T.  Downes, 12,950  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Eliza  J.  Bell  Draper  Fund 1,500  00 

Helen  Atkins  Edmands  Memorial,     .        .        .  5,000  00 

George  R.  Emerson, 5,000  00 

Mary  Eveleth,        .......  1,000  00 

Eugenia  F.  Famham 1,015  00 

Susan  W.  Farwell, 500  00 

John  Foster, 5,000  00 

Albert  Glover, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  Fund, 9,935  95 

Charles  Lamed 5,000  00 

George  F.  Parkman, 3,500  00 

Catherine  P.  Perkins, 10,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,          .        .        .  15,600  00 

Caroline  O.  Seabury, 1,000  00 

Eliza  Sturgis  Fund, 21,729  52 

Abby  K.  Sweetser 25,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser 5.000  00 

Mary  Rosevear  White 500  00 

180,319  70 

General  funds :  — 

Emilie  Albee $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen 748  38 

Michael  Anagnos, 3,000  00 

Harriet  T.  Andrew 5,000  00 

Martha  B.  Angell, 7.500  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton 18,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey 500  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Ellen  M.  Baker, 13,053  48 

Mary  D.  Balfour 100  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  Fund 500  00 

Sidney  Bartlett, 10,000  00 

Emma  M.  Bass, 1,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Amounts  carried  forward,          ....  $62,374  36     $187,159   70 

58 


Amounts  brought  forward $62,374  36      $187,159  70 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Robert  C.  Billings, 10,000  00 

Sarah  Bradford 100  00 

Helen  C.  Bradlee 140,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 6,130  07 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown, 1,000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown, 3,073  76 

Harriet  1  ilden  Browne, 2,000  00 

John  W.  Carter 500  00 

•   Adeline  M.  Chapin, 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney, 5,000  00 

Charles  H.  Colburn 1,000  00 

Helen  Collamore 5,000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge 45,138  16 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis 300  00 

Sarah  Silver  Cox 5,000  00 

Susan  T.  Crosby 100  00 

James  H.  Danforth 1,000  00 

Catherine  L.  Donnison  Memorial,      .        .        .  1,000  00 

George  E.  Downes, 3,000  00 

Lucy  A.  Dwight, 4,000  00 

Mary  B.  Emmons, 1,000  00 

Mary  E.  Emerson, 1,000  00 

Annie  Louisa  Fay  Memorial,       ....  1,000  00 

Sarah  M.  Fay 15,000  00 

Charlotte  M.  Fiske, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  W.  Gay 7,931  00 

Ellen  M.  Gififord 5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 5,000  00 

Matilda  Goddard 300  00 

Maria  L.  Gray, 200  00 

Mary  L.  Greenleaf, 5,157  75 

Josephine  S.  Hall, 3,000  00 

Olive  E.  Hayden 4,622  45 

Allen  Haskell 500  00 

Jane  H.  Hodges, 300  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden, 2,360  67 

Marion  D.  Hollingsworth, 1,000  00 

Frances  H.  Hood, 100  00 

Abigal  W.  Howe, 1,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt 10,000  00 

Ellen  M.  Jones 500  00 

Moses  Kimball 1,000  00 

Ann  E.  Lambert, 700  00 

William  Litchfield 5,000  00 

Mary  Ann  Locke, 5,874  00 

Robert  W.  Lord 1,000  00 

Elisha  T.  Loring 5,000  00 


Amounts  carried  forward,  ....    $553,05346      $187,159  70 

59 


Aw ounts  brought  forward, $553,053  46     $187,159  70 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Sophia  N.  Low 1,000  00 

Thomas  Mack 1,000  00 

Augustus  D.  Manson, 8,134  00 

Calanthe  E.  Marsh 20,111  20 

Sarah  L.  Marsh, 1,000  00 

Waldo  Marsh 500  00 

Annie  B.  Matthews, 15,000  00 

Rebecca  S.  Melvin, 23,545  55 

Georgina  Merrill, 4,773  80 

Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Mary  Abbie  Newell 600  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis, 1,000  00 

Jeannie  Warren  Paine, 1,000  00 

Anna  R.  Palfrey 50  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

Helen  M.  Parsons, 500  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  M.  Peyser 3,000  00 

Mary  J.  Phipps 2,000  00 

Caroline  S.  Pickman 1,000  00 

Katherine  C.  Pierce 5,000  00 

Helen  A,  Porter 50  00 

Sarah  E.  Potter  Endowment,      ....  425,014  44 

Francis  L.  Pratt 100  00 

Mary  S.  C.  Reed, 5,000  00 

Jane  Roberts 93,025  55 

John  M.  Rodocanachi 2,250  00 

Dorothy  Roffe, 500  00 

Rhoda  Rogers 500  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch 8,500  00 

Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

Rebecca  Salisbury 200  00 

Joseph  Schol6eld 3,000  00 

Eliza  B.  Seymour 5,000  00 

Esther  W.  Smith 5,000  00 

Annie  E.  Snow, 9,903  27 

Adelaide  Standish 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  G.  Stuart 2,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer 2,000  00 

Harriet  Taber  Fund 622  81 

Sarah  W.  Taber 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot, 630  00 

Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Delia  D.  Thorndike 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Betsey  B.  Tolman 500  00 

Transcript,  ten  dollar  fund,         ....  5,666  95 

Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 


Amounts  carried  forward $1,261,713  34     $187,159  70 

60 


Amounta  brought  forward $1,261.713  34     $187,159  70 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Minnie  H.  Underbill, 1,000  00 

Rebecca  P.  Wainwright, 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales 5,000  00 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales, 10.000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware 4,000  00 

Rebecca  B.  Warren 6,000  00 

Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse,    ....  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson 100  00 

Ralph  Watson  Memorial 237  92 

Isabella  M.  Weld 14,795  06 

Mary  Whitehead 666  00 

Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney 150  62 

Betsey  S.  Wilder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Mary  W.  Wiley 150  00 

Mary  Williams 6,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott, 5,532  00 


1,340,099  58 
$1,527,259  28 


DONATIONS,  KINDERGARTEN  ACCOUNT. 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K $10  00 

"Children  of  the  King",  Church  of  the  Disciples, 

Boston 5  00 

Concert   given   at    Monument    Beach    by    Muriel 
Parker.  Ursula  Hollander,  Virginia  Beatey,  and 

Betty  Parker 52  75 

Crane.  Mrs.  Charies  T 20  00 

Sabine,  George  K 14  00 

$101  75 


61 


CONTRIBUTIONS    FOR    THE    PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Stover,  Treasurer :  — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,182  00 

Donations, 1,906  50 

Cambridge  Branch .  195  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 53  00 

Lynn  Branch, 40  00 

Milton  Branch, 48  00 

Donations  for  small  organ 19  00 


$4,443  50 


ANNUAL   SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR   THE 
PERKINS  INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 

$2  00 

Adams,  Mr.  George, 

1  00 

Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo, 

5  00 

Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R.,  . 

3  00 

Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 

25  00 

Amory,  Mrs.  Wm., 

5  00 

Amory,  Mrs.  Wm.,  2d, 

25  00 

Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 

1  00 

Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 

2  00 

Atkins,  Mrs.  Edwin  F., 

5  00 

Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P.,    . 

3  00 

Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 

5  00 

Baer,  Mrs.  Louis,    . 

10  00 

Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 

5  00 

Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 

5  00 

Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R., 

10  00 

Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 

20  00 

Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 

10  00 

Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R.,    . 

5  00 

Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 

10  00 

Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 

1  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $158  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $158  00 


Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W., 
Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.,     . 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,     . 
Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S.,   . 
Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T. 
Brush,  Mrs.  C.  N., 
Burns,  Mr.  Walter  G.,  . 
Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C,    . 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G., 
Gary,  Miss  Georgina, 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L. 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W. 
Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E.  C, 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $316  00 


2 

00 

3 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       10 

00 

50 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

62 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $316  00 


Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R.,   . 

1  00 

Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C.   . 

2  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 

10  00 

Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen,    . 

5  00 

Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 

3  00 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 

5  00 

Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Amory,          .        .        .        . 

10  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph 

25  00 

Cox,  Mrs.  William  E.,   . 

10  00 

Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 

5  00 

Craigin,  Dr.  G.  A., 

5  00 

Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 

10  00 

Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  James  F.,  . 

5  00 

Curtis,  Miss  Mary  G.,  . 

10  00 

Gushing.  Mrs.  H.  W.,    . 

5  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W.,      . 

2  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G.. 

2  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  Ellen  M.,  . 

2  00 

Cutts,  Mrs.  H.  M., 

1  00 

Dale,  Mrs.  Eben,    . 

5  00 

Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 

2  00 

Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A., 

2  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 

5  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 

3  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 

5  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C., 

5  00 

Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket, 

5  00 

Drost,  Mr.  C.  A.,    . 

10  00 

Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

1  00 

Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 

5  00 

Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant, 

.       10  00 

Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 

5  00 

Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 

2  00 

Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 

35  00 

Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C, 

5  00 

Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 

5  00 

Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 

3  00 

Estabrook,  Mrs.  George  W. 

1  00 

Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 

.       10  00 

Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 

10  00 

Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B.,  . 

10  00 

Field.  Mrs.  D.  W., 

5  00 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,       . 

.       25  00 

Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N.,  . 

.       10  00 

Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel, 

1  00 

Atrtount  carried  forward,     .  S639  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $639  00 


Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,     . 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert,  . 
Gibbs,  Mrs.  H.  C, 
Gill,  Mr.  Abbott  D.,      . 
Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,      . 
Goldberg,  Mrs.  Simon,  . 
Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer  H 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,      . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Chas.  H., 
Grant,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert 
Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,     . 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 
Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  . 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 
Harrington,  Mrs.  Francis  B 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 
Harwood,  Mrs.  Ellen  A., 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W.,    . 
Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G.;   . 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,     . 
Hoi  brook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Homans,  Mrs.  John, 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,     . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howland,  Mrs.  M.  M., 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C, 
Johnson,  Miss  Fanny  L.  (for 
1917, 1918, 1919  and  1920), 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 
Jordan,  Mrs.  Eben  D.,  . 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,    . 
Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 
Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 
King,  Mrs.  S.  G.,    . 
Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,030  00 


3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

2  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

10  00 

5  00 

.       20  00 

1  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       25  00 

.       25  00 

1  00 

.       10  00 

.       25  00 

),        4  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       25  00 

10  00 

.       50  00 

3  00 

5  00 

63 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,030  00 


Klous,  Mr.  Isaac,    . 
Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix,     . 
Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 
Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A., 
Lane,  Mrs.  D.  H.,  . 
Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 
Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph,   . 
Leland,  Leslie  F.,    . 
Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 
Levi,  Mrs.  Harry,  . 
Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 
Loring,  Judge  W,  C, 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C, 
Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  E., 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 
Levering,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S.,  . 
Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,     . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 
Macurdy,   Mr.  Wm.  F.,  for 

Otis  Brothers  Co., 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 
Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M., 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Monks,   Mrs.   Geo.   H.   (for 

1918,  1919,  1920),     . 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  . 
Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 
Morss,  Mrs.  Everett,     . 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Moses,  Mrs.  George, 
Moses,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Moses,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Nathan,  Mrs,  Jacob, 
Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,     . 
Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 
Olmsted,  Mrs.  J.  C,      . 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 
Paine,  Mrs.  W.  D., 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J.,  . 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 
Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman,  . 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,     . 

Amount  carried  forward, 


3  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.  100  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

r 

.   10  00 

2  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

45  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

3  00 

3  00 

2  00 

10  00 

10  00 

3  00 

2  00 

25  00 

$1,444  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $1,444  00 


25  00 

25  00 

15  00 

10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

20  00 


Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W.,  .       10  00 

Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M.,       10  00 
Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,     . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Rand,  Mrs.  Arnold  A.,  . 
Ratchesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 

Ratchesky,  Mrs.  I.  A.,  . 

Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

Reed,  Mrs.  John  H., 

Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell, 

Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 

Rice,  Mrs.  Wm.  B., 

Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 

Richards,  Mrs.  C.  A.,     . 

Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,     . 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick, 

Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal  (for 
1919-20),      . 

Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 

Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K., 

Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S.,  . 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Henry, 

Rosenbaum,  Miss  Loraine, 

Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S., 

Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 

Salomon,  Miss  Rena  K., 

Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M., 
in  memory  of  his  mother, 
Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall, 

Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W., 

Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E.,    . 

Schouler,  Mr.  James, 

Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem- 
ory of  her  mother,  Mrs 
N.  M.  Downer,    . 

Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 

Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 

Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 

Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 

Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D.,    . 

Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 

Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 

Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P.,  10  00 

Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D.,  .  5  00 

Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana  (for 

1919-20),      .  .       10  00 

Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H.,       10  00 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett,         3  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 


5  00 
10  00 
25  00 
25  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,780  00 


64 


Amount  br ought  forward,   $1,780  00  Amount  brought  forward,    $1.942  00 


Stearns,  Mr.  Wm.  B.,    . 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex., 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil, 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,  . 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 
Sweetser,  Mrs.  Frank  E., 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C,    . 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  L 
Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S, 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C, 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett, 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A., 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee,  . 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard,   . 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador, 


80 

00 

2  00 

6  00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

10  00 
5  00 
25  00 
25  00 
10  00 
1  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,942  00 


Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge,  . 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P.,  . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor,  . 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M.  (for 

1919-20),      . 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
WheelwTight,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman  H., 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Williams,  The  Misses,    . 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses,  . 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest, 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Wolcott,  Mrs.  Roger,     . 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 


5 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

.   25 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   20 

00 

.  100 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5  00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.   10  00 

$2,182  00 

DONATIONS. 


A  friend,  .... 
Abrahams,  Miss  Rosa,  . 
Adams,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Adams,  Mrs.  Henry  J., 
Aiken,  Miss  Susan  C,   . 
Alden,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,     . 
Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  B., 
Baker,  Miss  Susan  P.,    . 
Barnard,  Mr.  Simon, 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W.,   . 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot 
Bemis,  Mr.  J.  M.,  . 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 
Blake,  Mr.  Wm.  P., 
Boardman,  Mrs.  W.  D., 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 


SI  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

10  00 

10  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $128  00 


Bruerton,  Mrs.  James,  . 
BuUard,  Mr.  Alfred  M., 
BuUens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred, 
Bunker,  Miss  Alice  M., 
Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D.,  . 
Bush,  Miss  Mary  L.,      . 
C 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $128  00 


Carter,  Mrs.  John  W.,  . 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  G., 
Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,  Miss  Alice,  . 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Codman,  Miss  Martha  C, 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F 
Cotting,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Crocker,  Mrs.  U.  H., 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


20  00 
50  00 
15  00 


3 
5 
5 
3 

2 

10  00 

200  00 

5  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $476  00 


65 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $476  00 


Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R.,  . 
Daland,  Mrs.  Tucker,    . 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  Arthur  F., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 


Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,    . 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Louis  A., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Randolph 
Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L., 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R.,    . 
Gray,   Mrs.  John  Chipman 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Guild.  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,      . 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 
Homans,  Mrs.  John, 
Hotchkin  &  Co.,  Messrs., 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B., 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C,  . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,     . 
Hubbard,  Mr.  Gorham, 
Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,    . 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis,  . 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  George 

H.  Eager,     . 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 

L.  Thayer,  through   Mrs 

Hannah  T.  Brown, 
Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 
Keene,  Mrs.  S.  W., 
Kimball,  The  Misses, 
Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  John, 
Lee,  Mrs.  George,  . 
Loring,  Mrs.  A.  P., 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 
Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H 
Magee,  Mr.  John  L., 
Manning,  Miss  A.  F., 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E 
McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L., 
Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank, 


10  00 
5  00 
2  00 
25  00 
10  00 
50  00 

1  00 
5  00 

20  00 
25  00 
10  00 
25  00 
25  00 
5  00 

5  00 

6  00 
25  00 

100  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 
20  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 
25  00 

5  00 

2  00 
10  00 

10  00 


5  00 

5  00 

2  00 
25  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 
25  00 

5  00 
10  00 
25  00 

5  00 
50  00 

5  00 
10  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,157  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,167  00 


Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T.,  . 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W., 
Morse,  Dr.  Henry  Lee, 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,     . 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 
Peabody,  Mr.  Harold,    . 
Peirce,  Mrs.  Silas,  . 
Perry,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  . 
Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,      . 
Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,     . 
Pitman,  Mrs.  Benjamin  F., 
Potter,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Powell,  Mrs.  Wm.  B.,    . 
Punchard,  Miss  A.  L.,   . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H., 
Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher,  . 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  M.,  . 
Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 
Richardson,  The  Misses,  in 

memory  of  M.  A.  E.  and 

C.  P.  P.,       . 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C, 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E.,  . 
Ripley,  Mr.  Frederick  H., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma,  . 
Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O,,     . 
Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P.,    . 
Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 
Sever,  Miss  Emily, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland, 
Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 
Sias,  Miss  Martha  G.,    . 
Slattery,  Mrs.  Wm., 
Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 
Spring,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rom 

ney 

Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 

St.  John,  Mrs.  C.  Henry,  in 

memory    of    her    mother, 

Mrs.  Isaac  H.  Russell, 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,    . 
Storrow,  Mrs.  James  J., 


5  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

25  00 

5  00 

1  00 

3  00 

10  00 

3  00 

10  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

20  00 

10  00 


3  00 
5  00 
3  00 

25  00 
2  00 

10  00 


10  00 

20  00 
5  00 

20  00 
5  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 

5  00 
20  00 


5  00 

2  00 

10  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,509  00 


66 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,509  00 


Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis, 

5  00 

Swann,  Mrs.  John, 

10  00 

Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 

1  00 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley, 

10  00 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.,  . 

10  00 

Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  B.,    . 

10  00 

Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A., 

10  00 

Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 

5  00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 

1  00 

Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A.,  . 

10  00 

Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F., 

50  00 

Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 

2  00 

Vose,  Mrs.  Charles, 

2  00 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  W.  Austin 

20  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     $1,655  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,655  00 


Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H.,      . 

10  00 

Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H., 

10  00 

Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A., 

10  00 

Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.,      . 

50  00 

Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 

10  00 

Willcomb,  Mrs.  George, 

10  00 

Williams.  Mrs.  C.  A.,     . 

5  00 

Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 

25  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  T.  E.,     . 

5  00 

Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T.,  . 

50  00 

Winthrop.Mrs.Thos.  Lindal 

,      25  00 

Wright,  Mrs.  J.  H., 

1  50 

Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 

15  00 

Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis,   . 

25  00 

51.906  50 

CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


Agassiz,  Mr.  Max  (donation) 

,     $20  00 

Ames.  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona 

tion).     .... 

10  00 

Boggs.  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 

2  00 

Brewster,  Mrs.  William  (do 

nation), 

5  00 

Bul6nch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 

2  00 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C.  (do- 

nation). 

2  00 

Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B., 

3  00 

(donation),  . 

2  00 

Farlow,   Mrs.  Wm.   C.   (do- 

nation), 

5  00 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C.  (do- 

nation). 

30  00 

Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno, 

3  00 

Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E. 

2  00 

Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 

1  00 

Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 

2  00 

Hayward,  Mrs.  James  W., 

10  00 

Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 

7  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    .  $106  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $106  00 


Horsford,  Miss  Katharine  M 

(donation),  . 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Ireland,    Miss    Catharine    I 

(donation),  . 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,    . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W.. 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Richards,  Miss  L.  B.,     . 
Sargent.  Dr.  D.  A.. 
Sawyer,  Miss  Ellen  M.  (do- 
nation). 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  Robert  N., 
Wesselhoeft.  Mrs.  Walter, 
Whittemore.  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

20 

00 

2 

00 

$195  GO 


67 


DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  Susan  E., 

$1  00 

Bennett,  Miss  M.  M.  (dona- 

tion),      

1  00 

Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  (do- 

nation)  

5  00 

Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S. 

2  00 

ChurchUl,  Dr.  Anna  Quincy 

1  00 

Churchill,  Judge  J.  R.,  . 

1  00 

Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,     . 

1  00 

(donation),  . 

1  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 

1  00 

(donation),  . 

1  00 

Eliot,  Mrs.  C.  R.,  . 

2  00 

Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewall  A., 

1  00 

Hall,  Mrs.  Henry,  . 

1  00 

Haven,       Mrs.      Katharine 

Stearns, 

1  00 

Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 

1  00 

Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C 

,        2  00 

Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A.,  . 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .    $26  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .    $25  00 


Murdock,  Mrs.  Harold  (do- 
nation), .  .  .  . 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W.  (do- 
nation), 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K.,  . 
Preston,  Miss  Myra  C, 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H.,  . 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem 

ory  of,  . 
Whiton,  Mrs.  Royal, 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S.,  . 
Waiard,  Mrs.  L.  P., 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary, 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P.. 


2  00 


1  00 


5 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

5 

00 

$53  00 


LYNN   BRANCH. 


Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F., 
Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A.,  . 
Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.  (dona 

tion),     .... 
Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J., 
Haven,     Miss    Rebecca    E. 

(donation),  . 
Sheldon,  Mrs.  Chauncey  C, 


Amount  carried  forward,     .    $20  00 


$1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $20  00 

Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,         .10  00 
Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B.  (do- 
nation)  5  00 

Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.  (do- 
nation),       ....         6  00 


$40  00 


Brewer,  Miss  Eliza  (dona- 
tion),          $10  00 

Clark,   Mrs.   D.   Cakes   (for 

1919) 1  00 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Caleb  L. 

(for  1919-20),      ...         4  00 

Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray,        .       10  00 

Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L.,  .       10  00 


MILTON   BRANCH. 

Amount  brought  forward. 


Amount  carried  forward,    .    $35  00 


Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 

Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar  (dona- 
tion),      

Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R.,  . 

Ware,  Mrs.  Arthur  L.  (do- 
nation),       .... 


$35  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

$48  00 


68 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruke  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  No. 
19  Congress  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen,  Water- 
town,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Treasurer. 
No.  19  Congress  Stkeet,  Boston. 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ) 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FOBM  OF  DEVISE  OF  BEAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows:  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 
follows: 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

No.   19  Congress  Street, 

Boston. 


SAMUEL   G.   HOWE,  ABOUT    1859. 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  vSchool 
For  the  Blind 


NINETIETH  ANNUAL  REPORT 
OP  THE  TRUSTEES 


1921 


BOSTON     jt     jt     Jt     jH     ^     1922 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


®l)e  €^0mmonu)ealtl)  of  iHa0Bacl)U0ett0 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  20,  1921. 

To  the  Hon.  Frederic  W.  Cook,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for 
the  use  of  the  Legislature,  a  copy  of  the  ninetieth  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


M4S-5- 


OFFICERS  OF  THE   CORPORATION. 

1921-1923. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOABD   OF  T&nSTEES. 


FRANCIS   HENRY  APPLETON. 

WILLIAM   ENDICOTT. 

Miss  ROSAMOND   FAY. 

THOMAS  J.  FAY. 

PAUL   E.  FITZPATRICK. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 


ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL. 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL. 
MISS  MARIA  PURDON. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLUM   L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
RICHARD  M.  SALTONSTALL. 


STANDING   COMMITTEES. 
Monthly  Visiting  Conunittee, 

whose  duly  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


1922. 

1922. 

January,  . 

Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

July.   .      . 

Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick. 

February, 

Misa  Maria  Purdon. 

August,    . 

Miss  Rosamond  Fay. 

March,     . 

Robert  H.  Hallowell. 

September, 

George  H.  Richards. 

April, 

Paul  R.  Frothinoham. 

October,  . 

William  L.  Richardson. 

May, 

James  A.  Lowell. 

November, 

Richard  M.  Saltonstall 

June, 

Thomas  J.  Fay. 

December, 

William  Endicott. 

Executive  Committee. 
Francis  Henry  Appleton,   President,  ex 

officio. 
Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  ex  officio. 
Edward  E.  Allen,  Secretary,  ex  officio. 
George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Finance  Committee. 
Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  ex  officio. 
George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
James  A.  Lowell. 


Auditors  of  Expenses. 

George  H.  Richards. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
John  Montgomery,  Certified  Public  Accountant. 


OFFICERS   OF   ADMINISTRATION   AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS    AND    OFFICERS    OF    THE    UPPER    SCHOOL. 
LITERABT  DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

MiBS  JESSICA   L.  LANGWORTHY. 

MiBS  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

CHESTER  A.  GIBSON. 

FRANCIS  W.  DANA. 

Miss  LIZZIE   R.  KINSMAN. 

Miss  CLARA   L.  PRATT. 

Miss  FRANCES  KELLERT. 


Qirls'  Section. 

Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 
Miss  ANNIE   L.  BRADFORD. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE  M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  MARY   H.  FERGUSON. 
Mrs.  ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  GERTRUDE  S.  HARLOW. 


Teacher  ot  Home  Economies. 

Miss  MARY  C.  MELDRUM. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL  TRAININO. 

GEORGE  S.  CHAMBERLAIN.  |      Miss  MARY  H.  FERGUSON. 

Miss  LENNA   D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  MUSIC. 


Miss  FREDA   A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK, 
JOHN  F.  HARTWELL. 


EDWIN  L.  GARDINER. 

Miss  BRYAN   STURM. 

Miss  BLANCHE   A.  BARDIN. 

Miss  EDITH   RANDALL. 

Miss  MABEL   A.  STARBIRD.   Voice. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  MANUAL  TBAININO. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN  H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 
HAROLD   W.  STANTON. 
Miss  MARY  B.  KNOWLTON.  Sloyd. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES   M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ELIZABETH   V.  PIERCE. 


DEPABTMENT  OF  TUNING  PIANOrORTES. 

ELWYN  H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


UBRAKIANS,  CLEBKS  AND  BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.  SAWYER,  Librarian. 
Miss  HARRIET  E.  BOSWORTH. 

Assistant 
Miss  ANNA   GARDNER   FISH.  Clerk. 

Mrs.  SARAH   A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society 


Miss  ELLEN  THOMPSON,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI  L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


DEPABTMENT  OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY  HAWKINS.  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD   B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD   FAIRBANKS.  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.T).,  Atteriding  Dentist  for  the  Kitidergarten. 

Miss  WINIFRED   MANTON,  R.N..  Attending  Nurse. 


DOMESTIC   DEPABTMENT. 

FREDERICK  A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Matxons  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  CLARISSA  A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  JOSEPHINE   H.  MANSUR. 
Mrs.  CHESTER  A.  GIBSON. 
Mrs.  EMILY   T.  TURNER. 


Qirls'  Section. 
Mrs.  ISABELLA  P.  HEARD. 
Mrs.  M.  M.  EASTMAN. 
Miss  KATHERINE  M.  LOWE. 
Miss  LENA  GEISER. 


PBINTINQ  DEPABTMENT. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS,  Printer.  \    Miss  MARY   L.  TULLY,  Printer. 


WOBKSHOP  FOB  ADULTS. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Miss  EVA  C.  ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS    AND    OFFICERS    OF    THE    LOWER    SCHOOL. 


KINDEBGABTEN. 


Qirls'  Section. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Lorinq,  Matron. 
Mrs.  Mart  E.  Whitney,  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher, 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Mrs.  Emma  H.  McCraith,  Assistant. 
Miss  Carolyn  M.  Burrell,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Sadie  Turner,  Teacher. 

Miss  Edith  Randall,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Margaret  McKenzie,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 

Samuel  P.  Hayes,  Ph.D.,  Psychologist. 

Miss  Kathryn  E.  Maxfield,  Assistant  in  Psychology  and  Personnel 

Miss  Ruth  Colburn,  Assistant  Psychologist. 


PBIMABY  DEPABTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Clossie  E.  Clark,  Substitute. 
Miss  Flora  C.  Fountain,  Assistant. 
Miss  Ethel  D.  Evans,  Teacher. 


Miss  Beth  A.  Easter,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  Miller,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K,  Gring,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Esther  L.  Holmes,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'   VISITING   COMMITTEE  TO   THE   KINDEBGABTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Secretary. 


Mrs.  Algernon  Coolidoe,  . 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge,   . 
Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton, 
Miss  Harriett  Dexter, 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard, 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren, 


January. 
February. 
March. 
April. 

May. 


Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,    .  June. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  .  September. 

Mrs.  Ronald  T.  Lyman,       .  October. 

Mrs.  George  H.  Monks,      .  November. 

Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley,     .  December. 


General  Visitors. 

Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman. 
Miss  Maria  Purdon. 
Miss  Alice  Sargent. 


Honorary  Members. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE   CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  Edwin  H.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Adams,  Karl,  Boston. 

Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 

Amory,  Robert,  Boston. 

Anderson,  Mrs.  Larz,  Brookline. 

Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 

Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henry, 
Peabody. 

Appleton,  Francis  Henry,  Jr., 
Boston. 

Appleton,  Mrs.  Francis  Henry, 
Jr.,  Boston. 

Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 

Atherton,  Mrs.  Caroline  S.,  Grove 
HaU. 

Bacon,  Caspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 

Baldwin,  S.  E.,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

BaUantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 

Bancroft,  Miss  Eleanor  C, 
Beverly. 

Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 

Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 

Beatley,  Mrs.  Clara  B.,  Boston. 

Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 

Benedict,  Wm.  Leonard,  New 
York. 

Bennett,  Miss  Gazella,  Worcester. 

Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 


Blake,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Blunt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 

Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Bowditch,  IngersoU,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brighara,  Charles,  Watertown. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 

Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullard,  Miss  Ellen,  Boston. 

Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 

Burditt,  Miss  Alice  A.,  Boston. 

Burnham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 

Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 

Burr,  I.  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Cabot,  Mrs.  Thomas  H.,  Boston. 

Callender,  Walter,  Providence, 
R.  I. 

Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Water- 
town. 

Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 

Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 

Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Algernon,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston, 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Harold  J.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 

Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crane,  Zenas  M.,  Pittsfield. 

Crosby,  Sumner,  Cambridge. 


Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 

Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Damon,  Willard  A.,  Springfield. 

Davies,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F., 
Springfield. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

De  Witt,  Alexander,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Harriett,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dolan,  WilUam  G.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

EUiott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  WiUiam,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Everett,  Dr.  Oliver  H.,  Worcester. 

Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Rosamond,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Thomas  J.,  Boston. 


Fay,  Wm,  Rodman,  Dover,  Mass. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Paul  Edward,  Brook- 
line. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gage,  Mrs.  Homer,  Shrewsbury. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Need- 
ham. 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskill,  George  A.,  Worcester. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

Gaylord,  Emerson  G.,  Chicopee. 

Geer,  Mrs.  Danforth,  Jr.,  New 
Jersey. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence, 
R.  I. 

GUbert,  Wm.  E.,  Springfield. 

Gleason,  Mrs.  Cora  L.,  Boston. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

GUdden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goddard,  Harry  W.,  Worcester. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A,,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D., 
Boston. 

Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman,  Bos- 
ton. 


Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

GriflEin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Florence  Howe,  New 
York. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hallowell,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Aubumdale. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 

Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Toronto, 
Ont. 

Homans,  Robert,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 

Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi,  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilham,  Miss  Annie  M.,  Beverly. 


Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Water- 
town. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  North  An- 
dover. 

King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Kinnicutt,  Lincoln  N.,  Worcester. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Lincoln,  Waldo,  Worcester. 

Littell,  Miss  Harriet  A.,  Boston. 

Livermore,  Mrs.  Wm.  R.,  New 
York. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Nahant. 

Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Loring,  Miss  Katharine  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Mrs.  Wm.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Aubumdale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston, 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 

Lowell,  James  Arnold,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Jolm,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 


Luce,  Hon,  Robert,  Waltham. 

Lyman,  Mrs.  Ronald  T.,  Boston. 

Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 

Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 

Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston. 

Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 

McElwain,  R.  Franklin,  Holyoke. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Roger  B.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 

Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 

Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 

Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 

Minot,  James  J.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Minot,  William,  Boston. 

Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 

Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 

Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 

Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 

Norton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Noyes,  Mrs.  Lucia  C,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 

Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hope- 
dale. 

Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S.,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 

Partridge,  Fred  F.,  Holyoke, 

Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 

Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 


Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Philip  G.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Mrs,  C.  E.,  Boston. 

Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 

Pickering,  Henry  G,,  Boston. 

Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L,,  Boston. 

Pierce,  Mrs,  M,  V.,  Milton. 

Plunkett,  W.  P.,  Adams, 

Pope,  Mrs,  A,  A,,  Boston. 

Poulsson,  Miss  Emilie,  Boston. 

Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H,,  Newton. 

Pratt,    George    Dwight,    Spring- 
field. 

Proctor,  James  H,,  Boston, 

Purdon,  Miss  Maria,  Boston, 

Putnam,  F,  Delano,  Boston, 

Putnam,  Mrs,  James  J.,  Boston, 

Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 

Read,  Mrs.  Robert  M.,  Medford. 

Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 

Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 

Richards,  Miss  EUse,  Boston. 

Richards,  George  H,,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richards,  Henry  H,,  Groton. 

Richardson,  John,  Jr,,  Readville, 

Richardson,  Mrs,  John,  Jr,,  Read- 
ville, 

Richardson,   Miss   M,   G.,   New 
York. 

Richardson,  W.  L.,  M,D.,  Boston. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A,  W,,  AUston, 

Robinson,  George  F,,  Watertown. 

Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York, 

Rogers,  Henry  M,,  Boston, 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs,  Robert  S,,  Boston, 
Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A,,  Boston, 


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Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Saltonstall,  Leverett,  Westwood. 

Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Leverett,  West- 
wood. 

Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 

Sargent,  Miss  Alice,  Brookline. 

Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Smith,  Joel  West,  East  Hampton, 
Conn. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 

Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 
Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 
Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 
Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 
Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 
Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 
Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 
Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 
Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 
Thayer,  Charles  M.,  Worcester. 
Thaj^er,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 
Thomas,  Mrs.  John  B.,  Boston. 
Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 
Thomdike,    Miss    Rosanna    D., 

Boston. 
Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 


Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 

Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Wallace,  Andrew  B.,  Springfield. 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  Miss  Annie  C,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Washburn,  Hon.  Charles  G., 
Worcester. 

Washburn,  Mrs.  Frederick  A., 
Boston. 

Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Wendell,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Wesson,  James  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 

Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Boston. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston, 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Wright,  Burton  H.,  Worcester. 

Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Boston. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PKOCEEDINGS 

OF    THE 

ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watehtown,  October  13,  1921, 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order 
by  the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  report  of  the  treasurer  was  accepted  and  ordered  on 
file. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are  hereby 
ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  Albert  Thorndike. 

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Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  William  Endicott, 
Miss  Rosamond  Fay,  Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick,  Robert  H.  Hallo- 
well,  James  A.  Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  and  Richard  M. 
Saltonstall. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  fob  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  13,  1921. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  It  is  interesting  to 
note  that  our  pupil  attendance,  which  has  averaged 
290  for  the  past  ten  years,  does  not  grow  with  the 
population  but  keeps  fairly  constant;  also  that,  while 
many  boys  and  girls  remain  twelve  and  even  more 
years,  the  average  length  of  their  stay  is  only  about 
six  years.  There  is,  indeed,  a  rapid  exchange  in  pupil- 
age, about  50  entering  and  50  leaving  for  one  cause 
or  another  during  any  year.  The  school  has  never 
been  quite  full.  And  for  this  reason  we  welcome  an 
occasional  student  who  is  over  twenty-one  years  old, 
if  both  the  pupil  and  we  are  convinced  that  he  will 
fit  in  with  a  routine  arranged  for  younger  people. 
And  we  often  give  trial  also  to  boys  and  girls  who  are 
"borderline"  because  of  too  much  sight  to  become 
finger  readers.  These  get  here  the  respite  from  eye 
strain  they  need  and  often  benefit  in  education  while 
gaining  in  courage,  though  as  a  rule  it  is  not  stimulat- 
ing for  them  to  remain  long  among  people  who  are 
really  bhnd.  Therefore,  our  Director  is  deeply  inter- 
ested in  furthering  the  new  movement  for  having 
classes  of  semi-sighted  children  in  the  public  schools. 


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Ten  of  our  Massachusetts  cities  already  conduct  such 
classes;   and  last  year  240  pupils  attended  them. 

In  general,  our  pupils  enter  from  all  over  New- 
England;  but  some  of  them  come  from  afar,  seven 
states  outside  of  this  section  having  been  represented 
last  year.  The  seven  pupils  indicated  were  mostly 
older  girls  and  boys,  who  came  for  the  vocational 
study  of  music.  Some  of  these  also  took  a  course  or 
two  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  and 
all  shared  in  the  very  unusual  opportunities  of  hear- 
ing the  best  music  of  Boston,  which  our  splendid 
Maria  Kemble  Ohver  Fund  makes  possible.  Since 
1895,  when  Mr.  Gardiner  first  directed  our  music 
department,  19  Perkins  students  have  studied  at  the 
New  England  Conservatory;  and  he  has  otherwise 
been  able  to  keep  up  no  Httle  affiUation  between  the 
two  schools.  For  example,  in  1915  he  could  say  that 
''with  the  satisfactory  completion  of  our  pianoforte 
normal  course  the  young  teacher  is  given  a  certificate, 
and  should  the  recipient  also  complete  the  instru- 
mental course  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music,  this  certificate  is  accepted  by  that  school  in 
lieu  of  the  normal  work  required  there."  Then,  this 
past  season  Mr.  Gardiner  was  invited  to  bring  the 
Perkins  choir  to  assist  the  Conservatory  chorus  at 
the  latter's  annual  concert,  and  he  did  so.  In 
December  last  our  choir  sang  its  Christmas  music  to 
help  the  Watertown  PubHc  Library  raise  its  quota 
for  the  American  Library  Association  ''Books  for 
Everybody"  fund.    The  proceeds  were  $245.70. 


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Of  the  thousands  of  visitors  who  continue  to  come 
to  Perkins  every  year  many  remark:  ''What  a  pity 
it  is  the  pupils  cannot  see  the  beauty  of  the  place." 
Yes,  it  is  beautiful,  though  very  simply  so;  much  of 
that  which  attracts  being  site,  layout  and  setting 
in  an  old  estate.  Mr.  Allen  became  convinced,  while 
at  the  Royal  Normal  College  in  London,  that  bhnd 
people  somehow  respond  to  an  environment  of  visible 
beauty,  as  of  course  their  teachers  do  —  they  who 
make  up  the  very  important  indirect  environment  of 
the  school.  This  idea  he  was  able  to  impress  first 
upon  his  reconstruction  of  the  Pennsylvania  Institu- 
tion at  Overbrook,  and  later  upon  that  of  the  new 
Perkins  at  Watertown.  In  both  cases  the  architects 
knew  how  to  combine  simpHcity  and  practicability 
with  beauty,  and  make  each  plant  a  model  of  its  kind 
for  others  to  follow.  Both  institutions  provide  prima- 
rily for  physical  well-being  and  only  secondarily  for 
the  esthetic.  The  two  factors  in  a  life  are  inheritance 
and  environment.  The  inheritance  of  most  of  our 
pupils  is  poor.  All  we  can  give  them  then  is  the  best 
possible  environment.  And  this  comparatively  ex- 
pensive environment  —  if  the  pubhc  will  call  it  so  — 
has  proved  itself  in  the  years  of  our  existence  some- 
thing which  transforms  and  makes  of  many  rather 
helpless  waifs  noble  men  and  women. 

Between  the  years  1882  and  1907  the  Perkins  In- 
stitution gave  annually  in  early  June  a  pubhc  exhibi- 
tion of  its  activities.  This  it  did  in  Boston  Theatre 
or  Tremont  Temple,  before  large  and  enthusiastic 


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audiences.  The  present  Director  has  preferred  to  do 
his  exhibiting  at  the  institution,  chiefly  because  he 
could  present  a  much  better  demonstration  there. 
But,  although  many  more  and  fully  as  enthusiastic 
audiences  have  been  coming  to  Watertown,  the  Bos- 
ton public  did  not  attend  as  formerly,  and  these  old 
friends  are  still  the  ones  we  most  wish  to  impress  both 
with  the  excellence  of  our  achievements  and  with 
our  continued  need  of  assistance  and  support.  So 
last  May  we  resumed  the  town  exhibition,  giving  it 
in  Jordan  Hall  before  about  800  guests,  most  of  whom 
seemed  surprised  that  blind  children  could  be  trained 
to  such  precision  in  gymnastic  drill  and  eager  freedom 
in  games  of  competition  as  they  saw  them  capable  of 
that  afternoon.  During  the  exercise  in  sewing  and 
knitting  by  little  children  the  Rev.  Francis  E.  Webster 
of  Waltham  spoke  stirringly  of  the  efficiency  and 
needs  of  the  Perkins  Institution.  Indeed,  it  must 
not  be  supposed  that,  because  we  have  now  moved 
our  shut-in  children  to  fireproof  buildings  and  spa- 
cious grounds,  we  can  get  along  without  the  oldtime 
affection  and  support;  for  we  cannot.  We  need  this 
all  the  more  imperatively  these  times  when  most 
educational  institutions  have  had  to  have  recourse  to 
endowment  drives.  We  should  prefer  not  to  resort 
to  this  sort  of  thing.  Hence,  we  welcome  such  gifts 
and  bequests  as  come  in  from  time  to  time,  even 
though  these  are  no  longer  so  frequent  or  so  large  as 
they  used  to  be.  Were  it  not  that  the  Common- 
wealth pays  us  the  increased  per  capita   tuition  fee 


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of  $400,  we  should  have  to  retrench  greatly.  As  it 
is  we  have  not  only  not  done  so  but  have  even 
continued  to  extend  and  improve  our  course  of 
study  and  our  facilities  for  the  socialization  of  the 
pupils.  Our  teachers  have  generally  remained  with 
us  stanchly  and  loyally,  though  by  no  means  receiv- 
ing the  same  large  increases  in  salary  other  edu- 
cators are  now  paid.  Even  so,  our  pupU  per  capita 
maintenance  cost  has  exceeded  $600  since  1918- 
1919. 

The  Perkins  Institution  is  rich  not  in  funds  but 
in  facihties,  —  very  unusual  faciUties,  in  fact;  and 
many  are  the  requests  from  young  bhnd  people  out- 
side of  New  England  who  yearn  to  become  its  pupils. 
Now,  it  would  gratify  the  trustees  beyond  measure 
could  we  afford  to  invite  more  of  these  appUcants  to 
come  to  Watertown.  We  generally  do  have  one  or 
two  guest  pupils  stud3dng  with  the  rest.  There  is 
one  there  now,  a  Corean  from  the  Hawaiian  Islands, 
who  will  soon  carry  home  the  self-reliance  he  has 
acquired  at  school.  There  was  a  Chinese  child  visit- 
ing our  kindergarten  all  last  year.  The  Porto  Rican 
who  was  our  guest  between  1917-1919  has  since  then 
opened  the  pioneer  school  for  bhnd  children  of  her 
island.  It  is  a  vast  satisfaction  to  be  able  to  project 
abroad  the  light  of  our  httle  candle.  Will  not  some 
good  friends  create  scholarships  to  multiply  its  rays? 
In  our  last  year's  report  we  enlarged  somewhat  upon 
this  matter  of  scholarships  for  a  few  worthy  outside 


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blind,  struggling  to  mount  the  stepping  stone  to 
success. 

Some  years  ago  a  former  Perkins  pupil  left  us 
$1,000,  'Hhe  income  thereof  to  be  used  in  aid  of  such 
of  the  graduates  of  the  school  as  may  be  chosen  by 
the  authorities  of  said  institution  as  worthy  of  as- 
sistance to  continue  their  education  in  any  of  the 
Universities  and  Colleges  of  New  England,  or  to 
pursue  a  higher  course  in  the  study  of  music."  Last 
year  a  part  of  the  accumulated  income  of  this  Put- 
nam Scholarship  Fund,  so  called,  was  used  in  send- 
ing for  lessons  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music  a  graduate  of  the  class  of  1920,  who  was 
especially  recommended  by  our  department  of  music. 

We  were  very  glad  indeed  to  be  able  to  further  the 
new  project  taken  up  last  year  by  the  Graduate 
School  of  Harvard  University,  —  that  of  giving  a 
half-year  extension  course  on  the  Education  of  the 
Blind  and  the  Semi-sighted.  Our  Director  suggested 
the  undertaking  to  Director  Hayes  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Division  of  the  Bhnd,  who  first  proposed  it  to 
the  Dean  of  that  school  and  then  persuaded  the 
Massachusetts  Association  for  Promoting  the  Inter- 
ests of  the  Adult  Blind  to  help  finance  it.  Though 
the  32  different  lecturers  gave  their  services,  there 
were  necessary  expenses  in  getting  and  keeping  such 
a  project  going,  which  was  efficiently  done  by  its 
Executive  Secretary,  Miss  Lotta  S.  Rand.  Some  30 
of  the  Perkins  Institution  teachers  registered  for  the 


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course,  and  they,  with  about  as  many  more  workers 
for  the  blind,  imparted  no  Httle  enthusiasm  to  it.  It 
was  so  successful,  indeed,  that  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  was  readily  persuaded  to  repeat  the 
course  in  Philadelphia,  which  it  was  enabled  to  do 
quite  as  successfully  through  the  active  co-operation 
of  President  Cadwalader  of  the  Board  of  Managers 
and  of  Principal  Burritt  and  his  staff  of  teachers,  of 
the  School  for  the  Blind  at  Overbrook. 

The  incentive  and  recognition  which  these  courses 
gave  the  work  for  the  bUnd  seems  to  have  acted  as 
a  leaven  elsewhere  also.  Columbia  University  car- 
ried out  a  course  this  past  summer  for  home  teachers 
of  the  adult  bUnd,  and  Peabody  College  for  Teachers 
at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  likewise  had  a  summer  course 
for  instructors  of  the  young  bhnd.  This  latter  was 
taught  by  two  teachers  from  our  Perkins  staff.  Miss 
Jessica  L.  Langworthy  and  Miss  Wilhelmina  Hum- 
bert. All  four  of  the  courses  above  mentioned  have 
been  successful  beyond  expectation.  And  now  the 
Harvard  Graduate  School  of  Education  has  an- 
nounced for  this  fall  and  winter  a  half-year  exten- 
sion course  to  be  conducted  by  our  Director,  Mr. 
Allen.  It  will  be  more  academic,  systematic  and  in- 
tensive than  the  one  given  a  year  ago,  and  will  in- 
volve for  those  desiring  credit,  not  only  the  visiting 
of  all  local  agencies  for  the  bhnd,  but  also  much  re- 
quired reading  and  the  passing  of  a  written  exam- 
ination. The  rich  collections  of  Perkins  Institution 
will  be  thrown  open  to  the  students,  some  of  whom 


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will  even  reside  there  for  close  observation  of  the 
work  and  practice  in  its  classes.  So  far  as  we  know 
no  systematic  courses  for  teachers  of  the  blind  have 
ever  been  given  before,  —  unless  perhaps  in  Vienna, 
Austria,  where  Director  Mell  and  staff  of  the  Imperial 
Institution  for  the  Blind  did  it  for  some  years  before 
the  war.  There  is  not  much  literature  in  English  on 
the  pedagogy  and  psychology  of  the  bUnd  and  not 
much  in  any  language;  the  most  of  what  there  is  is 
in  German.  However,  all  that  there  is  may  be  con- 
sulted in  our  special  hlindiana  library. 

Another  most  promising  step  affecting  the  blind  of 
this  country  is  the  recent  passage  of  the  Industrial 
RehabiUtation  Act,  by  which  people  injured  in  in- 
dustry or  otherwise  are  to  be  helped  to  get  on  their 
feet  again.  Any  re-education  involved  is  to  be  given 
by  the  several  states,  which  may  then  collect  half  the 
cost  from  the  federal  government.  This  act,  already 
accepted  by  most  of  the  states,  including  Massachu- 
setts, embraces  those  bUnded  from  whatever  cause 
and  would  seem  to  promise  a  lifting  of  the  economic 
status  of  the  bhnd  and,  with  it,  their  social  status. 
While  neither  poverty  nor  blindness  can  be  legis- 
lated out  of  existence,  both  may  be  wonderfully  miti- 
gated and  lessened  and,  we  beUeve,  are  destined  to 
be.  When  the  blind  are  no  longer  permitted  to  beg 
upon  our  streets  the  education  of  the  young  bUnd 
will  have  been  advanced  as  if  by  magic. 

Still  another  bit  of  legislation  that  has  already 
helped  in  these  matters  locally  is  the  appropriation 


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by  the  1919  Massachusetts  legislature  for  aiding  the 
needy  bUnd.  This  money  is  not  bestowed  in  the  form 
of  pensions  but  of  relief,  being  dispensed  month  by 
month  according  to  the  best  judgment  of  the  Division 
of  the  Bhnd. 

The  recent  prominence  given  the  rehabiHtation  of 
the  war-bHnded,  both  in  this  country  and  abroad, 
especially  in  England,  has  in  various  ways  helped 
along  the  cause  of  the  civiUan  bUnd.  Several  of  our 
schools  have  contributed  through  release  of  their 
trained  instructors,  our  own  school  by  giving  up 
first  Mr.  Harold  B.  Molter  and  then  Mr.  Arthur  E. 
Holmes,  both  to  become  supervisors  of  the  blind  for 
the  Federal  Board  for  Vocational  Education.  Then 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  teacher  of  sloyd  for  the 
past  fifteen  years  to  our  girls'  primary  school,  left 
us  to  become  Reconstruction  Aide  in  the  Occupa- 
tional Therapy  Department  of  the  United  States 
PubUc  Health  Service.  Not  only  has  good  to  the 
civilian  bhnd  come  out  of  the  war,  but  more  good  is 
to  follow.  The  burden  of  last  summer's  convention 
of  the  American  Association  of  Workers  for  the  Bhnd 
was  the  creation  of  an  American  Foundation  in  be- 
half of  all  the  bUnd,  an  agency  that  is  of  splendid 
potentiality. 

We  have  dwelt  upon  the  above-mentioned  larger 
aspects  of  the  cause  of  which  we  are  but  a  part, 
since  these  events  have  affected  and  fostered  every 
part.  Mr.  Allen  has  treated  these  at  greater  length 
in  his  bulletin  on  ''Special  Features  in  the  Educa- 


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tion  of  the  Blind  during  the  Biennium  1918-1920," 
contributed  to  the  Bureau  of  Education  for  its  Bien- 
nial Survey  of  Education  in  the  United  States. 

The  condition  of  blindness  is  one  of  much  shut- 
inness.  The  invention  of  the  telephone,  suggested 
as  it  was  through  efforts  to  render  the  vibrations  of 
the  human  voice  visible  to  deaf  students  of  speech, 
has  proved  far  more  liberating  to  the  bhnd,  who  take 
vast  comfort  in  visiting  by  wire.  And  now  has  come 
the  ''wireless,"  which  is  destined  to  broadcast  over 
the  world  music  and  messages  of  many  sorts,  and  so 
help  even  more  to  emancipate  the  bUnd  from  their 
shut-inness.  A  former  pupil  of  ours,  Clarence 
Hawkes,  the  nature  writer,  tells  us  that  his  wireless 
outfit  proved  a  blessing  to  him  last  winter,  and  re- 
marks: "I  can  think  of  nothing  else  which  would  so 
appeal  to  the  imagination  of  the  bhnd  as  the  wireless 
telephone,  and  which  would  so  connect  them  up  with 
the  world." 

It  so  happens  that  our  teacher  of  science,  who  had 
become  enthusiastic  over  radio  work  during  the  war, 
was  encouraged  last  fall  to  set  up  a  station  at  Perkins 
and  to  introduce  the  subject  to  his  older  boys.  This 
he  did  with  most  satisfactory  results.  The  school 
career  of  the  average  blind  person  is  rarely  punctuated 
with  the  enthusiastic  pursuit  of  pastimes,  and  of  all 
young  people  he  needs  to  cultivate  them  then  if  ever. 
Science  and  club  activities,  when  well-conducted  and 
controlled,  open  up  fields  of  interest  and  education 
which  no  school  like  ours  can  afford  to  ignore.    Ahke 


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for  conduct  and  accomplishment,  no  recent  year  in 
the  boys'  department  has  been  a  better  one. 

Indeed,  the  year  in  all  departments  was  singularly 
effective.  The  general  health  was  excellent,  and  the 
atmosphere  and  spirit  wholesome  and  productive. 
Since  fencing-in  the  kindergarten  playgrounds  we 
have  been  able  to  re-introduce  much  of  the  old  play 
apparatus  and  have  added  hatches  for  a  few  pets, 
such  as  guinea  pigs  and  rabbits,  for  which  some  of 
the  children,  under  an  enthusiastic  teacher,  have 
grown  carrots,  turnips  and  such  like  crops. 

This  past  summer  Miss  AUce  M.  Lane  conducted 
for  the  sixth  season  her  camp  for  twelve  Uttle  blind 
girls  on  the  shores  of  a  pond  at  Georgetown,  Mass. 

In  June  five  pupils  were  handed  their  high  school 
diplomas  and  two  their  certificates  on  having  com- 
pleted the  course  in  piano  teaching  and  two  that 
in  piano  tuning. 

During  the  summer  Miss  Ellen  H.  Packard,  who 
for  the  past  five  years  had  been  principal  of  the  girls' 
school,  resigned  to  accept  the  deanship  of  Hebron 
Academy.  Her  place  will  be  taken  by  Miss  Elsie 
H.  Simonds,  a  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  College, 
who  has  taught  for  us  since  1908. 

For  two  weeks  in  July  Mr.  Fowler,  instructor  and 
manager  of  our  tuning  department,  held  at  the  insti- 
tution an  all-day  summer  school  course  on  the  care 
and  tuning  of  the  piano  player.  Seven  certificated 
piano  tuners  attended,  all  of  them  former  pupils  of 
his  department,  two  being  home  on  their  vacation 


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from  the  schools  for  the  bhnd  in  Salem,  Oregon,  and 
Vancouver,  Washington,  where  they  are  instructors. 

One  former  pupil  of  the  institution  has  recently 
graduated  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  and  is 
now  practicing  his  profession.  Another  is  a  student 
there.  Still  another  is  studying  law  at  Northeastern 
College.  Three  others,  young  women,  were  selected 
by  the  Division  of  the  Blind  to  do  pioneer  work  for 
the  blind  in  selling  over  the  counter  in  Boston  de- 
partment stores;  and  they  have  made  good.  Given 
the  background  of  education  and  also  good  person- 
ality and  initiative,  blind  individuals  can  do  this 
thing  acceptably  with  the  material  help  of  the  same 
certograph  which  the  other  salespeople  use  and,  of 
course,  the  personal  co-operation  of  the  employer. 
The  reason  why  so  many  educated  blind  people  still 
follow  simple  handicrafts  is  that  the  general  public 
is  unwilhng  to  grant  them  openings  where  intelligence 
is  the  main  factor. 

Among  the  very  first  blind  children  taught  by  Dr. 
Howe  at  the  home  of  his  father,  back  in  1832,  was 
Sophia  Carter  of  Andover.  Her  surviving  sister.  Miss 
Emily  Carter,  has  presented  the  institution  with  an 
oil  portrait  of  this  child,  which  has  already  become 
a  possession  of  interest  and  value. 

The  Perkins  Institution  Hbrary  of  embossed  books, 
though  primarily  for  the  use  of  present  pupils  of  the 
school,  has  become  more  and  more  the  regional  lend- 
ing library  for  the  bhnd  of  all  New  England.  Believ- 
ing as  Mr.  Allen  does  that  finger  reading  is  as  great 


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a  boon  to  the  blind  as  any  other  avocation  can  be, 
he  has  continually  sought  to  create  new  incentives 
for  it.  First,  he  enormously  increased  the  yearly 
output  of  the  Howe  Memorial  Press  in  the  form  of 
choice  short  stories  in  Braille  and  heralded  the  fact 
through  printed  announcements  and  through  the 
travehng  home  teachers  to  the  adults.  This  past 
season  he  has  met  the  five  Massachusetts  home  teach- 
ers and  received  from  them  certain  recommendations 
which  he  has  put  in  practice.  He  has  also  caused  the 
library  to  be  kept  open  all  summer  rather  than  to 
continue  sending  out  in  advance  all  the  books  desired 
for  summer  reading.  While  this  has  meant  the  em- 
ployment of  a  summer  circulating  librarian,  it  has 
immediately  justified  itself,  for  the  circulation  has 
jumped  from  363  in  the  summer  of  1920  to  1,225  in 
that  of  1921.  The  outside  circulation  for  the  school 
year  1920-1921  was  8,922. 

Mr.  Bryan,  manager  of  the  Howe  Memorial  Press, 
reports  that  this  past  year's  product  was  3,128  em- 
bossed plates,  and  153,000  printed  pages.  He  also 
dispensed  1,921  Braille  slates  and  4,393  writing  sty- 
luses; and  he  has  sold  18  of  the  new  Perkins  Institu- 
tion Braillewriters  at  $49  apiece,  which  is  something 
less  than  actual  cost. 

Mr.  Bryan,  who  is  also  manager  of  our  workshop 
at  South  Boston,  reports  a  very  successful  year,  with 
ample  employment  for  his  22  bhnd  people  in  mat- 
tress and  pillow  making  and  in  chair  caning.  This 
workshop  carries  on  a  brisk  little  business  of  about 


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$50,000  a  year,  and  in  a  certain  restricted  sense  is 
self-sustaining.  This  year  its  blind  workmen  and 
workwomen  were  paid  in  round  numbers  $14,000  in 
wages  as  against  $7,000  to  the  same  number  for  no 
more  work  in  1914. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1921,  the  number  of  bUnd  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  315,  or  eleven  more  than  on 
the  same  date  of  the  previous  year.  This  number 
includes  78  boys  and  85  girls  in  the  upper  school,  54 
boys  and  61  girls  in  the  lower  school,  15  teachers  and 
oflficers  and  22  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South  Bos- 
ton. There  have  been  64  admitted  and  53  discharged 
during  the  year. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year  1920-1921.  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
10;  Interstitial  keratitis,  3;  Ulcerative  keratitis,  3; 
Keratitis,  1;  Iritis,  1;  Accident,  8;  Optic  atrophy, 
9;  Congenital  optic  atrophy,  3;  Congenital  cataract 
and  optic  atrophy,  1;  Congenital  cataracts,  5;  Con- 
genital defects,  3;  Congenital  amblyopia,  2;  Con- 
genital optic  neuritis,  1;  Congenital  hypermetropia, 
1 ;  Aniridia,  1 ;  Buphthalmos,  1 ;  Ectopia  leutes,  1 ; 
Corneal  opacities,  1. 


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Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Miss  Mary  G.  Callahan;  James  Harvey  Chace; 
Samuel  P.  Colt;  Mrs.  Julia,  wife  of  J.  Randolph 
Coolidge;  T.  Jefferson  Coolidge;  Miss  Sarah 
M.  Fay;  Miss  Annie  E.  Fisher;  Mrs.  C.  Estelle, 
widow  of  James  Lawrence;  Charles  Elliot  Loud; 
James  M.  Prendergast;  Mrs.  Grace  E.,  widow  of 
William  Howell  Reed;  James  B.  Winsor. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ROBERT  AMORY, 
ANNIE  GILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 
THOMAS  J.  FAY, 
PAUL  E.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL, 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
RICHARD  M.  SALTONSTALL, 

Trustees. 


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SAIVIUEL  GRIDLEY  HOWE:    A  BRIEF 
SKETCH.^ 


"  He  was,  for  half  a  century,  one  of  those  few  persons  who 
could  not  be  omitted  when  Boston  was  described,"  says 
Frank  Sanborn  in  his  biography  of  Dr.  Howe.  Even  while 
living  he  was  "The  Hero"  of  song  and  of  sermon,  and  when 
dead  was  given  a  great  public  funeral.  Twenty-five  years 
afterward,  in  1901,  upon  the  centenary  of  his  birth,  there 
was  arranged  a  splendid  memorial  meeting  to  which  our 
greatest  and  best  came  to  do  him  honor.  To-day,  throngs 
of  children  attend  the  Samuel  Gridley  Howe  public  school  in 
South  Boston,  where  he  lived;  and  any  one  who  looks  on  the 
Boylston  Street  walls  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  may  see 
there  the  name  of  Howe  carved  with  those  of  Pestalozzi, 
Froebel,  Mann  and  Harvard. 

Dr.  Howe  has  been  likened  to  a  chevalier  of  the  Middle 
Ages,  —  handsome,  fierce  when  roused,  otherwise  gentle  and 
kind.  His  most  intimate  friends  called  him  "Chev."  This 
title  he  earned  over  and  over  again:  first,  in  going  like 
Byron,  to  fight  for  the  Greeks  in  their  war  of  revolution 
against  the  Turks;  then,  again,  nearly  losing  his  life  in  be- 
half of  the  downtrodden  Poles.  Next  we  read  of  his  coming 
home  to  make  a  whirlwind  appeal  for  money  and  clothing 
for  the  impoverished  Greeks,  and  later  for  the  Cretans; 
in  both  cases  obtaining  it  readily  and  going  to  oversee  its 
distribution  in  person,  —  not  just  giving  it  away,  but  wisely 

>  Revised  and  reprinted  from  an  article  in  The  Christian  Register,  Boston,  Mass.,  March 
31,  1921. 

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using  much  of  it  in  payments  for  labor  upon  public  works, 
such  as  rebuilding  the  devastated  villages.  Here  we  see, 
coupled  with  his  native  humanitarianism,  the  origin  of  his 
common-sense  molding  of  the  public  charities  of  Massachu- 
setts, touching  which  Chapman,  a  keen  student  of  affairs, 
writes:  "His  work  in  charity  will  never  be  superseded.  Suc- 
ceeding penologists  will  recur  to  it  to  save  them  from  the 
science  of  their  times." 

Indeed,  Dr.  Howe  was  always  original  and  practical. 
When  asked  in  1831  to  take  charge  of  the  proposed  first 
school  for  the  blind,  in  Boston,  he  accepted  the  call  of  the 
helpless  as  a  true  knight  would,  went  abroad  to  study  the 
few  schools  there,  and  upon  returning  brought  along  not 
only  a  knowledge  of  the  best  that  had  been  done  in  this 
field,  but  also  two  brilliant  young  instructors,  one  of  them 
blind,  who  demonstrated  in  his  own  person  and  at  once  what 
training  can  achieve.  He  had  observed  keenly  the  foreign 
schools,  disapproving  of  much  he  found  in  them;  and  he  laid 
down  for  his  pioneer  American  enterprise  wise  fundamental 
principles  from  which  there  has  been  no  departure  to  this 
day.  At  the  outset  he  established  the  principle  that  the 
young  blind  can  become,  and  therefore  should  be  trained  to 
be,  economically  and  socially  competent.  This  principle  was 
then  denied  in  Europe  and  is  by  no  means  generally  ac- 
cepted there  now.  The  difference  this  makes  to  the  young 
blind  themselves  is  the  difference  between  school  life  with 
hope  and  school  existence  without  it.  Hopefulness  is  an 
educational  factor  of  prodigious  power.  Years  afterward  Mr. 
(later  Sir)  Francis  Campbell,  and  others  of  Dr.  Howe's 
teachers,  generously  released  for  the  purpose,  took  these 
ideas  overseas  and  on  them  carried  on  the  world-famous 
Royal  Normal  College  for  the  Blind  in  London. 

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Dr.  Howe  returned  from  Europe  determined  to  provide 
blind  children  with  the  same  fundamental  training  that  other 
American  children  were  receiving,  and  therefore  to  give  them 
books.  The  three  embossed  books  which  he  brought  back 
with  him,  and  which  he  declared  represented  the  only  ones 
in  the  English  language,  are  still  preserved.  The  character 
of  their  type  seeming  to  promise  ill  as  models  to  follow,  he 
immediately  set  himself  to  create  on  a  principle  of  his  own, 
first,  a  better  —  that  is,  more  generally  tangible  —  alphabet, 
and  then  proceeded  to  turn  out  volume  after  volume  until 
he  soon  had  more  and  better  and  cheaper  books  than  existed 
anywhere  else;  in  fact,  he  came  to  fill  orders  for  them  from 
Europe.  His  books  took  the  gold  medal  over  all  others  at 
the  Exhibition  of  the  Works  of  Industry  of  all  Nations,  held 
in  London,  1851.  And  the  Boston  "line  type"  continued  to 
lead  here  until,  over  a  half-century  later,  it  was  superseded 
by  an  arbitrary  "  point "  system  which  the  blind  can  wTite  as 
well  as  read.  He  states  somewhere  that  seeing  blind  children 
read  with  their  fingers  did  more  to  promote  the  growth  and 
prosperity  of  his  own  and  similar  schools  in  this  country  than 
any  other  one  thing.  His  was  the  practical  vision  sometimes 
called  prophecy.  He  well  understood  that  "seeing  is  be- 
lieving," and  that  only  conviction  could  open  purses  for 
this  new  and  untried  cause.  Promptly  following  such  dem- 
onstrations of  reading  by  touch,  one  after  another  of  the 
States  themselves  established  schools  of  their  own.  The  edu- 
cation of  the  blind  of  the  United  States  to-day  (1920)  em- 
braces 5,386  pupils,  728  teachers,  149,621  embossed  books, 
and  is  represented  by  a  capital  of  $11,586,064.  Of  all  this 
Dr.  Howe  is  the  acknowledged  pioneer. 

While  thinking  out  new  projects  and  processes  Dr.  Howe 
showed  his  creative  genius  by  evolving  a  plan  for  teaching 

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a  child  who  is  both  deaf  and  blind;  for  one  so  shut  in  was 
then  considered  unteachable,  since  its  mind  could  not  be 
reached,  and  legally  was  held  to  be  non  compos  mentis.  His 
finding  and  teaching  of  Laura  Bridgman  was  the  result. 
Every  doubter  should  read  the  story  of  this  wonderful 
achievement  and  so  come  to  believe  that  everything  is  pos- 
sible to  him  who  both  wills  and  labors  perseveringly  in  the 
right  direction.  Hearing  this  story  has  saved  many  a  des- 
perate person  from  suicide.  Indeed,  the  education  of  Laura 
Bridgman  is  the  emancipation  of  a  soul.  It  made  her  liber- 
ator famous,  and  the  Perkins  Institution  the  Mecca  of  many 
notable  men  and  women.  One  of  these  was  Charles  Dickens, 
who  describes  the  visit  in  his  "American  Notes,"  and  another 
was  Miss  Julia  Ward,  who  as  a  result  of  the  acquaintance 
then  formed  became  Julia  Ward  Howe. 

While  Dr.  Howe's  chief  work  was  the  education  of  the 
blind,  in  which  field  he  was  the  recognized  leader  as  long  as 
he  lived,  he  also  helped  release  the  deaf  and  dumb  from  their 
isolation  by  furthering  the  teaching  them  speech  and  lip- 
reading;  and  he  also  fathered  the  project  in  this  country  of 
training  the  feeble-minded,  then  called  idiots.  For  propos- 
ing to  do  this  he  was  at  first  dubbed  one  of  them;  but, 
having  already  done  it  with  a  few,  he  persevered,  founded 
a  school  for  them,  and  located  it  near  the  Perkins  Insti- 
tution, both  of  which  places  he  superintended  as  long  as  he 
lived.  Dr.  Fernald,  the  present  head  of  this  world-famous 
school,  now  moved  to  Waverley,  considers  Dr.  Howe's  labors 
in  behalf  of  the  feeble-minded  to  be  his  chief  claim  to  fame, 
so  novel  was  the  idea,  —  years  ago,  when  he  developed  it,  — 
and  so  saving  an  instrumentality  has  it  since  become  every- 
where. 

Dr.  Howe  did  not  confine  his  noblesse  oblige  to  the  educa- 

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tion  of  the  handicapped.  He  was  interested  in  all  education; 
and  serve'd  on  Boston's  School  Committee  when  Horace 
Mann  was  Secretary  of  Education.  Such  service  by  him 
meant  reforms  in  the  public  schools.  Mann  said  of  one  of 
them,  the  introduction  of  WTitten  examinations,  which  was 
at  first  violently  opposed,  "  It  could  only  have  been  done  by 
an  angel  —  or  Sam  Howe."  It  is  said  that  Horace  Mann, 
during  his  whole  career  as  a  reformer  of  public  schools  in 
New  England,  had  no  more  intimate  friend  than  Dr.  Howe, 
nor  one  whose  support  was  more  indispensable  to  him. 

The  Perkins  Institution  had  a  city  office  on  Bromfield 
Street.  This,  Frank  P.  Stearns,  in  his  paper  on  "Chevalier 
Howe,"  calls  "historic  ground,"  declaring  that  "between 
1850  and  1870  some  of  the  most  important  national  councils 
were  held  there  in  Dr.  Howe's  private  office.  It  was  the 
first  place  that  Sumner  went  to  in  the  morning  and  the  last 
place  that  Governor  Andrew  stopped  at  before  returning  to 
his  home  at  night.  There  Dr.  Howe  and  George  L.  Stearns 
consulted  with  John  Brown  concerning  measures  for  the  de- 
fence of  Kansas." 

He  was  too  old  to  go  to  the  Civil  War,  but  he  could  throw 
his  great  energies  into  helping  the  Sanitary  Commission,  and 
he  did  so. 

Between  1866  and  1874  he  was  chairman  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Board  of  State  Charities  and  wrote  its  annual  re- 
ports. They  are  and  will  remain  classic  textbooks  on  the 
subject  of  public  charity.  His  general  principles  may  be 
called  maxims.  One  of  these  is  "that  it  is  better  to  sepa- 
rate and  diffuse  the  dependent  classes  than  to  congregate 
them;"  not  only  better  for  each  dependent,  but  for  the 
community.  It  was  a  novel  idea  to  the  people,  who  found 
themselves  called  upon  to  take  up  the  work  of  public  char- 

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ity  instead  of  leaving  it  to  official  persons.  This  they  have 
since  done  to  a  great  extent.  For  example,  the  so-called 
"placing-out"  system  has  resulted,  whereby  the  State  places 
its  "minor  wards,"  not  in  asylums,  but  in  families,  there  to 
be  faithfully  followed  up,  protected  and  educated  until  able 
to  take  care  of  themselves.  This  system  has  become  uni- 
versal throughout  the  United  States;  and  such  organiza- 
tions as  the  Child  Welfare  Department  of  the  American 
Commission  to  Serbia  are  now  applying  it  abroad.  It  is 
these  reports  of  Dr.  Howe's,  filled  as  they  are  with  the  sug- 
gestions of  common  sense  and  the  duty  of  the  strong  to  the 
weak,  whose  reading  led  to  the  statement  already  quoted: 
"His  work  in  charity  will  never  be  superseded." 

A  report  of  all  the  services  of  this  "Servant  of  Humanity" 
would  expand  this  sketch  unduly.  Sanborn,  in  the  index  of 
his  "Life,"  condenses  these  on  two  pages,  among  which  one 
may  read,  in  addition  to  those  already  enumerated,  the  fol- 
lowing: "debates  prison  discipline;  organizes  a  movement 
for  the  fugitive  slaves;  chairman  of  the  Vigilance  Committee; 
helps  elect  Charles  Sumner  senator;  edits  a  Boston  daily; 
a  member  of  the  Bird  Club;  aids  Kansas;  meets  John 
Brown;  his  part  in  the  Civil  War;  work  among  the  f reed- 
men;  advocates  separation  of  the  poor  and  the  defective; 
visits  the  insane  at  Gheel;  opens  work-schools  at  Athens; 
sums  up  work  of  Cretan  charities." 

"Dr.  Howe  was  never  the  hero  of  his  own  tale,"  says  Dr. 
F.  H.  Hedge.  "Excepting  him  only,  I  have  never  known  a 
philanthropist  —  I  mean  an  active,  reforming  philanthropist 
—  who  was  also  a  fair-minded,  tolerant  man."  A  good 
many  people  develop  original  ideas,  but,  as  has  been  in- 
timated, those  of  this  "original  first  cause,"  as  Sanborn 
calls  him,   were   also   practical.     He   had   the  rare    gift  of 


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knowing  whether  or  not  any  plan  of  his  would  work.  When 
he  had  carried  one  of  them  well  along  and  perceived  success 
ahead  he  handed  it  over  to  another  to  finish  and  turned 
his  mind  to  fresh  fields.  He  selected  his  assistants  with 
acumen,  infusing  into  them  his  own  confidence  and  conse- 
cration. It  was  because  of  this  that  he  could  drive  so 
many  teams  abreast  and  have  them  all  reach  their  goal. 

The  education  of  Laura  Bridgman  remains  doubtless  Dr. 
Howe's  unique  achievement.  It  still  adds  luster  to  a  city 
that  proudly  boasts  a  galaxy  of  celebrated  sons.  Boston 
keeps  alive  the  discovery  of  etherization  by  one  of  them  in 
a  monument  in  its  Public  Garden.  A  companion-piece  would 
appropriately  help  hold  before  the  people,  who  seem  in 
danger  of  forgetting  it,  that  this  city,  through  another  cre- 
ative genius,  also  first  gave  equally  practical  aid  to  those 
laboring  under  disability,  and  so  would  help  impress  the 
ever-needed  lesson  of  faith  in  human  possibilities.  Dr.  Howe 
was  "born  to  benefit  others,  and  by  choice  he  selected  for 
his  benefactions  those  who  could  least  repay  his  service  with 
their  own  —  the  blind,  the  deaf,  the  insane,  the  idiotic.  He 
thought  it  unsuitable  to  practice  medicine  and  surgery  for 
money;  nor  was  he  at  any  time  very  willing  to  sell  his 
service,  preferring  to  bestow  it  without  recompense.  He 
would  have  agreed  heartily  with  that  definition  of  his  class 
among  men  which  said,  'A  gentleman  is  one  who  has  some- 
thing to  give,  not  something  to  sell.'" 

Says  one  of  his  biographers: 

There  grew  up  in  Boston  and  its  neighborhood  in  Dr.  Howe's 
early  and  middle  life  a  group  of  remarkable  men.  .  .  .  Such  were 
Channing,  Emerson,  Webster,  Everett,  Allston,  the  Danas,  Alcott, 
Hawthorne,  Longfellow,  Lowell,  Margaret  Fuller,  Garrison,  Theodore 
Parker,  Horace  Mann,  Sumner,  Agassiz,  Choate,  Andrew,  Wendell 


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Phillips,  James  Freeman  Clarke.  .  .  .  Among  all  these,  and  others 
whom  I  have  not  named,  Dr.  Howe  stood  forth  as  individual  and  al- 
most as  conspicuous  as  any.  He  was  neither  saint,  nor  poet,  nor 
orator,  nor  matchless  prose  writer;  neither  great  lawyer,  nor  man  of 
unquestioned  eminence  in  science,  nor  artist,  nor  seer,  nor  persistent 
champion  of  a  single  great  cause;  but  his  own  work,  such  as  it  was, 
drew  the  attention  of  all.  He  was  known  and  welcomed,  and  he  re- 
flected as  much  luster  on  his  native  city  as  most  of  those  enumerated. 
He  was  of  their  time  and  endowed  with  a  portion  of  their  spirit.  He 
gained  distinction  without  seeking  it  and  valued  it  but  httle.  .  .  .  New 
England  wiU  see  many  illustrious  men  hereafter,  but  hardly  any  like 
him,  so  pecuhar  was  Dr.  Howe  in  his  talents,  in  the  circum- 
stances of  his  career,  and  in  the  far-reaching  results  of  his  philan- 
thropic activity. 

As  husband  and  father  Dr.  Howe  was  both  guide  and  lov- 
ing counsellor.  At  his  school  he  always  conducted  in  person 
"morning  prayers,"  where  his  reading  of  scripture  is  said  to 
have  been  beautiful  and  impressive.  Simple  in  his  life,  he 
exemplified  the  substance  of  Christianity  as  happily  as  most. 
James  Freeman  Clarke,  his  pastor,  spoke  of  him  as  "emi- 
nently Christian."  "The  Unitarian  Review,"  at  the  time  of 
his  death  in  1876,  refers  to  his  life  "as  a  very  literal  following 
of  His  example  who  said  that  it  was  the  purpose  of  His 
coming  to  heal  the  broken-hearted,  to  preach  deliverance  to 
the  captive,  to  open  the  eyes  of  the  blind,  and  to  set  at 
liberty  those  that  are  bruised." 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN. 


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Selected  Bibliography. 
Dr.  Samuel  Gridley  Howe,  the  Philanthropist.    By  Frank  B.  Sanborn. 

Funk  &  WagnaUs.    1891. 
Journals  and  Letters  of  Samuel  Gridley  Howe;  edited  by  Laura  E. 

Richards.    2  vols.    Dana  Estes  &  Co.    1906,  1909. 
Dr.  Howe  in  "Learning  and  Other  Essays,"    By  John  Jay  Chapman. 

Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.     1910. 
Chevalier  Howe  in  "Cambridge  Sketches."     By  Frank  P.  Steams. 

J.  B.  Lippincott.     1905. 
A  Paladin  of  Philanthropy.    By  Rev.  F.  G.  Peabody,  in  "Hibbert 

Journal,"  October,  1909. 
Samuel  Gridley  Howe  in  "The  Charities  Review."   December,  1897. 
Laura  Bridgman,  Dr.  Howe's  Famous  Pupil,  and  what  he  taught  her. 

By  Maud  Howe  and  Florence  Howe  Hall.   Little,  Brown  &  Co.    1904. 


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SOPHIA   CARTER:    A   MEMBER   OF  DR. 
HOWE'S   FIRST  CLASS. 


Upon  Dr.  Howe's  appointment  in  1831  to  the  directorship 
of  the  "New  England  Asylum  for  the  Blind,"  as  Perkins 
Institution  was  then  designated,  he  went  abroad  to  study  the 
methods  of  institutions  for  the  blind  in  Europe.  Returning 
in  July,  1832,  he  set  himself  at  once  to  the  actual  beginning 
of  the  task  for  which  he  had  been  preparing,  being  authorized 
by  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  select  "six  individuals  of  suitable 
age  and  character  to  form  a  class  for  the  purpose  of  com- 
mencing the  instruction  of  the  Blind."  In  search  of  these 
selected  pupils  Dr.  Howe  traveled  personally  through  many 
towns  and  country  places  of  Massachusetts,  and  he  thus  re- 
lates his  success  on  one  such  expedition:  — 

In  the  year  1832,  while  inquiring  for  blind  children  suitable  for 
instruction  in  our  projected  school,  I  heard  of  a  family  in  Andover 
in  which  there  were  several  such,  and  immediately  drove  out  thither 
with  my  friend  and  co-worker,  Dr.  John  D.  Fisher.  As  we  approached 
the  toll-house,  and  halted  to  pay  the  toll,  I  saw  by  the  roadside  two 
pretty  Uttle  girls,  one  about  six,  the  other  about  eight  years  old,  tidily 
dressed,  and  standing  hand  in  hand  hard  by  the  toll-house.  They  had 
come  from  their  home,  near  by,  doubtless  to  listen,  as  was  their  wont, 
to  gossip  between  the  toll-gatherer  and  the  passers-by.  On  looking 
more  closely,  I  saw  that  they  were  both  totally  blind.  It  was  a  touch- 
ing and  interesting  scene  —  that  of  two  pretty,  graceful,  attractive 
little  girls,  standing  hand  in  hand,  and,  though  evidently  blind,  with 
uplifted  faces  and  listening  ears,  as  if  brought  providentially  to  meet 
messengers  sent  of  God,  to  deliver  them  out  of  darkness.  If  there  were 
depth  of  soil  enough  in  my  mind  to  nourish  superstition,  the  idea  of 

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SOPHIA  CARTER 
At  the  age  of  six  years. 
A  member  of  Dr.  Howe's  first  class. 


a  providential  arrangement  of  this  meeting  would  have  taken  deep 
root.  It  would,  indeed,  be  hard  to  find,  among  a  thousand  children, 
two  better  adapted,  irrespective  of  their  bUndness,  for  the  purpose  of 
commencing  our  experiment.  They  were  shy  of  us  at  first;  but  we 
gained  their  confidence  with  some  difficulty;  after  which  they  led  the 
way  to  their  home  in  a  neighboring  farm-house.  They  were  two  of 
a  numerous  family,  the  parents  of  which  were  substantial,  respect- 
able people,  and  particularly  good  samples  of  the  farming  class  of 
New  England.  The  mother  was  especially  intelligent,  and  devoted 
to  her  children;  and  much  concerned  about  the  barrier  which  blind- 
ness placed  in  the  way  of  educating  the  five  who  were  blind.  She  was 
much  interested  in  the  novel  plan  for  educating  the  blind,  which 
we  explained  to  her.  She  had  never  thought  of  instructing  children 
through  any  sense  but  that  of  sight ;  but  she  soon  saw  the  practicabihty 
of  the  thing,  and,  being  satisfied  about  our  honesty,  she  consented  with 
joy  and  hope  to  our  proposition  of  beginning  with  her  two  girls,  Abby 
and  Sophia  Carter.  In  a  few  days  they  were  brought  to  Boston,  and 
received  into  my  father's  house,  as  the  first  pupils  of  the  first  American 
School  for  the  Blind. 

The  children  were  naturally  so  bright,  and  docile,  and  apt  at  learn- 
ing, that  they  easily  comprehended  our  purpose  in  making  them  feel 
of  strange  signs  or  types,  representing  the  letters  of  the  alphabet,  and 
tried  eagerly  to  learn.  .  .  .  They  were  deUghted  and  eager  to  go  on 
with  tireless  curiosity.  And  they  did  go  on  until  they  matured  in 
years,  and  became  themselves  teachers  in  our  school.  They  have 
continued  up  to  this  day  [1874],  maintaining  excellent  characters, 
supporting  themselves  comfortably,  and  helping  support  their  parents 
as  they  declined  in  strength. 

On  the  many  tours  of  exhibition  which  Dr.  Howe  under- 
took for  the  purpose  of  convincing  legislatures  of  various 
states  of  the  feasibility  of  providing  for  the  education  of  the 
blind,  these  girls  were  foremost  exponents  of  his  experiment, 
and,  as  has  been  said,  "provision  for  the  education  of  the 
blind  was  made  in  those  states  before  the  representatives  of 
the  people  had  time  to  wipe  the  tears  from  their  eyes." 

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Throughout  their  lives  the  friendly  relations  of  these  early 
pupils  and  their  alma  mater  were  maintained  without  a  break. 
Abigail  died  in  1875.  When  the  semi-centennial  of  the  open- 
ing of  the  school  was  celebrated  in  1882,  one  of  the  most 
striking  tributes  to  it  came  from  Sophia,  who  wrote  to  her 
friends  at  the  school  that  if  as  much  were  done  in  the  next 
half-century  as  in  the  last,  "  blindness  will  almost  cease  to  be 
a  calamity." 

Her  death  in  1888  seemed  to  close  a  long  chapter  of 
fruitful  work  and  achievement,  but  the  memory  of  those 
early  days  and  Sophia  Carter's  part  in  them  is  revived  by 
the  gift  of  a  charming  portrait  of  her  as  a  little  child,  which 
has  been  presented  to  the  institution  by  her  surviving  sister. 
Miss  Emily  Carter,  and  which  is  reproduced  with  this  sketch. 
This  portrait  shows  Sophia  at  the  age  of  six  years,  just  when 
she  became  one  of  Dr.  Howe's  first  little  class,  gathered  in 
his  father's  house  in  Pleasant  Street,  Boston.  It  was  painted 
by  an  eminent  artist  of  Boston  as  a  contribution  to  a  fair 
which  was  held  in  1833  for  the  benefit  of  Dr.  Howe's  new 
enterprise  of  teaching  the  blind.  This  painting  was  pur- 
chased by  a  wealthy  man,  and  after  his  death  and  the 
breaking  up  of  his  household  it  was  bought  by  teachers  of 
the  Perkins  Institution  and  presented  by  them  to  the  mother 
of  the  little  Sophia,  who  regarded  it  as  one  of  her  choicest 
possessions.  She  declared  it  to  be  a  true  likeness  of  the 
child  and  delighted  in  pointing  out  the  upturned  thumb  of 
the  dainty  little  hand  holding  the  rose.  The  portrait  now 
finds  an  appropriate  final  resting  place  among  the  institution's 
articles  of  historic  and  intrinsic  value. 


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THIRTEENTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and    Massachusetts 
School  for  the  Blind 

Assisted  by  the  Orchestra  of  the  New  England  Conservatory 

OF  Music 

In  Jordan  Hall,  Boston, 
Friday  Evening,  May  27,  1921,  at  8.15  o'clock. 

The  Soloists  are  — 

Miss  Edith  Matthews,  Soprano. 
(Graduate,  1920;  Post  Graduate,  Music  Department,  1921.) 

Mr.  Tom  Williams,  Baritone. 
(New  England  Conservatory  of  Music.) 

Mr.  Malcolm  Cobb,  Organist. 

(Graduate,  1918;    Post  Graduate,  Music  Department;    Member  Junior 

Class,  New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  1921.) 

Mr.  Edwin  L.  Gardiner,  Conductor. 

PROGRAM. 

Land-Sighting Grdg-Spicker 

Chorus  with  baritone  solo. 

Three  Pictures  from  The  Tower  of  Babel,  ....       Rubinstein 

Chorus  of  the  Sons  of  Shem. 
Chorus  of  the  Sons  of  Ham. 
Chorus  of  the  Sons  of  Japhet. 

Aria—  "With  Verdure  Clad,"  from  "The  Creation,"      .       .  Haydn 
Miss  Matthews. 

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TheElfhoms, Bullard 

Chorus  —  a  cappella. 

A  Red,  Red  Rose, Hadley 

Chorus  —  a  cappella. 

Chorus  of  Bacchantes, Gounod 

Allegro  from  the  Sixth  Organ  Symphony, Wider 

Mr.  Cobb. 

Chorus  of  Homage, Gericke 

The  Nights  0' Spring, McCollin 

Chorus  —  a  cappella. 

The  Night  has  a  Thousand  Eyes, Nevin,  E. 

Violin  obligate. 

The  De'il's  Awa, Lamater 

Chorus  —  a  cappella. 

Fair  Ellen, Bruch 

A  cantata  for  chorus  with  soprano  and  baritone  solos. 


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GRADUATING      EXERCISES     OF     THE     PERKINS 

INSTITUTION  AND   MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 

FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Tuesday,  June  21,  1921,  10.30  a.m. 

PROGRAM. 


Organ  —  Choral  in  A  minor,        .... 

Roger  True  Walker. 
Essays: 
Opportunities  of  Alaska 

Herman  Alfred  Blaik. 

The  World's  Oil  Supply 

Arthur  Lawton  Quirk. 


Folk  Music 


BuRYL  Wilson  Retting. 


Pianoforte  solo  —  "Cracovienne  Fantastique, " 

Marguerite  Aileen  Graham. 


Essays: 
Americanism 


Henry  Troy  Istas. 


Cisar  Franck 


Paderewski 


World  Disarmament 

Edward  Joseph  Craig. 

Violin  solo  —  Fantaisie  in  C, Vieuxtemps 

BuRYL  Wilson  Retting. 


Presentation  of  diplomas  and  certificates. 
Chorus  —  "The  Twenty-third  Psalm," 

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Neidlinger 


Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1921. 

Herman  Alfred  Blair.  Henry  Troy  Istas. 

Edward  Joseph  Craig.  Arthur  Lawton  Quirk. 

Buryl  Wilson  Retting. 


Certificates  from  the  Pianojorte  Normal  Department. 
Malcolm  Langdon  Cobb.  Marguerite  Aileen  Graham. 

Certificates  from  the  Pianoforte  Tuning  Department. 
Herman  Alfred  Blair.  Sidney  Borden  Durfee. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Concerts,  Recitals  and 
Dramatics. 

To  Mr.  W.  H.  Brennan,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course 
of  symphony  concerts  in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  the  National  Civic  Federation,  for  twenty  tickets 
for  a  concert  by  Mr.  Emilio  De  Gogorza  and  Mr.  Richard 
Burgin  in  Symphony  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Mr.  Grant  Mitchell,  for  a  general  invitation  to  a 
special  performance  of  his  play,  "The  Champion,"  at  Park 
Square  Theatre,  Boston. 

To  Mr.  Wendell  H.  Luce,  for  eight  tickets  for  a  recital 
by  Mr.  Louis  Bennett,  baritone,  in  Jordan  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Mr.  Aaron  Richmond,  for  twelve  tickets  for  a  song 
recital  by  Miss  Esther  Claff  in  Jordan  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Mr.  H.  B.  Williams,  manager,  for  six  tickets  for  a 
pianoforte  recital  by  Mr.  Lee  Pattison  in  Jordan  Hall, 
Boston. 

To  Mrs.  Anna  May  Peabody,  Miss  Emilie  Poulsson 
and  Miss  Harriet  Littell,  for  a  general  invitation  to  the 
pupils  to  attend  Mr.  Edward  Avis'  "Bird  Song  Recital"  in 
Bulfinch  Place  Church,  Boston. 

To  Mrs.  A.  Lincoln  Filene,  for  ten  tickets,  and  Miss 
Josephine  R.  Harrington,  for  four  tickets  for  a  concert 
by  pupils  of  the  Boston  Music  School  Settlement  at  Copley- 
Plaza  Hotel,  Boston. 

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II.  Acknowledgments    for    Recitals,    Lectures    and 

Dramatics  in  Our  Hall. 

To  Prof.  Carl  Faelten,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mrs.  Cleveland-Lewis,  for  a  lecture  on  "Present- 
Day  Problems  on  the  Pacific  Coast." 

To  Prof.  Harold  Whitehead,  for  a  talk  on  "Business 
Fundamentals." 

To  Mr.  John  Orth  and  Miss  Phyllis  Lations,  for  a 
pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mr.  Arthur  F.  Sullivan,  for  a  talk  on  the  American 
Red  Cross  of  to-day. 

To  Mrs.  Lucia  Ames  Mead,  for  a  lecture  on  "The  New 
Education." 

To  Prof.  Albert  H.  Gilmer  and  pupils  from  Tufts  and 
Jackson  colleges,  members  of  "The  Masque,"  for  a  presenta- 
tion of  Clyde  Fitch's  "The  Truth." 

III.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Periodicals    and    News- 

papers. 

California  News,  Christian  Record  (embossed),  Colorado 
Index,  Florida  School  Herald,  Illuminator  (embossed).  In- 
dustrial Enterprise,  Matilda  Ziegler  Magazine  (embossed). 
The  Mentor,  Michigan  Mirror,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Open  Road, 
Posse  Gymnasium,  Red  Cross  Bulletin,  Rocky  Mountain 
Leader,  The  Theosophical  Path,  The  Utah  Eagle,  West 
Virginia  Tablet,  Woman  Citizen. 


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IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

To  Dr.  Henry  Hawkins  and  Dr.  Harold  B.  Chandler, 
for  professional  services. 

To  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmary, the  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital,  the  Massa- 
chusetts HoMCEOPATHic  HosPiTAL  and  the  Vincent  Me- 
morial Hospital,  for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

To  Miss  Marion  Johns,  for  embossed  books. 

To  Miss  Julia  A.  Burnham,  for  mounted  birds  and 
shells. 

To  the  Committee  for  the  Blind,  Temple  Israel,  Bos- 
ton, for  clothing,  for  parties  given  in  our  cottages,  for  trans- 
portation of  pupils,  and  for  a  summer  outing  for  some  of 
our  pupils. 

To  Mrs.  Adams  of  Woolson  House,  Cambridge,  Mrs. 
Walter  H.  James  of  Waltham,  Mrs.  David  Evans  of 
Watertown  and  the  Belmont  Unitarian  Girls'  Club, 
through  Miss  Tileston,  for  the  entertainment  of  pupils. 

To  Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Mrs.  Allen  Danforth 
of  Plymouth,  Mr.  Frederick  Walsh  and  Miss  Lillie 
Walsh,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Rogers,  and  a  club  of  eight  boys 
through  Charles  Weil  Dreyfus,  secretary,  for  gifts  of 
money  for  special  occasions;  and  to  a  class  of  boys  in 
Hudson,  Mass.,  through  Mrs.  M.  E.  Ricker,  the  Hudson 
Campfire  Girls,  and  Phillips  School,  Wellesley  Hills,  for 
gifts  of  mone}',  fruit  and  candy. 

To  Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Dr.  Francis  I.  Proctor, 
Mrs.  C.  Bancroft  Davis,  Mrs.  George  H.  Monks,  Mrs. 
E.  Preble  Motley,  and  Mr.  Moses  E.  Ferguson,  for 
fruit  and  preserves. 


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To  Mr.  and  Miss  Walsh,  Miss  Mary  Adams,  Mrs. 
J.  Verner  Critchley,  Miss  Elizabeth  Ward  and  the 
Wellesley  Junior  High  School,  for  Christmas  toys  and 
joys. 

To  Mrs.  Critchley,  Mrs.  Benjamin  Stern,  the  Misses 
Slocum,  Mrs.  L.  L.  Hicks,  Mrs.  Edward  Lane,  Mrs. 
Robert  Fowler,  Mrs.  F.  J.  Durgin,  Mrs.  F.  W.  Col- 
burn,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Manton,  Miss  Eleanor  F.  Kelly, 
Mrs.  Louis  Rosenbaum  and  St.  Mary's  Guild  of  the 
Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  for  clothing;  and  to  Mrs. 
Rosenbaum,  for  dolls'  beds  and  for  hair  ribbons. 

To  Mr.  C.  H.  Bird  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  for  a  chess- 
board and  men. 

To  Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge,  for  andirons,  pictures  and 
confectionery. 

To  Temple  Ohabei  Shalom,  through  Mrs.  Edward 
Goldman  and  Mrs.  Jacob  Wachtel,  for  a  Victrola. 

To  Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Miss  Annie  E.  Fisher, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry  of  Cambridge,  Mr.  Parker  B.  Field, 
Mr.  F.  H.  Pratt  and  the  White  Star  Touring  Line, 
for  transportation  of  pupils  on  pleasure  jaunts. 

To  Mr.  S.  J.  Kafelas,  for  plants. 

To  Mr.  Horace  Davy,  for  three  Belgian  rabbits. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS 

October  1,  192  L 


Upper  School. 


Adams,  Louise. 
Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Baker,  Elsie. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Bierman,  Mary. 
Billow,  Ruth  K. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Bradbury,  Thelma  M. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Brustuen,  Sonora  I. 
Buckley,  Alice. 
Cherlin,  Mary. 
Clancy,  Elizabeth. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Comtois,  Eva. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Critchley,  Rosamond  M. 
Demers,  Germaine  M. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Dunn,  Mary  C. 
Duquette,  Irene. 
Eastman,  M.  Albertina. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Ennis,  Ethel  F. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 


Fiske,  Dorothy  T. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Fl3Tin,  Marie  E. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Gray,  Emma  R. 
Guiney,  Julia. 
Haigh,  Laura  A. 
Hall,  Jane  A. 
HaUock,  Flora  B. 
Harael,  Irene. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Kababdjian,  Nouritza. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kelley,  Beulah  C. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Leppanen,  Mary. 
L'Heureux,  Juliette. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Lj^on,  Hazel. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Miles,  MUdred  C. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Najarian,  Nevart. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 


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Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Person,  Erine  A. 
Peteroff,  Sarah. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Rollins,  Mary  L. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Rowe,  Margaret  C. 
Saladino,  Rose  M. 
Severance,  Georgia  M. 
Shea,  Mary  Ellen. 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Smyth,  Eva  H. 
Sullivan,  Ellinor. 
Terr}',  Annie  B. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Trudel,  Olive  C. 
Turner,  Mildred  H. 
Wall,  Agnes  M. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Adams,  Lyman  H. 
Amiro,  Gilbert. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Belinsky,  Samuel. 
Bergeron,  Albert. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Bowen,  Frederick  W. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Curtiss,  Miles  B. 
Cushman,  Ralph. 
DiMartino,  Matthew. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Evans,  Walter  C. 
Frende,  John. 
Gaffney,  George  J. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Gallant,  M.  John. 


Goguen,  Raoul. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Houle,  Walter. 
Inglis,  John  S. 
Istas,  Henry  T. 
Jablonski,  Joseph. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Katwick,  Arthur  D. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Kelleber,  Thomas  A. 
Kierstead,  Edward  L. 
Kim,  Kong  Y. 
Krafve,  Karl  H. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Le  Roi,  Francis  H. 
Liberacki,  Edward. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  H. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 
McCarthy,  Eugene  C. ' 
McGillicuddy,  John. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Medeiros,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Munn,  Daniel  J. 
Munro,  George  H. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
O'Neill,  Ralph  L. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Paraboschi,  Joseph. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Pedersen,  Edward  M. 
Pendei^ast,  Jerome. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Rainville,  Ernest  C. 
Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Rosenbloom,  Robert. 
Rubin,  Manual. 


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St.  George,  William. 
Schoner,  Emil. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Spencer,  Merton  S. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Vaillancourt,  Maurice  A. 


Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Vetal,  Herbert  M. 
Walker,  Roger  T. 
Weston,  Gordon  W. 
Winton,  Henry  W. 
Withers,  Harold. 


Lower  School. 


Allen,  Elizabeth  M. 
Barnard,  Eliza  B. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Beliveau,  Leon  tine  T. 
Braley,  Ruth  I. 
Buckley,  Frances  A. 
Busbyschell,  Barbara  M. 
Cambridge,  Mollie. 
Games,  Florence  I. 
Casella,  Frances. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Corsi,  Angelina. 
Costa,  Marianna. 
Coughlin,  Ethel. 
Curran,  Catherine. 
Daniels,  Dorothy  D. 
De  Dominicis,  Edith. 
Doherty,  Kathleen  E. 
Du  verger,  Loretta  V. 
Edwards,  Eleanor  B. 
Elliott,  Mary. 
Fanning,  Gladys  L. 
Famham,  Barbara  E. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
GljTin,  Helen. 
Goodwin,  Helen  J. 
Harasimowicz,  Alice. 
Haswell,  Thelma  R. 
Hinckley,  Geraldine. 
Holland,  Doris  A. 
IngersoU,  Dorothy. 
Kazanjian,  Zaroohie. 
Landry,  Edwina. 


Lanoue,  Helen. 
Laurenzo,  Carolina. 
Lyons,  Mary  L. 
MacDonald,  Katherine. 
Macdougall,  Mildred  D. 
McCusker,  Margaret  M. 
McGovem,  Velma. 
McMullin,  Beatrice  M. 
Nadeau,  Olivina  M. 
Nowicki,  Janina. 
Ogilvie,  Hilda  M. 
Pimental,  Mary  V. 
Poirier,  Emma. 
Rankin,  Margaret  D. 
Reese,  Helen. 
Saladino,  Beatrice  L. 
Samon,  Stacey. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Saverino,  Maimie. 
Scott,  Arline  R. 
Silvia,  Emma. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Smith,  Dorothy  L. 
Stanievicz,  Mary. 
Stutwoota,  Mar}\ 
TirreJla,  Helen. 
Wheeler,  Theresa. 
Williams,  Dorothy  M. 
Barrett,  Robert  C. 
Berube,  Walter. 
Cammarano,  Angelo. 
Campbell,  Peter  F. 
Carlos,  Antone  F. 


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Caroselli,  Andrea. 
Case,  William  A. 
Casella,  Charles. 
Chombeau,  Bertrand. 
Combs,  Raymond  L. 
Cormier,  Alfred, 
Cowick,  Orville  H. 
Cullen,  George  F. 
Davy,  Horace, 
Donovan,  Thomas  J. 
Dore,  Charles  W, 
Dow,  Ralph  E.  F. 
Dunbar,  Kenneth  A. 
Egan,  Robert  J. 
Ferguson,  George  A. 
Fletcher,  Earl  H. 
Gagnon,  Rene, 
Giuliano,  Paolo, 
Goodwin,  Earl  E. 
Grime,  G,  Edward, 
Hannon,  James  E, 
Hatch,  Arthur  F, 
Hendrick,  Horatio  W. 
Henry,  Paul  W, 
Holmes,  Rutherford  B. 


Hurley,  Arnold  E, 
Keller,  Frederick  H, 
Lamarine,  William  L. 
Leone,  Amadeo, 
Libby,  Arthur  C. 
Lippitt,  Raymond  A. 
Meuse,  Lawrence  A. 
Meuse,  Paul  R, 
Michaud,  J.  Armand. 
Morse,  Kenneth, 
Paquette,  Armand. 
Pike,  Norman  N, 
Pratt,  Marston  T, 
Rainville,  Harvey  L. 
Remington,  Joseph  H, 
Reynolds,  Waldo  F. 
Shaw,  Harris  E. 
Shulman,  George, 
Simoneau,  Henry  J, 
Stott,  Lester  W. 
Summerhayes,  Paul  R, 
Thompson,  R,  Lawrence. 
Tobey,  Arthur  W. 
Wesson,  Kermit  0. 


The  places  from  which  these  pupils  come  and  the  number 
from  each  place  follows :  — 


Massachusetts, 
Rhode  Island, 
Maine,    . 
New  Hampshire, 
Vermont, 
Connecticut,  . 
New  York,     . 


191 
30 
]8 
14 
12 
4 
2 


Hawaii,   . 

Virginia, 

Ohio, 

South  Dakota, 

Canada,  . 

Turkey,  . 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR   THOMAS   STRINGER. 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 

[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and  that 
only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not  provided 
for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  hving,  the  principal  re- 
maining intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that,  at  his  death, 
or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the  income  of  this 
fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education  of  some  chDd  who  is 
both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no  provision  made  either 
by  the  state  or  by  private  indi\dduaLs.] 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., $25  00 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D 25  00 


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STATEMENT  OF  ACCOUNTS. 


Boston,  October  13.  1921. 

Messrs.  Warren  Motley,  F.  H,  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins 
Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Gentlemen:  —  I  have  audited  the  accounts  of  Albert  Thorndike, 
Treasurer  of  the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  31, 
1921,  and  have  found  that  all  income  from  investments  and  proceeds 
from  sales  of  securities  have  been  accoimted  for,  and  that  the  dona- 
tions, subscriptions,  and  miscellaneous  receipts,  as  shown  by  the 
books,  have  been  deposited  in  bank  to  the  credit  of  the  Treasurer  of 
the  Institution. 

I  have  vouched  all  disbursements  and  verified  the  bank  balances  as 
at  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year. 

The  stocks  and  bonds  in  the  custody  of  the  Treasurer  on  August 
31,  1921,  were  counted  by  the  Auditing  Committee  and  the  schedules 
of  the  securities,  examined  by  them,  were  then  submitted  to  me  and 
found  to  agree  with  those  called  for  by  the  books. 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  following  statements  covering  the  Insti- 
tution, Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund,  and  Kindergarten,  correctly  set 
forth  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August 

31,  1921. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JOHN  MONTGOMERY, 

Certified  Public  Accountant. 


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INSTITUTION. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1921. 

Assets. 
Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  Watertown $680,049  22 

Real  estate.  South  Boston 8,647  74 

$688,696  96 

Equipment:  — 

Furniture  and  household, $12,365  17 

Tools,  etc 655  96 

Music  department, 20,300  00 

Library  department, 63,695  17 

Works  department 14,142  77 

111,159  07 

Investments:  — 

Real  estate $208,078  74 

Stocks  and  bonds 490,749  91 

Stocks  and  bonds  —  Varnum  Fund,  .        .        82,278  28 

781,106  93 

Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies, 510  00 

Accounts  receivable, 16,522  28 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 733  90 

Cash  on  hand, 11.461  41 

Total $1,610,190  55 


Liabilities. 

General  account, $438,682  81 

Funds:  — 

Special, $52,667  00 

Permanent 294,283  95 

General 814,160  35 

1,161,111  30 

Unexpended  income,  special  funds, 8,823  73 

Gifts  for  clock  and  organ, 27  00 

Vouchers  payable, 1,545  71 

Total, $1,610,190  55 


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Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1921. 

Rent  net  income $10,296  87 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes, 26,318  28 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds 2,578  90 

Annuities, 1,200  00 

Donations, 7,803  00 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts,    ....      §37,400  00 
Tuition  and  board,  others, 33,442  24 


70,842  24 

Total $119,039  29 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accounts,        $2,578  90 
Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses,  .        .        .  484  71 


3,063  61 


Net  income, $115,975  68 

Net  charge  to  Director, $109,953  89 

Repairs,  faulty  construction, 2,489  09 


112,442  98 

Balance  of  income, $3,532  70 

Income,  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1920 $8,148  35 

Income  1920-1921 2,578  90 

Total $10,727  25 

Distributed, 1,903  52 

Unexijended  income  August  31,  1921, $8,823  73 

Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1921. 

Administration:  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $6,200  84 

Other  expenses, 818  17 

$7,019  01 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $23,415  32 

Other  expenses:  — 

Provisions, $18,708  01 

Light,  heat  and  power,         .        .        18,309  80 

Household  furnishings  and  sup- 
plies,      3,513  78 

Insurance  and  water,  .        .  1,786  51 

Repairs 3,899  56 

Publicity 1,070  04 

Depreciation  on  furniture, 
household  equipment,  tools, 
etc.,      ......  1,350  94 

Miscellaneous 1,440  36 

50,079  00 

73,494  32 


Amount  carried  forward, $80,513  33 

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Amount  brought  forward, $80,513  33 

Instruction  and  school  supplies :  — 

Salaries  and  wages,        .        .  >     .        .        .        .      $28,714  02 
Other  expenses, 1,159  94 

29,873  96 

Total $110,387  29 

Less  net  income.  Tuning  department,        .        .        .  $350  72 

Less  net  income.  Works  department,         ...  82  68 

433  40 

Net  charge  to  Director $109,953  89 


WORKS  DEPARTMENT. 

Profit  and  Loss  Account,  Yeab  ending  August  31,  1921. 

Revenue. 
Sales $49,661  84 

Expenditures. 

Material  used, $15,478  60 

Salaries  and  wages, 26,587  03 

General  expense, 5,977  53 

Auto  expense, 684  33 

Total  expenditures 48,727  49 

Profit $934  35 

Deduct:  — 

Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,  $878  06 

Bad  accounts  written  off, 98  10 

Total, $976  16 

Less:  — 

Recovered  from  bad  debts,         .       .       .       .  124  49 

851  67 

Total  profit  for  year  ended  August  31,  1921,       ...  $82  68 


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INSTITUTION  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 


Special  funds:  — 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb  and  blind) 
Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  blind  and  deaf), 
Harris  Fund  (Outdoor  Relief) ,    . 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  (Music),    . 
Elizabeth  P.  Putnam  (Higher  Education) , 
A.  Shuman  (Clothing  Fxmd) .... 

Permanent  funds:  — 

Charlotte  Billings, 

Stoddard  Capen,    

Jennie  M.  Colby,  in  memory  of, 
Ella  Newman  Curtis  Fund, 

Stephen  Fairbanks, 

Harris  Fund  (General  Purposes) , 

Benjamin  Humphrey 

Prentiss  M.  Kent, 

Jonathan  E.  Pecker, 

Richard  Perkins, 

Mrs.  Marilla  L.  Pitts,  in  memory  of, 
Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial, 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer, 

Charles  Frederick  Smith 

Timothy  Smith 

Mary  Lowell  Stone, 

Alfred  T.  Turner 

Anne  White  Vose, 

Charles  L.  Yoimg, 

William  Varnum  Fund,        .... 


General  funds :  — 

Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, 
Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker,    . 
Calvin  W.  Barker, 
Lucy  B.  Barker,     . 
Francis  Bartlett,    . 
Mary  Bartol, 
Thompson  Baxter, 
Robert  C.  Billings, 
Susan  A.  Blaisdell, 
William  T.  Bolton, 
George  W.  Boyd,  . 
Caroline  E.  Boyden, 
J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 
Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 
J.  Edward  Brown, 
T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham, 


$4,000  00 

5,000  00 

26,667  00 

15,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 


507  00 
770  00 
100  00 
000  00 
000  00 
333  00 
000  00 
500  00 
950  00 
000  00 
,000  00 
,000  00 
174  77 
,663  00 
,000  00 
000  00 
.000  00 
994  00 
,000  00 
,292  18 


$3,000  00 

2,500  00 

1,859  32 

5,953  21 

2,500  00 

300  00 

322  60 

25,000  00 

5,832  66 

555  22 

5,000  00 

1,930  39 

268,391  24 

10,508  70 

100,000  00 

5,000  00 


$52,667  00 


294,283  95 


Amounts  carried  forward, $438,653  24      $346,950  96 


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AtnounU  brought  fortcard $438.653  24      $346,950  95 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Edward  F.  Gate 5,000  00 

Fanny  Channing 2,000  00 

Ann  Eliza  Golburn 5,000  00 

Susan  J.  Gonant 500  00 

William  A.  Gopeland, 1,000  00 

Louise  F.  Grane 5,000  00 

Harriet  Otis  Gruft 6,000  00 

David  Gummings, 7,723  07 

Ghastine  L.  Gushing 500  00 

I.  W,  Danforth, 2,500  00 

Susan  L.  Davis 1,500  00 

Joseph  Descalzo, 1.000  00 

John  H.  Dix 10,000  00 

Alice  J.  H.  Dwinell, 200  00 

Mary  E.  Eaton 5,000  00 

Mortimer  G.  Ferris  Memorial 1,000  00 

Mary  Helen  Freeman, 1,000  00 

Gornelia  Anne  French, 10,000  00 

Martha  A.  French 164  40 

Ephraim  L.  Frothingham 1,700  00 

Jessie  P.  Fuller 200  00 

Thomas  Gaffield 6,685  38 

Albert  Glover 1.000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5.000  00 

Gharlotte  L.  Goodnow 6.471  23 

Ellen  Hammond 1,000  00 

Hattie  S.  Hathaway. 500  00 

Gharles  H.  Hayden 23.050  63 

JohnG.  Haynes 1,000  00 

Joseph  H.  Heywood, 600  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden, 3,708  32 

Gharles  Sylvester  Hutchison 2,156  00 

Ernestine  M.  Kettle 10,000  00 

Lydia  F.  Knowles 50  00 

Gatherine  M.  Lamson 6,000  00 

William  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Hannah  W.  Loring 9,500  00 

Susan  B.  Lyman, 4,809  78 

Stephen  W,  Marston 5,000  00 

Gharles  Merriam 1.000  00 

Joseph  F.  Noera 2,000  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

George  Francis  Parkman, 50,000  00 

Grace  Parkman 500  00 

Philip  G.  Peabody 1,200  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20,000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt 1.000  00 


AmourUs  carried  forward,  ....    $676,92294     $346,95095 

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Amounts  brought  forward S676,922  94     $346,950  95 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Matilda  B.  Richardson 300  00 

Mary  L.  Ruggles, 3,000  00 

Marian  Russell 5,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2,640  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Richard  Black  Sewell 25,000  00 

Margaret  A.  Simpson 800  00 

Esther  W.  Smith, 5,000  00 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .  15,000  00 

Henry  F.  Spencer 1,000  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey, 5,000  00 

Sophronia  S.  Sunbury, 365  19 

Mary  F.  Swift 1,391  00 

WilUam  Taylor 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson 1,000  00 

William  Timlin 3,000  00 

Mary  Willson  Tucker 465  32 

George  B.  Upton 10,000  00 

Abbie  T.  Vose 1,000  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Harriot  Ware 1,952  02 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested 

remainder  interest  under  his  will) ,          .        .  11,500  00 

Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Cordelia  H.  Wheeler 800  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  Whitney 1,000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson 543  75 

Thomas  T.  Wyman 20,000  00 

Fanny  Young 8,000  00 


814,160  35 
1,161,111  30 


DONATIONS,  INSTITUTION  ACCOUNT. 

Committee  of  the  Permanent  Charity  Fund,  In- 
corporated,           $3,375  00 

Everett,  Henry  C,  Jr 5  00 

Plummer,  Charles  A ....  5  00 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Mary  G 100  00 

Rosenthal,  Morris 200  00 

Shattuck,  Henry  L 50  00 

$3,735  00 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society, 4,068  00 

$7,803  00 


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HOWE  MEMORIAL  PRESS  FUND. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1921. 

Assets. 
Equipment  and  supplies :  — 

Printing  plant, $874  59 

Machinery, 4,864  78 

Printing  inventory, 13,057  30 

Appliances  manufactured 8,031  48 

Appliances  purchased, 343  38 

Embossing  inventory 1 ,396  64 

Stationery,  etc., 777  88 

$29,346  05 

Investments:  — 

Stocks  and  bonds, 161,961  21 

Notes  and  accoimts  receivable 3,040  75 

Cash  on  hand 4,144  83 

Total $198,492  84 

Liabilities. 

General  account $181,847  03 

Funds:  — 

Permanent, $5,000  00 

General, 11,390  00 

16,390  00 

Vouchers  payable, 255  81 

Total, $198,492  84 


Condensed  Tbeasubee's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1921. 

Interest  and  dividends $10,535  90 

Donation 50  00 

Other  income 53  03 

Total $10,638  93 

Less  Treasurer's  expenses, 52  50 

Net  income $10,586  43 

Net  charge  to  Director 10,860  60 

Deficit $274  17 

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Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1921. 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Embossing $1,048  46 

Printing 4393  43 

Appliances  manufactured, 3,972  16 

Appliances  purchased 215  35 

Stationery, 725  OO 

Library 2,767  31 

Depreciation  on  machinery  and  equipment,     .  690  14 

Loss  on  bad  accounts, 2  01 

Miscellaneous  appropriations,     .        ,        .        .  110  00 

Miscellaneous  salaries  and  expenses,          .        .  2,201  42 

$16,525  28 

Less :  — 

Discounts $15  83 

Income  from  sale  of  appliances,  $3,936  31 

Income  from  sale  of  books,  music, 

etc., 1,712  54 

5,648  85 

5,664  68 

Net  charge  to  Director $10,860  60 


HOWE  MEMORIAL  PRESS  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Permanent  fund :  — 

Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  Fund, $5,000  00 

General  funds :  — 

Beggs  Fund $100  00 

Joseph  H.  Center, 1,000  00 

Augusta  Wells, 10,290  00 

11,390  00 

$16,390  00 


DONATIONS,   HOWE  MEMORIAL  PRESS. 

Family, $50  00 


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KINDERGARTEN. 
Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1921. 

Assets. 

Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  Watertown, $534,441  83 

Equipment:  — 

Furniture  and  household, $12,333  33 

Tools,  etc 892  49 

Music  department 2,650  00 

15,875  82 

Investments:  — 

Real  estate $419,946  43 

Stocks  and  bonds 968,605  26 

1,388,551  69 

Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies 510  00 

Accounts  receivable 838  88 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 175  83 

Cash  on  hand 10,945  92 

Total $1,951,339  97 

Liabilities. 

General  account $390,632  64 

Funds:  — 

Special, $6,840  00 

Permanent 183,319  70 

General 1,355,499  58 

1,545,659  28 

Unexpended  income  special  fimds, 1,260  31 

Vouchers  payable, 813  47 

Account  payable 12,974  27 

Total $1,951,339  97 


Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1921. 

Rent  net  income $20,744  91 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes, 50,516  91 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  fimds 265  16 

Donations 48  00 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts $31,400  00 

Tuition  and  board,  others, 11,560  00 

42,960  00 

Total S114.534  98 

Amount  carried  forward, $114,534  98 

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Amount  brought  forward $114,534  98 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accoimts,  $265  16 

Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses,  ,        .        .  479  42 

744  58 


Net  income, $113,790  40 

Net  charge  to  Director, $109,166  66 

Repairs,  faulty  construction, 1,518  38 

110,685  04 


Balance  of  income, $3,105  36 

Income,  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1920, $1,151  93 

Income  1920-1921, 265  16 


Total, $1,417  09 

Distributed, 156  78 


Unexpended  balance  August  31,  1921, $1,260  31 

Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1921. 

Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages, $6,200  83 

Other  expenses, 1,896  44 


$8,097  27 


Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $27,337  69 

Other  expenses:  — 

Provisions, $17,064  56 

Light,  heat  and  power,         .        .        17,328  29 

Tuition  and  board,        .        .        .        12,921  24 

Household  furnishings  and  sup- 
plies   1,545  58 

Depreciation  on  furniture, 
household  equipment,  tools, 
etc 

Insurance  and  water,    . 


Repairs,  .        .        .        . 
Printing  appropriation. 
Publicity, 
Miscellaneous, 


1,367  54 
2,021  61 
3,892  47 
691  22 
652  53 
3,882  35 


61,367  39 
88,705  08 


Instruction  and  school  supplies:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $11,498  00 

Other  expenses, 866  31 


12,364  31 

Net  charge  to  Director $109,166  66 

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Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  School 
For  the  Blind 


NINETY-FIRST  ANNUAL   REPORT 
OF  THE  TRUSTEES 


1922 


BOSTON     Ji     ^     ^     jIt     jt     1923 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


CJ)e  Commontoealtb  of  Qia00acl)U0ett0 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  21,  1922. 

To  the  Hon.  Frederic  W.  Cook,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for 
the  use  of  the  Legislature,  a  copy  of  the  ninety-first  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 

1922-1923. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON,  Vice-President. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOABD    OF    TBUSTEES. 


FRANCIS  HENRY   APPLETON. 

WILLIAM   ENDICOTT. 

PAUL  E.  FITZPATRICK. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 

G.  PEABODY   GARDNER,  Jb. 

ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL. 


JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL, 
CHARLES  E.  OSGOOD. 
Miss  MARIA   PURDON. 
Mrs.  GEORGE  T.   PUTNAM. 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON.  M.D. 
LEVERETT  SALTONSTALL. 


STANDING    COMMITTEES. 
Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


1923. 

Paul  E.  Fitzpatbick. 
Mrs.  Gek>rge  T.  Putnam. 
G.  Peabodt  Gabdnek,  Jr. 
William  L.  Richabdson. 
Leverett  Saltonstall. 
William  Endicott. 


1923. 

January   . 

Francis  Hknrt  Appleton. 

July    .      . 

February 

Miss  Maria  Pubdon. 

August 

March 

ROBEBT  H.  Hallowbll. 

September 

April  . 

Paul  R.  Fbothingham. 

October    . 

May    . 

James  A.  Lowell. 

November 

June   . 

Chables  E.  Osgood. 

December 

Ezecutive  Committee. 

Francis  Henry  Appleton,  President,  ex 

officio. 
Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  ex  officio. 
Edward  E.  Allen,  Secretary,  ex  officio. 
Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick. 
Robebt  H.  Hallowbll. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Mias  Mabia  Pubdon. 


Finance  Committee. 

Albebt  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  ex  officio. 

William  Endicott. 

James  A.  Lowell. 

G.  Peabodt  Gabdneb,  Jr. 


Auditors  of  Expenses. 

G.  Peabodt  Gabdner,  Jr. 

Robert  H.  Hallowell. 

John  Montgomebt,  Certified  Public  Accountant. 


OFFICERS    OF   ADMINISTRATION   AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS   AND   OFFICERS   OF   THE   UPPER   SCHOOL. 
LITEKAKT  DEPAETMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  JESSICA  L.  LANGWORTHY. 

MiBS  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

CHESTER  A.  GIBSON. 

FRANCIS  W.  DANA. 

Miss  LIZZIE   R.  KINSMAN. 

Miss  CLARA  L.  PRATT. 

Miss  FLEDA  CHAMBERLAIN. 


Olrls'  Section. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 
Miss  ANNIE   L.  BRADFORD. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  MARY  H.  FERGUSON. 
Miss  MARION   A.  WOODWORTH. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  GERTRUDE   S.  HARLOW. 


Teacher  of  Home  Economics. 
Mibb  MARY  C.  MELDRUM. 


DEPASTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL  TRAININO. 


C.  BENJAMIN   MINNER. 


Miss  MARY   H.  FERGUSON. 


MiBS  LENNA  D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  MUSIC. 

EDWIN   L.   GARDINER. 


Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 
Miss  BRYAN  STURM. 


Miss  BLANCHE   A.  BARDIN. 

Miss  EDITH   RANDALL. 

Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPARTMENT    OF    MANUAL   TBAININa. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN    H.    MABEY. 
HAROLD    W.    STANTON. 
Miss  MARY    B.    KNOWLTON.  Sloyd. 


Girls'  Section. 

MiBS  FRANCES    M.    LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.   ELIZABETH    ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.    CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ALTA   M.  LUX. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  TUNINQ   PIANOFORTES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,  CLERKS  AND  BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.  SAWYER,  Librarian. 
Miss  FLORENCE  J.  WORTH,  Assistant. 
Miss  ANNA   GARDNER   FISH,  Clerk. 


Miss  Mai   L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 
Miss  LUCY  E.  YEGANIAN,  Assistant. 


Mrs.  SARAH  A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  BUILDINGS. 

FREDERICK  A.  FLANDERS.  SupennUndent. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD   B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

Db.  FRANK   R.    OBER,   Orthopedic  Surgeon. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE,  DM-B.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 

Miss  ELLA   L.  LOOMER,  R.N.,  Attending  Nurse. 


DOMESTIC   DEPARTMENT. 

WALTER  S.  GOSS,  Steward. 


Matrons  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 

Mrs.  JOSEPHINE   H.  MANSUR. 
Mrs.  CHESTER  A.  GIBSON. 
Mrs.  AGNES  C.  LUMMUS. 
Mrs.  FLORENCE  T.   MINNER. 


Oirls'  Section. 
Mrs.  ISABELLA   P.  HEARD. 
Miss  ICATHERINE   M.  LOWE. 
Miss  SHARLIE   M.  CHANDLER. 
Mrs.  HATTIE   S.  ADAMS. 


PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 

FRANK  C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS,  Printer.  I    Miss  MARY   L.  TULLY,  Printer. 


WORKSHOP   FOR  ADXTLTS. 

FRANK    C.    BRYAN,  A/onager. 
Miss  EVA  C.  ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS   AND   OFFICERS   OF   THE   LOWER   SCHOOL. 
KINDEBQARTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Mrs.  Emma  H.  McCraith,  Assistant. 
Miss  Carolyn  M.  Burrell,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Sadie  Turner,  Teacher. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss  Cornelia  M.  LoRma,  Matron. 
Miss  Mildred  I.  Hillner,  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner, 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 


Miss  Edith  Randall,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Margaret  McKenzie,  Teoxher  of  Mantud  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 

Samuel  P.  Hates,  Ph.D.,  Psychologist. 

Miss  Kathrtn  E.  Maxfield,  Assistant  in  Psychology  and  Personnel. 

Miss  Ruth  Colburn,  Assistant  Psychologist. 


PBIMARY  DEPABTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Clossie  E.  Clark,  Substitute. 
Miss  P^ORA  C.  Fountain,  Assistant. 
Miss  Ethel  D.  Evans,  Teacher. 


Miss  Beth  A.  Easter,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Oirls'  Section. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlbtt,  Matron. 
Miss  Eleanor  Foster,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Miss  Margaret  Miller,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Grinq,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  LiNNEA  Bero,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'   VISITING   COMMITTEE  TO  THE  EINDEBGABTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President, 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Secretary. 


Mrs.  Algernon  Coolidge 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge 
Miss  Maria  Purdon    . 
Mrs.  Ronald  T.  Lyman 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren 
Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman 


>  January. 

February. 

March. 

April, 

May, 


Miss  Alice  Sargent    .  .  June. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray  .  September, 

Mrs.  George  T.  Putnam  .  October, 

Mrs.  George  H.  Monks  .  November, 

Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley  .  December, 


General  Visitor. 

Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton 


Honorary  Members. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 
Mrs.  Kengsmill  Marrs. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  Edwin  H.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Adams,  Karl,  Boston. 

Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 

Amory,  Robert,  Boston. 

Anderson,  Mrs.  Larz,  Brookline. 

Angler,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 

Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henry, 
Peabody. 

Appleton,  Francis  Henry,  Jr., 
Boston. 

Appleton,  Mrs.  Francis  Henry, 
Jr.,  Boston. 

Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 

Atherton,  Mrs.  Caroline  S.,  Grove 
Hall. 

Bacon,  Caspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 

Baldwin,  S.  E.,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 

Bancroft,  Miss  Eleanor  C, 
Beverly. 

Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 

Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 

Beach,  Rev.  David  N.,  Guilford, 
Conn. 

Beatley,  Mrs.  Clara  B.,  Boston. 

Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 

Benedict,  Wm.  Leonard,  New 
York. 

Bennett,  Miss  Gazella,  Worcester. 


Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 

Blake,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Blunt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 

Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Bowditch,  IngersoU,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brigham,  Charles,  Watertown. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 

Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullard,  Miss  Ellen,  Boston. 

Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 

Burditt,  Miss  Alice  A.,  Boston. 

Bumham,  Miss  Juha  E.,  Lowell. 

Burr,  I.  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Cabot,  Mrs.  Thomas  H.,  Boston. 

Callender,  Walter,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Water- 
town. 

Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 

Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 

Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Algernon,  Boston. 

Coohdge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 

Coohdge,  Mrs.  Harold  J.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 

Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crane,  Zenas  M.,  Pittsfield. 

Crosby,  Sumner,  Cambridge. 

Crosby,  William  S.,  BrookUne. 


Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Boston. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Damon,  Willard  A.,  Springfield. 

Davies,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F., 
Springfield. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

De  Witt,  Alexander,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Harriett,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dolan,  WilUam  G.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

EUis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  WiUiam  C,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Everett,  Dr.  OUver  H.,  Worcester, 

Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Thomas  J.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover,  Mass. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 


Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Paul  Edward,  Brook- 
line. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

FuUer,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gage,  Mrs.  Homer,  Shrewsbury. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Need- 
ham. 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  G.  Peabody,  Jr.,  Brook- 
Une. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskill,  George  A.,  Worcester. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

Gaylord,  Emerson  G.,  Chicopee. 

Geer,  Mrs.  Danforth,  Jr.,  Short- 
hiUs,  N.  J. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

GHbert,  Wm.  E.,  Springfield. 

Gleason,  Mrs.  Cora  L.,  Boston. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

GUdden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goddard,  Harry  W.,  Worcester. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D., 
Boston. 

Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman,  Bos- 
ton. 

Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 


Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 
Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 
Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 
Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 
Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 
Hallowell,  Robert  H.,  Boston, 
Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 
Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 
Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 
Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Boston. 
Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 
Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 
Holmes,    Charles    W.,    Toronto, 

Ont. 
Homans,  Robert,  Boston. 
Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 
Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 
Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  BrookUne. 
Howland,  Mrs.  O.  0.,  Boston. 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 
Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston, 
lasigi.  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 
Ingrahara,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 
Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  CaUfornia. 
Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 
Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 
Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 
Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 
Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 
Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 
Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 
Kilham,  Miss  Annie  M.,  Beverly. 
Kilmer,    Frederick    M.,    Water- 
town. 
Kimball,  Edward  P.,  North  An- 

dover. 
King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 


Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Lincoln,  Waldo,  Worcester. 

Littell,  Miss  Harriet  A.,  Boston. 

Livermore,   Mrs.  Wm.  R.,  New 
York. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Nahant. 

Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,   Rev.   A.   M.,   Providence, 

R.I. 
Loring,  Miss  Katharine  P.,  Prides 

Crossing. 
Loring,   Miss   Louisa   P.,   Prides 

Crossing. 
Loring,  Mrs.  Wm.  Caleb,  Boston. 
Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 
Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 
Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 
Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Cam- 
bridge. 
Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 
Lowell,  James  Arnold,  Boston. 
Lowell,  John,  Chestnut  Hill. 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 
Luce,  Hon.  Robert,  Waltham. 
Lyman,  Mrs.  Ronald  T.,  Boston. 
Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 

Me. 
Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 
Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 
Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston. 
Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 


McElwain,  R.  Franklin,  Holyoke. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Roger  B.,  Cam- 
bridge. 
Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 
Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 
Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 
Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 
Minot,  James  J.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Minot,  William,  Boston. 
Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 
Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 
Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica 

Plain. 
Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 
Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 

Norton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Noyes,  Mrs.  Lucia  C,  Jamaica 
Plain. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 

Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hope- 
dale. 

Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S.,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston 

Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 

Partridge,  Fred  F.,  Holyoke. 

Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 

Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston, 

Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Philip  G.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 

PhilUps,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 

Pickering,  Henry  G.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 


Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 
Plunkett,  W.  P.,  Adams. 
Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 
Poulsson,  Miss  Emilie,  Boston. 
Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H.,  Newton. 
Pratt,    George    Dwight,    Spring- 
field. 
Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 
Purdon,  Miss  Maria,  Boston. 
Putnam,  F.  Delano,  Boston. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George  T.,  Brook- 
line. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 
Read,  Mrs.  Robert  M.,  Medford. 
Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 
Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 

Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richards,  Henry  H.,  Groton. 

Richardson,  John,  Jr.,  Readville. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John,  Jr.,  Read- 
ville. 

Richardson,   Miss   M.    G.,   New 
York. 

Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Allston. 

Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 

Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 

Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Saltonstall,    Leverett,    Chestnut 
Hill. 

Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Leverett,  Chest- 
nut Hill. 

Sargent,  Miss  Alice,  Brookline. 

Schafi^,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 


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Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Smith,  Joel  West,  East  Hampton, 
Conn. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 

Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Steams,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Steams,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Charles  M.,  Worcester. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thomas,  Mrs.  John  B.,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Thomdike,  Miss  Rosanna  D., 
Boston. 

Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 

Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 


Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Wallace,  Andrew  B.,  Springfield. 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  Miss  Annie  C,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Washburn,  Hon.  Charles  G., 
Worcester. 

Washburn,  Mrs.  Frederick  A., 
Boston. 

Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Wendell,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Wesson,  James  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 

Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Boston. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Wright,  Burton  H.,  Worcester. 

Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 

Young,  Mrs. Benjamin  L.,  Boston. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS 

OF    THE 

ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Watertown,  October  11,  1922. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order 
by  the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  report  of  the  treasurer  was  accepted  and  ordered  on 
file. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are  hereby 
ratified  and  confirmed. 

Voted,  That  Article  II  of  the  by-laws  be  amended  by  substituting 
the  words  "the  first  Wednesday  of  November"  for  "the  second 
Wednesday  of  October." 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  oflBcers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  William  L.  Richardson. 

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Treasurer.  —  Albert  Thorndike. 

Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  William  Endicott, 
Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick,  G.  Peabody  Gardner,  Jr.,  Robert  H. 
Hallowell,  James  A.  Lowell,  Mrs.  George  T.  Putnam,  and 
Leverett  Saltonstall. 

Mrs.  George  T.  Putnam  and  Mr.  G.  Peabody  Gardner, 
Jr.,  were  unanimously  elected  members  of  the  corporation. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  11,  1922. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  The  distinctive  fea- 
ture of  Perkins  Institution  is  its  grouping  by  families. 
The  term  "cottage  system"  does  not  describe  it. 
A  typical  cottage  or  ''pavilion"  plant  is  that  at 
Chemnitz,  Germany,  where  the  hundreds  of  bUnd 
pupils  live  in  many  separate  dormitory  houses  ac- 
cording to  sex,  age  and  occupation,  but  assemble 
three  times  a  day  in  a  huge  building  for  meals.  Their 
caretakers  Uve  with  them,  but  their  teachers  do  not, 
nor  do  they  eat  with  them.  To  one  familiar  with 
the  small  family  plan,  this  mass  eating  suggests  that 
meals  are  a  business  to  be  put  through,  not  a  time 
for  social  communion  between  the  pupils  and  their 
teachers;  and  somehow  we  felt  that,  if  Perkins  was 
to  continue  to  stress  sociaHzation  as  the  chief  need  of 
the  young  bhnd,  we  could  not  attain  this  so  well  by 
any  system  of  compromise.  So  when  we  rebuilt  in 
the  suburbs  we  embodied  the  plan  of  bringing  both 
teacher  and  taught  together  in  complete  Uttle  famihes 
for  Uving  and  of  requiring  them  to  leave  their  houses 
daily  only  for  schooling,  outdoor  recreation,  etc. 
This  plan  avoids  some  of  the  unsociahzing  effects  of 

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congregating  young  ''socially  competent"  people 
having  a  common  handicap  and  in  our  judgment 
justifies  itself. 

No  money  was  expended  unwisely  on  our  present 
plant.  We  might  have  spent  much  more  without 
commensurate  benefit,  had  we  deemed  a  lot  of  dis- 
tinct houses  better  than  the  same  accommodations 
under  a  few  roofs.  And  now  after  ten  years  of  use 
the  grouping  of  our  buildings  seems  to  us  masterly 
both  in  utiUty  and  design.  As  regards  their  beauty 
the  architect  was  "required"  to  produce  beauty  in 
simplicity,  and  this  he  accomplished  through  his 
layout  quite  as  much  as  through  his  materials. 
The  whole  plant  is  beautiful  alike  in  simplicity  and 
setting,  and  is  eminently  practical  because  planned 
to  foster  the  need  of  those  who  Uve  in  it  —  the  need 
of  participation,  sociaHzation  and  optimism.  Even 
the  lofty  tower  is  an  asset  of  the  highest  value,  in- 
viting as  it  constantly  does  the  passing  public  to 
learn  what  goes  on  under  it. 

The  Perkins  Institution  community  at  Watertown 
consists  of  about  four  hundred  people,  three-fourths 
being  pupils,  the  rest  officers,  teachers  and  helpers. 
Its  essential  buildings  are  under  seven  roofs :  — 
Howe  Hall,  the  boys'  close,  the  girls'  close,  the 
kindergarten,  the  power  house,  the  hospital,  and  the 
director's  house.  Last  year  we  added  a  steward's 
house,  a  head  gardener's  house  and  a  garage.  There 
are  six  schools,  —  two  kindergartens,  two  primary 
schools,  and  a  boys'  and  a  girls'  upper  school.    The 

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departments  are:  fundamental  and  general  class 
training  in  the  English  branches,  physical  and 
manual  training,  music  and  contributory  housework. 
There  are  fifty  teachers  and  twelve  housemothers, 
and  sundry  others,  who  live  with  the  pupils,  this 
arrangement  necessitating  the  daily  commingling  of 
the  immature  with  the  mature  minds,  in  the  pro- 
portion of  four  to  one.  Everybody  participates  some- 
what in  the  housework,  a  continuing  means  of  foster- 
ing the  sense  of  being  useful  and  responsible.  No 
study  or  practice  is  assigned  to  the  dwelling  house, 
but  all  to  the  schoolrooms.  The  school  day  is  from 
eight  o'clock  a.m.  to  five  p.m.,  with  an  hour's  study 
or  reading  in  the  evening.  But  these  hours  are 
so  diversified  in  pursuit  and  broken  by  recesses  that 
they  do  not  seem  long.  Indeed,  there  is  not  time 
enough  to  get  in  all  the  teachers  wish  for.  The 
course  is  well  balanced  and  thorough  —  slow,  per- 
haps, but  sure,  the  pupils  who  graduate  from  the 
high  school  being  about  twenty  years  old.  How- 
ever, most  of  these  begin  school  later  and  cover  more 
subjects  than  children  ordinarily  do,  not  a  few  of 
them  having  already  begun  such  vocational  studies 
as  piano  tuning  and  music  teaching,  typewriting 
and  housekeeping  which  they  may  remain  to  finish. 
For  most,  however,  the  course  above  the  elementary 
is  that  of  the  secondary  school  having  many  depart- 
ments, and  is  fundamentally  pre- vocational. 

Graduates    of    Perkins    Institution    and    similar 


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KINDERGARTEN  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Special  funds:  — 

Glover  Fund  (Albert  Glover,  Blind  deaf  mutes) ,  $  1 ,840  00 

Emeline  Morse  Lane  (Books),     ....  1,000  00 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Room,     .        .        .  4,000  00 

Permanent  funds :  — 

William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,  Memorial,        .  $1,000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden 4,675  00 

A.  A.  C.,  In  Memoriam, 500  00 

Helen  G.  Coburn, 9,980  10 

M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  Fimd,         .        .  10,000  00 

Caroline  T.  Downes 12,950  00 

Charles  H.  Draper, 23,934  13 

Eliza  J.  Bell  Draper  Fund 1,500  00 

Helen  Atkins  Edmands  Memorial,     .        .        .  5,000  00 

George  R.  Emerson, 5,000  00 

MaryEveleth, 1,000  00 

Eugenia  F.  Farnham 1,015  00 

Susan  W.  Farwell, 500  00 

John  Foster, 5,000  00 

The  Luther  and  Mary  Gilbert  Fund,         .        .  3,000  00 

Albert  Glover 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  Fund, 9,935  95 

Charles  Larned 5,000  00 

George  F.  Parkman 3,500  00 

Catherine  P.  Perkins 10,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial,         .        .        .  15,600  00 

Caroline  O.  Seabury 1,000  00 

Eliza  Sturgis  Fund 21,729  52 

Abby  K.  Sweetser, 25,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser, 5,000  00 

Mary  Rosevear  White, 500  00 

General  funds:  — 

Emilie  Albee, $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen 748  38 

Michael  Anagnos, 3,000  00 

Harriet  T.  Andrew 5,000  00 

Martha  B.  Angell 10,500  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton 18,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey 500  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker, 2,500  00 

Ellen  M.  Baker 13,053  48 

Mary  D.  Balfour, 100  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  Fund 500  00 

Sidney  Bartlett, 10,000  00 

Emma  M.  Bass 1,000  00 


$6,840  00 


183,319  70 


Amounts  carried  forward, 


$65,051  86     $190,159  70 


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Amounts  brought  forward $65,051  86     $190,159  70 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Thompson  Baxter, 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 10,000  00 

Sarah  Bradford, 100  00 

Helen  C.  Bradlee, 140,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 6,130  07 

Sarah  Crocker  Brewster, 500  00 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown, 1,000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown 3,073  76 

Harriet  Tilden  Browne, 2,000  00 

John  W.  Carter, 500  00 

Adeline  M.  Chapin 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5,000  00 

Charles  H.  Colburn 1,000  00 

Helen  Collamore 5,000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge 45,138  16 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis 300  00 

Sarah  Silver  Cox 5,000  00 

Susan  T.  Crosby, 100  00 

James  H.  Danforth 1,000  00 

Catherine  L.  Donnison  Memorial,      .        .        .  1,000  00 

George  E.  Downes, 3,000  00 

Lucy  A.  Dwight, 4,000  00 

Mary  B.  Emmons, 1,000  00 

Mary  E.  Emerson, 1,000  00 

Annie  Louisa  Fay  Memorial 1,000  00 

Sarah  M.  Fay 15,000  00 

Charlotte  M.  Fiske, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  W.  Gay, 7,931  00 

Ellen  M.  Gifford 5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5,000  00 

Matilda  Goddard 300  00 

Maria  L.  Gray 200  00 

Caroline  H.  Greene, 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Greenleaf 5,157  75 

Josephine  S.  Hall, 3,000  00 

Olive  E.  Hayden, 4,622  45 

Allen  Haskell 500  00 

Jane  H.  Hodges, 300  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 2,360  67 

Marion  D.  Hollingsworth, 1,000  00 

Frances  H.  Hood, 100  00 

Abigal  W.  Howe, 1,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt 10,000  00 

Ellen  M.  Jones, 500  00 

Clara  B.  Kimball 10,000  00 

Moses  Kimball, 1,000  00 

Ann  E.  Lambert, 700  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $550,679  46     $190,159  70 

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Amounts  brought  forward $550,679  46     S190.159  70 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

WUliam  Litchfield 5,000  00 

Mary  Ann  Locke, 5,874  00 

Robert  W.  Lord •  1,000  00 

Elisha  T.  Loring 5,000  00 

Sophia  N.  Low 1.000  00 

Thomas  Mack 1,000  00 

Augustus  D.  Manson, 8,134  00 

Calanthe  E.  Marsh 20.11120 

Sarah  L.  Marsh 1.000  00 

Waldo  Marsh 500  00 

Annie  B.  Matthews 15,000  00 

Rebecca  S.  Melvin 23,545  55 

Georgina  Merrill 4,773  80 

Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Mary  Abbie  Newell 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis 1,000  00 

Jeannie  Warren  Paine, 1,000  00 

Anna  R.  Palfrey 50  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker, 699  41 

Helen  M.  Parsons 500  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  M.  Peyser 3,900  00 

Mary  J.  Phipps 2,000  00 

Caroline  S.  Pickman 1,000  00 

Katherine  C.  Pierce 5,000  00 

Helen  A.  Porter 50  00 

Sarah  E.  Potter  Endowment 425,014  44 

Francis  L.  Pratt 100  00 

Mary  S.  C.  Reed •  5,000  00 

Jane  Roberts 93,025  55 

John  M.  Rodocanachi 2,250  00 

Dorothy  Roffe 500  00 

Rhoda  Rogers 500  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch 8,500  00 

Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

Rebecca  Salisbury 200  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 3,000  00 

Eliza  B.  Seymour 5,000  00 

Esther  W.  Smith 5,000  00 

Annie  E.  Snow 9,903  27 

Adelaide  Standish 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  G.  Stuart 2,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer, 2,000  00 

Harriet  Taber  Fund, 622  81 

Sarah  W.  Taber 1.000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Delia  D.  Thorndike 5,000  00 


Amounts  earned  forward $1,263,063  49     $190,159  70 

67 


Amounts  brought  forward,         .       .       .        $1,263,063  49      $190,159  70 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Betsey  B.  Tolman, 500  00 

Transcript,  ten  dollar  fund,         ....  5,666  95 

Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Minnie  H.  Underbill 1,000  00 

Rebecca  P.  Wainwrigbt 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales,         ......  5,000  00 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales,        .        .        .        .        .  10,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware 4,000  00 

Rebecca  B.  Warren 5,000  00 

Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse 565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson 100  00 

Ralph  Watson  Memorial, 237  92 

Isabella  M.  Weld 14,795  06 

Mary  Whitehead 666  00 

Julia  A.  Whitney, 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney 150  62 

Betsey  S.  Wilder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley, 200  00 

Mary  W.  WUey 150  00 

Mary  Williams 5,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5,532  00 


1,355,499  58 


$1,545,659  28 


DONATIONS,  KINDERGARTEN  ACCOUNT. 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K $10  00 

"Children  of  the  King,"  Church  of  the  Disciples, 

Boston 4  00 

Sabine,   George  K.   (In  memory  of  Caroline  R. 

Sabine), 9  00 

Union  Church  of  Weymouth  and  Braintree,    .        .  25  00 

$48  00 


68 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Stover,  Treasurer:  — 

Annual  subscriptions, SI, 728  00 

Donations 2,028  00 

Cambridge  Branch 177  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 64  00 

Lynn  Branch, 38  00 

Milton  Branch 33  00 

$4,068  00 


ANNUAL  SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE 
PERKINS  INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stoveb,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E, 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo, 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H., 
Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R.,  . 
Alley,  Mrs.  George  R.,  . 
Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Wm., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Wm.,  2d, 
Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P.,    . 
Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 
Baer,  Mrs.  Louis,    . 
Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 
Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 
Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R.,. 
Barnet,  Mrs.  Solomon  J., 
Bartol,  Miss  EUzabeth  H., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 
Beale,  Mrs.  Wilbur  F.,  . 


.   $2 

00  1 

5  00  1 

.   10 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

.   25 

00 

5 

00 

.   25 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.   10  00  1 

5 

00 

.   20 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10  00  1 

2 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $161  00 


Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 
Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Boardman,  Mrs.  W.  D., 
Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.,     . 
Brewer,  Mrs.  D.  C, 
Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S.,    . 
Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 
Brush,  Mrs.  C.  N., 
Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C,    . 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E.  C. 


1 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

.   10 

00 

5  00 

5  00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.   10  00 

.   10 

00 

.   10  00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $161  00  Amount  carried  forward,     .  $264  00 


69 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $264  00 


Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R.,  . 

1  00 

Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C,   . 

2  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 

10  00 

Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 

3  00 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 

5  00 

Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Amory, 

10  00 

Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D., 

2  00 

Cox,  Mrs.  William  E.,   . 

10  00 

Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 

5  00 

Craigin,  Dr.  G.  A., 

5  00 

Crocker,  Mrs.  U.  H.,      . 

5  00 

Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 

10  00 

Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Miss  Mary  G.,  . 

10  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W.,    . 

5  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F., 

10  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G., 

2  00 

Cutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 

1  00 

Cutts,  Mrs.  H.  M., 

1  00 

Dale,  Mrs.  Eben,    . 

5  00 

Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 

2  00 

Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A., 

1  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 

5  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 

3  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 

5  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

5  00 

Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket, 

5  00 

Drost,  Mr.  C.  A.,   . 

10  00 

Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

1  00 

Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 

10  00 

Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant, 

10  00 

Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 

2  00 

Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 

2  00 

Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d,     . 

35  00 

Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C, 

5  00 

Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 

5  00 

Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 

5  00 

Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 

10  00 

Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M.,  . 

10  00 

Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B.,  . 

10  00 

Field,  Mrs.  D.  M., 

5  00 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,       . 

25  00 

Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N.,  . 

10  00 

Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel, 

1  00 

Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A.,     . 

3  00 

Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,    . 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $571  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $571  00 


Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon, 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert,  . 
Gill,  Mr.  Abbott  D.,      . 
Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,     . 
Goldberg,  Mrs.  Simon,  . 
Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer  H 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,     . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Chas.  H., 
Grant,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,     . 
Greenleaf,  Mrs.  L.  B.,    . 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 
Harrington,  Mrs.  Francis  B 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W.,    . 
Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G.,   . 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,     . 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Homans,  Mrs.  John, 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,     . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howland,  Mrs.  M.  M., 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  David  P 

Kimball, 
Jennings,  Miss  Julia  F., 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C, 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H., 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,    . 
Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L., 
Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 
King,  Mrs.  S.  G.,    . 
Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 
Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix,     . 
Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 
Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A., 
Lane,  Mrs.  D.  H.,  . 
Larkin,  The  Misses, 
Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 
Leland,  Miss  Ernestine  H., 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $849  00 


1,        5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

3  00 

t,        5  00 

.       15  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

.       20  00 

1  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       20  00 

.       25  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

70 


Amount  brought  forward,    . 

$849  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $1,200  00 

Leland,  Mrs.  Leslie  F., 

1  00 

Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S.,  . 

5  00 

Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Henry, 

1  00 

Leland,  Miss  Mai  L.,     . 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Miss  Loraine,    . 

1  00 

Leland,  Miss  Winifred  F.,     . 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Louis, 

5  00 

Levi,  Mrs.  Harry,  . 

5  00 

Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S.,     . 

1  00 

Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 

5  00 

Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 

5  00 

Locke,  Mrs.  C.  A., 

10  00 

Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M. 

Loring,  Judge  W.  C,     . 

25  00 

in  memory  of  his  mother 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

25  00 

Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall 

10  00 

Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B., 

5  00 

Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W.,      . 

10  00 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 

5  00 

Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E.,    . 

5  00 

Lovering,  Mrs.  Charles  T.,   . 

10  00 

Scudder,  Mrs.  Charles  L., 

1  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 

5  00 

Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem- 

Macurdy, Mr.  Wm.  F., 

10  00 

ory  of  her  mother,   Mrs 

Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S.,   . 

2  00 

N.  M.  Downer,   . 

5  00 

Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P.,     . 

3  00 

Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 

10  00 

Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 

10  00 

Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 

25  00 

Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M., 

5  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 

30  00 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 

10  00 

Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 

5  00 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 

5  00 

Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

2  00 

Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  . 

1  00 

Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D.,    . 

5  00 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 

5  00 

Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 

5  00 

Morss,  Mrs.  Everett, 

5  00 

Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 

1  00 

Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 

5  00 

Sprague,  Mrs.  H.  B., 

1  00 

Moses,  Mrs.  George, 

2  00 

Sprague,  Dr.  Francis  P., 

.       10  00 

Moses,  Mrs.  Joseph, 

5  00 

Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana, 

5  00 

Moses,  Mrs.  Louis, 

1  00 

Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H 

,      10  00 

Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 

5  00 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Bracket! 

3  00 

Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,     . 

2  00 

Stearns,  Mr.  Wm.  B.,    . 

2  00 

Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 

1  00 

Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex., 

5  00 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 

10  00 

Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 

5  00 

Olmsted,  Mrs.  J.  C., 

3  00 

Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 

.       20  00 

Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 

2  00 

Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil, 

5  00 

Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 

.       10  00 

Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,  . 

5  00 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,     . 

,       25  00 

Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 

5  00 

Pitman,  Mrs.  Benjamin  F., 

.       10  00 

Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 

5  00 

Potter,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.,    . 

3  00 

Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C,    . 

5  00 

Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,     . 

5  00 

Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A., 

.       10  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 

5  00 

Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 

5  00 

Ratchesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 

5  00 

Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  ] 

..,       I  00 

Ratchesky,  Mrs.  I.  A.,  . 

5  00 

Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 

5  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

2  00 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S 

5  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  John  H., 

2  00 

Vass,  Miss  Harriett, 

5  00 

Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 

.       50  00 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 

5  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  Wm.  B., 

.       25  00 

Ward,  The  Misses, 

.       10  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,     . 

2  00 

Ward,  Miss  Julia  A., 

2  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  Frederick, 

5  00 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee,  . 

.       25  00 

Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 

1  00 

Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard,   . 

.       25  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K., 

5  00 

Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador, 
Amount  carried  forward, 

1  00 

Amount  carried  forward, 

$1,200  00 

$1,517  00 

71 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,517  00 


Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge,  . 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P.,  . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor,  . 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M., 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman  H., 
Williams,  The  Misses,    . 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,691  00 


5 

00 

.       10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5  00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

.       25  00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

.       15 

00 

.     100 

00 

Amount  brought  forward.    Si, 691  00 


Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

1  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  C.  A.,     . 

5  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 

2  00 

Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 

5  00 

Wingersky,  Mrs.  Harris  (foi 

1920) 

1  00 

Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest,     . 

2  00 

Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 

1  00 

Wolcott,  Mrs.  Roger,     . 

5  00 

Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H., 

5  00 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin, 

10  00 

51,728  00 

DONATIONS. 


Adams,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Adams,  Mr.  George, 
Agoos  family,  . 
Aiden,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Alien,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,     . 
BaUey,  Mrs.  H.  R., 
Baker,  Miss  Edith  G.,   . 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W.,   . 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R.,    . 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot, 
Bemis,  Mr.  J.  M.,  . 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W., 
Blake,     Mrs.    Francis     (for 

1920) 

Blake,  Mr.  Wm.  P., 
Bolster,  Miss  May  G.,  . 
Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,      . 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Bullard,  Mr.  Alfred  M., 
Bullens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred, 
Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D.,  . 
C 


$5  00 
2  00 

75  00 
5  00 
5  00 

25  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
2  00 
5  00 

20  00 

10  00 
1  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $255  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $255  00 


Carpenter,  Mrs.  George  A., 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W.,  . 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  S., 
Cary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Codman,  Miss  Martha  C, 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F., 
Cotting,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Crowninshield,   Mr.  Francis 

B.,          .... 
Daland,  Mrs.  Tucker,   . 
Deland,  Mrs.  Lorin  F., 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M., 
Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C, 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  Arthur  F., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 
F 


Fowle,  Mr.  L.  Orlando, 
Frisch,  Dr.  E.  H.,  . 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Louis  A 
Gardiner,  Miss  Eugenia, 
Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L., 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R.,    . 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $865  00 


5 

00 

10 

00 

100 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

200  00 

20 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

50  00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

20 

00 

6 

00 

2 

00 

100 

00 

5  00 

5 

00 

6 

00 

72 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $865  00 


Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,      . 
Hall,  Mr.  Wm.  Franklin, 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 
Harwood,  Mrs.  E.  A.,    . 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C.,  . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,     . 
Hubbard,  Mr.  Gorham, 
Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,    . 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis,  . 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 
L.  Thayer,    through    Mrs 
Hannah  T.  Brown,     . 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S., 
JoUifife,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 
Kimball,  The  Misses,     . 
Kimball,  Mrs.  M.  M.,    . 
Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  John,    . 
Lincoln,  Mrs.  Jacob  S., 
Linder,  Mrs.  George,  in  mem 
ory    of    Miss    Jennie    M 

Colby 

Loring,  Mrs.  Augustus  P., 
Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S.,  . 
Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,     . 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 
Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Magee,  Mr.  John  L., 
Manning,  Miss  Abbie  F., 
Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill, 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
May,  Miss  Mary  C.  S., 
McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L.,  . 
Means,  Miss  Anne  M., 
Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank,   . 
Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T.,  . 
Morse,  Dr.  Henry  Lee, 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,    . 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Peabody,  Mr.  Harold,    . 
Peirce,  Mrs.  Silas,  . 
Perry,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  . 
Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T., 
Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,     . 


50  00 
10  00 
15  00 

5  00 
10  00 
10  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 
25  00 

5  00 

2  00 
10  00 


5  00 
10  00 

5  00 
25  00 
50  00 
10  00 
10  00 

1  00 


25  00 

25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

25  00 

10  00 

10  00 

50  00 

10  00 

5  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

3  00 
10  00 

3  00 


Amount  brought  forward, 

Powell,  Mrs.  Wm.  B.,  . 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 
Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,  , 
Punchard,  Miss  A.  L.,  . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H., 
Rand,  Mrs.  Arnold  A.,  . 
Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher,  . 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  M., 
Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 
Richardson,  The  Misses,  and 
Miss  Mary  C.  Shute  in 
memory  of  M.  A.  E.    and 

C.  P.  P 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E.,  . 
Ripley,  Mr.  Frederick  H., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma,  . 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,     . 
Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P.,    . 
Sargent,  Mrs.  L.  M., 
Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 
Sever,  Miss  Emily, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland, 
Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 
Sias,  Miss  Martha  G.,    . 
Slattery,  Mrs.  Wm., 
Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 
Spring,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rom- 

ney, 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D., 
St.  John,  Mrs.  C.  Henry,  in 
memory    of    her    mother, 
Mrs.  Isaac  H.  Russell, 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,     . 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley, 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  B.,   . 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  L 
Trainor,  Miss  Mary  E., 
Traiser,  Mrs.  R.  E., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 
Tyler,  Mrs.  H.  Blake,    . 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A.,  . 
Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F., 


$1,406  00 

5 

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.   10 

00 

5 

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5 

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5 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

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5 

00 

.   25 

00 

10 

00 

3  00 
5  00 
5  00 

25  00 
2  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 

10  00 

75  00 
5  00 

15  00 
5  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 


5  00 
2  00 
2  00 
1  00 
10  00 
10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
50  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,406  00   |        Amount  carried  forward,    $1,801  00 


73 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,801  00 


Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Vose,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  W.  Austin, 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H.,      . 
Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H., 
Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A., 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary  C 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,888  00 


5 

00 

2 

00 

,   20 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

,   10  00 

.   10 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,   $1,888  00 


Whitwell,  Mrs.  F.  A.,  . 
Willcomb,  Mrs.  George, 
Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,  . 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T.,  . 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 
Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis,  . 


5  00 

.   10  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   50  00 

.   15  00 

.   25  00 

$2,028  00 

CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


Agassiz,   Mr.    Max.     (dona- 
tion),      

Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona- 
tion),    .... 
Bogg,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,    . 
Chandler,     Mrs.     Seth      C 

(donation),  ... 
Emery,    Miss    Octavia     B 

(donation),  . 
Farlow,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.  (dona- 
tion),    .... 
Foster,      Mrs.     Francis     C 

(donation),  . 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno, 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  James  W., 
Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 


Amount  carried  forward. 


$10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

6  00 

30  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

10  00 

5  00 

$89  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $89  00 


Horsford,     Miss     Katharine 

M.  (donation),     . 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Ireland,    Miss  Catharine    I 

(donation),  . 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,     . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M., 
Neal,  Mrs.  W,  H., 
Richards,  Miss  L.  B.,     . 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  Robert  N., 
Wesselhoeft,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W,, 
Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W., 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


$177  00 


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5  00 

3 

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00 

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00 

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74 


DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  Susan  E., 
Bennett,  Miss  M.  M.,    . 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E., 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S., 
Churchill,  Dr.  Anna  Quincy 

(for  four  years),  . 
Churchill,  Judge  J.  R.,  . 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,     . 
Cushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  C.  R.,  . 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry,  . 
Haven,       Mrs.       Katharine 

Stearns, 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 
Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C 
Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A.,  . 
Nash,     Mrs.     Edward      W 

(donation),  ... 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K.,  . 
Preston,  Miss  Myra  C, 

Amount  carried  forward. 


u 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

6 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

..   2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5  00  1 

2 

00 

$36  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .    $36  00 


Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H.,   . 
Sharp,     Mr.     Everett      H 

(donation),  . 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem 

ory  of,  . 
Whitcher,    Mr.    Frank   W 

(donation),  . 
Whiton,  Mrs.  Royal, 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S.,  . 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P., 
Woodberry,      Miss       Mary 

(donation),  . 
Wright.  Mr.  C.  P., 


1  00 


5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

$64  GO 


Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F., 
Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A.,  . 
Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,     . 
Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J.,  . 
Sheldon,  Mrs.  Chauncey  C, 
Smith,      Mrs.     Joseph      N. 
(donation),  .        .        .        . 

Amount  carried  forward,     . 


LYNN   BRANCH. 

Amount  brought  forward,    . 

Henry      B. 


$1  00 
5  00 
2  00 
5  00 
5  00 


10  00 


i28  00 


Sprague,     Mr. 

(donation),  . 
Tapley,      Mr. 

(donation),  . 


Henry 


528  00 

5  00 
5  00 


$38  00 


MILTON  BRANCH. 


Brewer,   Miss    Eliza   (dona- 
tion)   810  00 

Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray,        .  10  00 

Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L.,          .  10  00 


Amount  carried  forward. 


$30  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $30  00 


Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 
Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R., 


1  00 

2  00 


$33  00 


75 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  No. 
19  Congress  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E,  Allen,  Water- 
town,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Treasurer. 
No.  19  Congress  Street,  Boston. 


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FORM  OF  BEQXTEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows:  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporatfon  is  as 

follows: 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

No.  19  Congress  Street, 

Boston. 


schools  follow  many  of  the  varied  calUngs  of  other 
young  people.  For  some  years  before  our  pupils 
leave  school  the  placement  agent  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Division  of  the  Blind  has  been  coming  out 
to  Watertown  to  advise  them  vocationally.  Natu- 
rally she  has  been  the  more  happy  in  finding  them 
positions  into  which  they  fit.  They  do  hand  assem- 
bling in  factories  and  warerooms,  ticketing,  wrap- 
ping, inspecting,  selling,  office  typewriting,  making 
household  articles,  serving  as  mothers'  helpers, 
teaching,  lecturing,  entertaining,  operating  tele- 
phone exchanges,  piano  tuning,  practising  law,  medi- 
cine or  massage,  preaching,  and  what  not.  There  is 
httle  that  some  one  or  more  of  them  cannot  do  or 
direct,  when  given  the  native  capacity,  the  train- 
ing and  the  chance.  Indeed,  in  proportion  as  bUnd- 
ness  is  considered  both  by  its  subject  and  the  public 
not  so  much  Uability  as  potential  asset  —  a  condition 
capable  of  begetting  and  enforcing  strength  rather 
than  weakness  —  will  it  be  seen  and  understood  that 
even  this  "condition  of  evil"  may  be  made  to  take 
its  place  in  the  scheme  of  things  from  which  man- 
kind in  general  is  meant  to  profit. 

There  are  several  former  pupils  of  ours  employed 
by  the  Division  of  the  BHnd  who  do  their  work  so 
well  that  it  seems  as  though  no  seeing  people  could 
do  it  as  well.  That  most  bHnd  people  do  not  make 
good  economically  is  true  enough,  but  the  fact  that 
many  do  proves  that  it  is  not  blindness  but  some 


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other  handicap  which  controls,  such  as  incapacity, 
unacceptabiUty,  wrong  occupation  or  prejudice. 

He  who  loses  sight  in  adulthood  when  his  habits 
are  formed  finds  it  difficult  to  adjust  himself  to  so 
bewildering  a  change.  However,  it  has  been  done  in 
instances  too  numerous  to  mention.  A  visit  of  a 
newly  bUnded  man  or  woman  to  such  a  school  as 
ours  is  often  enough  to  give  the  impetus  producing 
hopefulness,  the  state  of  mind  which  leads  on  to 
success.  Such  a  person  with  help  is  in  many  re- 
spects better  off  than  the  child  who  is  bhnd.  He 
knows  the  world  as  it  is  and  not  as  it  seems  to  be, 
understands  how  things  are  done  and  can  use  his 
knowledge  and  capacity  again.  The  blind  child  must 
acquire  what  he  gets  in  a  less  direct  and  natural 
way;  and  some  things  he  never  learns.  What  he 
does  learn,  however,  and  how  well  he  comes  to  do 
things  is  ever  astonishing,  even  to  those  who  are 
his  teachers.  And  so,  fortified  with  the  knowledge 
that  most  things  are  possible  because  they  have 
already  been  done,  the  education  of  the  young  bhnd 
goes  on  hopefully  and  successfully. 

The  bhnd  child  of  six  years,  when  received  at  the 
kindergarten  learns  first  of  all  adjustment  to  con- 
ditions. He  is  no  longer  the  exceptional  member 
of  the  family;  for  there  all  are  treated  aUke,  have 
an  equal  chance,  and  must  learn  to  give  as  well  as 
take.  The  regimen  of  their  daily  experiences  is  always 
helpful  and  developmental.  Much  that  the  seeing 
child  sees,  the  blind  child  handles  in  the  kinder- 

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garten  room  or  on  the  playground.  In  the  former 
he  is  shown  how  to  make  things;  on  the  latter  he 
discovers  lumber  of  one  kind  or  another  to  build 
with.  For  example,  when  two  years  ago  we  sub- 
stituted an  iron  for  a  wooden  fence,  the  old  wooden 
posts  were  left  for  the  Httle  fellows  to  play  with,  and 
they  have  made  the  most  of  them,  —  building  huts 
and  houses  and  forts,  repeatedly  tearing  them  down 
and  rebuilding  them  anew  in  some  other  spot. 
Our  swings  and  fixed  play  apparatus  are  all  very 
well  for  the  joy  and  exercise  they  beget,  but  for 
the  development  of  imagination  and  resourceful- 
ness what  can  compare  with  actual  construction? 
Of  course  the  partly  seeing  boys  lead  off  in  this 
sort  of  thing;  but  the  bhnd  ones  follow  and  grow 
mightily  in  the  process. 

Last  year  an  enthusiastic  lower-school  teacher 
cleared  a  garden  patch  with  the  help  of  her  boys, 
planted  it  with  vegetables  and  actually  furnished 
meals  for  her  household.  Primarily  this  garden  was 
to  grow  roots  for  rabbits,  of  which  these  boys  had 
as  many  as  sixteen  within  the  year.  Those  who  had 
them  in  charge  developed  as  any  boys  must  who 
meet  such  responsibihty.  This  fall  the  boys  have 
begun  with  two  young  gray  squirrels  caught  on  our 
grounds,  and  already  they  have  prospected  about 
and  gathered  nuts  for  them.  As  it  happened  one  of 
the  squirrels  soon  died.  The  burial  was  a  most  in- 
teresting affair.  The  httle  fellows  sang  and  wailed, 
and  one  of  them  preached  the  funeral  sermon. 

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A  teacher  of  the  Httle  girls  has  carried  out  for  the 
past  seven  years  an  all-summer  camp  for  from  twelve 
to  fifteen  of  them  who  would  otherwise  go  home 
to  the  hot  city  or  be  boarded  out.  There  on  the 
shore  of  a  large  pond  and  in  the  midst  of  woods, 
hills  and  fields  and  berry  pastures  and  the  daily 
housework  these  fortunate  ones  experience  a  sup- 
plemental training  of  the  highest  value. 

Obviously  the  more  we  can  bring  our  young  people 
in  contact  with  nature  the  better;  as  it  is  they  get 
Uttle  enough  of  it  compared  with  other  children. 
In  our  large  grounds  they  experience  the  changing 
seasons  and  all  that  these  bring  —  wind,  sunshine, 
rain,  snow,  slush,  ice  —  and  they  build  snow  forts, 
have  snow  fights,  coast  and  skate,  get  hurt  and  get 
well  again,  and  so  pass  glorious  days.  An  inde- 
pendent, self-sustaining  blind  man,  who  as  a  child 
attended  our  Jamaica  Plain  kindergarten,  has  said 
that  no  matter  how  poor  and  unhappy  his  Ufe  might 
become  no  one  ever  could  take  away  from  him  the 
recollection  of  the  vigorous,  free  and  happy  child- 
hood he  had  had  at  the  kindergarten.  How  much 
the  recollection  of  a  happy  past  Hghtens  and 
brightens  up  the  present! 

But  playground  contact  with  nature  is  limited. 
To  enlarge  this  we  need  only  investigate  what  the 
diversified  home  grounds  and  their  equipment  fur- 
nish, —  pond,  truck  and  flower  gardens,  groves, 
orchards,  nursery,  shrubbery  and  other  new  and 
old    plantings,    apiary,   poultry  houses,  stable  and 

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garage,  besides  all  the  implements  used  in  their 
development  and  upkeep ;— these  many  and  varied 
experiences  the  pupils  get  through  conducted  walks 
with  teachers  interested  in  such  things  —  and  every 
school  can  have  such  helpers.  Then  too  some  one 
must  tell  the  school  what  is  going  on  and  where  to 
look  for  it.  This  the  Director  does  at  morning 
assembly  and  so  plants  and  keeps  alive  the  natural 
curiosity  to  prospect  about  and  see  for  oneself.  We 
must  also  encourage  excursions  and  hikes  outside, 
of  course.  We  should  collect  all  kinds  of  things  and 
specimens,  label  them  and  make  of  them  an  object- 
teaching  museum.  This  we  do  in  the  lower  school, 
adding  to  it  from  time  to  time  by  purchase  with  the 
income  of  the  Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Fund.  In 
the  upper  school  we  fortunately  have  a  large  and 
superior  collection  arranged  around  alcoves,  each 
one  of  which  becomes  a  daily  classroom  for  certain 
groups  of  pupils  and  their  teacher. 

All  the  girls  of  our  lower  school  jump  rope.  This 
season  both  they  and  the  upper  school  girls  are  walk- 
ing on  stilts,  a  novel  experience  for  them.  In  Octo- 
ber these  girls  had  a  grand  outdoor  field  meet  in 
which  the  members  of  the  different  cottages  com- 
peted for  excellence  in  running,  jumping,  archball, 
tug  of  war,  etc.,  and  at  the  year's  close  the  cottage 
which  had  won  the  most  points  in  this  and  other 
tournaments  proudly  hung  up  in  its  living  room  a 
specially  made  banner  recording  its  prowess.  Each 
fall  and  winter  the  boys  wage  intercottage  football 


21 


and  other  contests,  and  in  June  the  individual 
champions  of  the  school  meet  those  of  the  local  high 
school  and  the  team  of  the  Pennsylvania  School  for 
the  BHnd,  either  here  on  the  home  grounds  or  at 
Overbrook.  Carried  out  with  moderation,  as  our 
athletics  are,  they  are  tonic  in  the  best  sense,  for 
they  nourish  enthusiasm,  capacity  and  loyalty. 

Such  experiences  as  the  above  which  go  with  any 
boarding  school  community,  —  and  Perkins  has  an 
abundance  of  them,  —  we  dwell  upon  in  annual 
reports  rather  than  upon  routine  school  matters.  It 
is  not  difficult  to  instruct  the  bhnd;  in  fact,  it  is  easy. 
Their  all-round  education  it  is  that  is  difficult,  and 
it  is  that  which  we  stress.  Accounts  of  other  activi- 
ties and  events  occurring  last  fall  will  be  found  on 
pages  39  to  43  of  this  pamphlet. 

From  time  to  time  we  have  been  graduating  a 
few  pupils  into  the  Watertown  High  School  where 
they  have  fitted  into  a  senior  or  fourth  year  and 
where  they  have  found  no  difficulty  in  holding  their 
own.  It  is  good  for  bhnd  youth  to  measure  them- 
selves with  the  seeing  in  school  before  they  try  it 
in  real  life.  The  experience  both  as  to  pace  and  com- 
prehensiveness of  the  work  covered  is  illuminating 
to  them.  When  they  bring  home  high  marks  Mr. 
AUen  says:  ''That  is  right;  I  expect  you  to  do  well. 
You  are  older  than  most  of  your  classmates,  you 
know,  and  better  grounded  in  your  studies.  But 
remember,  they  are  broader  than  you,  even  if  they 

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are  not  so  deep."  By  so  saying  he  hopes  to 
keep  down  the  conceit  which  the  injudicious  praise 
of  others,  —  even  teachers,  —  tends  to  develop. 
Of  our  two  boys  who  finished  the  local  high  school 
last  June  one  has  entered  Boston  University,  the 
other  Yale.  From  our  own  high  school  six  received 
the  Perkins  diploma,  three  the  Perkins  certificate  as 
teacher  of  the  piano  and  four  its  certificate  as  piano 
tuner.  Four  studied  at  the  New  England  Conserv- 
atory of  Music,  one  of  whom,  Malcolm  Cobb  of 
New  Hampshire,  graduated  with  the  highest  mark 
in  organ  playing  that  his  teacher  had  ever  given. 
Of  those  studying  at  this  Conservatory  two  paid 
for  their  lessons  and  two  earned  Conservatory  schol- 
arships which  covered  tuition. 

It  is  imperative  that  Perkins  Institution  should 
hold  income-bearing  scholarships  with  which  to 
bring  to  a  few  deserving  bhnd  students  opportunities 
they  cannot  otherwise  get.  We  have  enlarged  upon 
this  matter  in  preceding  reports;  and  certain  moneys 
have  begun  to  come  in,  but  not  yet  enough  for  a 
single  scholarship.  At  our  trustee  meeting  of  April  10, 
1922,  the  following  vote  was  unanimously  passed:  — 

"Voted,  That  a  fund  be  established  and  named 
'John  D.  Fisher  Fund'  in  honor  of  Dr.  John  D. 
Fisher,  who  first  started  work  in  Boston  for  the 
bhnd;  that  the  principal  of  this  fund  be  kept  in- 
vested; that  its  income  be  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Trustees  —  (a)  for  instruction,  either  at  the  Perkins 
Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind 

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or  elsewhere,  of  the  bhnd,  either  children  or  adults, 
and  especially  those  coming  from  outside  New  Eng- 
land; and  (6)  for  any  expenses  the  Trustees  may 
wish  to  incur  in  aiding  education  of  any  such;  that 
the  money  collected  by  the  Director  for  scholarships 
and  turned  over  to  the  Treasurer  in  accordance  with 
the  vote  of  the  Executive  Committee  at  its  last 
meeting  be  placed  in  this  fund." 

Dr.  Fisher  in  whose  memory  the  fund  is  named 
was  he  who  first  brought  to  Boston  a  report  of  the 
achievements  of  the  Paris  Institution  for  the  Youth- 
ful Blind,  and  through  meetings  and  other  urgings 
became  the  founder  of  our  school  ninety  years  ago, 
which  was  the  earliest  to  be  incorporated  in  America. 
The  interested  pubUc  is  urged  to  add  to  this  fund. 

The  department  of  mental  testing  which  the 
Pennsylvania  and  Perkins  institutions  are  main- 
taining have  now  measured  about  1,200  pupils  in 
six  different  schools  for  the  blind,  and  from  the 
findings  Dr.  Hayes,  the  departmental  head,  is  not 
only  drawing  important  conclusions  but  also  stand- 
ardizing the  questions  under  the  name  Irwin-Binet 
Scale  for  the  Blind.  He  has  written  papers  on  this 
and  that  problem,  lectured  to  our  teachers  and  to 
other  students  of  the  Education  of  the  Blind,  and 
he  has  prepared  a  Teachers'  Manual  of  Testing, 
which  has  been  pubhshed  by  the  Pennsylvania 
school.  It  is  too  soon  to  generalize  much  from  his 
findings.     Nevertheless,  we  have  already  modified 

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our  pupil  classification,  regrouping  them  not  only 
according  to  capacity  but  according  to  rate  of  ac- 
complishment. We  are  also  promoting  them  by 
subject  and  at  any  time.  This  serves  to  break  the 
usual  lockstep  pace  of  the  school  grades  and  spurs 
on  to  individual  endeavor.  The  psychologists  have 
held  classes  of  the  older  pupils  and  of  the  teachers 
in  the  subject  of  attention,  —  how  to  strengthen 
this,  how  to  make  the  most  of  one's  mind,  how  to 
study;  and  both  these  students  and  their  regular 
teachers  have  taken  hold  with  interest  and  result. 

Our  teachers  have  shown  commendable  interest 
also  in  the  history  of  the  Education  of  the  Bhnd, 
which  for  the  past  two  years  has  been  brought  to 
their  attention  through  the  lectures  given  to  the 
students  of  that  topic,  in  the  extension  half-course 
conducted  by  our  Director  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Graduate  School  of  Education  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity. A  part  of  these  lectures  were  deHvered  in 
our  Perkins  library.  Last  season  the  regular  stu- 
dents of  the  course  numbered  eleven,  —  one  student 
of  Social  Service,  one  blinded  ex-soldier,  three 
teachers  of  semi-sighted  classes  in  and  about  Bos- 
ton, and  six  who  Uved  at  Perkins  Institution. 
Thirty  lectures  were  given  them,  a  vast  amount  of 
reading  assigned,  and  practice  teaching  required. 
All  who  took  the  final  three-hour  written  examina- 
tion passed  it  and  received  a  certificate  of  credit, 
signed  by  the  Dean  of  the  Harvard  Graduate  School 
of  Education  and  the  Directors  of  the  Massachu- 

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setts  Division  of  the  Blind  and  of  the  Perkins  Insti- 
tution. All  but  one  of  the  older  ones  who  received 
this  certificate  are  now  teaching  the  bUnd,  —  three  of 
them  so  far  away  as  Oregon,  Porto  Rico  and  Hawaii. 

Both  in  this  course  and  in  that  repeated  last 
summer  at  the  Peabody  College,  Nashville,  Tenn., 
which  was  taught  by  three  Perkins  instructors,  our 
Director  is  heartily  promoting  the  cause  of  the  train- 
ing of  teachers  of  the  bUnd.  He  has  prepared  a  paper 
on  it  that  will  be  printed  in  the  proceedings  of  the 
26th  convention  of  the  American  Association  of 
Instructors  of  the  BHnd,  The  Outlook  for  the  Blind 
and  The  Beacon,  and  that  has  been  translated  for 
Der  Blindenfreund.  The  Perkins  Institution  regards 
it  as  an  honor  and  privilege  to  be  able  to  do  such 
things  as  are  indicated  above. 

The  system  of  tangible  reading  and  writing  termed 
BraiUe  Grade  1|,  which  was  adopted  in  1919  as 
the  uniform  type  for  our  schools,  has  already 
materiaUzed  in  nearly  400  different  book  pubUca- 
tions,  copies  of  all  of  which  are  in  the  Perkins  U- 
brary  and  are  in  circulation.  The  Perkins  music 
department  and  the  Howe  Memorial  Press  have 
recently  made  and  issued  a  lot  of  new,  and  re-issued 
much  old,  music  in  the  Braille  notation  but  with 
titles,  expression  marks  and  all  words  in  Grade  1|. 
Thus  it  has  become  for  the  first  time  feasible  to  in- 
troduce the  new  system  of  Braille  to  our  Uttle  be- 
ginners of  both  reading  and  music;  and  this  will  be 
done  at  once. 

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The  rather  rapid  accession  of  the  new  books  from 
the  several  printing  houses  has  increased  the  general 
circulation  to  finger  readers  alike  inside  and  outside 
of  school,  and  so  likewise  has  the  keeping  of  the 
library  open  all  summer.  Our  hbrarian  circulated 
16,272  embossed  books  last  year. 

All  these  books  have  been  dupHcated  from  em- 
bossed plates,  a  necessarily  slow  and  expensive 
process.  About  the  time  when  some  of  our  soldier 
boys  were  coming  home  from  the  great  war,  bhnded, 
there  were  so  few  books  in  the  newly  adopted  system 
that  recourse  was  had  to  writing  out  single  stories 
by  hand  for  them.  The  idea  took  readily  among 
certain  women  of  leisure,  who  found  contributory 
labor  of  the  kind,  which  they  could  do  at  home  and 
at  odd  moments,  even  fascinating.  The  movement 
has  grown  to  considerable  proportions,  one  of  the 
largest  centers  of  it,  that  at  the  Library  of  Congress, 
Washington,  having  now  as  many  as  200  individ- 
ual transcribers  throughout  the  country,  who  have 
already  contributed  60,031  pages.  These,  which 
have  been  bound  into  987  books,  are  sent  first  to 
the  Evergreen  school  for  the  bhnd,  whence  after  the 
soldiers  have  done  with  them  they  are  to  be  cir- 
culated elsewhere.  No  one  who  has  taken  the  pains 
to  learn  and  transcribe  a  volume  for  the  bUnd  to 
read  can  ever  again  be  indifferent  to  those  so  handi- 
capped and  shut  in.  Besides  multiplying  the  variety 
of  reading  the  general  effect  of  the  enterprise  is 


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therefore  of  enormous  service  to  the  cause  as  a 
whole. 

The  demand  of  these  transcribers  for  Braille  slates 
and  writing  machines,  plus  the  orders  from  schools, 
has  almost  exceeded  the  supply,  Perkins  alone  having 
made  and  disposed  of,  this  past  year,  63  Braille- 
writers  and  2,196  Braille  slates,  of  which  latter  num- 
ber 777  were  bought  by  schools  for  the  bhnd,  1,057 
by  various  societies  for  use  in  transcribing  for  the 
bUnd,  and  362  by  individuals.  In  addition  to  these 
there  have  been  sold  4,958  styluses,  417  pencil-writ- 
ing boards,  26  wire  signature  guides,  55  packs  of 
plajdng  cards  marked  in  Braille,  140  games  of 
checkers,  92  games  of  dominoes  and  13  games  of 
tit-tat-too.  The  manufacture  and  distribution  of  all 
these  articles,  together  with  the  embossing  of  1,313 
brass  plates  and  the  production  and  binding  of 
101,907  printed  pages,  is  the  record  of  a  busy  year 
at  the  Howe  Memorial  Press. 

Since  our  apphances  are  sold  at  less  than  cost  we 
have  urged  individual  transcribers  of  Braille,  buying 
Braille  slates  and  writers,  not  to  lay  them  aside 
when  done  with  but  to  turn  them  over  to  some  one 
else  for  active  service. 

Our  workshop  for  adults  in  South  Boston,  which 
is  furnishing  full  and  regular  employment  to  nine- 
teen and  part-time  work  to  six  bhnd  men  and 
women,  is  able  to  report  that  the  largest  amount 
ever  paid  to  its  workers  was  reached  this  year,  — 
the  sum  of  $14,856.51 ;  and  that  the  balance  sheet 

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shows  a  small  profit,  which  is  indeed  an  achieve- 
ment for  this  special  kind  of  activity  for  and  by  the 
blind.  The  number  of  mattresses  made  over  this 
year  is  2,989.  An  interesting  fact  is  that  the  aver- 
age length  of  service  by  the  nineteen  full-time 
workers  is  more  than  seventeen  years. 

The  fine  old  shade  trees  of  the  Stickney  estate, 
which  is  now  the  site  of  Perkins  Institution,  impart 
not  only  beauty  but  dignity  to  the  rather  new  build- 
ings and  grounds.  These  trees  suffered  considerably 
in  the  ice  storm  of  November  last,  but  have  since 
been  pruned  and  otherwise  scientifically  attended  to. 
Additional  trees  have  been  planted,  especially  a  lot 
of  evergreens  along  the  North  Beacon  Street  bound- 
ary fence,  most  of  them  purchased  but  not  a  few 
transplanted  from  our  little  tree  nursery.  A  new 
orchard  of  60  apple  trees  has  been  set  out,  and 
various  kinds  of  grafted  nut  trees  placed  here  and 
there.  The  children  greatly  enjoy  such  pears,  plums, 
peaches  and  vegetables  as  we  raise,  also  the  fresh 
eggs  from  the  institution  hennery  of  some  500  White 
Leghorn  fowl. 

Under  an  enthusiastic  master  a  class  of  older  boys 
elected  poultry  keeping  last  year  and  pursued  it 
both  theoretically  and  practically,  having  devoted 
much  of  their  free  time  to  henhouse  construction  and 
the  raising  of  100  chicks. 

Miss  Clarissa  A.  Dawson  retired  at  the  close  of 
the  year  because  of  failing  health.  She  was  matron 
for  the  whole  boys'  department  at  South  Boston  and 

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came  to  Watertown  with  us  ten  years  ago  to  be 
matron  of  Bridgman  Cottage.  She  had  had  associa- 
tions with  the  institution  many  years  before  becom- 
ing an  officer  in  it.  Her  home  had  been  open  to 
certain  of  our  older  graduates,  and  there  they  had 
reading  aloud  when  embossed  books  were  few  and 
jolly  social  evenings.  She  was  one  of  the  few  of  our 
people  who  knew  Dr.  Howe  personally.  She  had 
been  a  kindly  foster  mother  to  her  many  boys,  and 
they  cannot  but  remember  her  tenderly. 

Another  good  and  faithful  servant  of  the  institu- 
tion, also  associated  many  years  with  it  and  for  the 
past  25  years  as  steward,  Mr.  Frederick  A.  Flanders, 
last  season  asked  to  be  reUeved  of  his  stewardship. 
We  did  not  feel  that  we  could  let  him  go.  The  new 
place  needed  to  keep  all  it  could  of  the  good  old 
spirit  of  loyal  disinterested  devotion  which  Mr. 
Anagnos  had  gathered  around  him  at  South  Boston 
and  Jamaica  Plain.  And  so,  while  caUing  a  new 
steward,  we  have  made  Mr.  Flanders  superintendent 
of  buildings.  The  position  is  no  sinecure,  since  ex- 
cellent as  these  structures  are  in  design  they  suffer 
from  faulty  construction  and  are  Hkely  to  do  so  for 
some  time  to  come.  The  new  steward  is  Mr.  Walter 
S.  Goss  of  Barre,  Vermont,  and  him  we  have  wel- 
comed with  a  new  house  and  so  attached  him  to 
the  institution  soil. 

Three  long-time  instructors  have  resigned.  Mr. 
Elwyn  C.  Smith  has  taught  in  the  upper  school 
since  1896  and  been  master  in  Eliot  Cottage  family 

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since  1912,  where  his  sterling  character  and  his 
example  became  of  the  utmost  service;  Mrs.  Smith, 
who  as  Miss  Laura  A.  Brown  began  teaching  Tommy 
Stringer  in  1892,  has  subsequently  taught  in  the 
girls'  department.  Both  loved  their  work,  throw- 
ing themselves  into  it  wholeheartedly,  even  in  free 
time.  Miss  Freda  A.  Black  had  been  connected 
with  the  school  ever  since  1856  when  she  was  a  pupil 
of  it.  For  the  past  fifty  years  she  has  been  its  organ 
instructor.  Modest  in  character,  quiet  in  manner, 
she  was  nevertheless  a  careful  and  exacting  teacher 
of  her  beloved  instrument,  as  her  many  pupils  must 
testify. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1922,  the  number  of  bhnd  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  309,  or  six  less  than  on  the 
same  date  of  the  previous  year.  This  number  in- 
cludes 82  boys  and  79  girls  in  the  upper  school,  55 
boys  and  59  girls  in  the  lower  school,  12  teachers 
and  officers  and  22  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  There  have  been  45  admitted  and  51  dis- 
charged during  the  year. 

Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 
Shepherd  Brooks;  Charles  S.  Davis;  Mrs. 
Florence  Howe,  \vddow  of  David  Prescott  Hall, 
and  Henry  Marion  Howe,  daughter  and  son  of  the 
first  director  of  Perkins  Institution,  the  latter  hav- 
ing been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  from 
1893  to  1902;  Lincoln  Newton  Kinnicutt;  Miss 

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Georgina  Lowell;  Robert  Samuel  Rantoul; 
George  Henry  Richards;  Mrs.  Mary  Gill, 
widow  of  Joseph  A.  Ropes;  Richard  Middlecott 
Saltonstall;  Miss  Mary  Davies  Sohier;  Dr. 
Francis  P.  Sprague;   Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Ward. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  has  met  with  a  heavy  loss 
in  the  death  of  George  Henry  Richards  and  Richard 
Middlecott  Saltonstall,  both  members  of  the  Board 
for  many  years,  active  in  the  furtherance  of  its  plans, 
unstinting  in  service,  deeply  and  personally  inter- 
ested in  all  that  concerned  the  welfare  of  the  Perkins 
Institution  and  of  those  for  whom  its  efforts  are  ex- 
pended. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 
THOMAS  J.   FAY, 
PAUL  E.   FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
G.  PEABODY  GARDNER,  Jr., 
ROBERT  H.   HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL, 
MARIA  PURDON, 
GEORGE  H.   RICHARDS,^ 
WILLIAM   L.   RICHARDSON, 
RICHARD   M.   SALTONSTALL,^ 

Trustees. 

I  Deceased. 


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THE  BLIND  AS  TEACHERS.^ 


Any  one  who  has  watched  for  many  years  the  steady  and 
splendid  growth  of  the  Perkins  Institution  must  be  glad  of 
the  opportunity  to  congratulate  its  friends  to-day.  When 
one  recalls  that  adventurous  young  American  who  returned 
ninety  years  ago  from  fighting  the  battles  of  the  Greeks  and 
threw  himself  into  the  new  battle  for  the  blind,  gathering 
up  all  the  science  which  France  had  to  offer  and  applying  it 
to  a  few  children  in  his  own  home,  and  then  inspects  the 
noble  buildings  at  Watertown  which  are  the  consummate 
fruit  of  this  modest  beginning,  it  must  appear  one  of  the 
social  miracles  of  our  time,  as  it  has  become  a  monument  of 
our  Commonwealth  and  distinguished  throughout  the  world. 

The  years  and  generations  pass  so  swiftly  that  the  history 
of  institutions  is  easily  forgotten.  I  have  heard  that  a  young 
woman  in  England  found  herself  sitting  at  dinner  next  to 
Mr.  Lecky,  the  historian,  and  being,  after  the  manner  of 
English  hospitality,  not  presented  to  each  other,  asked  him, 
as  a  stranger,  "And  what  do  you  go  in  for?"  to  which  the 
distinguished  scholar  replied,  "Oh,  I  go  in  for  history  a 
little."  Whereupon  the  girl  commented,  "Oh,  I  am  sorry  to 
hear  that.  I  don't  care  for  history;  I  say,  'Let  bygones  be 
bygones.'"  The  Perkins  Institution  cannot  afford  to  "let 
bygones  be  bygones,"  for  behind  the  development  which  it 

»  Address  by  Professor  Francis  G.  Peabody  at  the  Exhibition  of  Activities  of  Pupils  of 
Perkins  Institution,  Jordan  Hall,  Boston,  May  17,  1922. 

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has  achieved  under  the  masterful  and  sympathetic  care  of 
its  present  administrators,  stands  the  most  notable  figure  in 
the  history  of  American  philanthropy,  —  a  crusader  of  irre- 
sistible courage  and  audacity,  but  with,  a  sanity  and  sagacity 
very  rare  in  a  reformer's  mind.  "It  is  to  Dr.  Howe,"  one  of 
the  most  competent  observers  has  said,  "more  than  to  any 
other,  that  Massachusetts  owes  what  is  best  in  her  chari- 
table system."     He  was,  as  Whittier  wrote  of  him  — 

The  Cadmus  of  the  blind, 
Giving  the  dumb  lip  language, 
The  idiot  clay  a  mind. 

Knight  of  a  better  era, 
Without  reproach  or  fear! 
Said  I  not  well  that  Bayards 
And  Sidneys  still  are  here? 

At  Hampton  Institute  we  celebrate  each  year  the  birthday 
of  General  Armstrong,  that  great  discoverer  of  the  principles 
of  modern  education,  under  the  title  of  "Founders'  Day," 
when  a  distinguished  visitor  recalls  the  beginnings  of  that 
memorable  institution.  In  the  same  spirit  the  Perkins  In- 
stitution does  well  to  celebrate  its  "Founders'  Day"  and  to 
keep  alive  the  memory  of  a  paladin  of  philanthropy  like  Dr. 
Howe. 

Such  is  the  first  thought  with  which  one  listens  to  the 
delightful  evidences  which  we  have  heard  to-day  of  the  work 
of  the  Perkins  Institution;  but  one  cannot  help  being  led  a 
little  further,  as  he  reflects  on  the  nature  of  the  dark  prob- 
lem with  which  the  school  has  to  deal,  and  on  the  lessons 
which  it  has  to  teach  to  more  favored  lives.  When  one  first 
approaches  the  calamity  of  blindness,  it  seems  to  be  the  most 
overwhelming    physical    disaster    which    can    come    to    any 

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human  life.  Most  physical  misfortunes,  such  as  deafness, 
lameness,  or  disease,  are  partial  or  gradual  or  curable,  but 
blindness  is  so  irreparable  and  complete  that  it  might  seem 
to  crush  the  very  capacity  for  courage,  and  to  banish  all 
cheerfulness  and  hope.  Milton's  Samson  utters  this  deep 
lament :  — 

0,  dark,  dark,  dark,  amid  the  blaze  of  noon. 
Irrecoverably  dark,  total  eclipse,  without  all  hope  of  day! 

And  even  when,  in  a  calmer  moment,  Milton  reflects  on  his 
own  blindness,  he  can  go  no  further  than  to  pass  from  a 
mood  of  despair  to  one  of  resignation.  The  talent  which  is 
death  to  hide  is  still  lodged  with  him  useless,  and  he  can 
only  claim  that  "they  also  serve  who  only  stand  and  wait." 
What  does  it  mean  then  that,  instead  of  this  abandon- 
ment to  despair,  the  blind  are  so  generally  blessed  with  a 
singular  serenity,  determination,  and  ambition?  Deaf  peo- 
ple are  very  likely  to  be  provoked  to  irritation,  despondency, 
and  suspicion;  but  blind  people  are,  as  a  rule,  extraordi- 
narily inclined  to  resolution,  self-culture,  and  even  light- 
heartedness.  They  do  not  stand  and  wait;  they  rise  and 
learn;  their  talent  is  not  lodged  with  them  useless.  They 
set  out  to  work  and  to  serve,  and  even  if  they  have  to  grope 
their  way,  they  sing  as  they  go.  One  of  the  most  cheering 
sights  that  I  meet  on  my  daily  walks  is  a  French  soldier, 
totally  blinded  in  the  war,  still  wearing  his  sky-blue  uniform, 
and  marching  to  his  studies  in  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
with  fearlessness  and  firmness  of  step,  and  with  as  cheerful 
a  countenance  as  ever  he  had  when  he  tramped  among  the 
trenches.  This  triumph  of  character  over  circumstances,  of 
the  inner  life  over  the  outer  world,  may  have  its  effect  even 
.  on  the  countenance  of  the  blind,  and  instead  of  stamping 

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a  face  with  a  look  of  despondency  may  adorn  it  with  a  singu- 
lar serenity  and  charm.  One  of  the  most  devoted  and 
generous  supporters  of  this  school,  my  dear  friend  Annette 
Rogers,  while  her  face  always  expressed  refinement  and 
nobility  of  character,  was  in  her  youth  of  a  plain  and  severe 
dignity;  but  when  the  great  affliction  of  blindness  shut  out 
from  her  many  ways  of  activity  and  enjoyment  it  brought 
with  it  a  graciousness  and  sweetness  of  expression  which  gave 
her  an  almost  startling  effect  of  beauty. 

What,  then,  is  the  cause  of  this  moral  triumph  which  is 
so  characteristic  of  the  blind?  How  is  it  that  an  absolute 
physical  loss  may  be  transformed  into  a  spiritual  gain?  There 
are,  no  doubt,  many  contributory  causes  for  this  moral  mir- 
acle; but  must  they  not  all  in  the  end  be  traced  to  the 
tremendous  demands  which  are  made  on  the  best  there  is  in 
one  to  meet  so  unparalleled  a  test  of  moral  determination? 
The  blind  must  have  indomitable  patience,  and  the  resolu- 
tion to  be  the  masters  of  their  fate  and  the  rulers  of  their 
souls.  Here  is  one  of  the  most  extraordinary  and  least  con- 
sidered facts  in  human  Hfe,  —  the  fact  that  the  harder  ex- 
perience becomes,  the  more  the  power  to  resist  and  overcome 
grows  to  meet  it;  that  people  often  shrink  or  surrender  be- 
fore slight  tests  or  risks,  but  can  be  strong  to  meet  the  great 
events  of  sorrow  or  danger  or  pain.  Many  a  woman  has 
run  from  a  mouse,  and  borne  without  flinching  a  devastating 
bereavement  or  a  surgeon's  knife.  Many  a  man  has  been 
depressed  or  nervous  about  a  petty  mishap  and  met  com- 
mercial or  domestic  disaster  as  a  hero.  In  other  w^ords,  the 
best  in  character  is  often  submerged  or  ignored  in  prosperity 
or  health,  and  is  summoned  from  the  depths  of  the  sub- 
conscious self  at  moments  of  the  greatest  need.  Never  was 
there   such   a   convincing   demonstration   of   this   unutilized 

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capacity  as  that  which  has  lately  been  given  during  the 
tragedy  of  war.  Thousands  of  men  were  Hving  undeter- 
mined or  unresisting  hves,  drifting  into  the  current  of  a 
materiaHzed  world,  and  suddenly  the  call  came  to  them  for 
sacrificial  heroism,  and  they  met  that  unanticipated  test,  not 
merely  with  resignation,  but  with  the  gladness  of  those  who 
had  found  something  at  last  worth  all  that  they  could  do. 
Thousands  of  women  who  had  seemed  irretrievably  involved 
in  frivolity  or  aimlessness  heard  the  same  summons,  and 
found  no  task  too  humble  or  squalid,  and  felt  no  fear  except 
that  some  slight  duty  might  be  left  undone.  And  behind 
this  heroism  in  the  young  was  the  silent  sacrifice  of  parents 
and  wives  and  sweethearts,  who,  without  a  tear,  watched 
their  beloved  march  away,  and  met  even  the  supreme  test 
with  an  amazing  serenity  and  pride.  What  does  all  this 
teach  concerning  human  character  except  that  there  are 
reserves  of  strength  which  in  tranquil  times  are  not  drawn 
on,  but  which  take  command  of  life  in  times  of  need?  In 
short,  it  is  often  more  practicable  to  do  hard  things  than  to 
do  easy  things;  to  endure  hardness  than  to  overcome  soft- 
ness; and  the  forces  of  moral  resistance  are  often  not  dis- 
covered until  the  fight  gets  hard,  and  defeat  seems  near. 

Now  the  case  of  the  blind  is  the  great  illustration  of  this 
bringing  up  of  the  reserves.  No  external  calamity  can  be 
worse,  and  for  that  very  reason  resistance  is  most  firm.  The 
serenity  and  cheerfulness  of  the  blind  are  the  best  of  evi- 
dences that  character  is  built,  not  on  the  shifting  sand  of 
comfort,  but  on  the  rock  of  hardness;  that  cheerfulness  and 
patience  are  not  so  much  the  products  of  prosperity  and 
ease  as  of  trials  met  and  afflictions  overcome.  He  that 
overcometh,  it  is  written,  inherits  all  things.  The  rub  of 
life  is  what  makes  life  move. 

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It  is  a  curious  fact  that  we  are  in  health  and  strength  so 
richly  endowed  with  resources  that  we  fail  to  use  most  of 
them,  except  in  the  most  trij3ing  ways.  Consider,  for  in- 
stance, the  five  senses  which  nature  gives  us.  Most  animals 
are  directed  in  every  detail  of  life  by  the  sense  of  smell,  but 
with  human  beings  that  sense  is  practically  unused,  except  in 
extreme  cases  of  unpleasant  or  agreeable  odors.  Hearing, 
also,  is  in  animals  a  chief  weapon  of  defence;  but  we  hardly 
hear  what  is  said  to  us,  even  if  it  be  an  instructive  address! 
In  short,  of  our  five  senses  only  that  of  sight  is  constantly 
and  effectively  employed;  while  the  blind,  deprived  of  this 
sense,  become  incredibly  alert  by  the  use  of  other  channels. 
Hearing  detects  what  they  are  denied  from  seeing,  and  touch 
becomes  a  constant  and  trustworthy  guide.  Here,  again, 
in  their  victory  over  disability,  the  blind  are  teachers,  who 
report  to  us  the  resources  of  life  which  are  for  the  most  part 
unused  just  because  of  their  abundance,  and  which  seem  to 
wait  for  adversity  to  recover  and  employ.  It  is  not  so  much 
an  exhibition  that  is  offered  to  us  to-day,  or  a  concert  for 
our  enjoyment,  as  a  sermon  which  is  preached  concerning 
the  reserves  of  the  spirit;  and  if  the  need  of  such  reinforce- 
ment should  come  to  any  one  of  us,  it  may  be  a  help  to 
remember  that  these  boys  and  girls  have  done  something 
much  more  heroic  than  is  ever  likely  to  be  asked  of  our 
favored    lives. 


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ITEMS  ON  THE  PERKINS  INSTITUTION 
WHICH  APPEARED  IN  ''THE  OUTLOOK 
FOR  THE  BLIND,"  FALL  NUMBER,  1921. 
VOL.   XV.   NO.   3. 


It  has  been  a  full  as  well  as  a  frolicsome  fall  at  Perkins. 

The  new  instructor  in  physical  training  to  the  girls  has 
introduced  a  field  day  on  which  Fisher,  Brooks,  May  and 
Oliver  families  have  competed  for  points.  There  was  arch- 
ball,  passball,  sprinting,  jumping,  etc.  Brooks  won  amid  the 
wildest  enthusiasm. 

Each  of  the  twelve  school  families  had  its  own  Hallowe'en 
party  this  October,  as  usual,  and  each  differed  from  all  the 
rest;  for  among  all  the  many  people  at  Perkins  there  is  no 
lack  of  resourcefulness.  Our  young  folks  like  to  dress  up  in 
costume  quite  as  much  as  others.  Mr.  Allen  visited  all  the 
parties,  and  doing  so  kept  him  busy.  These  many  family 
affairs  are  most  helpful  in  the  socializing  attempts  of  the 
institution. 

Mr.  Anagnos's  birthday,  November  7,  is  observed  yearly 
at  the  Kindergarten  as  Founder's  Day.  There  are  always 
appropriate  exercises  in  which  the  little  children  have  chief 
part.  Dr.  Howe's  birthday,  too,  November  10,  is  observed 
at  the  upper  school.    This  year  the  girls  took  as  their  theme 

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Dr.  Howe  as  printer,  and  the  boys  Dr.  Howe  as  Philhellene. 
Julia  Ward  Howe  used  to  come  and  speak;  recently  two  or 
more  members  of  the  Howe  family  have  done  so.  This  year 
but  one  of  them  came,  Mrs.  Laura  E.  Richards.  The 
Perkins  Institution  is  aware  of  its  traditions  and  purposes 
to  keep  them  alive. 

Our  observance  of  Armistice  Day  was  most  impressive. 
At  11.40  the  school  assembled  to  the  tolHng  of  one  of  its 
great  bells  and,  after  saluting  the  flag,  listened  first  to  a  talk 
on  the  significance  of  the  day  and  then  to  the  rolling  of  a 
drum  and  the  playing  of  taps,  all  by  uniformed  men  whom 
the  school  realized  to  be  veterans  of  the  late  war.  Every- 
body here  stood  with  the  nation  at  attention  during  the  two 
minutes  of  pause  at  noon,  when  they  joined  in  singing  "The 
Star  Spangled  Banner." 

At  the  request  of  the  Perkins  Alumnae  Association  the 
gymnasium  at  the  Kindergarten  has  just  been  named  the 
Colby  Gymnasium  after  a  fellow  alumna  who  recently  died. 
Miss  Jennie  Colby  had  made  a  career  in  the  field  of  curative 
gymnastics  and,  dying,  had  left  behind  her  the  gratitude  of 
a  generation  of  Boston  people  whom  she  had  helped.  It 
was  at  her  suggestion  that  Mr.  Anagnos  originally  employed 
the  assistant  in  corrective  gymnastics  who  has  labored  in 
the  interests  of  its  special  children  for  the  past  eighteen 
years. 

The  Watertown  site  was  chosen  partly  because  of  the 
nearness  to  several  colleges.  Wellesley  sends  yearly  classes 
to  visit  us,  and  so  do  Radcliffe  and  Harvard.  This  fall  three 
Radcliffe   and   four   Harvard   groups  of  students   in   Social 

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Ethics,  in  all  over  159  undergraduates  and  graduates,  have 
spent  whole  afternoons  with  us,  usually  accompanied  by 
their  professor,  Prof.  James  Ford  or  Dr.  Richard  C.  Cabot. 
Mr.  Allen  has  personally  conducted  them  about,  showing 
and  explaining  the  following:  —  Kindergarten  boys  climbing 
in  their  new  Junglegym;  primary  boys  swinging  on  the 
"  Great  Eastern,"  enjoying  their  trolley  coaster  or  their  roller 
skating  rink  and  rabbitry;  kindergarten  girls  telling  things 
by  sound  and  feeling;  primary  girls  reading,  writing,  and 
studying  stuffed  animals  or  working  at  sloyd;  upper  school 
chorus  singing  "at  sight"  —  from  the  Braille  score,  —  one 
or  more  pupils  playing  cards,  dominoes,  checkers  or  chess, 
drawing  diagrams,  typewriting,  sewing,  darning,  weaving, 
rush-seating,  etc.,  etc.,  dancing,  jumping,  playing  several 
competitive  gymnastic  games,  and  finally  swimming  and 
diving.  Harvard  has  brought  such  groups  yearly  for  a  gen- 
eration to  be  impressed  by  seeing  what  children  handicapped 
by  blindness  can  accomplish  under  training.  Demonstrating 
thus  to  the  world  is  only  secondary  in  importance  to  the 
training  itself. 

The  Junglegym  above  mentioned  is  something  new  in  play- 
ground apparatus.  It  is  like  four  eight-rung  ladders  of  gal- 
vanized piping  laid  side  by  side  and  repeated  in  four  stories, 
two  feet  apart,  —  the  whole  structure  resembling  the  metal 
framework  of  a  miniature  building,  standing  ready  for  the 
masonry.  Our  whole  household  of  thirty  kindergarten  boys 
at  once  can  and  do  climb  in  and  out  and  up  and  over  it, 
while  some  of  the  more  daring  hang  by  their  legs  or  even 
"skin  the  cat." 

The  primary  boys  deride  the  Junglegym  as  being  too  baby- 
fied  and  fool-proof  for  them;    but  they  were  willing  enough 

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to  perform  on  it  for  the  moving  picture  man  who  told  them 
that  the  film  would  soon  be  shown  all  over  the  country. 

New  York,  Virginia,  Kansas,  Porto  Rico,  Holland  and 
Hawaii,  —  each  has  contributed  a  student  to  the  course  on 
the  Education  of  the  Blind,  which  we  are  conducting  for 
the  Graduate  School  of  Education  of  Harvard  University. 
These  six,  who  are  young  women,  live  at  Perkins  Institution 
where  they  read,  observe  and  do  practice  teaching.  The 
others  enrolled  are  a  blinded  ex-soldier  and  his  wife,  a  student 
of  social  affairs  and  three  teachers  of  local  semi-sighted 
classes.  Abundant  reading  of  blindiana  is  required,  and  for- 
tunately there  is  plenty  at  hand. 

The  Howe  Memorial  Press  has  issued  in  American  Braille 
a  final  list  of  all  the  publications  available  in  American 
Braille  and  sells  these  as  follows:  —  Fiction,  20  cents;  non- 
fiction,  30  cents;   both  postpaid. 

The  Bureau  of  Education  has  recently  issued  "Bulletin, 
1921,  No.  16,  being  Special  Features  in  the  Education  of  the 
BHnd  during  the  Biennium  1918-1920,"  by  Edward  E.  Allen. 
Copies  may  be  procured  from  the  Superintendent  of  Docu- 
ments, Government  Printing  Office,  Washington,  D.  C,  at 
five  cents  apiece. 

Last  year  our  teacher  of  science  to  the  boys  put  in  a  wire- 
less receiving  apparatus  and  thereby  uncovered  for  us  one 
of  the  very  best  means  imaginable  of  putting  the  shut-in 
individual  in  touch  with  the  world  without.  Blind  people  — 
especially  men  —  who  happen  to  live  in  the  country  in  the 
winter  season,  when  they  are  likely  to  be  more  or  less  house- 

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bound,  may  get  into  a  bad  way  unless  able  to  resort  at  will 
to  pastimes  like  visiting  by  telephone,  reading,  writing  let- 
ters, listening  to  the  phonograph,  playing  the  piano  or  the 
fiddle,  playing  at  table  games,  and  trying  day  after  day  to 
make  all  the  house  clocks  strike  together.  Let  such  a  man 
add  a  simple  telephone  and  telegraph  wireless  receiving  out- 
fit, and  he  has  but  to  "rub  his  Aladdin's  lamp"  and  behold, 
he  is  back  in  the  great  world  again. 


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WASHINGTON'S  BIRTHDAY,  1922. 

Demonstration  of  Pupils'  Activities,  attended  by  400  Guests. 

Boys'  Department. 
In  the  museum  alcoves: 

Classes  in  Arithmetic;    Geometry;    Geography;    Pencil  Writing; 

Typewriting;  Reading;  French,  with  use  of  graphophone  records; 

Weaving;   Modeling  in  plasticene;   Stereotyping  and  printing. 
Experiments  in  Physics. 
Manual  training,  showing  chair-caning,  putting  in  web  and  flag 

seats,  and  making  sloyd  models;  piano  tuning. 
First  aid  activities  by  boy  scouts. 
Games  of  checkers,  dominoes,  chess,  and  cards. 

In  the  hall: 

Physical  exercises. 
Competitive  games. 

Girls'  Department. 
In  the  museum  alcoves: 

Classes  in  Arithmetic;  Algebra;  Ancient  history;  Business  cor- 
respondence, with  use  of  tj^iewriter;  Geography;  Physiology, 
with  use  of  models;  Nature  study,  examining  stuffed  animals; 
Reading;  Writing. 

Manual  training,  showing  knitting;  crocheting;  sewing  by  hand 
and  with  machine;  basketry;  caning;  rug- weaving;  drafting. 

Domestic  science,  showing  ironing;  polishing  metals;  preparation 
of  balanced  meals. 

Girl  scout  work  in  telegraphic  code;  in  tying  knots. 

In  the  hall: 

Social  and  folk  dancing. 
Competitive  games. 
Shepherdess  gavotte. 

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EXHIBITION     OF     ACTIVITIES     OF     PUPILS     OF 
THE    PERKINS    INSTITUTION    AND    MASSA- 
CHUSETTS SCHOOL  FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Jordan  Hall,  Boston,  Wednesday,  May  17,  1922,  at  3  o'clock  p.m. 

The  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  presiding. 

Part  I. 

Organ  —  Finale  from  Sixth  Symphony Widor. 

Malcolm  L.  Cobb. 

Opening  remarks. 

The  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Games  and  exercises. 

Eandergarten  and  Primary  Children. 

Classroom  work. 

Pupils  of  the  Upper  School. 

Part  II. 
Address. 

Prof.  Francis  G.  Peabody  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Folk  dances. 

Boys  of  the  Primary  School. 

Gymnastic  exercises. 

Boys  of  the  Upper  School. 

Shepherdess  gavotte. 

Girls  of  the  Upper  School. 

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DEMONSTRATION 

Given  (by  Akrangement)  at  the  Perkins  Institution,  Water- 
town,  IN  Connection  with  a  Conference  op  American  Red 
Cross  Workers,  held  in  Boston  in  May,  1922,  and  attended 
BY  over  200  Members  and  Friends. 

PROGRAM. 

Afternoon. 
Inspection  of  the  different  departments  of  the  Institution. 
Exhibition  of  pupils'  activities  in  the  museum  alcoves. 


Organ  solo. 


Piano  solo. 


Evening. 
Student  of  Perkins  Institution. 

Student  of  Perkins  Institution. 


Work  for  the  Blind,  with  special  reference  to  Braille  transcribing. 
Mr.  E.  E.  Allen,  Director,  Perkins  Institution  for  the  Blind. 

Selections. 

Girls'  Glee  Club  of  Perkins  Institution. 

Popular  methods  of  promoting  health  ideas. 

Demonstrated  by  Astra,  the  Health  Fairy. 

"Your  Mouth,"  oral  hygiene  film. 

Radio  Health  Talk. 

Water,  first  aid  —  life-saving. 

Demonstration  in  swimming  pool. 

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GRADUATING     EXERCISES     OF     THE     PERKINS 

INSTITUTION  AND   MASSACHUSETTS   SCHOOL 

FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Tuesday,  June  20,  1922,  10.30  a.m. 

PROGRAM. 

Chorus  — "The  Lost  Chord" Sullivan 

Essays : 
The  Importance  of  Agriculture. 

George  James  Gaffney. 

History  and  Development  of  the  Poultry  Industry. 
John  Stewart  Inglis. 

Protecting  the  United  States  from  Plant  Pests. 

Lloyd  Haskell  McLaughlin. 


Organ  —  Grand  chorus Dubois 

Edward  Walker  Jenkins. 

Essays: 
The  Opening  Door  of  the  Working  World. 
Emil  Schoner. 

Different  Methods  of  Conmiunication. 

Albert  Joseph  Gagnon. 

Recitative  and  aria  —  "Clad  in  Verdure  Green"     .       .       .    Handel 

Mary  Lynn  Rollins. 
Essay : 

Shakespeare  and  the  Music  of  his  Time. 

Edward  Walker  Jenkins. 

Presentation  of  diplomas  and  certificates. 

The  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton, 
President  of  the  Corporation. 

Chorus  — "The  Twenty-third  Psalm"       ....       Neidlinger 

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Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1922. 

George  James  Gaffney.  Edward  Walker  Jenkins. 

Albert  Joseph  Gagnon.  Lloyd  Haskell  McLaughlin. 

John  Stewart  Inglis.  Emil  Schoner. 

Certificates  from  the  Pianoforte  Normal  Department, 

Marie  Eleanor  Flynn.  Ethel  Elaine  Montgomery. 

Mary  Lynn  RoUins. 

Certificates  from  the  Pianoforte  Tuning  Department. 

Malcolm  Langdon  Cobb.  Kong  Youk  Kim. 

Edward  Joseph  Craig.  Roger  True  Walker. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Concerts,  Recitals  and 
Lectures. 

To  Mr.  W.  H.  Brennan,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course 
of  symphony  concerts  in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Miss  Mary  D.  Davenport,  through  Miss  AHce  F. 
Poor,  for  the  use  of  two  tickets,  and  to  Mrs.  B.  H.  Dick- 
son, for  the  use  of  one  ticket,  for  a  concert  by  the  Boston 
Symphony  Orchestra. 

To  Mr.  Wendell  H.  Luce,  for  twelve  tickets  for  a  piano- 
forte recital  by  Mme.  Germaine  Schnitzer,  and  for  eight 
tickets  for  a  pianoforte  recital  by  Miss  Naomi  Bevard,  both 
in  Jordan  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Miss  Eleanor  Brigham,  for  twenty  tickets  for  a 
pianoforte  recital  by  Miss  Bertha  Wesselhoeft  Swift  in 
Jordan  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Mrs.  C.  M.  Hutchinson,  for  an  invitation  to  twenty- 
two  to  attend  Mr.  Thornton  W.  Burgess's  stereopticon  lec- 
ture on  birds  in  Brattle  Hall,  Cambridge. 

To  Mrs.  A.  M.  Peabody,  for  a  general  invitation  to  at- 
tend Mr.  Arthur  Edward  Wilson's  illustrated  bird  lecture  in 
Bulfinch  Place  Church,  Boston. 

To  the  Committee  for  the  Blind,  Temple  Israel,  Boston, 
for  an  invitation  to  twelve  to  attend  a  pianoforte  recital  by 
Mr.  Silvio  Scionti  in  Jordan  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Miss  Edith  Seamans  Chase,  for  six  tickets  for  a  lec- 

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ture  by  Prof.  Marshall  Perrin  on  "What  the  high  school  will 
do  for  your  child,"  in  Watertown  High  School  Hall. 

To  the  Children's  Museum,  Jamaica  Plain,  for  an  invi- 
tation to  ten  to  attend  an  outdoor  carnival. 

II.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Recitals,    Lectures    and 

Dramatics  in  Our  Hall. 

To  Mr.  Havrah  Hubbard,  speaker,  and  Mr.  Bowman, 
accompanist,  for  an  illustrated  description  of  the  operas 
"Pagliacci"  and  "Hansel  und  Gretel." 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mrs.  George  H.  Pendergast,  for  a  talk  on  her  travels 
through  the  Mediterranean  Sea. 

To  Prof.  Albert  H.  Gilmer  and  pupils  from  Tufts  and 
Jackson  colleges,  for  a  presentation  of  three  one-act  plays, 
"Food",  "Aria  da  Capo"  and  "Suppressed  Desires." 

To  Mrs.  Lucia  Ames  Mead,  for  a  talk  on  the  Peace  Con- 
ference and  kindred  topics. 

To  Mr.  Abraham  Haitowitsch,  for  a  viohn  recital. 

To  Mr.  Roderick  Fraser,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Miss  Claudia  Potter  and  friends,  for  readings. 

To  Colonel  Knight  and  members  of  the  Fifth  Infantry 
Regiment  Band,  for  a  concert  on  the  lawn. 

III.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Periodicals    and    News- 

papers. 

California  News,  Christian  Record  (embossed),  Colorado 
Index,  Florida  School  Herald,  Illuminator  (embossed),  In- 
dustrial Enterprise,  Matilda  Ziegler  Magazine  (embossed). 
The  Mentor,  Michigan  Mirror,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Our  Dumb 
Animals,  Rocky  Mountain  Leader,  The  Theosophical  Path, 
The  Utah  Eagle,  Virginia  Guide,  West  Virginia  Tablet. 

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IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

To  Dr.  Henry  Hawkins  and  Dr.  Harold  B.  Chandler, 
for  professional  services. 

To  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmary, the  Massachusetts  Hom(eopathic  Hospital  and 
the  Boston  City  Hospital,  for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

To  Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Miss  Carrie  E.  Silloway, 
in  memory  of  her  mother,  Mrs.  Roger  Merriman,  Mrs.  E. 
Preble  Motley,  Mrs.  Sprague,  in  memory  of  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Ward,  Mrs.  Atwood,  and  children  of  Phillips  School, 
Wellesley  Hills,  through  Miss  Leonida  Hennick,  for  gifts  of 
money. 

To  the  Belmont  Unitarian  Girls'  Club,  through  Mrs. 
Emma  Abbott  Allen,  for  fruit;  and  to  this  club  and  to  Mrs. 
David  Evans,  for  parties  for  the  children. 

To  the  Committee  for  the  Blind,  Temple  Israel,  Boston, 
for  clothing,  for  parties  given  in  our  cottages,  for  transporta- 
tion of  pupils,  for  two  Victrolas,  and  for  two  season  tickets 
for  the  Cambridge  course  of  symphony  concerts. 

To  Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Lady  Campbell,  Mrs. 
Vincent  Maschio,  Mrs.  F.  W.  Colburn,  Mrs.  J.  Verner 
Critchley,  Mrs.  Frank  Walker,  Miss  Dorothy  How- 
land  through  Miss  Adams,  Miss  Emilie  Poulsson,  Mrs. 
Robert  Everett,  Mrs.  Reinhold  Ruelberg,  Miss  Alice 
F.  Poor  and  Mrs.  Arthur  W.  Tobey,  for  clothing,  ice 
cream  and  cake,  fruit  and  toys  at  Christmas. 

To  Miss  Florence  W.  Birchard,  Miss  Harriett  Dex- 
ter, Mrs.  C.  A.  Burke,  Mrs.  Alexander  Caldwell,  Mrs. 
Sydney  Sheinwald,  Mrs.  Richard  Pinkson,  Mr.  Richard 
Levi  and  Mrs.  Lena  Binner,  for  clothing;  and  to  Mrs. 
BiNNER,  for  articles  of  furniture. 

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To  Mr.  Jerome  C.  Smith,  for  two  cases  of  cocoa;  and  to 
the  Watertown  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  for  cake. 

To  Mr.  F.  H.  Pratt,  for  an  automobile  ride  for  the 
younger  pupils;  and  to  Mr.  Parker  B.  Field  and  other 
friends  through  Mrs.  A.  M.  Peabody,  for  transportation  of 
pupils  on  outings. 

To  Mrs.  A.  B.  Gould,  for  a  writing  frame;  and  to  Mrs. 
Grace  L.  Hilton,  for  a  Hall  Braillewriter  and  tuning  tools. 

To  Miss  Harriet  E.  Freeman,  for  an  interesting  and 
valuable  piece  of  marble  statuary. 

To  Mr.  H.  W.  Tyler,  for  a  piano  player  and  music  rolls; 
and  to  Mrs.  F.  H.  Ripley,  for  an  Angelus  and  music  rolls. 

To  Mr.  Ingram  I.  Margeson,  for  fruit  trees. 

To  Mrs.  James  Ogilvie,  for  a  stuffed  and  mounted  crane. 

To  Mrs.  H.  G.  Chamberlain,  for  a  handwritten  Braille 
copy  of  "The  Golden  Legend." 

To  Mrs.  George  H.  Monks  and  Mr.  S.  J.  Kafelas,  for 
plants. 

To  Miss  Emilie  Poulsson,  for  a  copy  of  her  book, 
"What  Happened  to  Inger  Johanne." 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS 

October  1,  1922. 


Upper  School. 


Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Baker,  Elsie. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Bradbury,  Thelma  M. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Brustuen,  Sonora  I. 
Buckley,  Alice. 
Cambridge,  Mollie. 
Cherlin,  Mary. 
Clancy,  Elizabeth. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Comtois,  Eva. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Costa,  Marianna. 
Critchley,  Rosamond  M. 
Curran,  Catherine  E. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Dunn,  Mary  C. 
Duquette,  Irene. 
Eastman,  M.  Albertina. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Elliott,  Mary. 
Ennis,  Ethel  F. 


Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fiske,  Dorothy  T. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Frazier,  Kathleen. 
Gagnon,  Eva. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Haigh,  Laura  A. 
Hall,  Jane  A. 
Hamel,  Irene. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kelley,  Beulah  C. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
Leppanen,  Mary. 
L'Heureux,  Juliette. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Nadeau,  Olivina  M. 
Najarian,  Nevart. 
Person,  Erine  A. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Rose,  Sadie. 


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Rowe,  Margaret  C. 
Saladino,  Rose  M. 
Severance,  Georgia  M. 
Shea,  Mary  Ellen. 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Smith,  Dorothy  L. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Trudel,  Olive  C. 
Turner,  Mildred  H. 
Wall,  Agnes  M. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Wolf,  Hedwig. 
Adams,  Lyman  H. 
Amiro,  Gilbert. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Barrett,  Robert  C. 
Belinsky,  Samuel. 
Bergeron,  Albert. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Carlos,  Antone  F. 
Chandler,  James  L. 
Combs,  Raymond  L. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Curtiss,  Miles  B. 
Dame,  Leo. 
DiMartino,  Matthew. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Evans,  Walter  C. 
Frende,  John. 
Gaffney,  George  J. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Gallant,  M.  John. 
Gearrey,  Raymond  E. 
Goguen,  Raoul. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 


Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Hannon,  James  E. 
Hartselle,  Cecil  H. 
Hendrick,  Horatio  W. 
Jablonski,  Joseph. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
ICatwick,  Arthur  D. 
Kealey,  Francis  J. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Kim,  Kong  Y. 
Krafve,  Karl  H. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Leone,  Amadeo. 
Le  Roi,  Francis  H. 
Liberacki,  Edward. 
Lillie,  Karl  C. 
Lippitt,  Raymond  A. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  H. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 
McCarthy,  Eugene  C. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Medeiros,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Michaud,  J.  Armand. 
Munn,  Daniel  J. 
Munro,  George  H. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
O'Nem,  Ralph  L. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Pedersen,  Edward  M. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Piccolo,  R.  Albert. 
Rainville,  Ernest  C. 
Reynolds,  Waldo  F. 
Rosenbloom,  Robert. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
St.  George,  William. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 


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stone,  Walter  C. 
Vaillancourt,  Maurice  A. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Vetal,  Herbert  M. 
Waterall,  Walter. 


Weston,  Gordon  W. 
Winton,  Henry  W. 
Withers,  Harold. 
Young,  Vinal  R. 


Lower  School. 


Allen,  Elizabeth  M. 
Almeda,  Maria  R. 
Barnard,  Eliza  B. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Beliveau,  Leontine_T. 
Braley,  Ruth  I. 
Buckley,  Frances  A. 
Busbyschell,  Barbara  M. 
Casella,  Frances. 
Corsi,  Angelina. 
Coughlin,  Ethel. 
Grossman,  Evelyn  M. 
Daniels,  Dorothy  D. 
Dardioli,  Luigina. 
De  Dominicis,  Edith. 
Doherty,  Kathleen  E. 
Duverger,  Loretta  V. 
Edwards,  Eleanor  B. 
Fanning,  Gladys  L. 
Farnham,  Barbara  E. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
Glynn,  Helen, 
Goodwin,  Helen  J. 
Harasimowicz,  Alice. 
Has  well,  Thelma  R. 
Hinckley,  Geraldine. 
Holland,  Doris  A. 
IngersoU,  Dorothy. 
Kazanjian,  Zaroohie. 
Landry,  Edwina. 
Laudate,  E.  Lena. 
Laurenzo,  Carolina, 
Lenville,  Eva  Hilda. 
Lyons,  Mary  L. 
MacDonald,  Katherine. 
Macdougall,  Mildred  D. 


McGovern,  Velma, 
McMullin,  Beatrice  M. 
Mierzewski,  Stephanie. 
Mitchell,  Ethel  G. 
Nowicki,  Janina. 
Ogilvie,  Hilda  M. 
Pepe,  Carmella, 
Pepe,  Philomena. 
Pimental,  Mary  V. 
Poirier,  Emma, 
Rankin,  Margaret  D. 
Reese,  Helen. 
Saladino,  Beatrice  L. 
Samon,  Stacey. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Saverino,  Maimie. 
Scott,  Arline  R. 
Silvia,  Emma. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Stanievicz,  Mary. 
Tirrella,  Helen, 
Wheeler,  Theresa, 
Widger,  Evelyn  L. 
Berube,  Walter, 
Bowden,  Robert  F, 
Cammarano,  Angelo. 
Campbell,  Peter  F. 
CaroseUi,  Andrea. 
Case,  William  A. 
Casella,  Charles. 
Chombeau,  Bertrand. 
Cormier,  Alfred. 
Costa,  Anthony. 
Cowick,  Orville  H. 
Cullen,  George  F. 
Damon,  George  M. 


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Davy,  Horace, 
Despres,  John  P. 
Di  Cicco,  Emilio. 
Donovan,  Thomas  J. 
Dore,  Charles  W. 
Dow,  Ralph  E.  F. 
Dunbar,  Kenneth  A. 
Egan,  Robert  J. 
Ferguson,  George  A. 
Gagnon,  R4ne. 
GiuHano,  Paolo. 
Gould,  Basil. 
Grime,  G.  Edward. 
Hatch,  Arthur  F. 
Henry,  Paul  W. 
Holmes,  Rutherford  B. 
Hurley,  Arnold  E. 
Jackman,  Richard  F. 
Kubilunas,  John. 
Lamarine,  William  L. 
Lavoie,  J.  H.  Alphonse. 


Libby,  Arthur  C. 
Maschio,  Angelo  N.  B. 
McCluskey,  Harry  L. 
Meuse,  Lawrence  A. 
Meuse,  Paul  R. 
Morse,  Kenneth. 
Paquette,  Armand. 
Pike,  Norman  N. 
Pratt,  Marston  T. 
Rainville,  Harvey  L. 
Remington,  Joseph  H. 
Santos,  Tony, 
Shaw,  Harris  E. 
Shulman,  George. 
Simoneau,  Henry  J. 
Stott,  Lester  W. 
Summerhayes,  Paul  R. 
Thompson,  R.  Lawrence. 
Tobey,  Arthur  W. 
Wesson,  Kermit  0. 
Yates,  Merle  F. 


The  places  from  which  these  pupils  come  and  the  number 
from  each  place  follows:  — 


Massachusetts 

Rhode  Island 

Maine 

New  Hampshire 

Vermont 

Connecticut    . 


189 
32 
19 
14 
10 
5 


Hawaii    . 
Alabama 
New  Jersey    . 
Virginia  . 
South  Dakota 
Canada   . 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR  THOMAS   STRINGER. 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 

[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and  that 
only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not  provided 
for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  living,  the  principal  re- 
maining intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that,  at  his  death, 
or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the  income  of  this 
fimd  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education  of  some  child  who  is 
both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no  provision  made  either 
by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,  bequest $1,000  00 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill  ........  10  00 


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STATEMENT  OF  ACCOUNTS. 


Boston,  October  4,  1922. 

Messrs,  Wabren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins 
Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Gentlemen: —  I  have  audited  the  accounts  of  Albert  Thorndike, 
Treasurer  of  the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  31, 
1922,  and  have  found  that  all  income  from  investments  and  proceeds 
from  sales  of  securities  have  been  accounted  for,  and  that  the  dona- 
tions, subscriptions,  and  miscellaneous  receipts,  as  shown  by  the  books, 
have  been  deposited  in  bank  to  the  credit  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  In- 
stitution. 

I  have  vouched  all  disbursements  and  verified  the  bank  balances  as 
at  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year. 

The  stocks  and  bonds  in  the  custody  of  the  Treasurer  on  August 
31,  1922,  were  counted  by  the  Auditing  Committee  and  the  schedules 
of  the  securities,  examined  by  them,  were  then  submitted  to  me  and 
found  to  agree  with  those  called  for  by  the  books. 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  following  statements  covering  the  Insti- 
tution, Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund,  and  Kindergarten,  correctly  set 
forth  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August 

31,  1922. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JOHN  MONTGOMERY, 

Certified  Public  Accountant. 


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INSTITUTION. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1922. 

Assets. 
Plant : — 

Real  estate,  Watertown $580,394  99 

Real  estate,  South  Boston 8,647  74 

$589,042  73 

Equipment:  — 

Furniture  and  household $11,566  77 

Tools,  etc 1,156  53 

Music  department 19,750  00 

Library  department 67,677  19 

Works  department 12,907  68 

113,058  17 

Investments:  — 

Real  estate      .        .       .        .       .       .        .        .   $208,078  74 

Stocks  and  bonds 536,090  32 

Stocks  and  bonds  —  Varnum  Fund  .        .        .       82,272  42 
Stocks  and  bonds  —  Baker  Fxmd       ,       .       .         9,982  25 

836,423  73 

Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies 2,870  45 

Accounts  receivable 4,571  06 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 733  90 

Cash  on  hand 8,172  36 

Total $1,554,872  39 


Liabilities. 

General  account $345,233  51 

Funds:  — 

Special $56,377  00 

Permanent 304,813  84 

General 837,015  79 

1,198,206  63 

Unexpended  income,  special  funds 9,586  00 

Gifts  for  clock  and  organ 39  00 

Vouchers  payable 1,705  12 

Accoimts  payable 101  53 

Total $1,554,872  39 


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Condensed  Treasttreb's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1922. 

Rent  net  income $12,439  28 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes 28,305  37 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds 2,614  37 

Annuities 1,200  00 

Donations 4,589  00 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts     ....      $40,680  00 
Tuition  and  board,  others 30,281  66 

70,961  66 

Total $120,109  68 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accounts  .        $2,614  37 
Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses    .        .        .  497  76 

3,112  13 

Net  income $116,997  55 

Net  charge  to  Director $116,222  43 

Repairs,  faulty  construction 1,157  82 

117,380  25 

Deficit $382  70 

Income  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1921 $8,823  73 

Income  1921-1922 2,614  37 

Total $11,436  10 

Distributed 1,851  50 

Unexpended  income  August  31,  1922 $9,586  60 


Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1922. 

Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages $6,883  17 

Other  expenses 513  33 

$7,396  50 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $24,178  49 

Other  expenses:  — 

Provisions $13,858  16 

Light,  heat  and  power  .        .        11,288  49 

Household  furnishings  and  sup- 
plies      3,380  27 

Insurance  and  water     .        .        .  1,672  36 

Repairs 4,142  61 

Publicity 673  25 

Depreciation       on       furniture, 
household   equipment,   tools, 

etc 2,427  26 

Depreciation  on  buildings.  Water- 
town     13,047  83 

Miscellaneous         ....  1,957  34 

52,347  57 

76,526  06 

Amaunt  carried  forward $83,922  56 

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Amount  brought  forward $83,922  56 

Instruction  and  school  supplies:  — 

Salaries  and  wages J30,611  65 

Other  expenses 1,456  48 

32.068  13 

Total $115,990  69 

Add  net  loss,  Tuning  department      ....  $314  54 

Less  net  income,  Works  department  ...  82  80 

231  74 

Net  charge  to  Director $116,222  43 


WORKS  DEPARTMENT. 

Pbofit  and  Loss  Account,  August  31,  1922. 

Revenue. 
Sales $47,336  39 


Expenditures. 

Materials  used $13,623  06 

Salaries  and  wages 26,943  51 

General  expense 4,675  15 

Auto  expense 842  47 

Total  expenditures 46.084  19 


Profit $1,252  20 

Deduct :  — 

Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment       $1,046  90 
Loss  on  bad  accounts 148  15 

Total $1,195  05 


Less:  — 

Recovered  from  bad  debts 25  65 


1,169  40 


Total  profit  for  year  ending  August  31,  1922       .        .        .  $82  80 


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INSTITUTION  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 


Special  funds:  — 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb  and  blind), 
John  D.  Fisher  (Scholarship) 
Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  blind  and  deaf) 
Harris  fund  (Outdoor  Relief) 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  (Music)     . 
Elizabeth  P.  Putnam  (Higher  Education) 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall  (Use  Trustees) 
A.  Shuman  (Clothing  Fund) 


Permanent  funds :  — 

Charles  Tidd  Baker      . 

Charlotte  Billings 

Stoddard  Capen     . 

Jenny  M.  Colby,  in  memory  of 

Ella  Newman  Curtis  Fimd  . 

Stephen  Fairbanks 

Harris  Fimd  (General  Purposes) 

Benjamin  Humphrey 

Prentiss  M.  Kent  . 

Jonathan  E.  Pecker 

Richard  Perkins     . 

Mrs.  MarLlla  L.  Pitts,  in  memory  of 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer 

Charles  Frederick  Smith 

Timothy  Smith      . 

Mary  Lowell  Stone 

George  W.  Thym  . 

Alfred  T.  Turner    . 

Anne  White  Vose  . 

Charles  L.  Young 

William  Vamum  Fund 


General  funds :  — 

Elizabeth  B.  Bailey 
Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 
Calvin  W.  Barker  . 
Lucy  B.  Barker 
Francis  Bartlett     . 
Mary  Bartol  . 
Thompson  Baxter 
Robert  C.  Billings 
Susan  A.  Blaisdell 
WiUiam  T.  Bolton 
George  W.  Boyd    . 

Amounts  carried  forward $62,822  91      $361,190  84 


$4,000  GO 

710  00 

5,000  00 

26,667  00 

15,000  00 

1,000  00 

3,000  00 

1,000  00 

•  «;c  077  nn 

.     $10,000  00 

40,507  00 

13,770  00 

100  00 

2,000  00 

10,000  00 

53,333  00 

25,000  00 

2,500  00 

950  00 

20,000  00 

6,000  00 

4,000  00 

2,174  77 

8,663  00 

2,000  00 

3.000  00 

529  89 

1.000  00 

12,994  00 

5,000  00 

82,292  18 

?ni  *?!?  94 

$3,000  00 

2,500  00 

1,859  32 

6,953  21 

2,500  00 

300  00 

322  50 

25,000  00 

5,832  66 

555  22 

5,000  00 

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Amounta  broxight  forward $52,822  91      $361,190  84 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Caroline  E.  Boyden 1,930  39 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 268,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradatreet 10,508  70 

Lucy  S.  Brewer 6.000  00 

J.  Edward  Brown 100,000  00 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham 5,000  00 

Emma  C.  Campbell 1,000  00 

Edward  F.  Cate 5,000  00 

Fanny  Channing 2,000  00 

Ann  Eliza  Colburn 5,000  00 

Susan  J.  Conant 500  00 

William  A.  Copeland 1,000  00 

Louise  F.  Crane 5,000  00 

W.  Murray  Crane 10,000  00 

Harriet  Otis  Cruft 6,000  00 

David  Cummings 7,723  07 

Chastine  L.  Cushing 500  00 

I.  W.  Danforth 2,500  00 

Charles  L.  Davis 1,000  00 

Susan  L.  Davis 1,500  00 

Joseph  Descalzo 1,000  00 

John  H.  Dix 10,000  00 

Alice  J.  H.  Dwinell 200  00 

Mary  E.  Eaton 5,000  00 

Mortimer  C.  Ferris  Memorial     ....  1,000  00 

Mary  Helen  Freeman 1,000  00 

Cornelia  Anne  French 10,000  00 

Martha  A.  French 164  40 

Ephraim  L.  Frothingham 1,825  97 

Jessie  P.  Fuller 200  00 

Thomas  Gaffield 6,685  38 

Albert  Glover 1,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5,000  00 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow 6,471  23 

Ellen  Hammond 1,000  00 

Hattie  S.  Hathaway 500  00 

Charles  H.  Hayden 23,111  53 

John  C.  Haynes 1,000  00 

Joseph  H.  Hey  wood 500  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 3,708  32 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchison       ....  2,156  00 

Ernestine  M.  Kettle 10,000  00 

Lydia  F.  Knowles 50  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson 6,000  00 

WUUam  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Hannah  W.  Loring 9,500  00 

Susan  B.  Lyman 4,809  78 

Stephen  W.  Marston 5,000  00 

AmounU  carried  forward $618.210  40     $361.190  84 

63 


Amounts  brought  forward 


$618,210  40     $361,190  84 


General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Charles  Merriam 1,000  00 

Joseph  F.  Noera .  2,000  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

George  Francis  Parkman 50,000  00 

Grace  Parkman 500  00 

Philip  G.  Peabody 1,200  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 600  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20,000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt 1,000  00 

Grace  E.  Reed 4,500  00 

Matilda  B.  Richardson 300  00 

Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Marian  Russell 5,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2,640  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Richard  Black  Sewell 25,000  00 

Margaret  A.  Simpson 968  57 

Esther  W.  Smith 5,000  00 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind    .        .  15,000  00 

Henry  F.  Spencer 1,000  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey 5,000  00 

Sophronia  S.  Sunbury 365  19 

Mary  F.  Swift 1,391  00 

WiUiam  Taylor 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson 1,000  00 

William  Timlin 3,000  00 

Mary  Willson  Tucker 465  32 

George  B.  Upton 10,000  00 

Abbie  T.  Vose 1,000  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Harriet  Ware 1.952  02 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested 

remainder  interest  under  his  will)  .        .        .  11,500  00 

Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Cordelia  H.  Wheeler 800  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  Whitney 1,000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson 543  75 

Thomas  T.  Wyman 20,000  00 

Fanny  Young 8,000  00 


837,015  79 
$1,198,206  63 


64 


DONATIONS,  INSTITUTION  ACCOUNT. 

Clapp,  Mrs.  Robert  P.         ,        .        .  $10  00 
Committee  of  the  Permanent  Charity 

Fund,  Incorporated  ....  875  00 

Traiser,  Charles  H 10  00 


$895  00 
Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society       .        .       .         3,694  00 


$4,589  00 


Organ  Fund : — 

Helen  R.  Pulsifer 12  00 

For  Founding  a  Scholarship  in  "Memory  of  John  D.  Fisher" 

Anonymous $15  00 

Carlton,  Miss  Mary  L 100  00 

De  Witt,  Alexander 5  00 

Emerson,  Miss  Frances  W.          ....  25  00 

Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d 50  00 

Frary,  Mrs.  Mary  C 5  00 

In  Memory  of  L.  A.  C.   (Miss  Matilda  G. 

CooUdge) 5  00 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K 300  00 

Plumer,  Charles  A 5  00 

Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.     .        .        .        .        .        •  200  00 

710  00 

$5,311  00 


65 


HOWE  MEMORIAL  PRESS  FUND. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1922. 

Assets. 
Equipment  and  supplies:  — 

Printing  plant $874  59 

Machinery      .        . 4,378  30 

Printing  inventory 13,021  71 

Appliances  manufactured 7,364  32 

Appliances  purchased 352  29 

Embossing  inventory    .        .        .        .        .        .  689  10 

Stationery,  etc 958  30 

$27,638  61 

Investments:  — 

Stocks  and  bonds 161,464  89 

Notes  and  accounts  receivable    .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .  4,727  62 

Cash  on  hand 3,714  91 

Total $197,546  03 

Liabilities. 
General  account $181,029  80 

Funds:  — 

Permanent $5,000  00 

General 11,390  00 

16,390  00 

Vouchers  payable 126  23 

Total $197,546  03 


Condensed  Treasurer's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1922. 

Interest  and  dividends $10,840  25 

Other  income 134  69 

Total $10,974  94 

Less  Treasurer's  expenses 52  50 

Net  income $10,922  44 

Net  charge  to  Director 11,739  67 


Deficit $817  23 


66 


Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1922. 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Embossing $2,917135 

Printing 4,398^40 

Appliances  manufactured 8,128  42 

Appliances  purchased 18  09 

Stationery 663  39 

Library 2,196  72 

Depreciation  on  machinery  and  equipment      .  486  48 

Publicity 16  68 

Miscellaneous  appropriations      ....  100  00 

Miscellaneous  salaries  and  expenses  .        .        .  2,031  48 

$20,957  01 

Less:  — 

Discounts $9  81 

Income  from  sale  of  appliances,  $6,794  02 

Income  from  sale  of  books,  music, 

etc 2,413  51 

9,207  53 

9,217  34 

Net  charge  to  Director $11,739  67 


HOWE  MEMORIAL  PRESS  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Permanent  fund :  — 

Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  Fimd $5,000  00 

General  fimds:  — 

Beggs  Fund $100  00 

Joseph  H.  Center 1.000  00 

Augusta  WeUs 10.290  00 

11,390  00 

$16,390  00 


67 


KINDERGARTEN. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1922. 

Assets. 


Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  Watertown 

Eqmpment :  — 

Furnitvire  and  household 
Tools,  etc. 
Music  department 


$12,571  72 

951  39 

2,400  00 


Investments:  — 

Real  estate $419,946  43 

Stocks  and  bonds 1,011,683  02 


Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies 
Accounts  receivable  .  .  .  . 
E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee  .  .  .  , 
Cash  on  hand         .        .        .        . 


$463,014  97 


15,923  11 


1,431,629  45 

2,870  46 

994  36 

175  83 

5,307  88 


Total $1,919,916  06 


Liabilities. 
General  account $327,872  48 

Funds:  — 

Special $7,140  00 

Permanent 203,554  17 

General 1,377,937  51 


Unexpended  income  special  funds 
Vouchers  payable  .... 
Account  payable    .... 


Total 


1,588,631  68 

1,362  12 

831  71 

1,218  07 

$1,919,916  06 


Condensed  Tbeasureb's  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1922. 


Rent  net  income 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes 
Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds 

Donations 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts     . 
Tuition  and  board,  others 


$32,060  00 
13,420  00 


$22,794  63 

52,172  55 

280  14 

15  00 


45,480  00 


Total       .        .        .       . 
Amount  carried  forward 


$120,742  32 


$120,742  32 


68 


Amount  brought  forward 


$120,742  32 


Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accounts  . 
Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses    . 


$280  14 
568  66 


848  80 


Net  income $119.893  52 

Net  charge  to  Director $109,212  42 

Repairs,  faulty  construction        .        .        .        .        .  281  24 


Balance  of  income 


109,493  66 
$10,399  86 


Income,  Special  Frmds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1921 81.260  31 

Income  1921-1922 


280  14 


Total 
Distributed 


Unexpended  balance  August  31,  1922 


$1,540  45 
178  33 

$1,362  12 


Condensed  Director's  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1922. 


Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages 
Other  expenses 


Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant 

Salaries  and  wages 
Other  expenses :  — 
Provisions 

Light,  heat  and  power 
Tuition  and  board 
Household  furnishings  and  sup 

plies 

Depreciation        on        furniture 
household     equipment,     tools 

etc 

Depreciation         on      buildings 

Water  town 
Insurance  and  water 
Repairs    .... 
Printing  appropriation 
Publicity 
Miscellaneous 


$6,882  50 
1,483  42 


$26,708  41 


$13,304  98 

10,633  72 

9,821  66 

3,926  08 


1,662  83 

10,135  68 
1.451  77 
3,689  95 
1,091  60 
750  04 
3,890  46 


60.364  77 


Instruction  and  school  supplies :  — 

Salaries  and  wages •      $13,000  00 


Other  expenses 


773  32 


3,365  92 


87,073  18 


13,773  32 


Net  charge  to  Director     .....       .       •        •      $109,212  42 


69 


KINDERGARTEN  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Special  funds:  — 

Charles  Wells  Cook  (Scholarship)       .        .        .  $300  00 

Glover  Fund  (Albert  Glover,  Blind  deaf  mutes)  1,840  00 

Emeline  Morse  Lane  (Books)      ....  1,000  00 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Room      .        .        .  4,000  00 

$7,140  00 

Permanent  funds:  — 

Charles  Tidd  Baker $15,000  00 

William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,  Memorial         .  1,000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden 4,675  00 

A.  A.  C,  In  Memoriam 500  00 

Helen  G.  Coburn 9,980  10 

M.  Jane  WeUington  Danforth  Fund          .        .  10,000  00 

CaroUne  T.  Downes 12,950  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Eliza  J.  Bell  Draper  Fund 1,500  00 

Helen  Atkins  Edmands  Memorial      .        .        .  5,000  00 

George  R.  Emerson 5,000  00 

Mary  Eveleth 1,000  00 

Eugenia  F.  Farnham 1,015  00 

Susan  W.  Farwell 500  00 

John  Foster 5,000  00 

The  Luther  and  Mary  Gilbert  Fund  .        .        .  8,234  47 

Albert  Glover 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  Fimd 9,935  95 

Charles  Larned 5,000  00 

George  F.  Parkman 3,500  00 

Catherine  P.  Perkins 10,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial  ....  15,600  00 

Carohne  O.  Seabury 1,000  00 

EUza  Sturgis  Fund 21,729  52 

Abby  K.  Sweetser 25,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser 5,000  00 

Mary  Rosevear  White 500  00 

203,554  17 

General  ftinds:  — 

Emilie  Albee $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen 748  38 

Michael  Anagnos 3,000  00 

Harriet  T.  Andrew 5,000  00 

Martha  B.  Angell 16,172  61 

Mrs.  WiUiam  Appleton 18,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey 500  00 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Ellen  M.  Baker 13,053  48 

Mary  D.  Balfour 100  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  Fund            500  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $59,724  47  i  $210,694  17 

70 


Amounts  brought  forward $59,724  47      $210,694  17 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Sidney  Bartlett 10,000  00 

Emma  M.Bass 1,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 10,000  00 

Sarah  Bradford 100  00 

Helen  C.  Bradlee 140,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 6,130  07 

Sarah  Crocker  Brewster 500  00 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown 1,000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown 3,073  76 

Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2,000  00 

Katherine  E.  BuUard 2,500  00 

John  W.  Carter 500  00 

Adeline  M.  Chapin 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5,000  00 

Charles  H.  Colburn 1,000  00 

Helen  CoUamore 5,000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge 45,138  16 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis 300  00 

Sarah  Silver  Cox 5,000  00 

Susan  T.  Crosby 100  00 

James  H.  Danforth 1,000  00 

Catherine  L.  Donnison  Memorial       .        .        .  1,000  00 

George  E.  Downes 3,000  00 

Lucy  A.  Dwight 4,000  00 

Mary  B.  Emmons 1,000  00 

Mary  E.  Emerson 1.000  00 

Annie  Louisa  Fay  Memorial        ....  1,000  00 

Sarah  M.  Fay 15,000  00 

Charlotte  M.  Fiske 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  W.  Gay 7,931  00 

Ellen  M.  Gifford 5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5,000  00 

Matilda  Goddard 300  00 

Maria  L.  Gray 200  00 

Caroline  H.  Greene 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Greenleaf 5,157  75 

Josephine  S.  Hall 3,000  00 

Olive  E.  Hayden 4,622  45 

Allen  Haskell 500  00 

Jane  H.  Hodges 300  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 2,360  67 

Marion  D.  Hollingsworth 1.000  00 

Frances  H.  Hood 100  00 

Abigal  W.Howe 1,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt 10,000  00 

Ellen  M.  Jones 500  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $547.152  07      $210.694  17 

71 


Amounts  brought  forward 


$547,162  07     $210,694  17 


General  funds  —  Continued. 
Clara  B.  Kimball  . 
Moses  Eamball 
Ann  E.  Lambert    . 
Jean  Munroe  Le  Brun 
William  Litchfield 
Mary  Ann  Locke 
Robert  W.  Lord 
Elisha  T.  Loring 
Sophia  N.  Low 
Thomas  Mack 
Augustus  D.  Manson 
Calanthe  E.  Marsh 
Sarah  L.  Marsh 
Waldo  Marsh 
Annie  B.  Matthews 
Rebecca  S.  Melvin 
Georgina  Merrill    . 
Louise  Chandler  Moulton 
Maria  Murdock 
Mary  Abbie  Newell 
Margaret  S.  Otif    . 
Jeannie  Warren  Paine 
Anna  R.  Palfrey    . 
Sarah  Irene  Parker 
Helen  M.  Parsons 
Edward  D.  Peters 
Henry  M.  Peyser  , 
Mary  J.  Phipps 
Caroline  S.  Pickman 
Katherine  C.  Pierce 
Helen  A.  Porter     . 
Sarah  E.  Potter  Endowment 
Francis  L.  Pratt     . 
Mary  S.  C.  Reed  . 
Jane  Roberts 
John  M.  Rodocanachi 
Dorothy  Roffe 
Rhoda  Rogers 
Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch 
Edith  Rotch   . 
Rebecca  Salisbury 
Joseph  Scholfield    . 
Eliza  B.  Seymour  . 
Esther  W.  Smith   . 
Annie  E.  Snow 
Adelaide  Standish 
Elizabeth  G.  Stuart 
Benjamin  Sweetzer 

Amounts  carried  forward 


10,000  00 

1,000  00 

700  00 

1,000  00 

6,800  00 

5,874  00 

1,000  00 

5,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

8,134  00 

20,111  20 

1,000  00 

500  00 

15,000  00 

23.545  55 

4,773  80 

10,000  00 

1,000  00 

500  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

50  00 

699  41 

500  00 

500  00 

3,900  00 

2,000  00 

1,000  00 

5,000  00 

50  00 

425,014  44 

100  00 

5,000  00 

93,025  55 

2,250  00 

500  00 

500  00 

8,500  00 

10,000  00 

200  00 

3,000  00 

5,000  00 

5,000  00 

9,903  27 

5,000  00 

2,000  00 

2,000  00 


$1,257,783  29      $210,694  17 


72 


Amounta  brought  forward      ....        $1,257,783  29      $210,694  17 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Harriet  Taber  Fund 622  81 

Sarah  W.  Taber 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Delia  D.  Thorndike 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Betsey  B.  Tolman 500  00 

Transcript,  ten  dollar  fund          ....  5,666  95 

Mary  Willson  Tucker 465  32 

Mary  B.  Turner     .......  7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner  ....       ,       .        .■  24,082  00 

Minnie  H.  Underbill     .        .        .        .        .        .  1,000  00 

Rebecca  P.  Wain  Wright        ....        .'  1,00000 

George  W.  Wales  ,        ....        .        .  5,00000 

Maria  W.  Wales    ....        .        ,        .  20,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware 4,000  00 

Rebecca  B.  Warren 5,000  00 

Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse     ....  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson 100  00 

Ralph  Watson  Memorial 237  92 

Isabella  M.  Weld 14,795  06 

Mary  Whitehead 666  00 

Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney 150  62 

Betsy  S.  Wilder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Mary  W.  Wiley 150  00 

Mary  Williams 5,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5,532  00 


1,377,937  51 


$1,588,631  68 


DONATIONS,  KINDERGARTEN  ACCOUNT. 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K $10  00 

"Children  of  the  Kng,"  Church  of  the  Disciples, 

Boston         . 5  00 

$15  00 


73 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Stover,  Treasurer:  — 

Annual  subscriptions $1,680  50 

Donations 1,736  50 

Cambridge  Branch 140  00 

Dorchester  Branch 53  00 

Lynn  Branch 38  00 

Milton  Branch 46  00 

$3,694  00 


ANNUAL  SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE 
PERKINS  INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stovrr,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H. 
Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R.    . 
Alley,  Mrs.  George  R. 
Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W 
Amory,  Mrs.  Wm.,  2d 
Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P. 
Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B 
Baer,  Mrs.  Louis     . 
Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G.  . 
Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T. 
Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R.  . 
Barnet,  Mrs.  Solomon  J. 
Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H. 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert 
Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A. 
Beale,  Mrs.  Wilbur  F.    . 
Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G. 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M. 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S. 
Boardman,  Mrs.  W.  D. 
Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.      . 

Amount  carried  forward 


.     $1 

00 

5 

00 

.   20 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   25 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

6 

00 

5  00  1 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   20 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.  $189  00 

Amount  brought  forward  $189  00 

Bruerton,  Mr.  Coiirtney,  in 
memory  of  his  mother 
Mrs.  James  Bruerton,  for 

1921-22        .        .        .        .  10  00 

Brush,  Mrs.  C.  N.          .        .  10  00 
Burr,  Mrs.  Charles  C.    .        .10  00 

Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel          .        .  10  00 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.       .        .50  00 

Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L.      .  5  00 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W.     .  5  00 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B.          .  10  00 

Chapman,  Miss  E.  D.    .        .  1  00 

Chapman,  Miss  J.  E.  C.        .  1  00 

Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R.    .        .  1  00 

Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C.     .        .        .  2  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S.          .  10  00 

Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen     .        .  5  00 

Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F.  .        .        .  3  00 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K.          .  10  00 
Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Armory        .        .        .        .  10  00 


Amount  carried  forward        $342  00 


74 


Amount  brought  forward     .  $342  00  Amoun,t  brought  forward     .  $642  00 


Coolidge,  Mr.  J.  Randolph 
Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D. 
Cowie,  Miss  Jessie 
Cox,  Mrs.  William  E.     . 
Craig,  Mrs.  Helen  M.    . 
Craigin,  Dr.  G.  A. 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A 
Curtis,  Mr.  George  W.  . 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G. 
Curtis,  Miss  Mary  G.    . 
Cushing,  Mrs.  H.  W. 
Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Cushing,  Miss  Sarah  P. 
Cutter,  Mrs.  E.  G. 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M.   . 
Cutts,  Mrs.  H.  M, 
Dale,  Mrs.  Eben     . 
Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L. 
Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A. 
Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E.  . 
Davis,  Mrs.  Simon 
Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B. 
Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C. 
Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket 
Drost,  Mr.  C.  A.     . 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas   . 
Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant 
EUot,  Mrs.  Amory 
Elms,  Miss  Florence  G. 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d 
Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C. 
Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W. 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C.  . 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  Geo.  W. 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A.  . 
Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M. 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W.  . 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott 
Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N.    . 
Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A. 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert    . 
GiU,  Mr.  Abbott  D. 
Goldberg,  Mrs.  Simon    . 
Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer  H 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Chas.  H 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D. 
Harrington,  Mrs.  Francis  B. 

Amount  carried  forward 


$342  00 

25  00 

2  00 

1  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

6  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

1  00 

10  00 

3  00 

2  00 

35  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

25  00 

10  00 

3  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

15  00 

2  00 

3  00 

$642  00 

Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W.     . 
Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B. 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G.     . 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M. 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.      . 
Homans,  Mrs.  John 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D. 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R. 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D.  . 
Rowland,  Mrs.  M.  M.   . 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur 
Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D.  . 
In  memory  of  Mrs.   David 

P.  KimbaU  . 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcutt  H 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M.  . 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S. 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L. 
Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P. 
King,  Mrs.  S.  G.     . 
Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C. 
Klous,  Mrs.  Isaac,  in  memory 

of  Mr.  Isaac  Klous     . 
Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix 
Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T. 
Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A. 
Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A.  . 
Levi,  Mrs.  Harry    . 
Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L. 
Little,  Mrs.  D.  M. 
Locke,  Mrs.  C.  A.  . 
Lockwood,  Mrs.  T.  S.    . 
Loring,  Judge  W.  C. 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C. 
Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B. 
Lovering,  Mrs.  Charles  T 
Lowell,  Mrs.  John  . 
Macurdy,  Mr.  Wm.  F.  . 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M.   . 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P. 
Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P. 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel 
Mixter,  Miss  Mary  A.   . 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H. 


Amount  carried  forward      .  $969  50 


5  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   20  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

.   25  00 

1  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  50 

6  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

75 


Amount  brought  forward     .  $969  50 


Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A.    . 

1  00 

Morse,  Dr.  Henry  Lee  . 

5  00 

Morse,  Mrs.  Joseph 

1  00 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F. 

5  00 

Morss,  Mrs.  Everett 

5  00 

Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F. 

5  00 

Moses,  Mrs.  Louis 

1  00 

Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob 

5  00 

Nathan,  Mrs.  John 

5  00 

Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H. 

2  00 

Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M. 

1  00 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis 

5  00 

Olmsted,  Mrs.  J.  C. 

5  00 

Orcutt,  Mrs.  W.  D. 

1  00 

Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates 

2  00 

Paine,  Mrs.  W.  D. 

2  00 

Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J.    . 

10  00 

Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R. 

2  00 

Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman    . 

2  00 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L. 

25  00 

Pitman,  Mrs.  B.  F. 

10  00 

Prince,  Mrs.  Morton 

5  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J. 

10  00 

Ratchesky,  Mrs.  I.  A.    . 

5  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur 

2  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  John  H. 

2  00 

Rice,  Estate  of  Mrs.   Nan- 

nie R 

75  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L. 

2  00 

Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal      . 

10  00 

Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G.          .        . 

1  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K. 

5  00 

Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S.    . 

5  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Henry 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Miss  Loraine 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Louis 

5  00 

Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S. 

1  00 

Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M. 

in  memory  of  his  mother 

Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall 

10  00 

Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W. 

10  00 

Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E.     , 

5  00 

Scudder,     Mrs.     J.     D.,    in 

memory    of    her    mother 

Mrs.  N.  M.  Downer  . 

5  00 

Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon 

10  00 

Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M.  . 

25  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W. 

30  00 

Amount  carried  forward     $1,294  50 


Amount  brought  forward    $1,294  50 


Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H. 
Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas  . 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D.     . 
Simpldns,  Mrs.  Mary  W. 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles   . 
Sprague,  Mrs.  H.  B. 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett 
Stearns,  Mr.  W.  B. 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex. 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P. 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M. 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G. 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Wm.  O. 
Thompson,  Mrs.  A.  C 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A. 
TUeston,  Mrs,  John  B.  . 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F. 
Ward,  The  Misses  . 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A. 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee    . 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard     . 
Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge    . 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P.    . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor   . 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M. 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A.  . 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H. 
White,  Mrs.  Norman  H. 
WhitweU,  Mrs.  F.  A.      . 
Williams,  The  Misses     . 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C. 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur  . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B.  . 
Wingersky,  Mrs.  Harris 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S 
Wolcott,  Mrs.  Roger 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L, 


10  00 
3  00 
2  00 
5  00 
5  00 

20  00 
5  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 

5  00 

25  00 

25  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


1 

5 

2 

5 

5 

2 
25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

15  00 

100  00 

2  00 

2  00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 


$1,680  50 


76 


DONATIONS. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E 
Adams,  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Adams,  Mr.  George 
Alden,  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S. 
Bailey,  Mrs.  Hollis  R.    . 
Barr,  Mrs.  A.  W.    . 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W.    . 
Bateheller,  Mr.  Robert 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R.     . 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.   . 
Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W. 
Blake,  Mrs.  Francis 
Bolster,  Mrs.  F.  R. 
Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y. 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B. 
Brett,  Miss  Anna  K. 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M. 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Bullard,  Mr.  Alfred  M. 
BuUens,  Miss  Charlotte  L. 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred 

C 

Carpenter,  Mrs.  George  A. 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W.    . 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  G. 
Cary,  Miss  Georgina  S. 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley 
Codman,  Miss  Martha  C. 
Conant,  Mr.  Edward  D. 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L. 
Coolidge,  Miss  Penelope  F. 
Cotting,  Mrs.  Charles  E. 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A. 
Crocker,  Mrs.  George  G. 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A 
Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F. 
Daland,  Mrs.  Tucker     . 
Edgar,  Mrs.  Charles  L. 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  Arthur  F. 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H. 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower 
F 


$1  00 
5  00 
2  00 
5  00 
5  00 

25  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 

10  00 
5  00 

2  00 

3  00 
5  00 

20  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


1 
5 
5 
5 
1 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

2  00 

1  00 
10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

100  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

3  00 

2  00 
5  00 

200  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 
10  00 
10  00 
25  00 

5  00 
25  00 

1  00 

5  00 
25  00 


Amount  brought  forward     .  $636  00 


Amount  carried  forward      .  $636  00 


Ferrin,  Mrs.  F.  M. 
Fitch,  Miss  Carrie  T.     . 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Louis  A 
Frothingham,      Mrs.     Ran 

dolph    . 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G. 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K 
Hooper,  Miss  Gertrude 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 
Houston,  Mr.  James  A 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C.    . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F. 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar  . 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 

L.  Thayer,  through  Mrs 

Hannah  T.  Brown 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S. 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S. 
JolUfTe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H. 
Kimball,  The  Misses 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M. 
Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  John     . 
Linder,     Mrs.     George,     ii 

memory  of  Miss  Jennie  M 

Colby    .... 
Loring,  Mrs.  Augustus  P. 
Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S.    . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy 
Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Manning,  Miss  Abbie  F. 
Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill  . 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E. 
McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L.    . 
Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank    . 
MHls,  Mrs.  D.  T.    . 
Morrison,  Miss  Jean  E. 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F. 
Nichols,  Mr.  Seth  . 


10  00 
10  00 
25  00 

2  00 
50  00 

5  00 
10  00 

5  00 

2  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 

2  00 
10  00 


5  00 
10  00 
25  00 
10  00 

5  00 
25  00 
50  00 
10  00 
10  00 


50  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 

10  00 

50  00 
7  50 

10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

100  00 

10  00 
5  00 


Amount  carried  forward     $1,246  50 


77 


Amount  brought  forward     $1,246  50 


Peabody,  Mr.  Harold 

5  00 

Peirce,  Mrs.  Silas    . 

2  00 

Perry,  Mrs.  C.  F.    . 

3  00 

Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T. 

.       10  00 

Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S. 

3  00 

Powell,  Mrs.  Wm.  B. 

5  00 

Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W. 

.       10  00 

Punchard,  Miss  A.  L. 

5  00 

Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H. 

.       10  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W.    . 

.       25  00 

Richards,  Miss  Alice  A. 

.       10  00 

Richardson,  The  Mjsse 

s,  in 

memory  of  M.  A.  E. 

and 

C.  P.  P. 

2  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Fredei 

■ick  .         5  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John 

3  00 

Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E. 

.       25  00 

Ripley,  Mr.  Frederick  E 

[.      .         2  00 

Rodman,  Miss  Emma 

5  00 

Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  0. 

5  00 

Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A. 

5  00 

Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P, 

.       10  00 

Sargent,  Mrs.  L.  M. 

.       25  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D. 

.       20  00 

Sever,  Miss  Emily 

5  00 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howlanc 

.       15  00 

Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H. 

5  00 

Sias,  Miss  Martha  G. 

5  00 

Slattery,  Mrs.  Wm. 

2  00 

Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N. 

.       10  00 

Amount  carried  forward     $1,483  50 


Amount  brought  forward    $1,483  50 


Spring,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Romney        3  00 

St.  John,  Mrs.  C.  Henry,  in 

memory    of    her    mother 

Mrs.  Isaac  H.  Russell 

5  00 

Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.      . 

2  00 

Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis 

2  00 

Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmei 

1  00 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley 

10  00 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.    . 

10  00 

Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  B.     . 

10  00 

Traiser,  Mrs.  R.  E. 

5  00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred  . 

1  00 

Tudor,  Mrs.  Henry  D.  . 

5  00 

Vaille,  Mr.  Charles  A.    . 

10  00 

Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F. 

50  00 

Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S. 

2  00 

Vose,  Mrs.  Charles 

2  00 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  W.  Austin 

20  00 

Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H. 

10  00 

Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H. 

10  00 

Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A. 

10  00 

Wheeler,  Mrs.  A.  S. 

5  00 

Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary 

5  00 

Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F. 

10  00 

Willcomb,  Mrs.  George 

10  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  C.  A. 

5  00 

Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B. 

25  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.      . 

5  00 

Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B.   . 

5  00 

Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E. 

15  00 

< 

51,736  50 

78 


CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.     . 
Bogg,  Mrs.  Edwin  P. 
Chandler,     Mrs.     Seth     C 

(donation)     . 
Emery,     Miss     Octavia     B 

(donation)     . 
Farlow,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.  (dona' 

tion)      .... 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L. 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B.   . 
Hayward,  Mrs.  James  W. 
Hedge,    Miss    Charlotte    A 

(donation)    . 
Horsford,  Miss  Katharine  M 

(donation)    . 
Houghton,  Miss  Albert  M. 

Amount  carried  forward 


$10 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

$65  00   1 

Amount  brought  forward 

Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A. 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L. 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Longfellow,    Miss   Alice    M 

(donation)    . 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H.    . 
Richards,  Miss  L.  B. 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G.  . 
Toppan,    Mrs.     Robert    N 

(donation)    . 
Wesselhoeft,  Mrs.  Walter 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W. 
Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W. 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary   (do 

nation) 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter 


$65  00 


5 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

.       10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.       20 

00 

2 

00 

$140  00 


DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  Susan  E. 

$1  00 

Bennett,  Miss  M.  M.     . 

1  00 

Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S. 

2  00 

Churchill,  Judge  J.  R.    . 

1  00 

Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.      . 

1  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Susan  T. 

2  00 

Donation 

1  00 

Eliot,  Mrs.  C.  R.    . 

2  00 

Faunce,    Miss   Eliza   H.,   in 

memory    of    her    mother 

Mrs.  Sewall  A.  Faunce 

2  00 

Hall,  Mrs.  Henry    . 

1  00 

Haven,       Mrs.       Katharine 

Stearns 

1  00 

Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L. 

2  00 

Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C 

2  00 

Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A.    . 

2  00 

Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W. 

1  00 

Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K.     . 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward 


$27  00 


Amount  brought  forward 

Preston,  Miss  Myra  C. 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M.  . 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H.     . 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H. 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d   . 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem 

ory  of   . 
Whitcher,    Mr.    Frank    W 

(donation)    . 
Whiton,  Mrs.  Royal 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S.    . 
WiUard,  Mrs.  L.  P. 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary  (do 

nation) 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P.  . 


$27  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


1  00 


5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

$53  00 


79 


LYNN   BRANCH. 


Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F. 

Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A.  (dona- 
tion)     .... 

Earp,  Miss  Emily  A. 

Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J. 

Sheldon,  Mrs.  Chauncey  C 

Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N 
(donation)    . 

Amount  carried  forward 


$1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

$28  00   1 

Amount  brought  forward 


$28  00 


Sprague,     Mr.     Henry     B. 

(donation)    .... 

5  00 

Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.  (do- 

nation) 

5  00 

$38  00 


MILTON   BRANCH. 


Brewer,    Miss   Eliza    (dona^ 

tion)  .... 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray 
Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L.  . 
Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D.  . 
Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar 

Amount  carried  forward 


$5  00 
10  00 
10  00 
1  00 
10  00 

$36  00 


Amount  brought  forward     . 

Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R.    . 
Ware,  Mrs.  Arthiir  L.  (dona- 
tion)       


$36  00 
5  00 
5  00 

$46  00 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruke  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  No. 
19  Congress  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen,  Water- 
town,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Treasurer, 

No.  19  CoNGBESs  Street,  Boston. 


80 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FOBM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows:  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 

follows: 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

No.  19  Congress  Street, 

Boston. 


81 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  vSchool 
For  the  Blind 


NINETY-SECOND   ANNUAL    REPORT 
OF  THE  TRUSTEES 


1923 


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WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO 


C^e  Commontoealti)  of  ^m^att^mtm 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  fob  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  November  12,  1923. 

To  the  Hon.  Frederic  W.  Cook,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the  use  of  the  Legislature, 
a  copy  of  the  ninety-second  annual  report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the 
corporation  thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual  accompany- 
ing documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD   E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


1923-1924. 


FRANCIS   HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
WILLIAM    L.   RICHARDSON,  Vice-President. 
ALBERT   THORNDIKE.  Treasurer, 
EDWARD   E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOARD   OF   TRUSTEES. 


FRANCIS   HENRY  APPLETON. 

WILLIAM    ENDICOTT. 

PAUL   E.  FITZPATRICK. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 

G.  PEABODY   GARDNER,  Jr. 

ROBERT   H.  HALLOWELL. 


JAMES   ARNOLD  LOWELL. 
CHARLES   E.  OSGOOD. 
Miss  MARIA  PURDON. 
Mrs.  GEORGE   T.  PUTNAM. 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
LEVERETT   SALTONSTALL. 


STANDING    COMMITTEES. 

Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


January 
February 
March 
April 
May  . 
June  . 


1924. 

Francis  Henry  Appleton. 
Miss  Maria  Purdon. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
Paul  R.  Frothingham. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Charles  E.  Osgood. 


July  . 

August 

September 

October     . 

November 

December 


1924. 

Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick. 
Mrs.  George  T.  Putnam. 
G.  Peabody  Gardner,  Jr. 
William  L.  Richardson. 
Leverett  Saltonstall. 
William  Endicott. 


Executive  Committee. 
Francis    Henry    Appleton,    President,    ex 

officio. 
Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  ex  officio. 
Edward  E.  Allen,  Secretary,  ex  officio. 
P.*.UL  E.  Fitzpatrick. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Miss  Maria  Purdon. 


Finance  Committee. 

Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  ex  officio. 
William  Endicott. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell, 
G.  Peabody  Gardner,  Jr. 


Auditors  of  Expenses. 

G.  Peabody  Gardner,  Jr. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
John  Montgomery,  Certified  Public  Accountant. 


OFFICERS  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND  TEACHERS. 


EDWARD   E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS   AND   OFFICERS   OF   THE   UPPER   SCHOOL. 
LITERARY  DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  JESSICA  L.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  CAROLINE   E.  McMASTER. 
CHESTER  A.  GIBSON. 
FRANCIS   W.  DANA. 
Miss  LIZZIE   R.  KINSMAN. 
Miss  CLARA  L.  PRATT. 
Miss  FLEDA   CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  CLAUDIA  POTTER. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  ELSIE  H.  SIMONDS. 
Miss  ANNIE   L.  BRADFORD. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  MARY   H.  FERGUSON. 
Miss  MARION   A.  WOODWORTH. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  GERTRUDE   S.  HARLOW. 
Miss  GRACE   M.  HILL. 


Teacher  of  Home  Economics. 

Miss  MARY   C.  MELDRUM. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   PHYSICAL   TRAINING. 


C.  BENJAMIN   MINNER. 


Miss  MARY   H.  FERGUSON. 


Miss  LENNA   D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  MUSIC. 
EDWIN   L.   GARDINER. 


Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 
Miss  GRACE  E.  EVANS. 


Miss  BLANCHE   A.  fBARDIN. 

Miss  SHIRLEY  W.  KEENE. 

Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   MANUAL   TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN  H.  MABEY. 
HAROLD  W.  STANTON. 
Miss  MARY  B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES'  M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   BOBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN  E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ALTA   M.  LUX. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   TUNING   PIANOFORTES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,    CLERKS   AND    BOOKKEEPERS. 

Miss  LAURA   M.  SAWYER,  Librarian.         I     Mias  MAI   L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  FLORENCE    J.    WORTH,  Assistant.         Miss  WINIFRED   F.   LELAND,  Assistant. 
Miss  ANNA  GARDNER   FISH,  Cl^k.         '    Miss  LUCY  E.  YEGANIAN,  Assistant. 

Mbs.  SARAH   A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   BUILDINGS. 

FREDERICK  A.  FLANDERS,  Superintendent. 


DEPARTMENT   OF   HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD   B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR   WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

Dr.  FRANK   R.  OBER,  Orthopedic  Surgeon. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE,   DM.!).,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD    RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 

Miss  ELLA   L.  LOOMER,  R.N.,  Attending  Nurse. 


DOMESTIC   DEPARTMENT. 

WALTER   S.  GOSS,  Steward. 


Matrons  in  the  Cottagres. 


Boys'  Section. 
Mrs.  LOUISE  M.  SAURMAN. 
Mrs.  CHESTER  A.  GIBSON. 
Mrs.  AGNES   C.  LUMMUS. 
Mrs.  FLORENCE  T.  MINNER. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  JENNIE   L.  KINSMAN. 
Miss  KATHERINE   M.  LOWE. 
Miss  VINA   C.  BADGER. 
Mrs.  HATTIE   S.  ADAMS. 


PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 
FRANK   C.   BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS,  Printer.  |   Miss  MARY  L.  TULLY,  Printer. 


WORKSHOP   FOR  ADULTS. 

FRANK    C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Miss  EVA   C.  ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS   AND   OFFICERS   OF   THE   LOWER   SCHOOL. 
KINDERGARTEN. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  Cornelia  M.  Loring,  Matron. 
Miss  Ethel  M.  Goodwin,  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kinder  gar  tner. 
Miss  Alicb  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Mrs.  Emma  H.  McCraith,  Assistant. 
Miss  Carolyn  M.  Burrell,  Kindergartner 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Sadie  Turner,  Teacher. 

Miss  Shirley  W.  Keene,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Margaret  McKenzie,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 

Samuel  P.  Hayes,  Ph.D.,  Psychologist. 

Miss  Kathryn  E.  Maxfield,  Assistant  in  Psychology  and  Personnel, 

Miss  Ruth  E.  Wilcox,  Assistant  Psychologist. 


PRIMARY   DEPARTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Clossie  E.  Clark,  Matron. 
Miss  Flora  C.  Fountain,  Assistant. 
Miss  Ethel  D.  Evans,  Teacher. 


Miss  Beth  A.  Easter,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Mies  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  Eleanor  Foster,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  Miller,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Gring,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Sharlie  M.  Chandler,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'   VISITING   COMMITTEE   TO   THE   KINDERGARTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker,  Secretary. 


Mrs.  Algernon  Coolidge 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge 
Miss  Maria  Purdon 
Mrs.  Ronald  T.  Lyman  . 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren  . 
Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman 


>  January. 

February. 

March. 

April. 

}  May. 


Miss  Alice  Sargent 
Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray 
Mrs.  George  T.  Putnam 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley 


June. 

September. 

October. 

November. 

December. 


General  Visitor. 

MisB  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 


Honorary  Members. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 
Mrs.  Kingsmill  Marks. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  Edwin  H.,  Cambridge. 
Adams,  Karl,  Boston. 
Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Amory,  Robert,  Boston. 
Amory,  Roger,  Boston. 
Anderson,  Mrs.  Larz,  Brookline. 
Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 
Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henry,  Peabody. 
Appleton,  Francis  Henry,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Mrs.  Francis  Henry,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 
Atherton,  Mrs.  Caroline  S.,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Bacon,  Caspar  C,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Baldwin,  S.  E.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 
Bancroft,  Miss  Eleanor  C,  Beverly. 
Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Beach,  Rev.  David  N.,  Guilford,  Conn. 
Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 
Benedict,  Wm.  Leonard,  New  York. 
Bennett,  Miss  Gazella,  Worcester. 
Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 
Blake,  George  F.,  Worcester. 
Blunt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 
Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 
Bourn,  Hon.  A.  O.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Bowditch,  IngersoU,  Boston. 
Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 
Brigham,  Charles,  Watertown. 
Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 
Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 
Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 
Bullard,  Miss  Ellen,  Boston. 
Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 
Burditt,  Miss  Alice  A.,  Boston. 
Bumham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 
Burr,  L  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Thomas  H.,  Boston. 
Callender,  Walter,  P*rovidence,  R.  I. 
Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Watertown. 
Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 
Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 
Choate,  Charles  F.,  Jr.,  Southborough. 
Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Algernon,  Boston. 
Coohdge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 
Coohdge,  Mrs.  Harold  J.,  Boston. 
CooUdge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 
Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Crane,  Zenas  M.,  Pittsfield. 
Crosby,  Sumner,  Cambridge. 
Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Boston. 
Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V.,  Boston. 
Curtis,  Charles  P.,  Jr.,  Boston. 


Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Damon,  Willard  A.,  Springfield. 

Davies,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F.,  Springfield. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Harriett,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dolan,  WiUiam  G.,  Boston. 

Draper,  Eben  S.,  Hopedale. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elhott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

EUis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Everett,  Dr.  Oliver  H.,  Worcester. 

Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Thomas  J.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover,  Mass. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Paul  Edward,  Brookline. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  George  F.,  Worcester. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gage,  Mrs.  Homer,  Shrewsbury. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Needham. 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  G.  Peabody,  Jr.,  Brookline. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskill,  George  A.,  Worcester. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

Gaylord,  Emerson  G.,  Chicopee. 

Geer,  Mrs.  Danforth,  Jr.,  Shorthills,  N.  J. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence,  R.  L 

GUbert,  Wm.  E.,  Springfield. 

Gleason,  Mrs.  Cora  L.,  Boston. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

GUdden,  W.  T.,  Brookhne. 

Goddard,  Harry  W.,  Worcester. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 


Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 
Goldthwaite,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 
Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 
Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Boston. 
Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman,  Boston. 
Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 
Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 
Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 
Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 
Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 
Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 
Hallowell,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 
Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 
Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 
Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Boston. 
Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Boston. 
Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 
HiU,  Dr.  A.  S.,  SomerviUe. 
Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Toronto,  Ont. 
Homans,  Robert,  Boston. 
Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 
Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 
Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 
Howland,  Mrs.  O.  O.,  Boston. 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 
Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston, 
lasigi,  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 
Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 
Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 
Jackson,  Charles  C.,  Boston. 
Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 
Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 
Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 
Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 
Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 
Kidder,  Mrs.  Heniy  P.,  Boston. 
Kilham,  Miss  Annie  M.,  Beverly. 
Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Watertown. 
Kimball,  Edward  P.,  North  Andover. 
King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Milton. 
Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 
Kramer,  Henry  C.,  Boston. 
Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 
Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 
Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 
Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 
Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 
Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 
Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 
Lincoln,  Waldo,  Worcester. 
Livermore,  Mrs.  Wm.  R.,  New  York. 
Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Nahant. 
Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cambridge. 
Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Loring,  Mis»  Katharine  P.,  Prides  Cross- 
ing. 
Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P.,  Prides  Crossing. 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 
Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 
Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 
Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Cambridge. 


Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 
Lowell,  James  Arnold,  Boston. 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 
Luce,  Hon.  Robert,  Waltham. 
Lyman,  Mrs.  Ronald  T.,  Boston. 
Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish,  Me. 
Marrs,  Mrs.  KingsmUl,  Boston. 
Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 
Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston. 
Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 
McElwain,  R.  Franklin,  Holyoke. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Roger  B.,  Cambridge. 
Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 
Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 
Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 
Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 
Minot,  James  J.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Minot,  WiUiam,  Boston. 
Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 
Montagu,  Mrs.  H.  B.,  Kelton,  England. 
Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 
Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 
Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 
Norton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G.,  Boston. 
Osgood,  Charles  E.,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 
Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hopedale. 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S.,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 
Partridge,  Fred  F.,  Holyoke. 
Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 
Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Phihp  G.,  Boston. 
Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 
Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 
Pickering,  Henry  G.,  Boston. 
Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 
Plunkett,  W.  P.,  Adams. 
Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 
Poulsson,  Miss  Emilie,  Boston. 
Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H.,  Newton. 
Pratt,  George  Dwight,  Springfield. 
Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 
Pm-don,  Miss  Maria,  Boston. 
Putnam,  F.  Delano,  Boston. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George  T.,  Dedham. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 
Read,  Mrs.  Robert  M.,  Medford. 
Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 
Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 
Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 
Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 
Richards,  Henry  H.,  Groton. 


Richardson,  John,  Jr.,  Readville. 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Johii,  Jr.,  Readville. 
Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  G.,  New  York. 
Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 
Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Allston. 
Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 
Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 
Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 
SaltonstaU,  Leverett,  Chestnut  Hill. 
SaltonstaU,  Mrs.  Leverett,  Chestnut  Hill. 
Sargent,  Miss  Alice,  Brookline. 
Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 
Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 
Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 
Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 
Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 
Smith,  Joel  West,  East  Hampton,  Conn. 
Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 
Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 
Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 
Steams,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 
Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 
Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 
Thayer,  Charles  M.,  Worcester. 
Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Thayer,  John  E.,  South  Lancaster. 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 
Thomas,  Mrs.  John  B.,  Boston. 


Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 
Thorndike,  Miss  Rosanna  D.,  Boston. 
Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 
Tilden,  Miss  Ahce  Foster,  Milton. 
Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 
Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 
Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 
Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Belmont. 
Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 
Wallace,  Andrew  B.,  Springfield. 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 
Warren,  Miss  Annie  C,  Boston. 
Warren,  Bayard,  Boston. 
Washburn,  Hon.  Charles  G.,  Worcester. 
Washburn,  Mrs.  Frederick  A.,  Boston. 
Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 
Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 
Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 
WendeU,  William  G.,  Boston. 
Wesson,  James  L.,  Boston. 
West,  George  S.,  Boston. 
Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 
White,  George  A.,  Boston. 
Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Boston. 
Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 
Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Boston. 
Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 
Wright,  Burton  H.,  Worcester. 
Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Boston. 
Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  ANNUAL 
MEETING  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Watertown,  November  7,  1923. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned,  was  held  to-day  at  the 
institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by  the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton,  at  3  P.M. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  ordered  to  be  printed,  to- 
gether with  the  usual  accompanying  documents. 

The  report  of  the  treasurer  was  accepted  and  ordered  on  file. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board  of  Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year 
closed  this  day,  be  and  are  hereby  ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for  the  ensuing  year,  and 
the  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  William  L.  Richardson. 

Treasurer.  —  Albert  Thorndike. 

Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  William  Endicott,  Paul  E.  Fitzpatrick,  G. 
Peabody  Gardner,  Jr.,  Robert  H.  Hallowell,  James  A.  Lowell,  Mrs.  George  T. 
Putnam,  and  Leverett  Saltonstall. 

The  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected  members  of  the  corporation :  — 
Roger  Amory,  Charles  F.  Choate,  Jr.,  Charles  P.  Curtis,  Jr.,  Eben  S.  Draper,  John 
E.  Thayer,  Jr.,  and  Bayard  Warren. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  November  7,  1923. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  The  Perkins  Institution  is 
sometimes  called  an  instrumentality  for  the  sociaUzation  of 
its  pupils.  It  has  other  duties  and  problems,  but  perhaps 
this  one  best  describes  its  basic  purpose;  and  in  the  present 
report  we  shall  dwell  especially  upon  it. 

A  bhnd  child  kept  at  home  is  so  sure  to  be  different  and 
to  remain  different  from  the  rest  of  the  family  that  some 
observers  would  have  him  removed  and  placed  out  together 
with  a  few  others  like  himself  where  he  would  suffer  neither 
coddHng  nor  neglect.  Others,  feeUng  that  such  a  child  who 
is  bound  by  his  bUndness  to  miss  a  multitude  of  life's  pleas- 
ures and  can  ill  afford  to  be  deprived  of  the  mothering  that 
most  of  us  recall  together  with  all  that  home  ties  mean,  would 
much  rather  see  him  kept  at  home,  if  he  has  one.  But,  since 
they  reahze  the  responsibihty  of  so  doing,  they  would  put 
this  home  in  the  care  of  a  trained  visitor,  —  some  tactful, 
sympathetic  woman  who  knows  how  to  bring  to  bear  upon 
famihes  the  influences  which  we  read  about  in  books  on  the 
Pre-School  Child.  We  once  sent  such  a  one  about  with  great 
satisfaction  but,  having  lost  her,  have  only  been  waiting  to 
discover  in  behalf  of  our  kindergarten  just  such  another. 

We  have  long  been  maiUng  printed  Suggestions  to  the 
Parents  of  BUnd  Children,  and  the  Massachusetts  Division 
of  the  Bhnd  has  been  sending  an  agent  into  such  homes. 
Even  so,  when  the  bhnd  child  of  six  first  enters  our  kinder- 
garten we  find  him  by  measured  test  from  nine  to  eighteen 
months  mentally  retarded.     Since  the  mind  is  approached 

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and  informed  through  the  senses  and  since  in  his  case  the 
main  gateway  has  been  closed,  the  wonder  is  that  he  is  not 
still  more  retarded.  And  he  would  be,  were  it  not  that  he 
usually  has  brothers  and  sisters  who  have  had  to  "tend" 
him  and  so  have  spurred  him  on  through  play.  There  once 
came  to  our  kindergarten  an  orphan  girl  of  eight,  the  "only 
child"  of  her  grandparents  who  had  brought  her  up.  When 
asked  what  she  played  with  at  home  she  repUed:  "I  can't 
play;    I'm  blind." 

While  the  normal  kindergarten  age  should  be  under  six, 
with  us  it  is  generally  over  six,  and  promotion  to  reading  and 
writing  may  not  follow  until  the  child  is  eight.  Undeveloped 
and  untrained  as  the  entering  child  is,  then,  his  inabihty  to 
fit  at  once  into  family  hfe  which  is  carefully  ordered  is  pro- 
nounced. Why  should  he  not  be  self-centered,  selfish  and 
uncontrolled?  But  even  though  he  speaks  Httle  or  no  Eng- 
Hsh,  as  occasionally  happens,  he  cannot  remain  anti-social  or 
unsocial  or  clannish  in  such  a  community.  Undemocratic 
ways  soon  yield  to  guidance  and  camaraderie  where  the 
whole  child  is  put  to  school.  A  kindergarten  has  been  de- 
fined as  a  group  of  Httle  children  brought  together  for  the 
purpose  of  happy  mutual  adjustment.  Such  adjustment  is 
exactly  what  we  strive  for  in  all  kindergartens  for  the  bhnd: 
and  this  purposive  education  is  the  real  beginning  of  social- 
ization. 

While  much  of  this  follows  along  with  the  hygienic  regimen 
of  the  household,  most  of  it  probably  comes  from  the  new 
and  natural  association  of  children  of  nearly  equal  handi- 
cap;—  directive  association  in  the  gathering  room  and  free 
association  on  the  playground.  Visitors  are  often  held  by  the 
charm  of  it  all  and  are  reluctant  to  move  on. 

Only  a  few  —  at  most  ten  —  new  children  ever  enter  one 
of  our  two  kindergarten  families  together;  the  rest,  who 
have  been  there  a  year  or  more,  have  been  advanced  perhaps 

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to  first  or  second  or  third  primary  grades.  These  older  ones 
of  the  same  household  help  wonderfully  in  the  living  adjust- 
ment. They  vie  with  one  another  in  being  chosen  to  show 
the  entering  child  about  and  get  his  bearings.  Occasionally 
the  little  mentor  overdoes  things,  in  which  case  the  new 
child  objects;  but  as  a  rule  the  big  brother  and  big  sister 
attitude  is  appreciated,  and  this  always  makes  for  mutual 
benefit.  In  the  house  the  newcomers  are  taught  self-care  in 
all  ways  by  house-mothers  who  have  been  with  us  many 
years,  also  helpfulness  in  bedroom,  dining-room  and  pantry, 
and  the  children  respond  because  they  love  to  be  useful  and 
active;  they  certainly  save  many  steps  for  others.  Their 
hitherto  shut-in  lives  have  begun  to  grow  through  manifold 
expression  —  through  doing  rather  than  receiving.  In  the 
kindergarten  room  they  learn  togetherness  and  many  de- 
lightful songs,  games  and  occupations,  of  which  last  the  kinder- 
gartners  have  gradually  gathered  a  vast  assortment.  On 
the  playground  —  and  there  are  both  covered  and  open  play- 
grounds —  the  girls  play  ring-around  games,  skip  rope  or 
swing  or  romp  or  slide,  or  roll  old  automobile  tires  about, 
while  the  boys  climb  and  swing,  play  horse  and  tumble  about 
on  the  grass  or  snow  or  two  or  three  together  roll  a  huge  log 
to  a  new  position;  but  above  aU  they  play  with  light  logs  or 
fence  posts  with  which  they  build  huts  and  cabins,  and  some- 
times a  ship  to  sail  away  to  distant  cities  in;  sometimes  a 
pen  or  stall,  containing  leaves  or  hay  and  having  a  few  of 
their  number  inside  as  squeahng  pigs  or  mooing  cows. 

Besides  having  conducted  walks  for  nature  study,  we  ar- 
range to  have  groups  of  these  young  people  out  of  doors 
together  a  great  deal  —  even  a  part  of  every  school  hour, 
alternating  as  we  do  the  free  abandon  of  the  playground 
with  almost  every  indoor  class  exercise;  it  matters  not  how 
often  the  children  have  to  change  wraps  and  rubbers.  For 
like  all  children  they  come  to  love  the  playground  because, 

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as  each  family  has  its  own  lot  and  play  cloister,  it  never 
ceases  to  offer  some  inviting  pastime  which  for  the  moment 
is  the  one  thing  in  all  the  world  they  want  to  do;  and  they 
go  do  it  without  let  or  interference  from  the  presence  of 
older  children  or  of  rougher  and  faster  children  with  full 
sight  who,  if  there,  would  naturally  and  thoughtlessly  monop- 
olize the  place  and  force  the  bUnd  children  to  the  wall.  When 
the  town  boys  have  come  to  skate  on  the  institution  pond 
they  have  brought  hockey  sticks  and  unless  restrained  have 
rendered  skating  simply  impossible  for  bUnd  boys  of  any 
age. 

The  teachers  have  made  to  the  Director  written  reports 
of  these  diversified  activities  and  of  the  abiding  lessons  they 
impart,  which  form  interesting  reading.^  They  tell  not  only 
of  the  school  work,  the  way  the  children  progress  through 
this  or  that  new  method  of  teaching  reading,  for  example, 
or  respond  to  the  project  instruction  begun  in  class  and  con- 
tinued on  the  grounds,  and  of  all  the  many  useful  presents 
they  make  in  their  sloyd  rooms;  but  also  of  the  influence  of 
keeping  pets,  which  practice  we  began  in  the  boys'  primary 
two  years  ago,  —  the  raising  of  a  dog  from  puppyhood,  of 
families  of  rabbits,  and  of  the  failure  to  raise  and  retain  a 
couple  of  squirrels;  how  the  boy  who  became  "head  animal 
keeper"  grew  alike  in  responsibihty  and  character;  how  the 
boys  buried  the  pets  that  died,  conducted  their  Uttle  funerals 
and  on  Memorial  Day  decorated  the  graves.  The  reports 
tell  too  of  the  almost  continuous  building  and  rebuilding  of 
log  cabins  by  these  primary  boys,  one  saying,  for  example: 
''It  is  exceedingly  necessary  that  the  huts  be  taken  down  and 
rebuilt  in  a  different  location  several  times  a  week.  They 
work  at  them  as  instinctively  as  beavers."  Undoubtedly 
this  particular  activity  tends  to  satisfy  a  boy's  destructive 
instincts  as  well  as  his  constructive  ones.     Anyway  these 

I  See  pages  29-40. 

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teachers  have  acquired  a  respect  for  a  pile  of  old  fence  posts 
which  they  do  not  give  to  fixed  play  apparatus. 

There  may  be  too  much  play  apparatus  —  one  each  of  two 
kinds  of  swing,  especially  a  fenced-in  plank  swing,  one  incUned 
gangway  plane  for  sliding  summer  and  winter,  one  ''trolley 
coaster,"  a  homemade  seesaw,  a  bar  to  perform  on  and  some- 
thing like  the  Junglegym  to  climb,  is  ample  for  one  group  of 
thirty  boys.  When  they  had  more  pieces  of  the  same  thing 
they  not  only  tired  of  them  but  abused  and  broke  them. 
Now  that  they  cannot  always  play  with  them  whenever 
they  Uke  but  must  often  await  their  turn,  the  institution 
carpenter  is  no  longer  in  demand.  They  are  acquiring  re- 
sourcefulness with  a  few  things  and  learning  some  lessons  in 
the  care  of  property.  However,  as  boy  nature  seems  to  crave 
change  and  variety  to  work  off  exuberance  of  spirit  and 
vitality,  the  proper  playground  for  so  large  a  group  as  thirty 
pre-adolescent  blind  and  partly  blind  boys  must  be  spacious 
and  can  contain  to  advantage  also  running  track,  skating 
rink  and  sundry  other  attractions;  but  above  all  the  fence 
rails  a-plenty,  to  which  may  be  added  a  few  but  not  too 
many  old  automobile  tires. 

Young  girls  do  not  seem  to  need  so  much  play  paraphernaUa 
as  this ;  dolls  and  the  care  of  dolls'  wardrobes,  seesaws,  swings, 
jumping  ropes,  stilts  and  pogo  sticks  and  a  rocking  boat 
answer  for  much  of  the  time,  as  do  snow  shovelUng  and  coast- 
ing in  winter.  Nevertheless,  without  constant  leadership  in 
play  the  adolescent  girls  tend  more  and  more  to  walk  up  and 
down  by  twos  and  threes,  chatting  unceasingly.  Especially 
true  is  this  of  the  totally  bUnd.  And  since  the  habit  —  and 
the  boys  get  it  too,  though  later  —  is  cUquish  and  unsocial  in 
the  broadest  sense  their  teachers  must  either  provide  new  and 
attractive  diversions  or  more  leadership;  and  too  much  leader- 
ship marches  with  dependence.  Therefore,  when  last  term  a 
primary  teacher  discovered  at  a  school  supply  store  great 

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boxes  of  sizable  wooden  building  materials,  one  was  straight- 
way bought,  though  it  cost  $80;  for  we  reaUzed  that  its  didactic 
influence  year  after  year  promised  to  be  greater  than  that  of 
an  additional  teacher  whose  salary  might  be  as  much  as  $80 
for  a  single  month.  With  these  blocks  the  Uttle  girls  have 
built  a  cabin  big  enough  for  a  whole  class  of  nine  of  them  to 
get  into  at  once;  and  since  they  may  do  this  inside  their 
playroom  they  have  a  new  acquisition  indeed,  one  which  ought 
to  fill  a  void  their  caretakers  have  been  unable  quite  to  fill 
before.  And  so,  what  with  playing  school,  playing  with  their 
dishes  and  all  that  goes  with  dolls  and  fancy  work,  it  is  far 
easier  to  provide  on  a  rainy  day  for  girls  than  it  is  for  boys. 

With  all  this  provision  for  spontaneous  play,  with  their  in- 
dividual toys  and  possessions,  their  conducted  games  of  com- 
petition, their  dressing  up  and  rehearsing  for  special  occa- 
sions, their  entertaining  company,  their  gymnasium  work 
which  they  like  and  their  dancing  steps  which  they  tolerate; 
the  freedom  of  the  playground,  the  constraint  and  propriety 
of  house  action  and  table  manners,  the  heeding  of  the  program 
bells,  the  respect  and  obedience  paid  to  their  elders,  —  in  a 
word,  the  whole  regimen  of  a  well-conducted  boarding-school 
life  with  which  our  sympathetic  and  understanding  women 
surround  the  youngsters,  are  we  not  justified  in  claiming  that 
the  term  socialization,  or  preparation  for  Uving  among  others 
in  social  competence,  describes  the  real  end  and  purpose  of 
the  Perkins  Institution?  The  formal  education  of  the  blind 
is  also  an  end  and  a  tremendous  one,  but  it  would  be  more  or 
less  useless  without  the  knowledge  and  abiUty  to  apply  it  in 
the  world  at  large. 

Doubtless  all  boys  and  girls  would  benefit  from  a  few  years 
under  the  regimen  and  fife  of  a  boarding  school,  just  as  they 
would  also  benefit  from  attendance  at  pubhc  school.  English 
people  who  can  do  so  usually  send  their  sons  ofif  to  boarding 
school  at  the  age  of  eight;   and  they  do  this  to  make  them 

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Children  Building  an  Indoor  Playhouse  big  enough  to  get  into.    1923. 


manly  and  self-reliant;    in   other  words,  to  socialize  them 
early. 

From  observation  and  from  a  definite  study  made  at  a 
sister  schooP  Mr.  Allen  beUeves  that  most  bUnd  children  of 
school  age  are  better  off  for  the  most  part  away  from  home. 
He  would  have  them  taught  in  and  adjusted  early  to  a  diver- 
sified environment  where  they  perceive  themselves  to  be  not 
the  exception  but  the  rule,  and  so  acquire  no  early  class  con- 
sciousness. This  is  what  he  understands  by  affording  them 
equality  of  opportunity.  He  would  also  give  every  capable 
one  of  them  experience  in  the  pubhc  school,  there  to  measure 
himself  with  his  unhandicapped  fellow  and  estimate  his  own 
powers  and  condition;  but  he  would  prefer  to  provide  this 
fiercer  competition  when  the  student  has  grown  strong  enough 
to  meet  it.  And  so  he  sends  to  the  local  high  school  every 
year  such  of  the  abler  ones  as  want  to  try  it;  and  these  few 
invariably  find  it  a  first-class  bridge  over  into  the  competi- 
tion of  the  outside  world. 

So  much  for  sociaUzation  in  the  lower  school.  In  the  upper 
school  much  the  same  process  continues  though  in  ways  more 
adapted  to  boys  and  girls  between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and 
twenty.  The  just  promoted  ones,  who  in  the  primary  school 
were  leaders,  because  Uke  the  lion  in  the  fable  they  were 
strongest,  find  themselves  no  longer  such  but  subdued  fol- 
lowers in  a  freer,  less  considerate,  if  not  rougher,  community 
of  the  grammar  and  high  schools;  and  they  are  jostled  into 
conformity  with  much  promptitude.  Real  hfe  seems  to  have 
begun  for  them.  The  routine  of  school  is  now  checkered  less 
by  individual  play  and  more  by  teamwork,  —  frequent  club 
and  society  meetings,  by  debates,  by  an  occasional  initiation 
and  a  banquet  at  their  own  expense,  by  receptions,  calls,  cele- 
brations, by  dances  to  which  they  may  sometimes  invite  in 

>  New  Opportunities  for  Blind  Children  before  Entering  School,  by  O.  H.  Burritt,  Principal  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania School  for  the  Blind,  Overbrook,  Pa. 

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partners  from  outside,  and,  when  the  object  is  to  raise  funds 
for  club  use,  by  holding  a  school  progressive  whist  party  or 
cottage  dramatics.  Then,  there  are  the  occasional  activities 
such  as  the  boy  scout  meetings  and  hikes  into  the  country, 
once  a  year  camping  out  there,  also  the  unbeUevable  gambols 
of  Hallowe'en  and  the  giving  of  gifts  around  the  several  trees 
at  Christmas.  The  Glee  Club  sings  frequently  at  outside 
parties  and  churches,  where  the  singers  are  almost  always 
socially  entertained.  The  older  and  more  musical  pupils 
attend  a  great  many  concerts  in  Cambridge  or  Boston,  both 
they  and  their  guides  paying  their  own  carfares.  When  the 
school  is  to  give  a  Shakespeare  play,  an  older  pupil  is  chosen 
business  manager;  and  each  manager  labors  to  do  better 
than  his  predecessor. 

One  must  not  suppose  that  blind  boys  and  girls  do  not 
have  spending  money.  They  either  bring  it  from  home  or 
earn  it.  Individuals  of  them  may  earn  it  during  free  time  at 
Perkins  in  various  ways,  —  sometimes  by  helping  in  Ubrary, 
printery,  or  service  department,  by  carrying  and  fetching  the 
mails,  or  by  delivering  the  morning  and  evening  papers 
throughout  the  institution;  and  most  of  them  always  by  re- 
seating chairs,  of  which  the  neighbors  bring  in  a  continual 
supply.  Of  course  the  institution  provides  no  money  for 
clothing  or  personal  expenses.  There  are,  besides,  divers  good 
causes  enough  for  which  a  little  money  is  needed;  and  the 
having  of  it  in  pocket  is  of  value  morally. 

Those  coming  up  from  the  lower  school,  perhaps  twenty  at 
a  time,  no  longer  live  together  but  are  distributed  among  eight 
families,  where  each  one  shares  a  room  with  some  new  ac- 
quaintance. These  families  are  of  the  same  size  and  of  sim- 
ilar personnel.  Their  routine  is  the  same,  but  in  other  re- 
spects, —  even  in  menus,  —  they  are  individual. 

The  cottage  hfe  is  varied  in  many  ways,  —  music,  singing, 
dancing;    competitive  checkers,  dominoes,  chess  and  cards. 

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There  is  story-telling,  often  by  the  Hghted  fire,  with  plenty  of 
wood  in  the  cellar,  puzzles  to  work  out,  charades  to  guess, 
callers  to  entertain,  and  rooms  to  help  decorate.  There  are 
the  seasonal  sports,  —  in  the  fall,  intercottage  football  matches 
by  the  boys,  played  according  to  rules  of  their  own  making, 
and  intercottage  competitive  games  by  the  girls,  with  the 
award  of  prize  banners  to  adorn  walls  of  the  cottage  Uving 
rooms.  When  the  boy  champions  from  the  Permsylvania 
school  come  to  Watertown,  which  is  every  other  year,  there 
is  excitement  and  a  great  to-do,  —  competing,  feasting,  and 
sending  off,  after  three  days'  entertaining,  their  guests.  And 
the  boys  manage  all  this  also:  for  they  have  an  athletic  fund 
of  their  own  raising.  It  is  worthwhile  experience.  But  the 
one  continuous  thing  making  for  sociaUzation  we  beUeve  to 
be  our  plan  of  contributory  housework;  also  our  arrange- 
ment, almost  unique  in  institutions,  for  bringing  both  the 
teachers  and  the  pupils  of  a  family  together  at  table  to  par- 
take of  the  same  family  menu.  This  practice  makes  for  good 
manners  and  mixing  and  fresh  conversation  three  times  a  day, 
and  is  wholesome  in  its  effect  upon  teacher  and  taught  ahke. 

We  have  a  thirteenth  family  in  a  model  cottage,  the  small 
group  majoring  in  domestic  science.  It  has  no  servant;  so 
its  teacher  is  able  to  impose  upon  the  girls  in  turn  various 
household  responsibiUties,  — being  hostess,  cook,  second  girl,  or 
having  care  of  the  house  temperature.  In  the  course  of  the 
year  most  of  the  faculty  will  have  been  invited  in  to  a  meal  or  to 
a  reception,  all  of  which  mil  have  been  done  in  proper  form. 

Blind  pupils  can  stop  too  long  at  the  same  boarding  school: 
the  Pennsylvania  school  and  ours  exchange  one  or  two  pupils 
yearly;  the  Connecticut  school  sends  several  here  at  once. 
There  comes  a  time  when  perhaps  every  one  of  our  students 
would  profit  by  being  subjected  to  the  complete  change  and 
the  more  strenuous  environment  of  a  school  for  the  seeing. 
Still,  while  they  are  at  our  family  school  they  are  learning 

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about  community  life  amid  rather  superior  conditions.  They 
develop  generosity,  loyalty  and  the  spirit  of  mutual  service. 
They  discover  their  real  aims  and  desires  and  try  out  their 
abiUties.  They  learn  how  to  study  effectively,  usually  acquire 
an  accomplishment  or  two  and  know  how  to  fill  in  happily 
their  hours  of  leisure;  in  short,  boarding  school  is  the  labora- 
tory in  which  they  may  learn  to  mix  the  re-agents  of  success. 
The  visiting  alumni  and  alumnae  tell  them  so,  the  former  bid- 
ding them  to  buckle  to  and  the  latter  to  ''spread  wide  their 
skirts  while  the  heavens  are  raining  gold." 

So  much  for  the  intramural  Ufe  of  the  upper  school,  and 
the  days  are  very  full.  These  older  pupils  go  out  into  the 
world  much  more  than  the  younger  do  and  have  much  more 
freedom.  The  sister  school  in  New  York  City  sends  all 
pupils  home  week-ends,  a  sociaUzing  custom  no  other  Ameri- 
can school  for  the  blind  enjoys.  Only  about  twenty-five  of  ours 
live  near  enough  for  this.  The  rest  busy  themselves  Saturday 
afternoons  walking,  making  radio  sets,  working  about  their 
poultry  plant,  kicking  football,  swimming,  reading,  doing  fancy 
work,  etc.  Sundays  they  attend  Sunday  school  and  church  in 
Watertown,  but  otherwise  spend  their  programless  day  as  they 
please.  From  time  to  time  many  frequent  the  local  stores 
to  buy  the  eatables  that  children  love.  Home  ties  are  rarely 
severed,  for  very  few  pupils  remain  over  the  Christmas  and 
Easter  recesses,  and  none  stay  in  the  summer  vacation.  Fortu- 
nately almost  all  have  homes  to  go  to,  and  those  who  have 
none  must  at  least  go  away  somewhere  and  make  new  asso- 
ciations. A  few  of  these  go  to  summer  camps,  —  eighteen 
went  last  year.  A  growing  number  wish  to  work  and  earn,  and 
of  these  an  agent  of  the  Massachusetts  Division  of  the  Bhnd 
has  been  placing  more  and  more  each  season.  The  past  sum- 
mer she  placed  eight  as  mothers'  helpers.  Obviously  those 
who  have  made  good  at  short  jobs  will  be  the  more  Ukely  to 
do  so  at  longer  ones  after  leaving  school. 

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Now,   more  than  one  successful  blind  man  asserts  that 
"blindness  is  a  greater  social  than  industrial  barrier."     In 
view  of  this  generaUzation  it  is  pertinent  to  ask  ourselves,  Do 
we  succeed  after  all  in  really  sociaUzing  our  pupils,  so  that 
they  not  only  will  hold  their  own  under  varying  circumstances 
but  also  will  become  and  remain  acceptable  citizens  of  the 
world?    The  minority,   yes;    the  majority,   no.     The  plain 
reasons  for  the  many  failures  are  two:   first,  society  as  it  is 
does  not  understand  the  bUnd  man,  has  Httle  faith  in  his 
capacity,  and  is  reluctant  to  give  him,  however  well  fitted  and 
however  good  his  personality,  the  chance  and  trial  he  needs; 
second,  the  majority  of  the  bhnd  themselves,  even  when  helped 
and  followed  up,  are  for  one  reason  or  other  not  strong  enough 
to  win  their  way  against  the  attitude  and  competition  of  the 
seeing.    For  these,  though  trained  at  great  expense  in  school, 
there  is  the  consciousness  of  being  useful  at  home  or  of  having 
aftercare  employment  among  relatives  and  friends  or  recourse 
to  special  subsidized  workshops  elsewhere.     Even  so  their 
lives  have  been  greatly  enriched  during  school  days,  which 
fact  has  made  for  a  fuller  and  happier  existence.    As  to  the 
efficient  minority,  —  and  it  is  a  relatively  large  minority,  — 
a  few  go  to  college  and  afterwards  enter  the  professions  or 
business  or  teaching  to  compete  on  practical  equaUty  wdth 
other  people;  others  do  hand  assembUng  in  factories  and  ware- 
rooms,  ticketing,  wrapping,  inspecting,  seUing,  office  type- 
writing, making  household  articles,  serving  as  mothers'  help- 
ers,   poultry   keeping,   lecturing,    entertaining,   investigating 
social   conditions,    home   teaching   among   the   adult   bUnd, 
operating  telephone  exchanges,  piano  tuning,  practising  mas- 
sage, and  so  on.     The  enlarged  field  open  to  the  bUnd  here 
indicated  has  resulted  partly  from  conditions  created  by  the 
war,  and  partly  from  increased  efforts  and  care  at  vocational 
adjustment,  a  matter  which  in  our  own  community  has  grown 
slowly  though  steadily,  following  the  labors  of  the  Massachu- 


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setts  Division  of  the  Blind  over  a  period  of  years,  particularly 
those  of  its  head  placement  agent,  a  persistent,  wise  and 
tactful  woman,  who  serves  also  as  vocational  guide  to  our  own 
pupils.  Naturally  they  look  upon  her  as  their  most  practical 
friend. 

The  year  under  review  was  as  successful  as  any  has  been 
in  this  problem  of  sociaUzation  which,  we  repeat,  is  an  excep- 
tionally difficult  one  to  solve  with  people  who  are  constrained 
by  blindness.  Very  Httle  illness  interfered  with  the  usual 
routine.  The  investigations  of  the  resident  psychologists  and 
the  lectures  of  Professor  Hayes,  under  whom  they  labor,  have 
abundantly  interested  the  teachers  and  have  led  more  and 
more  to  a  finer  classification  of  the  pupils  and  to  improved 
ways  of  instruction.  The  Director,  beUeving  as  he  does  very 
strongly  that  that  education  is  wofuUy  incomplete  which 
does  not  provide  for  one's  leisure,  continues  to  stress  the  cul- 
tivation of  diversions,  —  the  solitary  pastimes,  of  course,  but 
more  particularly  the  social  diversions  of  seeing  people.  He 
not  only  keeps  talking  about  this,  calling  it  a  duty  to  oneself, 
but  encourages  —  almost  enjoins  it  —  both  as  a  sweetening 
effect  upon  the  cottage  family  Hfe  now  and  as  a  habit  to  be 
carried  over  into  life  later  on,  —  one  which  can  turn  into 
minutes,  hours  that  then  too  often  drag  themselves  out  into 
seeming  days. 

Reading  is  the  chief  pastime  of  a  growing  group  of  our  blind 
people.  Our  library,  which  is  the  regional  one  for  all  New 
England,  circulated  by  mail  last  year  an  average  of  725 
volumes  a  month  to  some  635  outside  readers.  This  is  its 
extension  service.  Present  pupils  drew  out  for  their  own 
pleasure  4,535,  about  23^2  times  as  many  as  were  required 
for  class  uses  alone.  While  books  embossed  in  Moon's  type, 
—  the  easiest  of  all  tangible  systems  and  therefore  especially 
adapted  to  the  newly  blinded  among  the  adult,  —  still  hold 
the  lead  in  the  outside  circulation,  it  is  interesting  to  note 

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that  even  here  in  its  home  field  American  braille  has  already 
yielded  in  number  of  books  circulated  to  the  European  uni- 
form system.  However,  it  is  only  fair  to  the  disappearing 
type  to  explain  that  its  gradual  submergence  is  in  no  sense 
due  to  inferiority  but  rather  to  the  simple  fact  that  the  only 
novels  being  embossed  nowadays  are  in  the  new  type.  In  due 
process  of  time  the  same  supplanting  of  the  old  by  the  new 
will  take  place  within  the  school  also;  for  last  year  we  intro- 
duced it  in  the  lowest  grades.  Then,  too,  since  all  the  recent 
issue  of  braille  music  employs  the  new  alphabet  in  its  titles, 
words  and  expressions  and  since  our  chorus  learns  all  its  music 
from  the  tangible  score  it  follows  that  nearly  all  pupils  can 
already  read  the  new  braille.  The  press  of  the  Illinois  school 
has  issued  most  of  this  music,  though  our  own  Howe  Memorial 
Press  put  out  last  year  alone  10,416  pages  of  it,  3,060  being 
for  young  beginners.  Its  fiction  output  was  Drowned  Gold, 
Jeremy,  St.  Abigail  of  the  Pines,  Audacious  Ann,  and  an  edition 
of  The  Deer  slayer,  condensed  for  the  use  of  schools.  It  em- 
bossed for  general  distribution  75  packs  of  playing  cards  and 
manufactured  some  thousands  of  slates  on  which  to  wiite 
in  the  braille  system.  It  has  also  brought  out  a  second  century 
of  the  Perkins  braillewriters. 

In  April  we  gave  our  annual  demonstration  at  Jordan  Hall, 
Boston,  before  about  five  hundred  invited  guests.  His  Ex- 
cellency Governor  Cox  did  us  the  honor  to  speak. 

Visitors  continue  to  pour  in  upon  the  institution,  and  they 
are  all  welcome.  We  invite  the  public  in  for  special  occasions, 
and  it  comes.  The  Harvard  and  RadclifTe  professors  of 
Social  Ethics  bring  their  classes  for  a  whole  afternoon  each 
fall,  a  practice  our  Director  encourages  by  giving  them  personal 
conduct  and  explaining  things  in  detail  as  they  go  about. 
He  is  bent  on  getting  across  to  these  selected  students  the 
meaning  of  it  all  both  to  them  and  to  the  bhnd;  to  them  the 
fortifying  realization  of  the   capacity  of  the  human  spirit 

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under  the  spur  of  necessity,  and  to  the  bhnd  the  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  a  better  understanding  of  the  correct  status 
of  bUnd  people  is  being  disseminated  where  it  can  be  expected 
to  find  fertile  soil. 

To  be  able  to  tell  Harvard  students  that  their  own  university 
has  so  far  recognized  The  Education  of  the  Blind  as  a  subject 
fit  for  treatment  in  an  extension  half-course  offered  by  its 
graduate  school  of  education,  is  a  matter  of  some  pride. 
Naturally  the  Perkins  Institution  fosters  this  study  in  every 
reasonable  way,  throwing  open  its  ample  collection  of  blindiana, 
—  Hterature,  pictures  and  casts,  —  for  the  theory  and  its 
school  plant  for  the  practice.  Last  season  was  the  fourth 
consecutive  one  of  the  course.  Thirteen  students  took  it, 
several  coming  from  distant  states,  one  of  them  from  Japan. 
This  gentleman  is  a  graduate  of  the  Imperial  University  of 
Tokyo,  speciahzing  in  education  of  the  bUnd  and  the  deaf. 
The  daily  mingling  of  all  these  selected  people  with  our  regular 
pupils  and  teachers  is  mutually  stimulating. 

We  regard  this  so-called  Harvard  course  also  as  an  extension 
of  the  influence  of  Perkins  Institution.  The  subject,  though 
treated  generally,  speciaUzes  most  in  the  direction  of  teaching; 
and  it  is  hoped,  if  we  can  manage  to  keep  the  enterprise  going 
for  a  few  years  more,  that  that  which  now  is  but  a  locally 
recognized  need  will  become  a  widely  justified  demand.  A 
sister  school,  that  in  Philadelphia,  is  sending  one  of  its  teachers 
to  take  the  course.  Three  of  our  own  teachers  have  taken  it, 
and  five  more  have  registered  for  the  coming  season.  Mr.  Allen 
has  already  announced  to  his  faculty  that  he  expects  soon  to 
make  special  certification  from  this  or  a  similar  course  the 
ladder  of  promotion  at  Perkins. 

Another  extension  service  we  expect  to  establish  is  the 
creation  of  scholarships  at  Perkins  Institution  for  the  voca- 
tional training  of  such  exceptional  bhnd  people,  handicapped 
in  means,  as  need  to  study  in  a  large  educational  center  like 

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Boston.  We  have  spoken  in  recent  reports  of  this  need.  We 
now  gratefully  announce  that,  while  for  this  purpose  more 
money  is  wanted,  the  Fisher  Fund,  helped  by  several  generous 
donations,  has  been  built  up  so  that  with  its  aid  we  have 
been  enabled  this  year  to  invite  to  Perkins  a  promising  stu- 
dent from  Porto  Rico,  who  is  herself  bUnd  and  who  is  pre- 
paring to  teach  others  who  are  bUnd  at  home  in  Ponce.  There 
the  pioneer  school  for  such  children  of  Porto  Rico  has  been 
founded  by  Miss  Cordero  whom  we  trained  a  few  years  ago, 
before  the  time  of  the  Harvard  class.  This  is  an  example  of 
what  such  a  fund  may  accompHsh.  We  are  very  grateful 
that  we  can  extend  our  exceptional  faciUties,  and  those  which 
exist  around  us  here,  to  one  from  a  far-away  region  where 
nothing  similar  exists.  We  beUeve  that  this  money  is  most 
usefully  spent  in  so  broadening  the  field  of  our  work  and  that 
it  will  later  help  many  others.  Also,  as  only  the  more  promis- 
ing appHcants  will  be  taken,  money  to  be  spent  from  this  fund 
will  probably  have  more  result  on  the  individual  helped  than 
a  like  amount  spent  on  the  unexceptional  student.  Both 
from  the  standpoint  of  the  cause  and  the  standpoint  of  the 
individual  it  will  be  well  appUed.  We  earnestly  hope  that 
much  more  money  for  the  Fisher  Fund,  or  for  similar  funds, 
will  be  given  us,  coming  either  in  large  or  small  contributions. 
Once  it  becomes  well-known  that  such  a  chance  for  education 
is  being  offered  here,  there  will  be  no  lack  of  deserving  appU- 
cants. 

We  sent  back  last  summer  to  his  home  in  Hawaii  a  young 
Corean,  who  had  been  bUnded  by  accident  in  the  sugar-cane 
fields.  Friends  had  sent  him  to  Watertown  for  readjustment 
and  training;  and  this  is  the  equipment  he  carried  away:  a 
working  knowledge  of  EngHsh  spoken,  written  and  read,  a 
grammar-school  education  wdth  abihty  to  use  a  typewTiter, 
to  sing  and  to  play  the  piano,  to  do  all  sorts  of  chair-  and 
rush-seating,   to   make   reed   baskets,   rugs   and   brooms,   to 

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renovate  mattresses  and  to  tune  pianos.  He  also  carried  a 
full  kit  of  tuning  tools.  Furthermore,  he  took  back  with 
him  habits  of  study  and  of  thrift,  a  fine  physique,  a  cheerful, 
inviting  personality,  a  determination  to  make  good,  and 
other  qualities  which  we  think  of  as  successful  socialization. 
His  presence  among  our  people  at  school  was  as  inspiring  to 
them  as  association  with  them  was  to  him. 

Still  another  instance  of  Perkins  institution  extension  is 
our  Works  Department  at  South  Boston.  Since  its  office 
and  salesroom  has  been  located  at  No.  383  Boylston  Street, 
Boston,  this  department  has  been  of  little  expense  to  the 
institution  and  the  pubhc,  —  for  the  past  decade  none  at  all. 
This  is  a  very  unusual  condition  of  affairs  in  workshops  for 
the  blind  the  world  over.  There  are  two  main  reasons  for 
this  success:  first,  the  shop  is  a  small  private  enterprise, 
paying  reduced  rent  and  no  taxes,  whose  managers  have 
built  up  a  good  business  chiefly  in  mattress  work,  which  is  a 
selective  handicraft;  second,  it  hmits  its  number  of  employees 
to  its  amount  of  business  in  mattresses,  pillows  and  chairs. 
The  shop  is  not  conducted  to  see  how  many  bhnd  people  it 
can  give  some  sort  of  employment  to,  but  to  see  how  many 
competent  workers  it  can  keep  busy  and  satisfied.  This 
number  is  about  twenty.  It  has  paid  them  over  $16,000  the 
past  fiscal  year,  which  is  10%  more  than  the  best  previous 
year  and  means  an  average  wage  of  $75  a  month  to  the  eight- 
een men  and  women  in  constant  attendance.  The  spirit  of 
these  employees  is  co-operative.  To  be  associated  in  success 
is  ever  gratifying.  They  are  therefore  interested  to  help 
improve  the  business;  they  realize  that  to  do  good  work  not 
only  helps  them  but  at  the  same  time  helps  other  bhnd  people 
to  get  employment.  Since  they  are  paid  by  the  piece,  most 
of  them  are  only  too  willing  to  work  overtime  in  emergencies. 
A  public  workshop  could  not  well  do  this.  We  are  proud 
of  this  department  and  congratulate  both  its  participating 

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workers  and  its  efficient,  sympathetic  manager.  All  Greater 
Boston  knows  of  this  shop  and  its  salesroom.  Given  famiUes 
have  patronized  it  into  the  second  generation.  They  realize 
that  the  service  is  mutual.  Such  an  agency  in  their  midst 
stands  as  a  tangible  evidence  of  practical  training  in  ''helping 
the  bhnd  to  help  themselves."  And  not  a  few  have  been  led 
by  it  to  make  bequests  to  the  institution.  Like  the  Water- 
town  tower,  one  of  its  purposes  is  publicity. 

On  June  7  the  alumnse,  forty  strong,  met  at  the  school. 
This  yearly  gathering  acts  always  as  a  spur  to  the  under- 
graduates. The  six  graduating  girls  held  on  June  18  the 
most  delightful  Class  Day  exercises  imaginable.  No  school 
girls  could  have  carried  out  a  brighter  program.  On  the  last 
evening  of  the  term  the  graduating  boys  held  their  reception 
and  dance,  to  which  they  invited  in  their  parents  and  their 
girl  friends  from  home  and  from  the  neighborhood.  It  was  a 
very  pretty  affair. 

On  October  1  of  the  current  year,  1923,  the  number  of 
bUnd  persons  registered  at  the  Perkins  Institution  was  305,  or 
four  fewer  than  on  the  same  date  of  the  previous  year.  This 
number  includes  76  boys  and  82  girls  in  the  upper  school,  54 
boys  and  58  girls  in  the  lower  school,  12  teachers  and  officers 
and  23  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South  Boston.  There  have 
been  46  admitted  and  50  discharged  during  the  year. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the  School 
Year  1922-1923. — Ophthalmia  neonatorum,  6;  Ulcerative 
keratitis,  1;  Accident,  3;  Optic  atrophy,  14;  Congenital 
defects,  8;  Congenital  nystagmus,  3;  Albinism  and  nystag- 
mus, 4;  Retinitis  pigmentosa  and  congenital  cataract,  1; 
Buphthalmos,  1;  Brain  Tumor,  3;  Tuberculosis  of  the  eye, 
1;  Neuro-retinitis,  1;  Rheumatic  iritis,  1;  Acute  cyclitis,  1; 
Corneal  opacities,  1;  Leucoma,  1. 


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Death  of  Membeks  of  the  Corporation. 

William  Appleton  Burnham;  Mrs.  Harriet,  widow  of 
Greely  S.  Curtis;  Horatio  Greenough  Curtis;  George 
A.  Draper;  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan  Thorndike,  wife  of 
Charles  Henry  Fiske;  Charles  G.  Green;  Miss  Har- 
riet A.  Littell;  Mrs.  Susan  Mason,  wife  of  Justice  Wil- 
liam Caleb  Loring;  John  Lowell;  Mrs.  Lucia  Clapp, 
widow  of  Dr.  William  No  yes;  W.  Prentiss  Parker;  Mrs. 
Cora  Lyman,  widow  of  Gardiner  Howland  Shaw;  Henry 
Southworth  Shaw;  Francis  Shaw  Sturgis;  Henry  M. 
Whitney. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 
PAUL  E.   FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
G.  PEABODY  GARDNER,  Jr., 
ROBERT  H.   HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL, 
CHARLES  E.   OSGOOD, 
MARIA  PURDON, 
OLIVE  W.   PUTNAM, 
WILLIAM  L.   RICHARDSON, 
LEVERETT   SALTONSTALL, 

Trustees. 


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FROM  REPORTS  MADE  BY  TEACHERS,  SCHOOL 

YEAR   1922-1924. 


My  visit  to  Perkins  as  a  grown-up,  seeing  pupil  preparing  to  become 
tutor  to  a  blind  child  in  Italy,  which  has  lasted  from  the  first  week  in 
May  until  the  closing  of  school,  has  been  a  most  delightful  experience 
for  me  and  I  have  realized  more  than  ever  before  the  value  of  the 
opportunities  offered  to  the  students.  I  studied  the  following  sub- 
jects:—  Braille,  Music  Braille,  the  use  of  the  Braille  writer,  square- 
hand  writing,  knitting,  basketry,  handweaving,  mat-making,  and  plas- 
ticine and  clay  modelling,  trying  to  work,  as  far  as  possible,  with  the 
pupils. 

This  working  together  with  the  pupils  has  proved  of  greatest  value 
to  me;  in  fact,  I  consider  it  the  most  important  feature  of  my  prepa- 
ration for  teaching,  because  I  have  been  enabled  thereby  to  observe 
the  work  and  progress  of  the  pupils  —  the  daily  routine  work  of  the 
entire  class,  not  on  exhibition,  but  "at  home"  in  the  classroom.  The 
casual  observer  who  spends  only  one  day  perhaps  in  the  classroom 
often  sees  the  brightest  child  at  his  worst  and  the  dullest  at  his  best 
and  cannot  understand  the  difficulties  and  accomplishments  of  each. 
But  I  was  able  to  study  the  various  children  and  their  problems  and 
the  methods  used  by  the  experienced  teachers  to  help  them  solve  these 
problems.  I  compared  my  own  work  with  theirs,  and  observed  also 
the  difficulties  caused  by  the  double  handicap  of  blindness  and  dull 
mentality,  or  clumsy  fingers,  other  physical  defects,  laziness  or  lack  of 
interest.  In  the  knitting  class  I  was  permitted  to  help  in  correcting 
mistakes  and,  on  one  occasion,  was  able  to  assist  the  teacher  by 
taking  over  all  of  her  classwork  when  she  was  obliged  to  be  absent 
for  a  day. 

The  spirit  of  co-operation  on  the  part  of  the  teachers  has  been  most 
marked,  for  they  have  helped  me  in  every  way  possible.  It  seems  to  me 
that  the  effect  on  the  pupils  of  having  an  "outsider"  in  class  is  rather 

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good  than  otherwise,  for  it  helps  to  arouse  their  interest  —  partly  be- 
cause they  find  they  are  doing  something  which  another  grown-up 
besides  the  teacher  considers  sufficiently  worth  while  to  learn.  The 
spirit  of  competition  too  is  stirred;  I  found  the  children  continually 
trying  to  keep  up  to  me, —  "the  new  pupil."  In  knitting  class,  one 
little  girl,  who  ordinarily  accomplished  not  more  than  four  or  five  rows 
during  the  hour,  by  "racing"  with  me,  found,  at  the  end  of  the  hour, 
that  she  had  finished  twelve  rows,  —  almost  as  many  as  I  had  done,  — 
and  was  quite  proud  of  the  fact. 

I  was  so  completely  accepted  by  the  children  as  one  of  them  that  a 
little  girl,  in  all  seriousness,  offered,  one  rainy  day,  to  lend  me  some  of 
her  playthings,  because  I  could  not  go  w^alking  as  I  had  planned. 

Once  in  weaving,  when  I  had  made  a  bad  mistake,  one  of  the  boys 
said  to  me  in  great  surprise,  "Why,  can't  you  see  it?"  and  I  was 
obliged  to  confess  to  carelessness.  Perhaps  the  idea  that  all  mistakes 
made  by  pupils  are  not  due  to  lack  of  vision  was  not  a  new  one  to  him, 
but,  at  least,  it  was  a  wholesome  example ! 

On  several  occasions  I  was  asked  to  act  as  guide  to  a  symphony 
concert,  to  concerts  given  by  the  Glee  Club,  and  to  the  bird  lectures,  — 
always  a  pleasure  to  me,  because  of  the  contact  with  small  groups. 
On  another  occasion  I  accompanied  a  group  of  the  younger  girls  to 
Cambridge  to  hear  the  step-singing  at  Harvard.  The  girls  thoroughly 
enjoyed  the  music,  but  for  them  there  was  so  much  more  than  the 
singing  to  be  enjoyed!  There  was  the  library,  with  its  many  steps 
which  must  be  climbed  and  counted,  the  pillars  around  which  each 
must  climb  to  ascertain  their  size,  the  lawns  and  the  numerous  other 
buildings.  The  raised  map  of  the  grounds  was  also  a  source  of  pro- 
longed study  and  interest.  But  a  very  important  and  pleasurable 
feature  of  the  trip  was  the  fact  that  we  arrived  home  very  late  — 
thereby  postponing  bedtime! 

These  seven  weeks  of  study  here  have  given  me  not  only  the  funda- 
mentals of  the  technical  knowledge  I  needed,  but  also  renewed  in- 
spiration and  desire  for  service.  Eleanor  E.  Kelly. 


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The  Dog. 

A  seven  weeks  old  puppy  came  to  our  schoolroom  one  afternoon; 
she  cried  because  she  was  in  a  new  place  among  strangers.  She  had 
been  expected  by  us  all,  but  she  was  a  bigger  baby  than  we  had  looked 
for.     After  long  discussion  we  named  her  Nancy. 

All  the  boys  had  to  touch  her.  Although  she  cried  much  we  some- 
how did  our  schoolwork. 

Kermit  brought  her  milk,  but  she  still  cried;  the  milk  was  cold, 
she  would  not  touch  it.  After  school  I  took  her  to  my  room,  gave  her 
warm  milk;  it  was  so  good  she  stood  on  three  legs  and  almost  fell 
into  the  dish.  Then  after  it  was  eaten  she  howled.  She  howled  all 
the  time  someone  was  not  holding  her.  To  let  the  household  sleep  I 
held  her  nearly  all  night;  she  had  the  colic.  Next  day  in  the  sloyd 
classroom  we  fed  her  boiled  milk  and  crackers.  She  grew  better,  she 
began  to  play,  she  stilled  her  howling  and  slept  awhile. 

Then  we  worked  at  our  tasks.  When  she  was  awake  she  wanted  to 
be  under  our  feet,  and  howled  when  closed  in  the  basket.  Our  work- 
ing powers  were  distracted  between  nursing  the  puppy,  watching  her 
try  to  play,  and  cleaning  up  after  her.  So  we  did  not  make  good 
headway  with  our  work  and  found  ourselves  still  working  inside,  when 
in  other  years  we  were  through  and  outside  in  the  garden.  However, 
we  wanted  the  dog,  and  if  she  did  take  up  some  of  our  time  she  repaid 
us  with  her  play. 

The  boys  said  Nancy  was  just  the  same  as  their  babies  at  home.  She 
made  us  stop  work  to  attend  to  her,  even  when  in  her  pen. 

Later  the  puppy  learned  how  to  go  about,  and,  like  their  small 
brothers  and  sisters,  began  to  bother  them  with  taking  their  things. 
If  they  dropped  anything,  she  got  it.  To  enable  us  to  get  our  work 
done  she  had  to  be  chained;  then  she  howled.  However,  we  tried 
not  to  hear  her;   presently  she  would  give  a  sigh  and  go  to  sleep. 

The  process  of  worming  the  puppy  was  of  great  interest  to  some  of 
the  boys,  especially  the  fact  that  she  also  had  had  a  dose  of  castor  oil. 
This  brought  a  great  deal  of  sympathy  from  some.  Then  came, 
boylike,  the  question  of  how  many  worms.  The  fact  of  some  of  their 
small  sisters  or  brothers  having  had  worms  made  the  dog  seem  more 
human. 

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With  spring  and  the  grass  Nancy  was  allowed  out  on  the  playground. 
She  was  not  liked  then,  as  they  found  she  did  not  allow  them  to  play 
football.  However,  by  keeping  her  in  part  of  the  playtime,  this  trouble 
was  overcome.  It  was  also  found  that  for  the  dog's  own  health,  since 
she  played  too  hard,  a  program  for  the  playground  had  to  be  arranged. 

The  boys  often  have  said  that  the  dog  minded  better  than  they; 
also  that  she  was  wise,  and  soon  became  far  more  cleanly  in  her  habits 
than  some  of  the  boys  were  who  were  many  times  her  age.  What  all 
learned  from  her  was  cleanliness  of  body  and  of  housing  quarters,  and 
from  her  actions  obedience  and  loyalty  to  her  owner;  that  they  must 
have  clean  hands  so  as  to  keep  her  white  fur  clean;  that,  if  they  wanted 
her  to  keep  well,  they  must  not  let  her  overdo  in  play;  that  very 
plain  food  is  best  —  for  dogs. 

I  kept  Nancy  at  home  with  me  all  summer.  The  boys  wondered 
if  she  would  know  them  again  this  fall.  She  did.  But  she  studied  all 
newcomers  with  eyes  and  nose. 

She  has  divided  us  all  into  two  classes,  those  w^ho  can  watch  her 
wiggly  ways  and  those  who  cannot.  She  does  not  often  parade  before 
any  one  of  the  latter,  but  in  order  to  get  his  attention  will  put  her 
forepaws  up  on  him  as  far  as  she  can  reach. 

When  we  play  with  a  football  in  the  gymnasium  Nancy  has  to  be 
tied.     But  when  we  play  running  games  she  will  lie  still. 

I  am  very  sure  that  all  the  boys  have  been  greatly  benefited  from 
association  with  this  dog.  She  has  made  them  tenderer,  more  chari- 
table towards  one  another  and  more  obedient  to  me.  They  seem  to 
understand  themselves  better.  A  boy  who  grows  up  without  a  dog 
misses  a  lot  of  what  some  people  may  call  socializing  experience. 

The  Rabbits. 
The  rabbits  had  a  prosperous  year,  —  the  final  count  being  three 
mothers  and  seventeen  young.  Several  had  died,  which  always  brought 
sadness  upon  Joseph,  the  head  animal  keeper.  The  last  of  these  he 
and  a  few  boys  as  mourners  had  buried  with  services,  repeating  them 
on  Memorial  Day,  very  seriously,  with  music,  flowers  and  prayer,  as 
Mr.  Allen  who  was  present,  can  testify.  Later  its  little  body  was 
exhumed  and  reburied  in  the  "animal  cemetery." 

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At  the  close  of  school  in  June  I  gave  Joseph  his  pet  rabbit,  "May," 
as  reward  for  faithfulness.  He  said  he  hardly  deserved  to  have  her 
because  he  had  forgotten  once  in  a  while  to  feed  the  animals  and  had 
not  kept  the  barn  clean  enough. 

Well,  after  he  and  most  others  had  gone  home  and  all  the  rabbits 
had  been  boarded  out  for  the  summer  and  I  had  had  a  chance  to  put 
my  own  classroom  in  order,  I  started,  broom  in  hand,  for  the  barn. 
The  three  remaining  boys  had  been  asking  me  if  I  had  seen  the  barn. 
Such  a  question  had  always  meant  before  that  it  was  untidy  and 
needed  my  help.  Now  these  boys  rather  eagerly  accompanied  me  and 
when  I  opened  the  door  exulted  in  the  surprise  I  got.  The  floor  had 
been  scrubbed  white,  and  everything  was  in  its  place.  They  said  they 
had  done  this  to  square  themselves  with  Joseph  to  whom  they  con- 
fessed to  having  been  mean,  often  bothering  him  while  at  his  chores. 
It  had  taken  them  a  whole  afternoon  to  do  this  work. 

If  this  is  the  way  boys  respond  to  the  lesson  of  responsibility  as 
taught  through  the  needs  of  the  pets,  I  feel  repaid  for  my  additional 
care  and  early  rising  during  the  first  weeks  of  the  baby  rabbits'  lives, 
when  I  dared  not  let  more  than  one  understanding  boy  help  about  the 
pens.  Rosalind  L.  Houghton. 


Memorial  Day  in  the  Boys'  Department,  May  30,  1923. 

Memorial  Day  being  in  weather  all  that  a  holiday  should  be,  every 
one  proceeded  to  enjoy  himself  in  the  way  that  most  appealed  to  him. 
The  boys  were  rather  individual  in  their  tastes,  and  showed  consider- 
able independence  in  carrying  out  their  ideas.  Those  who  generally 
go  home  for  the  week-ends,  went  away  as  usual;  a  number  of  them  had 
friends  who  came  to  see  them,  and  they  took  great  pleasure  in  showing 
these  friends  about  their  school  home,  which  at  this  season  of  the 
year  is  especially  beautiful;  others  were  invited  out  to  spend  the  whole 
or  a  part  of  the  day  with  friends  or  relatives. 

Of  those  who  stayed  here,  some  of  the  older  ones  seized  upon  the 
time  to  get  ready  their  written  accounts  of  a  visit  they  had  recently 
made  to  George  Hagopian's  poultry  farm,  but  this  was  wholly  vol- 
untary and  applied  to  a  few  for  only  a  part  of  the  day.     Some  enter- 

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prising  boys  I  heard  of  proceeded  to  clean  house!  They  cleaned  their 
rooms  and  cleared  out  their  possessions,  looking  towards  the  end  of  the 
term  not  far  away.  In  one  instance  a  hose  was  commandeered  to 
water  some  plants  and  seed  beds.  Playing  with  the  water  is  always 
good  fun,  and  probably  it  did  not  hurt  the  plants  greatly.  The  foot- 
ball field  attracted  groups  of  boys  during  the  day,  as  it  always  does. 
Small  groups  also  collected  on  the  grass  at  different  times  to  play  with 
jackknives.  A  good  many,  with  seeing  boys  in  the  lead,  went  for  walks 
in  the  morning  or  afternoon.  The  Boy  Scouts  in  uniform  went  with 
Mr.  Stanton,  their  Scout  Master,  to  march  with  the  Watertown  Scouts 
to  the  cemetery  and  attend  the  Memorial  exercises.  They  made  a 
good  appearance,  Mr.  Stanton  said,  and  did  well.  One  of  them, 
rather  leg  weary  on  his  return,  said  he  thought  he  walked  for  "miles". 

A  group  of  boys  of  the  poultry  classes  spent  a  good  part  of  the  morn- 
ing in  dressing  chickens  and,  I  judge  from  the  reports,  had  a  good 
deal  of  fun  over  it.  They  went  on  hikes  in  the  afternoon.  Some  of 
them  said  they  followed  the  procession  to  the  cemetery  and  attended 
the  exercises  of  the  day.  Mr.  Allen  says  that  one  or  two  small  boys 
were  happy  in  going  about  with  him  digging  borer  grubs  out  of  trees. 
Mr.  Minner  with  a  few  of  the  smaller  boys  spent  a  large  part  of  the 
morning  rigging  up  a  seat  for  their  little  boat;  then  finding  that  the 
oarlocks  they  had  did  not  fit,  went  to  the  power  house  to  get  them 
ground  down.  After  dinner,  they  launched  their  craft  and  rowed  with 
Mr.  Minner  down  to  a  small  island,  on  which  they  landed  and  took 
possession,  deciding  it  would  be  a  fine  place  to  build  Indian  huts 
"some  day." 

At  supper  time  the  households  met  and  related  their  day's  adven- 
tures, and  some  of  the  tales  occasioned  a  good  deal  of  glee. 

On  the  whole  I  think  the  day  was  very  profitably  spent,  and  the 
fact  that  there  was  help  on  the  part  of  the  officers,  but  very  little 
dictation  as  to  the  manner  of  the  activities,  not  only  gave  more  pleasure 
to  the  boys,  but  helped  them  learn  self-dependence  in  taking  care  of 
free  and  unassigned  time.  Jessica  L.  Langworthy. 


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The  Scout  Camping  Trip. 

At  twelve  o'clock,  Tuesday,  June  12,  fourteen  boys  and  their  Scout 
Master  from  the  school,  arrived  at  the  Dover  Scout  Camp  owned  by 
the  Boston  Council  of  Boy  Scouts.  The  majority  were  totally  blind, 
yet  were  just  as  cheerful  and  courageous  as  the  other  Boy  Scouts. 
Like  them,  they  enjoy  hearing  the  birds  sing,  and  many  recognize 
them  by  their  song.  One  of  our  troop  remarked  that  while  on  the 
camping  trip  he  had  learned  to  know  the  songs  of  a  large  number  of 
new  birds. 

Near  the  cabin  where  we  slept,  stood  an  observatory,  about  twenty- 
five  feet  high,  which  our  boys,  like  all  boys,  wanted  to  climb  to  the 
top  of.  I  was  interested  to  find  when  we  returned  to  Watertown  that 
one  of  them  undertook  to  make  a  model  of  the  tower  on  this  observa- 
tory, to  take  home  with  him. 

By  climbing  and  by  being  obliged  to  walk  quite  a  distance  over 
rough  ground  for  their  drinking  water,  the  boys  became  very  self- 
reliant  and  independent,  even  going  back  and  forth  alone.  While  on 
their  hikes,  some  of  those  who  cannot  see  at  all  asked  to  walk  along 
by  themselves. 

Although  being  kept  awake  the  first  night  by  the  "cool  breezes" 
and  inexperience  in  sleeping  on  bare  springs,  the  boys  made  no  com- 
plaint but  only  laughed  and  joked  as  they  made  preparations  for  the 
following  nights.  Very  seldom  did  a  boy  confess  to  being  fatigued  at 
night,  even  after  taking  a  ten  mile  hike  and  doing  his  regular  chores, 
which  consisted  of  chopping  wood,  washing  dishes,  getting  water  for 
the  camp,  cooking,  etc. 

All  were  anxious  to  know  the  different  trees  that  grew  near  the  cabin, 
and  the  semi-sighted  ones  wished  also  to  learn  the  poisonous  plants 
that  grew  in  the  woods.  Besides  learning  about  the  trees,  the  boys 
had  instruction  in  first  aid,  in  the  building  of  fires,  and  in  signalling, 
all  which  they  followed  up  with  actual  practice. 

We  emphasize  neatness  with  our  scouts  as  they  do  with  the  seeing 
scouts.  They  were  orderly  about  their  bunks,  clean  about  the  camp 
and  very  anxious  to  keep  the  whole  cabin  neat.  When  we  left  on 
Friday  morning,  June  15,  they  took  special  pains  to  leave  everything 
in  spick  and  span  order. 

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The  boys  took  pride  in  standing  at  "Assembly"  and  "Retreat" 
while  the  flag  was  raised  and  lowered.  "Taps"  was  sounded  by  one 
when  all  the  troop  had  gone  to  bed. 

In  the  three  years  that  I  have  been  at  Perkins,  I  have  never  seen 
our  boys  appear  so  thoroughly  normal  as  they  did  on  our  camping 
trip.  Harold  W.  Stanton. 

The  Perkins-Overbrook  Track  Meet. 

Between  the  successive  track  teams  of  Perkins  and  Overbrook  there 
exists  what  may  be  regarded  as  a  standing  challenge,  according  to  the 
unwritten  terms  of  which,  teams  from  these  schools  stage  a  track 
meet  each  year  held  alternately  at  Perkins  and  Overbrook.  The  meet 
occurs,  of  course,  in  the  regular  track  season  —  near  the  close  of  the 
academic  year  —  and  in  spite  of  the  mutual  understanding  between 
the  two  schools  that  the  meet  shall  take  place,  it  is  each  year  ofiicially 
established  through  a  challenge  duly  rendered  by  the  proper  team. 
The  expenses  of  these  meets  are  met  by  athletic  organizations  in  each 
of  the  schools,  and  these  organizations  are  entirely  student  affairs  — 
they  are  not  handled  by  the  management  of  the  respective  institutions. 
The  funds  which  these  associations  have  are  raised  through  member- 
ship dues,  proceeds  from  sales,  parties  of  various  kinds,  dances,  plays, 
etc. 

In  1923,  Perkins  challenged  Overbrook,  the  challenge  was  accepted, 
and  the  meet  set  for  June  2nd  on  Perkins  field. 

The  Overbrook  team  —  four  boys  —  accompanied  by  the  principal  in- 
structor of  their  school,  arrived  at  Watertown  Friday  morning,  June  1st. 
They  spent  Friday  getting  acquainted  with  our  boys  and  becoming 
familiar  with  our  athletic  field.  Friday  evening  a  little  entertainment 
was  given  in  Eliot  Cottage  for  the  visitors.  Miss  Potter  and  some 
boys  from  her  public  speaking  classes  presented  a  one-act  play  called 
"Swimmin'  Pools",  Miss  Potter  herself  gave  two  or  three  readings, 
and  her  friend.  Miss  Andrew,  of  Boston,  who  has  been  very  generous 
toward  us  with  her  time  and  talent,  gave  other  very  enjoyable  readings. 
The  boys'  glee  club  sang  several  numbers,  and  the  entertainment  was 
closed  by  the  serving  of  cake  and  fruit  punch  by  the  house  matron, 
Mrs.  Lummus. 

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The  meet  began  Saturday  afternoon  at  two  o'clock,  and  lasted 
until  about  six  o'clock.  Mr.  Crowell  and  Mr.  Waugh  of  Watertown, 
and  our  Mr.  Goss,  acted  as  officials.  We  had  a  good  crowd,  and  the 
excitement  was  high,  but  no  new  records  were  made.  The  Overbrook 
boys  were  the  victors,  their  score  being  42  against  Perkins  21.  The 
individual  records  may  be  had  at  the  office  of  the  Perkins  gymnasium. 

A  banquet  was  given  in  Bridgman  cottage  at  seven  o'clock,  Saturday 
evening.  It  was  planned  by  Mrs.  Minner,  matron  of  the  cottage, 
assisted  by  several  teachers  and  officers  of  the  institution.  Miss 
Meldrum  of  the  Domestic  Science  Department  gave  her  expert  advice 
in  planning  the  menu,  and  assisted  in  making  the  decorations.  Our 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gibson  lettered  and  decorated  the  place  cards.  Mrs. 
Mansur,  Miss  Woodworth,  and  Miss  Lux  also  assisted  in  making  the 
decorations  and  carrying  out  the  plans  of  the  banquet.  The  matrons 
of  Tompkins  and  Moulton  cottages  lent  chairs,  tables  and  silver. 
Cobb,  Bates  and  Yerxa  Company  gave  the  Perkins  Athletic  Associa- 
tion the  benefit  of  wholesale  prices  on  supplies.  The  Mitchell,  Wood- 
bury Company  was  kind  enough  to  lend  a  dozen  glass  candlesticks  and 
five  dozen  sherbet  glasses.  At  the  tables  places  were  laid  for  fifty 
persons.  Eight  of  the  younger  boys  from  the  upper  school  acted  as 
waiters.  The  honors  for  winners  in  the  meet  were  gold,  silver  and 
bronze  medals,  and  these  were  presented  at  the  banquet  by  Mr. 
Cowgill,  principal  instructor  of  the  Overbrook  school,  Mr.  Allen 
having  had  to  leave  early.  Speeches  were  made  by  Mr.  Allen,  Mr. 
Cowgill,  Mr.  Minner,  and  the  Captains  of  the  track  teams,  —  Charles 
Piscowski  of  Overbrook,  and  Arthur  Katwick  of  Perkins.  After  the 
banquet  the  boys  gathered  in  the  cottage  living  room  to  sing  and  chat. 

Sunday  morning  we  took  the  Overbrook  boys  for  a  row  on  the 
Charles  River.  In  the  afternoon  the  Perkins  Athletic  Association 
conducted  the  visitors  to  Nantasket  Beach,  where  they  treated  them 
to  the  various  concessions. 

Monday  morning  Mr.  Cowgill  took  his  boys  to  visit  historic  Boston 
and  the  workshops  for  the  blind  in  Cambridge  and  South  Boston. 
The  Overbrook  team  left  for  home  Monday  afternoon.  They  were 
escorted  to  the  car  by  the  entire  boys'  school.  C.  B.  Minner. 


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An  Experiment  in  Dramatics. 

In  a  recent  number  of  "The  Youth's  Companion"  there  appeared 
on  "The  Children's  Page"  a  three-scene  dramatization  of  "The  Little 
Brown  Hen."  It  appealed  to  me  at  once  as  something  adaptable  to 
one  of  my  classes  in  expression,  composed  of  ninth  grade  and  first- 
year  high  pupils.  Though  the  writer  intended  the  little  play  for  child 
actors  and  an  audience  of  children,  I  immediately  wanted  to  experi- 
ment with  it  in  a  class  of  big  girls  —  blind  girls. 

There  was  no  time  in  which  to  put  the  scenes  into  Braille;  the  girls 
would  have  to  desire  very  much  to  act  in  this  play,  in  order  to  find 
the  time  for  memorizing  parts;  for  Perkins  girls  in  their  'teens,  learning 
a  great  variety  of  things  every  day  both  in  school  and  out,  can  truth- 
fully plead  "no  time"  if  extras  are  requested  for  which  they  are  not 
decidedly  enthusiastic.  And  I,  for  my  part,  am  not  always  satisfied 
with  memorized  lines  presented  by  pupils  in  the  expression  class.  The 
inflection  does  not  please,  the  words  too  often  are  uttered  without 
thought.  Therefore,  for  good  reasons,  I  made  no  attempt  to  put  the 
scenes  into  Braille. 

A  quicker  way  to  present  to  my  pupils  the  subject  matter  was  to 
read  over  to  myself,  thoughtfully  and  several  times,  the  first  scenes; 
then  to  go  into  class  and  introduce  the  characters.  Next  I  set  the 
stage,  talked  of  the  stage  properties,  and  proceeded  to  talk  for  the 
characters.  I  gave  their  lines  as  well  as  I  could  without  having 
memorized  them.  I  sat  down  for  this  one,  and  stood  up  for  another 
one;    I  walked,  talked,  and  made  my  exit. 

Then  I  called  for  volunteers:  who  would  come  forward  to  take  the 
parts,  remembering  the  speeches  as  well  as  they  could,  making  up 
their  own,  if  necessary?  Seven  hands  (there  were  seventeen  girls  in 
the  class)  rose  at  once.     The  hands  expressed  eagerness. 

Who  would  be  the  selfish  brother?  Three  girls  were  ready  to  show 
what  he  was  like.  Who,  the  unselfish  brother?  More  hands  —  five  or 
six.  He  was  a  popular  youth.  "Who  will  be  the  little  brown  hen?" 
Only  one  hand  was  raised.  The  teacher  waited  a  moment.  She 
realized  that  the  necessary  "cluck,  cluck,  clucking"  was  the  draw- 
back here.  Should  she  say,  "All  right.  Bertha,  you  may  be  the  little 
brown  hen?"     Bertha's  hand  was  high  in  air.     Evidently  she  wanted 

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to  be  chosen.  So  the  teacher  chose  her.  And  only  two  or  three 
smiles  were  seen,  not  a  sound  of  a  laugh  was  heard  as  Bertha,  the 
only  negro  in  the  class,  arose  to  impersonate  the  little  brown  hen. 

The  scene  proved  worth  while.  The  audience  of  pupils  listened  with 
interest  to  well-inflected  speeches  and  to  a  most  excellent  clucking. 
There  was  an  occasional  laugh  at  lines  improvised  at  a  moment's  need 
—  and  a  general  enthusiasm  for  play-acting. 

At  the  second  lesson,  the  first  scene  was  completed  with  the  appear- 
ance of  another  character,  Gretchen.  Just  as  this  little  maiden  was 
pleading  with  the  selfish  brother  for  more  time  in  which  to  get  the 
rent,  an  unexpected  audience  appeared  in  the  form  of  Miss  Cross 
escorting  a  teacher  from  Brighton  with  twelve  or  fifteen  of  her  eighth 
grade  pupils.  These  visitors  were  invited  to  take  seats  in  the  rear  of 
the  assembly  room  and  listen  to  the  scene  repeated  from  the  beginning. 
Both  teacher  and  pupils  showed  pleasure  in  this  dramatic  work  (perhaps 
play  is  the  better  name)  and  expressed  regret  when  they  had  to  leave. 

At  the  present  time,  my  class  is  in  the  midst  of  the  second  scene  of 
the  little  sketch  printed  in  "The  Youth's  Companion".  Enthusiasm 
still  prevails,  and  inflection  is  natural  because  spontaneous.  I  feel 
that  for  classroom  work  this  method  of  studying  dramatics  is  more 
successful  than  that  of  learning  the  parts  word  for  word.  Pupils  really 
think,  anyway.  If  their  language  is  crude,  it  at  least  improves  week 
by  week;  and  sometimes,  so  far  as  wit  is  concerned,  a  pupil  improves 
upon  the  original  text.  Genevieve  M.  Haven. 

An  Evening  with  Barrie. 

On  Monday,  November  6,  the  open  meeting  of  the  Howe  Reading 
Club  took  place  in  Dwight  Hall.  The  entertainment  was  in  the  hands 
of  the  executive  committee,  which  carried  out  the  decision,  made  by 
the  club  at  the  last  annual  meeting  in  December  1921,  to  consider 
Barrie  and  his  writings. 

First,  Miss  Swinerton  refreshed  our  memories  as  to  the  facts  of 
Barrie's  life.  Next,  Miss  Haven  read  some  beautiful  selections  from 
"Margaret  Ogilvy,"  thus  pointing  out  the  lovely  influence  of  Barrie's 
mother.      Within    a    few    days    several    of    the    grammar-school    girls 

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started  of  their  own  accord  to  carry  out  a  resolve  to  read  this  book  — 
Scotch  and  all! 

The  remainder  of  the  program  was  given  over  to  the  second  act  of 
"Quality  Street,"  in  which  the  members  of  the  executive  committee  — 
teachers  and  pupils  alike  —  took  part.  Esther  Farnsworth  was  quite 
a  "star"  as  Miss  Phoebe.  She  became  enthusiastic  enough  to  rent  a 
wig  for  the  occasion.  Dorothy  Brown  made  a  capital  Miss  Susan. 
The  school-room  scene  —  dunce,  naughty  boy  and  all  —  created  quite 
a  bit  of  merriment.  In  fact  the  audience  was  very  responsive  through- 
out the  act  and  had  no  fault  to  find  with  a  somewhat  crude  stage- 
setting.  Surely  the  costumes  made  up  for  that!  Lady  Campbell  said 
that  Miss  Lowe's  poke-bonnet  was  startlingly  like  one  her  mother 
used  to  have.  When  music  was  needed  the  drum  and  bugles  were 
heard  in  the  distance.     Altogether  the  effect  was  very  pleasing. 

Elsie  H.  Simonds. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Concerts,  Recitals  and  Lectures. 

To  Mr.  W.  H.  Brennan,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts 
in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mr.  Joseph  C.  Walker,  secretary,  for  fifty  tickets  for  a  concert  by  the 
Cecilia  Society  in  Symphony  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  five  tickets  for  a  program  of  music  for  two  piano- 
fortes, given  by  himself  and  Mr.  Herbert  R.  Boardman. 

To  Mrs.  Anita  Davis-Chase,  for  an  average  of  ten  tickets  for  each  of  three 
recitals  in  Jordan  Hall,  Boston. 

To  Miss  Alice  Hutchinson,  secretary,  for  three  season  tickets  for  a  series  of 
eight  concerts  by  the  Chromatic  Club. 

To  Mrs.  Leo  Ecker,  for  three  tickets  for  concerts  by  the  Boston  Symphony 
Orchestra. 

To  Mr.  Arthur  Hadley  and  Miss  Helen  Hadley,  for  twenty  tickets  for  a 
song  recital  by  Mr.  CoUn  O'More,  assisted  by  Emilie  Rose  Knox,  vioUnist,  in 
SjTn phony  Hall. 

To  Mrs.  A.  Lincoln  Filene,  for  fifteen  tickets  for  a  concert  by  pupils  of  the 
Boston  Music  School  Settlement  in  the  Copley-Plaza  Hotel. 

To  Mrs.  A.  M.  Peabody,  for  a  general  invitation  to  attend  Mr.  Edward  Avis's 
illustrated  bird  lecture  in  Bulfinch  Place  Church,  Boston. 

To  Miss  Edith  Torrey,  for  ten  tickets  for  a  pupils'  recital  in  the  Torrey  Studio, 
Boston. 

To  Miss  Helen  W.  Seavey,  for  an  invitation  to  attend  Miss  Grace  Cornell's 
lecture  on  "Art  as  an  Economic  Factor"  in  the  Boston  Public  Library. 

IL  —  Acknowledgments  for  Recitals,  Lectures  and  Dramatics  in  Our 

Hall. 

To  Prof.  Edward  Abner  Thompson,  for  a  reading  of  "Disraeli." 

To  Mr.  Donald  McMillan,  for  a  lecture  on  his  trips  to  the  Arctic. 

To  Miss  Ethel  Potter,  for  a  reading  of  "A  Kiss  for  Cinderella." 

To  Dr.  Bricker  of  the  Mayo  Sanatorium,  for  a  talk  on  "The  Care  of  the 
Teeth." 

To  Mr.  WiNTHROP  Packard,  for  a  talk  on  birds. 

To  Mrs.  Lucia  Ames  Mead,  for  a  lecture  on  "Some  Phases  of  International 
Affairs." 

To  Conmiissioner  John  P.  Johnson,  for  a  talk  on  "Immigration." 

To  Prof.  Albert  H.  Gilmer  and  pupUs  from  Tufts  and  Jackson  colleges,  for  a 
presentation  of  "The  Servant  in  the  House." 

To  Mr.  Z.  W.  Hauk  of  the  Hill  Bros.  Co.,  for  a  motion  picture  of  the  date  in- 
dustry, with  accompanying  description. 

To  Miss  Marion  Chapin,  for  an  organ  recital. 

To  the  Rev.  Edward  Dwt:ght  Eaton,  D.D.,  for  a  lecture  on  "Hawaii." 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mr.  Arthur  E.  Wilson,  for  a  talk  on  birds. 

To  Mr.  Herman  de  Anguera,  for  a  talk  on  "South  America." 

To  Dr.  S.\muel  P.  Hayes,  for  a  talk  on  "Judging  Human  Character." 

III.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Periodicals  and  Newspapers. 

CaUfornia  News,  Christian  Record  (embossed),  Colorado  Index,  Florida  School 
Herald,  Illuminator  (embossed).  Industrial  Enterprise,  Juvenile  Braille  Monthly, 
Matilda  Ziegler  Magazine  (embossed).  The  Mentor,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Our  Dumb 
Animals,  Red,  White  and  Blue,  Rocky  Mountain  Leader,  Students  Rev-iew,  The 
Theosophical  Path,  The  Utah  Eagle,  Virginia  Guide,  West  Virginia  Tablet. 

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IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

To  Dr.  Henry  Hawkins  and  Dr.  Harold  B.  Chandler,  for  professional  services. 

To  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  the  Massa- 
chusetts HoMCEOPATHic  HosPiTAL  and  St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital,  for  care  and 
treatment  of  pupils. 

To  Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Mrs.  Henry  H. 
Sprague,  in  memory  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Ward,  the  Primary  Department  of  the 
Sunday  School  of  the  Union  Church  of  Weymouth  and  East  Braintree,  and  Miss 
Susan  Avery's  class  in  that  Sunday  School,  the  Kindergarten  Departments  of  the 
Eliot  Bible  School  of  Roxbury,  the  Junior  High  School  of  Wellesley  Hills,  Mrs. 
Hyslop,  Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley,  Miss  Ella  L.  Loomer,  Mrs.  J.  T.  Atwood 
and  daughter,  and  Miss  Harriet  Littell,  for  gifts  of  money. 

To  Miss  Esther  Pratt,  Miss  Ruth  Colburn,  Miss  Emma  Kingsland,  Mr.  V. 
Maschio,  Mr.  M.  Ferguson,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Tobey,  Mr.  P.  F.  Leland,  Miss  Ella 
L.  LooMER,  Miss  Harriet  Littell,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daniel  Goodwin,  Mrs.  White, 
Mrs.  Reinhold  Ruelberg,  Mrs.  Alexander  Cochrane,  Lady  Campbell,  Mrs. 
Joseph  Hardy,  the  Liberty  Orchards  Co.,  and  the  Hill  Bros.  Co.,  through  Mr. 
Z.  W.  Hauk,  for  confectionery,  fruit,  preserves  and  ice  cream. 

To  Miss  Mary  Adams,  Miss  White,  Mrs.  Henry  H.  Sprague,  Mrs.  Frank 
Walker  and  Miss  Teague,  for  dolls,  toys  and  other  gifts. 

To  Mrs.  E.  L.  MacMahon,  for  a  pianoforte. 

To  Mrs.  A.  C.  Cousins,  for  a  pianola  with  records;  and  to  Mr.  Joshua  Loen- 
BAUM  and  Miss  Emma  Kingsland,  for  records. 

To  the  Committee  for  the  Blind,  Temple  Israel,  for  a  Victrola  with  records, 
and  for  clothing;  also  to  that  Committee,  to  Mrs.  David  Evans,  to  a  Girls'  Club 
at  Behnont  Unitarian  Church,  and  to  Mrs.  Malcolm  Taylor,  for  parties  for  the 
children;  and  to  Mrs.  Stewart  Burchard,  for  transportation  in  the  last-named 
instance. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Claflin,  for  a  sleigh  ride  for  the  children  "in 
memory  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Mack." 

To  Mrs.  Galen  Flanders,  Mrs.  Pike,  Mrs.  Homer  Rogers'  Sunday  School 
class  at  Trinity  Church,  Boston,  The  Ladies'  Guild  of  St.  John's  M.  E.  Church, 
Watertown,  Mrs.  I.  M.  Slocum,  Mrs.  J.  Adler  and  Mrs.  Sigmund  Adler,  Mrs. 
M.  J.  Alland  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Lamarine,  for  clothing. 

To  Mrs.  de  Anguera,  for  a  mounted  fishhawk. 

To  Mr.  Harrie  E.  Waite,  Dr.  Reinhold  Ruelberg,  Miss  Belle  N.  Clarke, 
Miss  Georgia  Trader,  Mr.  Unosuke  Kawamoto,  the  Lend  a  Hand  Mission, 
Boston,  and  the  American  Brotherhood  for  the  Blind,  for  paper  and  books. 

To  Mr.  H.  W.  Tyler,  for  raffia. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS. 

October  1,  1923. 


Upper  School. 


Baker,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Bradbury,  Thelma  M. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Buckley,  Alice. 
Cambridge,  Mollie. 
Clancy,  Elizabeth. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Comtois,  Eva. 
Costa,  Marianna. 
Demers,  Germaine  M. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Dunn,  Mabel  C. 
Dunn,  Mary  C. 
Duquette,  Irene. 
Eastman,  M.  Albertina. 
EUiott,  Ethel  S. 
Elliott,  Mary. 
Ennis,  Ethel  F. 
Farnham,  Barbara  E. 
Fiske,  Dorothy  T. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Foster,  Mabel  G. 
Gagnon,  Eva. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Hamel,  Irene. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Haswell,  Thelma  R. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
IngersoU,  Dorothy. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Kazanjian,  Zaroohie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
KeUey,  Beulah  C. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
Laurenzo,  Carolina. 
Leavitt,  Ella  C. 
Leppanen,  Mary. 
L'Heureux,  Juliette. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McGovern,  Velma. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 


Nadeau,  Olivina  M. 
Noon,  Rita  A. 
Ogilvie,  Hilda  M. 
Parker,  Ethel  I. 
Person,  Erine  A. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Rankin,  M.  Dorothy. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Saladino,  Rose  M. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Severance,  Georgia  M, 
Shaw,  Helena. 
Shea,  Mary  Ellen. 
Sim,  Ruby  E. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Smith,  Dorothy  L. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Trudel,  Olive  C. 
Turner,  Mildred  H. 
Wall,  Agnes  M. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Wolf,  Hedwig. 
Amiro,  Gilbert. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Barrett,  Robert  C. 
Behnsky,  Samuel. 
Bergeron,  Albert. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Carlos,  Antone  F. 
Chandler,  James  L. 
Combs,  Raymond  L. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Cormier,  Alfred. 
CuUen,  George  F. 
Curtiss,  Miles  B. 
Dame,  Leo. 
DiMartino,  Matthew. 
Dougherty,  Alexander  W. 
Dow,  Ralph  E.  F. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Evans,  Walter  C. 
Frcnde,  John. 
Gaffney,  George  J. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Gagnon,  R6n6. 
Gearrey,  Raymond  E. 
Goguen,  Raoul. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Grime,  G.  Edward. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 


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Hannon,  James  E. 
Hartselle,  Cecil  H. 
Hendrick,  Horatio  W. 
Jablonski,  Joseph. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Katwick,  Arthur  D. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Lavoie,  J.  H.  Alphonse. 
Leone,  Amadeo. 
Le  Roi,  Francis  H. 
Libby,  A.  Cleveland. 
Lippitt,  Raymond  A. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  H. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 
Marchesio,  Aldo. 
McCarthy,  Eugene  C. 
Medeiros,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Meuse,  Lawrence  A. 
Michaud,  J.  Armand. 
Morse,  Kenneth. 


Munro,  George  H. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Paquette,  Armand. 
Piccolo,  R.  Albert. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Reinert,  Alfred  E. 
Reinert,  Gustav. 
Reynolds,  Waldo  F. 
Rosenbloom,  Robert. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
St.  George,  Wilham. 
Shulman,  George. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Traub,  H.  Spencer. 
Vaillancourt,  Maurice  A. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Wesson,  Kermit  O. 
Weston,  Gordon  W. 
Winton,  Henry  W. 
Withers,  Harold. 
Young,  Vinal  R. 


Lower  School. 


Ahneda,  Maria  R. 
Badrosian,  Mary. 
Barnard,  Ehza  B. 
BeUveau,  Leontine  T. 
Braley,  Ruth  I. 
Buckley,  Frances  A. 
Casella,  Frances. 
Corsi,  AngeUna. 
Coughhn,  Ethel. 
Grossman,  Evelyn  M. 
Daniels,  Dorothy  D. 
Dardioh,  Luigina. 
Davis,  Mary. 
De  Dominicis,  Edith. 
Delia  Morte,  Maria. 
Dien,  Sarah  M. 
Doherty,  Kathleen  E. 
Duverger,  Loretta  V. 
Edwards,  Eleanor  B. 
Fanning,  Gladys  L. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
Glynn,  Helen. 
Goodwin,  Helen  J. 
Harasimowicz,  Ahce. 
Hinckley,  Geraldine. 
Holland,  Doris  A. 
Landry,  Edwina. 
Laudate,  E.  Lena. 
Lenville,  Eva  Hilda. 
Lyons,  Mary  L. 
Macdougall,  Mildred  D. 
McEvoy,  Evelyn  M. 
McMullin,  Beatrice  M. 
McNamara,  Eileen. 
McNamara,  Lorraine. 
Mierzewski,  Stephanie. 
Mitchell,  Ethel  G. 
Nowicki,  Janina. 
Pepe,  Carmella. 
Pepe,  Philomena. 
Perry,  May  B. 


Pimental,  Mary  V. 
Poirier,  Emma. 
Reese,  Helen. 
Robinson,  M.  Viola. 
Roy,  Catherine  M. 
Saladino,  Beatrice  L. 
Samon,  Stacey. 
Saverino,  Maimie. 
Scott,  ArUne  R. 
Silvia,  Emma. 
Stanievicz,  Mary. 
Szezerba,  Mary. 
Tirrella,  Helen. 
Wheeler,  Theresa. 
Widger,  Evelyn  L. 
Withrow,  Cora. 
Wonderly,  Christine  E. 
Beauheu,  Ernest. 
Berube,  Walter. 
Bowden,  Robert  F. 
CambardeUi,  Arthur  J. 
Cammarano,  Angelo. 
Campbell,  Peter  F. 
CaroseUi,  Andrea. 
Case,  Wilham  A. 
Casella,  Charles. 
Chombeau,  Bertrand. 
Clemens,  John. 
Cook,  Wilham  L. 
Cookson,  Robert. 
Costa,  Anthony. 
Cowick,  Orville  H. 
Damon,  George  M. 
Davy,  Horace. 
Despres,  John  P. 
Di  Cicco,  Emiho. 
Donovan,  Thomas  J. 
Dore,  Charles  W. 
Dunbar,  Kenneth  A. 
Egan,  Robert  J. 
Ferguson,  George  A. 


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Giuliano,  Paolo. 
Gluckstein,  Archie. 
Gould,  Basil. 
Hatch,  Arthur  F. 
Henry,  Paul  W. 
Holmes,  Rutherford  B. 
Hurley,  Arnold  E. 
Jackman,  Richard  F. 
Kubilunas,  John. 
Lamarine,  WiUiam  L. 
Lankowicz,  Stanley. 
Lubin,  Johxi. 
Marchesio,  Guido. 
Maschio,  Angelo  N.  B. 
McCluskey,  Harry  L. 


Meuse,  Paul  R. 
Paice,  Gerald  J. 
Pike,  Norman  N. 
Pratt,  Marston  T. 
Rainville,  Harvey  L. 
Remington,  Joseph  H. 
Santos,  Tony. 
Shaw,  Harris  E. 
Simoneau,  Henry  J. 
Spelman,  Kenneth  E. 
Stott,  Lester  W. 
Summerhayes,  Paul  R. 
Thompson,  R.  Lawrence. 
Tobey,  Arthur  W. 
Yates,  Merle  F. 


The  places  from  which  these  pupils  come  and  the  number  from  each  place 
follows :  — 


Massachusetts 
Rhode  Island 
Maine  . 
New  Hampshire 


185  I  Vermont 

39  I  Connecticut 

17  I  Alabama 

14  I  Virginia 


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EXHIBITION   OF  ACTIVITIES  OF  PUPILS  OF  THE 

PERKINS  INSTITUTION  AND  MASSACHUSETTS 

SCHOOL  FOR  THE   BLIND,   1832-1923. 


Jordan  Hall,  Boston,  Monday,  April  30,  1923,  at  Three  o'clock  p.m. 
The  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  presiding. 


Opening  Remarks. 


Games  and  Exercises. 


Classroom  Work. 


PROGRAM. 


Part  I. 


By  the  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 
By  the  Kindergarten  and  Primary  Children. 
By  Pupils  of  the  Upper  School. 


Example  of  Work  in  Expression. 

By  Boys  of  the  Upper  School. 


Address. 

Folk  Dances. 
Gymnastic  Exercises. 
Reed  Dance. 


Part  II. 

By  His  Excellency,  Channing  H.  Cox, 
Governor  of  Massachusetts. 

By  Girls  of  the  Primary  School. 

By  Boys  of  the  Upper  School. 

By  Girls  of  the  Upper  School. 


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CONCERT     BY     THE     CHOIR    OF    THE    PERKINS 

INSTITUTION   AND    MASSACHUSETTS 

SCHOOL  FOR  THE  BLIND. 


Sunday  Afternoon,  May  20,  1923,  at  3.30  o'clock. 

PROGRAM. 

The  Peace  Pipe Frederick  Converse 

Mixed  chorus  with  baritone  solo. 

Daybreak Eaton  Farting 

March  of  the  Cameron  Men Granville  Bantock 

Three  Pictures  from  "The  Tower  of  Babel" Rubinstein 

(a)  Chorus  of  the  Sons  of  Shem. 

(b)  Chorus  of  the  Sons  of  Ham. 

(c)  Chorus  of  the  Sons  of  Japhet. 

A.  D.  1919  —  A  Commemorative  Poem  by  Brian  Hooker, 

Set  to  music  for  mixed  chorus  with  soprano  solo  by     .       .       .        Horatio  Parker 

Harrying  Chorus,  from  the  Plymouth  Tercentenary  Pageant     .    Edgar  StiUman  Kelley 


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GRADUATING    EXERCISES    OF    THE    PERKINS 

INSTITUTION  AND   MASSACHUSETTS 

SCHOOL  FOR  THE   BLIND. 


Tuesday,  June  19,  1923,  10.30  a.m. 


PROGRAM. 

Part  Song— "A  Psalm  of  Life" Pinsuti 

Girls'  Glee  Club. 

Essays: 

Popular  Opinions  Regarding  Reading  and  Writing. 

Nevart  Najarian. 

The  New  Outlook  for  the  District  Schools. 

Esther  May  Farnsworth. 

Perkins  Girls  at  Louise  Andrews  Camp. 

Jane  Augusta  Hall. 

Harriet  Hosmer. 

Helena  Mary  Drake. 

American  Women  in  Politics. 

Jennie  May  Linscott. 

On  Making  Calls 

Gladys  May  Bolton. 

Pianoforte  Solo  —  Etude  in  G-flat,  Op.  10 Chopin 

SoNORA  Irene  Brustuen. 

Essays: 

The  Development  of  the  Newspaper. 

Walter  Cameron  Stone. 

National  Parks. 

Thomas  Augustine  Hanley. 

Our  National  Capital. 

Edward  Joseph  Liberacki. 

The  Shadow  of  the  Turk. 

Daniel  James  Munn. 

Presentation  of  Diplomas  and  Certificates. 

By  the  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton  , 
President  of  the  Corporation. 

Chorus  — "The  Twenty-Third  Psalm" Neidlinger 


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STATEMENT  OF  ACCOUNTS. 


Boston,  October  Twenty-fourth,  1923. 

Messrs.  Warren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins  InstiMion  and 
Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown,  Massachusetts. 

Gentlemen  :  —  I  have  audited  the  accounts  of  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer  of 
the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  31,  1923,  and  have  found  that  all 
income  from  investments  and  proceeds  from  sales  of  securities  have  been  accounted 
for,  and  that  the  donations,  subscriptions,  and  miscellaneous  receipts,  as  shown 
by  the  books,  have  been  deposited  in  bank  to  the  credit  of  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Institution. 

I  have  vouched  all  disbursements  and  verified  the  bank  balances  as  at  the  close 
of  the  fiscal  year. 

The  stocks  and  bonds  in  the  custody  of  the  Treasurer  were  counted  by  the 
Auditing  Committee  and  the  schedules  of  the  securities,  examined  by  them,  were 
then  submitted  to  me  and  found  to  agree  with  those  called  for  by  the  books. 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  following  statements  covering  the  institution,  Howe 
Memorial  Press  Fund,  and  Kindergarten,  correctly  set  forth  the  income  and  ex- 
penditures for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  31,  1923. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JOHN  MONTGOMERY, 
Certified  Public  Accountant. 


INSTITUTION. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1923. 

Assets. 
Plant:  — 

Real  estate,  Watertown $573,372  66 

Real  estate.  South  Boston 8^647  74 

„     .  ,  '■ $582,020  40 

Equipment:  — 

Furniture  and  household $11,042  99 

Tools,  etc i;236  60 

Music  department 18,850  00 

Library  department 70,695  61 

Works  department 12,674  05 

,         ,        ,  '■ 114,499  25 

Investments:  — 

Real  estate $208,078  74 

Stocks  and  bonds 580,558  46 

Stocks  and  bonds  —  Varnum  Fund 127^373  61 

Stocks  and  bonds  —  Baker  Fund 9,831  25 

T         .          ,          .  .             J           ,.                                                       '- 925,842  06 

Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies 3  358  27 

Accounts  receivable .        .  5*413  91 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee .        .  '733  90 

Cash  on  hand .        .        .  9  581  44 

Tota' $1,641,459  23 

Liabilities. 

General  account $346,455  57 

runds:  — 

Special $59,277  00 

Permanent 355,280  96 

General 867,382  39 

1,281,940  35 

Amount  carried  forward $1,628  395  92 

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Amount  brought  forward $1,628,395  92 

Unexpended  income,  special  funds 10,166  77 

Gifts  for  clock  and  organ 39  00 

Vouchers  payable 2,857  54 

Total $1,641,459  23 

Treasurer's  Condensed  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1923. 

Rent  net  income $13,484  30 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes 30,724  05 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  fimds 2,851  81 

Annuities 1,200  00 

Donations 3,387  50 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts $40,300  00 

Tuition  and  board,  others 33,595  42 

73,895  42 

Total $125,543  08 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accounts  ....        $2,851  81 
Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses 741  95 

3,593  76 

Net  income $121,949  32 

Net  charge  to  Director $122,915  30 

Repairs,  faulty  construction 2,152  96 

125,068  26 

Deficit $3,118  94 

Income  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1922 $9,586  60 

Income  1922-1923 2,851  81 

Total $12,438  41 

Distributed 2,271  64 

Unexpended  income  August  31,  1923 $10,166  77 

Director's  Condensed  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1923. 

Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages $7,556  18 

Other  expenses 428  94 

$7,985  12 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $25,204  80 

Other  expenses :  — 

Provisions $13,598  65 

Light,  heat  and  power 14,729  06 

Household  furnishings  and  supplies    .        .        .  2,976  53 

Insurance  and  water 3,448  08 

Repairs 4,443  63 

Publicity 898  09 

Extraordinary  expense 1,405  21 

Loss  on  bad  debts 786  26 

Depreciation   on   furniture,   household  equip- 
ment, tools,  etc 2,287  97 

Depreciation  on  buildings,  Watertown       .        .        13,260  30 

Miscellaneous 1,061  31 

58,895  09 

84,099  89 

Instruction  and  school  supplies:  — 

Salaries  and  wages $31,186  00 

Other  expenses 850  97 

32,036  97 

Net  loss.  Tuning  department 191  84 

Total $124,313  82 

Less  net  income.  Works  department 1,398  52 

Net  charge  to  Director $122,915  30 

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WORKS   DEPARTMENT. 
Pkofit  and  Loss  Statement,  August  31,  1923. 

Revenue. 
Sales $51,689  60 

Expenditures. 

Materials  used $13,863  65 

Salaries  and  wages 28,812  71 

General  expense 5,211   12 

Auto  expense 744  66 

Total  expenditures 48,632  14 

Profit $3,057  46 

Deduct :  — 

Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipmen  G       .        .        .        $1,542  24 
Loss  on  bad  accounts 121  05 

Total $1,663  29 

Less  bad  debt  recoveries 4  35 

1,658  94 

Total  profit  for  year  ending  August  31,  1923 $1,398  52 


INSTITUTION   FUNDS   AND   LEGACIES. 
Special  funds :  — 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb  and  blind)         .        ,        .  $4,000  00 

John  D.  Fisher  (Scholarship) 3,610  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  blind  and  deaf) 5,000  00 

Harris  Fund  (Outdoor  RelieQ 26,667  00 

Maria  Kemble  Oliver  (Concert  Tickets) 15,000  00 

Elizabeth  P.  Putnam  (Higher  Education)          ....  1,000  00 

Richard  M.  Saltonstall  (Use  Trustees) 3,000  00 

A.  Shuman  (Clothing  Fund) 1000  00 


Permanent  funds :  — 

Charles  Tidd  Baker $10 


Charlotte  Billings 

Stoddard  Capen     .... 

Jennie  M.  Colby,  in  memory  of  . 

Ella  Newman  Curtis  Fund  . 

Stephen  Fairbanks 

Harris  Fund  (General  Purposes) 

Harriet  S.  Hazeltine  Fund   . 

Benjamin  Humphrey    . 

Prentiss  M.  Kent  .... 

Jonathan  E.  Pecker 

Richard  Perkins     .... 

Mrs.  Marilla  L.  Pitts,  in  memory  of 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial  . 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer 

Charles  Frederick  Smith 

Timothy  Smith      .... 

Mary  Lowell  Stone 

George  W.  Thvm  .... 

Alfred  T.  Turner    .... 

Anne  White  Vose  .... 

Charles  L.  Young  .... 

William  Varnum  Fund 


1 

12 

5 

127 


125  79 
,507  00 
,770  00 
100  00 
.000  00 
,000  00 
,333  00 
,000  00 
,000  00 
,500  00 
950  00 
.000  00 
.000  00 
,000  00 
,174  77 
,663  00 
,000  00 
,000  00 
529  89 
000  00 
994  00 
000  00 
633  51 


General  funds:  — 

Elizabeth  B.  Bailey 
Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 
Calvin  W.  Barker  . 
Lucy  B.  Barker 
Francis  Bartlett     . 


,000  00 
,500  00 
,859  32 
.953  21 
,500  00 


$59,277  00 


355,280  96 


Amounts  carried  forward $15,812  53      $414,557  96 

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Amounts  brought  forward $15,812  63      $414,557  96 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

Mary  Bartol 300  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 25,000  00 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell 5,832  66 

William  T.  Bolton 555  22 

George  W.  Boyd 5,000  00 

Caroline  E.  Boyden 1,930  39 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 268,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 10,508  70 

Lucy  S.  Brewer 10,215  36 

J.  Edward  Brown 100,000  00 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham 5,000  00 

Annie  E.  Caldwell 3,000  00 

Emma  C.  Campbell 1,000  00 

Edward  F.  Gate 5,000  00 

Fanny  Channing 2,000  00 

Ann  Eliza  Colburn 5,000  00 

Susan  J.  Conant 500  00 

William  A.  Copeland 1,000  00 

Louise  F.  Crane 5,000  00 

W.  Murray  Crane 10,000  00 

Harriet  Otis  Cruft 6,000  00 

David  Cummings 7,723  07 

Chastine  L.  Gushing 500  00 

I.  W.  Danforth 2,500  00 

Charles  L.  Davis 1,000  00 

Susan  L.  Davis 1,500  00 

Joseph  Descalzo 1,000  00 

John  H.  Dix 10,000  00 

Alice  J.  H.  Dwinell 200  00 

Mary  E.  Eaton 5,000  00 

Mortimer  G.  Ferris  Memorial 1,000  00 

Nancy  H.  Fosdick 3,750  00 

Mary  Helen  Freeman 1,000  00 

Cornelia  Anne  French 10,000  00 

Martha  A.  French 164  40 

Ephraim  L.  Frothingham 1,825  97 

Jessie  P.  Fuller 200  00 

Thomas  Gaffield 6,685  38 

Albert  Glover 1,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5,000  00 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow          . 6,471  23 

Ellen  Hammond 1,000  00 

Hattie  S.  Hathaway 500  00 

Charles  H.  Hayden 27,461  01 

John  C.  Haynes 1,000  00 

Joseph  H.  Heywood 500  00 

George  A.  Hill 100  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 3,708  32 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchison 2,156  00 

Ernestine  M.  Kettle 10,000  00 

Lydia  F.  Knowles 50  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson 6,000  00 

William  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Mary  I.  Locke 7,500  00 

Hannah  W.  Loring 9,500  00 

Adolph  S.  Lundin 100  00 

Susan  B.  Lyman 4,809  78 

Stephen  W.  Marston 5,000  00 

Charles  Merriam 1,000  00 

Joseph  F.  Noera 2,000  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

George  Francis  Parkman 50,000  00 

Grace  Parkman 500  00 

Philip  G.  Peabody 1,200  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20,000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt 2,928  59 

Grace  E.  Reed 4,850  00 

Matilda  B.  Richardson 300  00 

Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Marian  Russell 5,000  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $733,203  24      $414,557  96 

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Amounts  brought  forward $733,203  24      $414,557  96 

General  funds  —  Concluded.  „  „  ,„  «„ 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2.640  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Richard  Black  Sewell 25,000  00 

Margaret  A.  Simpson 968  57 

Esther  W.  Smith f.OOO  00 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind 15,000  00 

Henry  F.  Spencer 1.000  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey 5,000  00 

Sophronia  S.  Sunbury ^^^  ix 

Mary  F.  Swift 1.391  00 

William  Taylor A^r^l% 

Joanna  C.  Thompson 1.000  00 

William  Timlin 3,000  00 

Mary  Wlllson  Tucker 465  32 

George  B.  Upton 10,000  00 

Abbie  T.  Vose 1.000  00 

Horace  W.  Wadlcigh 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Harriet  Ware 1.952  02 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested  remainder  in- 
terest under  his  will) 11,500  00 

William  H.  Warren 4,073   17 

Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Cordelia  H.  Wheeler 800  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  Whitney 1.000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson 543  75 

Thomas  T.  Wyman 20,000  00 

Fanny  Young 8,000  00 

William  D.Young 1^000_00        ^^^^^^^  ^^ 


$1,281,940  35 


DONATIONS.  INSTITUTION   ACCOUNT. 

Safford,  Mr.  &  Mrs.  F.  R $10  00 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society 3,377  50 

Additions  to  Scholarship  Fund  in  "Memory  of  John  D.  Fisher": 

Adams,  Mrs.  Karl $5  00 

Allen,  Rev.  Frederick  B 10  00 

Agoos  Family 75  00 

Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F 10  00 

Bixby,  Dr.  James  F.,  in  memory  of 25  00 

Blake,  Mrs.  Frances 20  00 

Blake,  George  F 10  00 

Brooks,  Gorham 25  00 

Burditt,  Miss  Alice  A 2  00 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C 5  00 

Clapp.  Mrs.  Mary  L 20  00 

Cotting,  Charles  E 10  00 

Crabtree,  Miss  Lotta  M 2,000  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P 10  00 

Damon.  A.  W 10  00 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A 5  00 

DeWitt,  Alexander 10  00 

Emerson.  Mrs.  William 25  00 

Everett.  Dr.  Oliver  H 5  00 

Farlow.  Mrs.  William  G 5  00 

Frary,  Mrs.  Mary  C 5  00 

Gage,  Mrs.  Homer 40  00 

Geer,  Mrs.  Danforth.  Jr 10  00 

Gray,  Mrs.  John  C 100  00 

Hale,  Mrs.  Louis  G 10  00 

Haskell,  Mrs.  Edwin  B 5  00 

Hearsay,  Mrs.  Mary  E 5  00 


$3,387  50 


Amounts  carried  forward *2,462  00  $3,387  50 

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Amounts  brought  forward 


Additions  to  Scholarship  Fund  in  "  Memory  of  John  D.  Fisher' 
—  Concluded. 
Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  William  E. 
Hubbard,  Miss  Helen 
Keene,  Mrs.  Jarvis  B. 
Leland,  Leslie  F.    . 
Leland,  Mrs.  Lester 
Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P. 
Mason,  Charles  F. 
Morrison,  Mrs.  John  H. 
Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob 
Perkins,  Edward  N. 
Potter,  Mrs.  William  H. 
Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H. 
Pulsifer,  Mrs.  G.  R. 
Rogers,  Miss  Winifred 
Saltonstall,  Leverett 
Snow,  Walter  B.    . 
Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L. 
Stoddard,  Charles  F. 
Taff,  Mrs.  William  W. 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Anna  M. 
Tifift,  Eliphalet  T. 
Tower,  Miss  Ellen  M.  . 
Wales,  Mr.  &  Mrs.  William  Q. 
Whitman,  Mr.  &  Mrs.  Edmund  A. 
W'inters,  Mrs.  Mary  Ray 
Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  Lindall 


H. 


$2,462  00        $3,387  60 


100  00 

5  00 
25  00 

5  00 

5  00 
25  00 

5  00 

10  00 

100  00 

3  00 

5 

1 

5 

1 

2 


00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

15  00 

3  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

1  00 
25  00 
20  00 

5  00 
25  GO 

2  00 
25  00 


2,900  00 


3,287  60 


HOWE   MEMORIAL   PRESS   FUND. 
Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1923. 

Assets. 
Equipment  and  supplies :  — 

Printing  plant $874  59 

Machinery 4,305  47 

Printing  inventory 12,881  09 

Appliances 8,443  75 

Embossing  inventory 581  80 

Stationery,  etc 718  78 

$27,805  48 

Investments :  — 

Stocks  and  bonds 169,915  20 

Notes  and  accounts  receivable 3,760  10 

Cash  on  hand 4,095  62 

Total $206,576  40 

Liabilities. 
General  account $181,936  17 

Funds:  — 

Special $7,000  00 

Permanent 5,000  00 

General 11,490  00 

23,490  00 

Vouchers  payable 150  23 

Total $205,576  40 


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Treasurer's  Condensed  Income  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1923. 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  purposes *^^'q««  ^l 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds Vaa  or 

Other  income ^^  ^" 

Total  $11,211   10 

■loiai  • SO   4Q 

Less  Treasurer  s  expenses "'^ 

Net  income ^]\'l^\  ol 

Net  charge  to  Director lu.^io  ^i 

Balance  of  income *^06  37 

Director's  Condensed  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1923. 
Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant:  — 

Embossing a'^zL  o  = 

Printing 4,1^6  85 

Appliances ^'^-^  ^^ 

Stationery o^H  a^ 

Library 2,067  43 

Depreciation  on  machinery  and  equipment      ....  448  08 

Publicity 1  Q,t  So 

Salaries 1-»15  00 

Loss  on  bad  accounts i4?  va. 

Miscellaneous ^^^        ^^^^.3  ^3 

Discounts c  cIt  ol 

Income  from  sale  of  appliances o'l    v  ^i 

Income  from  sale  of  books,  music,  etc 2,187  51 

7,707   79 

Net  charge  to  Director $10,215  24 


HOWE   MEMORIAL   PRESS   FUNDS  AND   LEGACIES. 

Special  funds:  — 

Harriet  S.  Hazeltine  (printing  raised  characters)  $2,000  00 

Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  Fund  (books,  maps  &  charts)         .  5,000  00 


$7,000  00 


Permanent  fund:  — 

J.  Pauline  Schenkl 5,000  00 

General  funds :  —  ^„„„  ^^ 

Beggs  Fund $200  00 

Joseph  H.  Center 1.000  00 

AugGsta  Wells 10.290  00  ^^  ^qq  qq 


$23,490  00 


KINDERGARTEN. 

Balance  Sheet,  August  31,  1923. 

Assets. 

Plant: —  e/tcocoo  01 

Real  estate,  Watertown $45o,83^  ^1 

Equipment:  — 


FiUTiiture  and  household $11,664  23 

Tools,  etc 1.098  12 

Music  department 2,200  00 


14,962  35 


Investments :  — 

Real  estate $563,841  89 

Stocks  and  bonds 969,294  38  .„„  ,„^  „, 

1,533,136  27 

Inventory  of  provisions  and  supplies ^'04?  ko 

Accounts  receivable "Iv  52 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee .  ^I^  °X 

Cash  on  hand 5.419  89 

Total $2,016,741  34 

55 


Liabilities. 
General  account $343,108  54 

Funds:  — 

Special $7,340  00 

Permanent 204,013  44 

General 1,407,879  18 

1,619,232  62 

Unexpended  income,  special  funds 1,552  36 

Mortgage  note  payable 48,000  00 

Vouchers  payable 1,398  03 

Accounts  payable 3,449  79 

Total $2,016,741  34 


Treasuber's  Condensed  Income  Account,  Year  endinq  August  31,  1923. 

Rent  net  income $24,440  67 

Interest  and  dividends,  general  piu-poaes 52,939  06 

Interest  and  dividends,  special  funds 296  17 

Donations 15  50 

Tuition  and  board,  Massachusetts $33,580  00 

Tuition  and  board,  others 12,936  00 

46,516  00 


Total $124,207  40 

Less  special  fund  income  to  special  fund  accounts  ....  $296  17 

Less  Treasurer's  miscellaneous  expenses 815  70 

1,111  87 

Net  income $123,095  53 

Net  charge  to  Director $115,492  13 

Repairs,  faulty  construction 3,179  11 

118,671  24 


Balance  of  income $4,424  29 

Income,  Special  Funds. 

On  hand  September  1,  1922 $1,362  12 

Income  1922-1923 296  17 

Total $1,658  29 

Distributed 105  93 

Unexpended  income  August  31,  1923 $1,552  36 

Directob's  Condensed  Expense  Account,  Year  ending  August  31,  1923. 
Administration :  — 

Salaries  and  wages $7,013  98 

Other  expenses 640  88 

$7,654  86 

Maintenance  and  operation  of  plant :  — 

Salaries  and  wages $26,446  58 

Other  expenses :  — 

Provisions $13,419  57 

Light,  heat  and  power 14,240  46 

Tuition  and  board 12,655  42 

Household  furnishings  and  supplies    .        .        .  3,519  56 
Depreciation   on   furniture,   household   equip- 
ment, tools,  etc. 1,647  45 

Depreciation  on  buildings,  Watertown      .        .        10,371  46 

Insurance  and  water 2,304  88 

Repairs 2,896  72 

Publicity 875  82 

Loss  on  bad  accounts 117  38 

Extraordinary  expense 755  86 

Miscellaneous 2,786  88 

65,591  46 

92,038  04 

Instruction  and  school  supplies :  — 

Salaries  and  wages $15,000  00 

Other  expenses 799  23 

15,799  23 

Net  charge  to  Director $115,492  13 

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KINDERGARTEN  FUNDS  AND  LEGACIES. 

Special  funds :  —                               ,  .  ,  - 1. „ „  „„ 

Charles  Wells  Cook  (Scholarship)               .        .        .        •        .  $500  00 

Glover  Fund  (Albert  Glover,  Blind  deaf  mutes)      .        .        .  ^'^X  "1^ 

Emeline  Morse  Lane  (Books) 1.000  00 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Room 4,000  00 


Permanent  funds:  —  sti  c  m;^  as 

Charles  Tidd  Baker *  i 'nnn  nn 

William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,  Memorial         ....  l.UUU  uu 

Samuel  A.  Borden 4,675  00 

A.  A.  C,  In  Memoriam n  nin  Vn 

Helen  G.  Coburn  .        .        .        .     , 9.9«0  10 

M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  Fund 10,000  00 

Caroline  T.  Downes 12.950  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Eliza  J.  Bell  Draper  Fund l.;^00  00 

Helen  Atkins  Edmands  Memorial 5,UUU  W) 

George  R.  Emerson 5,000  00 

Mary  Eveleth 1.000  00 

Eugenia  F.  Farnham 1-015  00 

Susan  W.  Farwell r  nnn  nn 

John  Foster , 5,000  00 

The  Luther  &  Mary  Gilbert  Fund 8.508  Ob 

Albert  Glover 1.000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  Fund r'^^n  nn 

Charles  Larned ^-000  00 

George  F.  Parkman 3.500  00 

Catherine  P.  Perkins 10.000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  Memorial , 'nnn  nn 

Caroline  O.  Seabury o,'von  ^o 

Eliza  Sturgis  Fund 21,729  52 

Abby  K.  Sweetser 25,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser 5,000  00 

May  Rosevear  White  Fund 600  00 


$7,340  00 


204,013  44 


General  funds:  —  «,  r;n  no 

Emilie  Albee $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen o  nnn  on 

Michael  Anagnos in^in  ?!n. 

Harriet  T.  Andrew ,5'9x,  ?V 

Martha  B.  Angell 16.172  61 

Mrs.  William  Appleton 18,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey „  ^^X  X» 

Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker ,^'^92  9^ 

Ellen  M.  Baker 13,053  48 

Mary  D.  Balfour JHR  Rn 

Nancy  Bartlett  Fund ,«^x2  2x 

Sidney  Bartlett 10.000  00 

Emma  M.Bass 'ooo  cR 

Thompson  Baxter mnnnnn 

Robort  C.  Billings 10,000  00 

Sarah  Bradford „  3;22  2!^ 

Helen  C.  Bradlee 140,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 6,130  07 

Sarah  Crocker  Brewster ^9P  9.9. 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown 1.000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown 3,0/3  76 

Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2,000  00 

Katherine  E.  BuUard 2,500  00 

Annie  E.  Caldwell 4,000  00 

John  W.  Carter ^^9^9 

Adeline  M.  Chapin ^^99  99 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5,000  00 

Charles  H.  Colburn 1.000  00 

Helen  Callamore 5,000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge 45,138  16 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis ^22  ^9 

Sarah  Silver  Cox 5,000  00 

Susan  T.  Crosby 100  00 

Margaret  K.  Cummings 5,000  00  

Amounts  carried  forward $476.180  20      $211.353  44 

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Amounts  brought  forward $476,180  20      S21 1,353  44 

General  funds  —  Continued. 

James  H.  Danforth 1,000  00 

Catherine  L.  Donnison  Memorial 1,000  00 

George  E.  Downes 3,000  00 

Lucy  A.  Dwight 4,000  00 

Mary  B.  Emmons 1,000  00 

Mary  E.  Emerson 1,000  00 

Arthur  F.  Estabrook 2,000  00 

Annie  Louisa  Fay  Memorial 1,000  00 

Sarah  M.  Fay 15,000  00 

Charlotte  M.  Fiske 5,000  00 

Nancy  H.  Fosdick 3,750  00 

Elizabeth  W.  Gay 7,931  00 

Ellen  M.  Gifford 5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5,000  00 

Matilda  Goddard 300  00 

Maria  L.  Gray 200  00 

Caroline  H.  Greene 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Greenleaf 5,157  75 

Josephine  S.  Hall 3,000  00 

Olive  E.  Hayden 4,622  45 

Allen  Haskell 500  00 

Jane  H.  Hodges 300  00 

Margaret  A.  Holden 2,360  67 

Marion  D.  Hollingsworth 1,000  00 

Frances  H.  Hood 100  00 

Abigal  W.Howe 1,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt 10,000  00 

Ellen  M.  Jones 500  00 

Clara  B.  Kimball 10,000  00 

Moses  Kimball 1,000  00 

Ann  E.  Lambert 700  00 

Jean  Munroe  Le  Brun 1,000  00 

William  Litchfield 6,800  00 

Mary  Ann  Locke 5,874  00 

Robert  W.  Lord 1,000  00 

Elisha  T.  Loring 5,000  00 

Sophia  N.  Low 1,000  00 

Thomas  Mack 1,000  00 

Augustus  D.  Manson 8,134  00 

Calanthe  E.  Marsh 20,111  20 

Sarah  L.  Marsh 1,000  00 

Waldo  Marsh 500  00 

Annie  B.  Matthews 15,000  00 

Rebecca  S.  Melvin 23,545  55 

Georgina  Merrill 4,773  80 

Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Maria  Murdock 1,000  00 

Mary  Abbie  Newell 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis 1,000  00 

Jeannie  Warren  Paine 1,000  00 

Anna  R.  Palfrey 50  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

Helen  M.  Parsons 500  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  M.  Peyser 4,650  00 

Mary  J.  Phipps 2,000  00 

Caroline  S.  Pickman 1,000  00 

Katherine  C.  Pierce 5,000  00 

Helen  A.  Porter 50  00 

Sarah  E.  Potter  Endowment 425,014  44 

Francis  L.  Pratt 100  00 

Mary  S.  C.  Reed 5,000  00 

Jane  Roberts 93,025  55 

John  M.  Rodocanachi 2,250  00 

Dorothy  Roffe 500  00 

Rhoda  Rogers 500  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch 8,500  00 

Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

Rebecca  Salisbury 200  00 

J.  Pauline  Schenkl 5,000  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 3,000  00 

Eliza  B.  Seymour 5,000  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $1,254,380  02      $211,353  44 

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Amounts  brought  forward $1,254,380  02      $211,353  44 

General  funds  —  Concluded. 

Esther  W.  Smith 5,000  00 

Annie  E.  Snow 9,903  27 

Adelaide  Standish 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  G.  Stuart 2,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer 2,000  00 

Harriet  Taber  Fund 622  81 

Sarah  W.Taber 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Delia  D.  Thorndike 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Betsey  B.  Tolman 500  00 

Transcript,  ten  dollar  fund 5,666  95 

Mary  Willson  Tucker 465  32 

Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Minnie  H.  Underbill 1,000  00 

Rebecca  P.  Wain  Wright 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales 5,000  00 

Maria  W.  Wales 20,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware 4,000  00 

Rebecca  B.  Warren 5,000  00 

Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse 565  84 

Marv  H.  Watson 100  00 

Ralph  Watson  Memorial 237  92 

Isabella  M.  Weld 14,795  06      . 

Mary  Whitehead 666  00 

Evelyn  A.  Whitney  Fund 4,400  00 

Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney 150  62 

Betsy  S.  Wilder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Mary  W.  Wiley 150  00 

Mary  Williams 5.000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow 306  80 

Eliza  C.  Winthrop 5,041  67 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5,532  00 


1,407,879  18 
$1,619,232  62 


DONATIONS,  KINDERGARTEN   ACCOUNT. 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K $10  00 

"Children  of  the  King,"  Church  of  the  Disciples,  Boston      .        .  2  50 

Sabin,  Caroline  R.,  in  memory  of 3  00 


$15  50 


59 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS  INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Stover,  Treasurer:  — 

Annual  subscriptions $1,617  50 

Donations 1,464  00 

Cambridge  Branch 165  00 

Dorchester  Branch 43  00 

Lynn  Branch 40  00 

Milton  Branch 48  00 


$3,377  50 


ANNUAL   SUBSCRIPTIONS   FOR  THE   PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo 

Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H.    . 

Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R.      . 

Amory,  Mrs.  Wm.,  2d 

Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P. 

Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B.    . 

Baer,  Mrs.  Louis 

Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G.     . 

Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T.    . 

Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R.     . 

Barnet,  Mrs.  S.  J.     . 

Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H 

Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert    . 

Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A.    . 

Beale,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilbur  F. 

Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S.  . 

Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T. 

Bruerton,  Mr.  Courtney,  in  mem- 
ory of  his  mother,  Mrs.  James 
Bruerton 

Burnham,  Mrs.  John  A. 

Burr,  Mrs.  Charles  C. 

Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel    . 

Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B. 

Chapin,  Mrs.  H.  W. 

Chapman,  Miss  E.  D. 

Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R. 

Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C.       . 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S. 

Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen 

Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F.     . 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K. 

Codman,  Miss  Catherine  Amory 

Coolidge,  Mr.  J.  Randolph 

Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D.    . 

Cox,  Mrs.  William  E. 

Amount  carried  forward 


$5  00 
25  00 

3  00 
25  00 

3  00 

5  00 
10  00 

5  00 

5  00 
10  00 

5  00 
20  00 
10  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 


5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 
10  00 

5  00 

3  00 
5  00 

10  00 

25  00 

2  00 

10  00 


$293  00 


Amount  brought  forward 

Craig,  Mrs.  Helen  M. 
Craigin,  Dr.  Geo.  A. 
Crocker,  Mrs.  U.  H. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G. 
Curtis,  Miss  Mary  G. 
Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W. 
Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P. 
Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G.    . 
Gutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M. 
Gutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W. 
Dale,  Mrs.  Eben 
Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.    . 
Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A. 
Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E. 
Davis,  Mrs.  Simon    . 
Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B. 
Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C.  . 
Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket 
Drost,  Mr.  C.  A. 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory    . 
Elms,  Miss  Florence  G. 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d 
Endicott,  Mrs.  Wm.  C. 
Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W.    . 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C.     . 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A.     . 
Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M. 
Fearing,  Mrs.  Marion  C. 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W.     . 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Gage,  Mrs.  Homer    . 
Gill,  Mr.  Abbott  D. 

Amount  carried  forward 


$293  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 

1  00 
10  00 

2  00 
2  00 

50  00 
5  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 

10  00 
2  00 
5  00 

25  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
2  00 


$539  00 


60 


Amount  brought  forward 


$539  00 


Goldberg,  Mrs.  Simon 

2  00 

Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer  H. 

2  00 

Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P. 

2  00 

Grandgent,  Prof.  Chas.  H.      . 

3  00 

Grant,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert 

5  00 

Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald 

15  00 

Grosberg,  Mrs.  O.     .        .        . 

3  00 

Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D.    . 

2  00 

Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B. 

3  00 

Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G.       . 

10  00 

Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M. 

5  00 

Hight,  Mrs.  Clarence  A. 

10  00 

Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A. 

5  00 

Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H.      . 

3  00 

Homans,  Mrs.  John 

10  00 

Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D. 

5  00 

Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R.    . 

20  00 

Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B.,  for  1922-23 

3  00 

Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella 

1  00 

Howe,  Mrs.  George  D.     . 

10  00 

In    memory    of    Mrs.    David    P 

Kimball          .... 

25  00 

Ireson,  Mrs.  S.  E.     . 

5  00 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H. 

5  00 

Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M.     . 

10  00 

Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S. 

5  00 

Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L.    . 

1  00 

Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P. 

5  00 

Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C. 

5  00 

Klous,  Mrs.  Isaac,  in  memory  of 

Mr.  Isaac  Klous    . 

3  00 

Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix 

1  00 

Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T.  . 

1  00 

Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A. 

2  00 

Lane,  Mrs.  D.  H.,  for  1922-23 

2  00 

Larkin,  The  Misses  . 

1   00 

Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass 

5  00 

Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A.     . 

1   00 

Levi,  Mrs.  Harry 

2  50 

Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L.    . 

5  00 

Locke,  Mrs.  C.  A.     . 

10  00 

Loring,  Judge  W.  C. 

25  00 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C.  . 

25  00 

Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B.    . 

5  00 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H.,  for  1922-2 

3        10  00 

Lovering,  Mrs.  Charles  T. 

10  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  John 

5  00 

Macurdy,  Mr.  Wm.  F.     . 

10  00 

Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S. 

2  00 

Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M. 

1   00 

Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P. 

3  00 

Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E.  . 

50  00 

Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P.     . 

10  00 

Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M. 

5  00 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel    . 

5  00 

Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  for  1922 

20  00 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.    . 

5  00 

Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A. 

1  00 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F. 

5  00 

Morss,  Mrs.  Everett 

5  00 

Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F.    . 

15  00 

Moses,  Mrs.  George 

2  00 

Moses,  Mrs.  Joseph 

5  00 

Moses,  Mrs.  Louis    . 

1   00 

Nathan,  Mrs.  John  . 

5  00 

Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H. 

2  00 

Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M. 

1  00 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward 


$990  50 


A  mount  brought  forward 

Olmsted,  Mrs.  J.  C. 
Orcutt,  Mrs.  W.  D. 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates 
Paine,  Mrs.  W.  D.    . 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S. 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J. 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R. 
Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L. 
Pitman,  Mrs.  B.  F.  . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J. 
Ratchesky,  Mrs.  I.  A. 
Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur    . 
Reed,  Mrs.  John  H. 
Rice,  Estate  of  Mrs.  Nannie  R. 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal 
Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G.     . 
Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K.  . 
Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S. 
Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Henry 
Rosenberg,  Mrs.  Alexis 
Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S 
Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E. 
Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W. 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E. 
Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  memory  of 
her  mother,  Mrs.  N.  M.  Downer 
Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M.     . 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.    . 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H. 
Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas     . 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W. 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D. 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana  . 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex. 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B. 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C. 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A. 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus 
Tilcston,  Mrs.  John  B.     . 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S. 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F.    . 
Ward,  The  Misses     . 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A. 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard 
Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador  . 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P.      . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M.    . 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne  . 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H.     . 
White,  Mrs.  Norman  H. 
Whitman,  Mrs.  Wm.,  for  1922-23 
Williams,  The  Misses 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C. 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B. 
Wingersky,  Mrs.  Harris  . 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S. 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L. 


$990  50 


5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

10  00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

50  00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

5  00 

5  GO 

25 

00 

30 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

25 

00 

25 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

25 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

50 

00 

15 

00 

100 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

10 

00 

$1,617 

50 

61 


DONATIONS. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 
Adams,  Mr.  George 
Alden,  Mrs.  Charles  H.    . 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Amadon,  Mrs.  Arthur  F. 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S. 
Bailey,  Mrs.  HoUis  R. 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W. 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert    . 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot 
Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G.  . 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M. 
Boardman,  Mrs.  W.  D.    . 
Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H.     . 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y. 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B. 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M. 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Bullard,  Mr.  Alfred  M.    . 
Bullens,  Miss  Charlotte  L. 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred  . 

C 

Carpenter,  Mrs.  George  A. 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W. 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  G. 
Cary,  Miss  Georgina  S.    . 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley 
Codman,  Miss  Martha  C. 
Conant,  Mr.  Edward  D. 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L. 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F. 
Cotting,  Mrs.  Charles  E. 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A. 
Edgar,  Mrs.  Charles  L.    . 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M. 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower  . 

F 

Ferrin,  Mrs.  F.  M.    . 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Louis  A. 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Randolph 
Grandin,  Mrs.  J.  L. 
Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P.     . 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W. 
Hersey,  Mrs.  A.  H.  . 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C.      . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F. 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar 
In    memory    of    Mrs.    Harriet    L 

Thayer,   through   Mrs.   Hannah 

T.  Brown 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S.    . 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S. 
Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H. 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Kelly,  Miss  Elizabeth  F. 
Kimball,  The  Misses 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M. 
Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph    . 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  John 
"E.  L."       .... 
Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S.      . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles 

Amount  carried  forward 


$2  00 
2  00 
5  00 

10  00 
2  00 

25  00 
5  00 

10  00 

10  00 
2  00 

10  00 

2  00 

3  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

2  00 
1  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

100  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 

3  00 
3  00 

10  00 

200  00 

5  00 

25  00 

1  00 
5  00 

25  00 
10  00 
25  00 

5  00 
15  00 
25  00 

5  00 
10  00 

5  00 

5  00 
10  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 

2  00 
10  00 


5  00 
10  00 
25  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 

5  00 
25  00 
50  00 
10  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

$900  00 


Amount  brought  forward       .        .     $900  00 


Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H. 

Manning,  Miss  Abbie  F. 

Mason,  Miss  Mabel  M. 

Masten,  Miss  Helen 

McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L. 

Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank 

Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T.      . 

Morrison,  Miss  Jean  E. 

Morse,  Dr.  Henry  Lee 

Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob 

Neill,  Mrs.  Albert  B. 

Nichols,  Mr.  Seth     . 

Perry,  Mrs.  C.  F.      . 

Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T. 

Potter,  Mrs.  Wm.  H. 

Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W. 

Prince,  Mrs.  Morton 

Punchard,  Miss  A.  L. 

Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H. 

Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher 

Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W.      . 

Richards,  Miss  Alice  A. 

Richardson,  The  Misses,  in  mem 
ory  of  M.  A.  E.  and  C.  P.  P. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John 

Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E. 

Ripley,  Mr.  Frederick  H 

Rodman,  Miss  Emma 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Louis 

Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O. 

Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A. 

Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D. 

Sever,  Miss  Emily 

Sias,  Miss  Martha  G. 

Slattery,  Mrs.  Wm. 

Snow,  Miss  Marion 

Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N. 

Spring,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Romney 

St.  John,  Mrs.  C.  Henry,  in  mem- 
ory of  her  mother,  Mrs.  Isaac  H 
Russell    . 

Stearns,  Mr.  Wm.  B. 

Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P. 

Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S. 

Storer,  Miss  Mary  G. 

Storrow,  Mrs.  J.  J.,  for  1922 

Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand 

Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis 

Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.      . 

Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  B. 

Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred     . 

Tudor,  Mrs.  Henry  D.     . 

Vaille,  Mr.  Charles  A. 

Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F. 

Vose,  Mrs.  Charles   . 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  W.  Austin 

Waite,  Miss  Louise  L. 

Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H. 

Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H. 

Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A. 

Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary  C. 

Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F. 

Willcomb,  Mrs.  George    . 

Williams,  Mrs.  C.  A. 


Amount  carried  forward        .        .  $1,402  00 


62 


Amount  brought  forward       .        .$1,402  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.        .        .        .         10  00 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B.     .        .        .  5  00 

Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest         ...  2  00 

Amount  carried  forward        .        .$1,419  00 


Amount  brought  forward 

Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E.  . 
Zerrahn,  Mrs.  Franz  E.  . 
Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis 


.  $1,419  GO 

15  00 

5  00 

25  00 

$1,464  00 


CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


Agassiz,  Mr.  Max 

Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (donation) 

Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P. 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C.    . 

Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B. 

Emery,    Miss   Octavia   B.    (dona 
tion) 

Farlow,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.       . 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C.  (donation) 

Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno 

Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E. 

Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L. 

Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B.      . 

Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A.   (dona 
tion) 

Horsford,  Miss  Katharine  M.  (do- 
nation)     


Amount  carried  forward 


$10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

2  00 
5  00 

3  00 
5  00 

30  00 
5  00 
2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 


$87  00 


Amoiint  brought  forward 

Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A.  . 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L. 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.  (dona 

tion)  .... 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H.  . 
Richards,  Miss  L.  B. 
Sargent,  Dr.  D.  A.  . 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G.  . 
Toppan,   Mrs.   Robert   N.    (dona 

tion)         .... 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W. 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary  (donation) 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter  . 


$87  00 


5  00 

3 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

20 

00 

2 

00 

$165  00 

DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bennett,  Miss  M.  M. 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S.     . 
Churchill,  Judge  J.  R.      . 

(Donation)     .... 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R. 

(Donation)      .... 
Cushing,  Miss  Susan  T.  . 
Eliot,  Mrs.  C.  R.      . 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry 
Haven,  Mrs.  Katharine  Stearns 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L. 

Donation 

Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C. 
Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A. 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W^   . 

Amount  carried  forward 


$1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

$20  00 


Amount  brought  forward 

Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K. 
Preston,  Miss  MjTa  C. 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M. 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d     . 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  memory  of 
Whitcher,   Mr.   Frank  W.    (dona 

tion) 

Whiten,  Mrs.  Royal 
WiUard,  Mrs.  L.  P.  . 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary   . 


$20  00 


5 

00 

•7 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

$43  00 


LYNN   BRANCH. 


Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F.   . 
Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A.  (donation) 
Earp,  Miss  Emily  A. 
Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J. 
Page,  Miss  Elizabeth  D. 

Amount  carried  forward 


$1  00 

10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 


$20  00 


Amount  brought  forward 

Sheldon,  Mrs.  Chauncey  C.    . 
Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.  (donation) 
Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.  (donation)   . 


$20  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

$40  00 


63 


MILTON   BRANCH. 


Brewer,  Miss  Eliza  (donation) 
Cunningham,  Mrs.  C.  L. 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray  . 
Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L. 
Klons,  Mrs.  Henry  D.  (donation) 

Amount  carried  forward 


$5   00 

2  00 

10  00 

10  00 

1  00 


$28  00 


Amount  brought  forward 

Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar  (donation) 
Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R. 
Ware,  Mrs.  Arthur  L.  (donation) 


$28  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

$48  00 


All  contribviors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse  the  above  list,  atxd  to 
report  either  to  Albert  Thorndike,  Treasurer,  No.  19  Congress  Street,  Boston,  or 
to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen,  Watertown,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  ivhich 
they  may  find  in  it. 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Treasurer. 

No.  19  Congress  Street,  Boston. 


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FORM  or  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows:  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 
follows: 

ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

No.   19  Congress  Street, 

Boston. 


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