Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Clarke School for the Deaf, 1902
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Includes the report for the corporation by Franklin Carter, receipts and expenditures, principal's report by Caroline A. Yale, courses of study, catalogue of pupils, Clarke School calendar, terms of admission, and the Massachusetts Law in Regard to Education of Deaf Mutes. Teaching deaf children to speak is a labor of love. The teachers at the Clarke School have found that the majority can learn articulation and lipreading so that they can communicate with their own family. Occasionally, pupils have gone on to graduate from hearing schools including Harvard and Columbia. Carter asks for donations to build an assembly hall to help the teachers and students. Carter encourages the state to increase the funding for deaf education in Massachusetts. The Clarke School has added nature work to the primary department. Pupils have shown improvement in their gymnasium classes with muscular strength and lung capacity improving. Primary boys continue to work in the cabinet shop and wood carving room. The school year has been divided into two terms with ten days for the Holidays, the winter vacation had been previously eliminated to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. Many Clarke School alumni have gone on to hearing schools. Homer Wheeler, Robert Pollak, and Melvin Wheeler attended Harvard University. Frederick P. Curtice is at Brown, George Buckingham is at the Boston Institute of Technology, and A. Lincoln Fechheimer is at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. At the meeting of the National Education Association the Department of Special Instruction section was presided over by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
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