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Show BLIND STUDENTS ARE TO GRADUATE Now York, May 23. Throe young men who are blind will be graduated from Columbia university on June 5 and will begin to look for Jobs, a task which Is hard enough for ono not handicapped by lack of eyesight Tho three through tho entire course have asked no favors and received none, taking tho regular class room work with tboir classmates and passing tho same examinations, tho only differ-once differ-once being that tho examination questions ques-tions wore read to tho blind men and thoy wero allowed to typewrite an-swors an-swors on tholr machln.es. The stnto allows each blind man In tho universities and colleges of Now York the sum of $400 a year from which fund ho Is allowed to pay for the services of readers, but ho cannot draw on It for personal expenses. |