Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Clarke School for the Deaf, 1915
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Includes report of the corporation by Franklin Carter, balance sheet, principal's report by Caroline A. Yale, courses of study, catalogue of pupils, calendar for the school year, terms of admission, and Massachusetts Law in Regard to the Education of the Deaf. Members of the corporation George Franklin Mills, Dean of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Hon. William P. Strickland died earlier this year. Carter asks if it is the duty of the State "to provide suitable training for its deaf children." If it is the duty of the state than funds to the Clarke School should not be considered charity. Carter encourages the state to change the law so that all deaf children are required to go to school. The Clarke School has introduce the Bruhn Method in Lip-Reading among the older pupils with gratifying results. Teachers have focused on the development of imperfect hearing using speaking tubes. Older pupils have been able to distinguish sounds and the direction the sounds are coming from. Yale is often asked what the girls and boys at the Clarke School become. Students have become architects, teachers, printers, engravers, artists, designers, wood-carvers, accountants, farmers, machinists, carpenters, dress-makers, salesman, and more. Massachusetts has passed a law giving pensions to teachers in its public schools but not to teachers in special schools.
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