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Show A BLIND STUDENT. A Remarkable Tounff Man Who Is Securing an Education at Harvard. Although complete'y blind, Everett Chauncy Bumpus of Quincy, Mass., is now a member of the freshman class of Harvard university and intends to take the full four years' course and obtain his degree of A. B. at the close. He is only 20 year" old now and has been totally blind 6ince he was 6 years old. He was deprived of his sight by spinal meningitis. There is hardly a brighter young man in the freshman class than this member who has to depend de-pend almost entirely upon remembering what is read to him and by dictating to others to work his way through the coursa Before he entered Harvard all of the blind student's textbooks were specially special-ly prepared for him on tho Braille system, sys-tem, instead of the older plan of raised letters. It is much more convenient to read, and it can be read mucn quicKer. The typewriter, too, on which he does most of his writing is made expressly with reference to this system. He has given np now, however, nearly near-ly all the appliances made especially for the blind, except his typewriter. He depends de-pends almost entirely upon having his exercises read to him. His course is in Latin, French, English, Italian, Greek and German what may be termed a literary course, as he is studying it with a view to becoming a journalist. Later on in the course he will give his attention atten-tion to history, xhiloriophy and political economy. New York Herald. |