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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello List:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I recently acquired two
copies of the 1876 report of the Oregon State School for the Blind. The pamphlet
was printed well enough that I was able to scan it. I am attaching an MSWord
2007 version and appending the plain text version. Of course the pamphlets
themselves will soon be on their way to the JTL.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Robert Jaquiss</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>BIENNIAL REPORT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>OF THE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>OF THE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>OREGON</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>FROM SEPT., 1874, TO SEPT., 1876.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>NINTH REGULAR<BR>SESSION-1876.<BR>h</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>SALEM, OREGON:<BR>MART. V. BROWN, STATE PRINTER.<BR>1 8 7 6 .<BR> OF
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<DIV><BR>BIENNIAL REPORT</DIV>
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<DIV>OF THE<BR>GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT</DIV>
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<DIV>OREGON'<BR>INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.</DIV>
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<DIV>FROM SEPT., 1874, TO SEPT., 1876.</DIV>
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<DIV>NINTH REGULAR SESSION-1876.<BR>SALEM, OREGON:<BR>MART. V. BROWN, -STATE
PRINTER.<BR>1876.</DIV>
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<DIV> N.PORT.</DIV>
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<DIV>to the Honorable the State Board of Education :<BR>The third school-year of
the Institute began on the<BR>twenty-first day of September, 1874. , The number
of<BR>pupils in attendance during the year was nine. The<BR>teachers were the
same as during the preceding year, until<BR>April, 1875, when Miss Fannie Barker
was appointed.<BR>Music Teacher ' in place of Miss Hernandez, who had
resigned.</DIV>
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<DIV>On<BR>the sixteenth of April, Mrs. Nesbit, the Matron, was<BR>fatally
injured by being thrown from a wagon. She had<BR>performed the duties of her
responsible charge with great<BR>diligence and fidelity, winning the love of the
pupils and<BR>the esteem of the officers of the Institute: It being im-
.<BR>possible to find any one, to fill the important place which<BR>her sad
death had made vacant, the Board thought best<BR>to close the term, which was
done on the twenty-first of<BR>the month. In July, Miss Simpson, who had been
Principal<BR>from the first opening of the Institute 1873, removed<BR>from the
State. .</DIV>
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<DIV>A contract having been made with Dr. E. Y. Chase for<BR>the care and
maintenance of the school, the fourth term<BR>was opened on the fourth day of
October, 1875. Mr.<BR>Charles H. Kaiser, a graduate of and a teacher in the
New<BR>York Institute, was appointed Principal, and took charge<BR>of both the
Literary and Musical Departments. During<BR>the term there were six pupils ; the
school-year closing on<BR>the seventeenth of March, 1875. 17.1,</DIV>
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<DIV>INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.</DIV>
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<DIV>The pupils during the two years were:<BR>Brewer, David H Wasco
County.<BR>Lewis, Louisa E Benton County.<BR>McFadden,
Harriet Linn County.<BR>Morgan, Zuritha Yamhill
County.<BR>Morris, Ernestine E Marion County.<BR>Savage,
Blanche Marion County.<BR>Tomlinson, Frank Coos County.<BR>Watkins,
Josephine Linn County.<BR>Whitaker, Benjamin Lane
County.<BR>Total,, nine; of whom three were males and six
females.<BR>Instruction has been given in the following studies:<BR>Reading, in
three different systems of raised print, viz?'<BR>The line system generally used
in this country; the Moon<BR>system, invented by a blind man in England; and
the<BR>New York point system. Arithmetic, mental and practical;<BR>Geography;
History of the United States; Spelling,<BR>and Vocal and Instrumental
Music.<BR>The students have been diligent in their use of the apparatus<BR>and
attentive to the faithful teaching of their instructors,<BR>and have accordingly
made commendable progress<BR>in their studies. They deserve credit for
excellent<BR>deportment as wen as for good improvement of the
advantages<BR>offered them. There is also great cause for<BR>thankfulness that
they have enjoyed almost uninterrupted<BR>good health. And much praise is due to
Mrs. Chase, the<BR>Matron during the past year, for her affectionate
and<BR>watchful care of the pupils.<BR>In November, 1875, the Institute received
from Sir<BR>Chartes Lowther, Leeds, England, a. generous donation of<BR>over one
hundred and twenty volumes of miscellaneous<BR>reading, religious, biographical
and historical. These<BR>books are printed in the Moon
type.<BR> <BR>INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. 5</DIV>
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<DIV>It is very important for the best interests of our State<BR>that the nature
and design of this institution should be<BR>rightly understood. All our people
ought to know that<BR>this Institute for the Blind, maintained at the
public<BR>expense and placed under the direction of the. State board<BR>of
Education, is not an asylum, nor a hospital, nor a poorhouse,<BR>but a school.
It is a part of our common school<BR>system. Its object is to fulfill the duty
which the State<BR>owes in the matter of education to one peculiar class
of<BR>its citizens; to furnish the blind with the means of obtaining<BR>at least
as much knowledge of the ,ordinary<BR>branches of learning as seeing children
can acquire in the<BR>public schools; to give them also the mental
training<BR>which they specially need; to make good their
unfortunate<BR>physical defect, and to put them, as far as possible,<BR>on an
equal footing with others as regards that edncation<BR>which it is claimed the
State ought to give to all its<BR>children. And it is further the design or the
school to<BR>cultivate a right and honorable feeling of independence in<BR>the
pupils and to teach them that it is their duty to use<BR>diligently all the
capabilities with which they have been<BR>endowed, and to labor truly, as others
do, to get their living.</DIV>
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<DIV>The welfare of the ,State requires that this object should<BR>be
accomplished. It is only in this way that the blind<BR>can be prevented from
being always a helpless, unproductive,<BR>expensive and wretched class in the
community.<BR>Only by some such plan as this, wisely and faithfully<BR>carried
out, is it possible to attain the result which all<BR>good citizens must wish
may be speedily attained, viz: the removal of this grievous defect of blindness.
The final<BR>result that ought to be our aim is the curing of every<BR>defective
class of persons.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.<BR>And that desirable end can be secured so
far as regards<BR>the blind, only by teaching them to consider that they
are<BR>not to be any more dependent upon charity than others<BR>are; and by
furnishing them the means, not of living idly<BR>at the expense of the State,
but of supplying their defect<BR>and making themselves useful members of
society.<BR>There are, probably, at least twenty-five persons in our<BR>State
who might profitably use the advantages of the Institute.<BR>In order to extend
its benefits to them, the appropriation<BR>ought to be much larger than has
heretofore<BR>been granted. Ample and liberal means given now,<BR>enough to
remedy the evil soon, will save the commonwealth<BR>great expense in the future
performance of its duty.<BR>- Respectfully submitted,<BR>JOHN H. BABCOCK.</DIV>
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