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Show 'fine records made by blind students ANN ARBOR. Mich . Jan. 28 Handicapped by either total or partial par-tial blindness, four men are obtaining a higher education at the University of Michigan, and df-nplte their condition condi-tion are maklnp records envied by; those with normal eyesight, according to University professors AlthouRh no special means re em- Ploved by the faculty to assist thee-students, thee-students, the four arc being aided byl i l iteachors an.j fellow students In dov- ious ways Friends read to them and take notes for them in the various lectures lec-tures One of the most notable of the quartet is Germ O Enslng of Holland. Mich Mr. Knslgn is totallv blind yet 1m obtaining an education in ma-1 chine shop work. He has developed ii point system for taking note-s In ISC-1 turt courses and expects lo become l teacher '' some i hooi for the hiind j when he completes his course this year He is aided in his rf-adlng by his vrife. who has coma here to reside. re-side. Ned Smith of Detroit, a freshman, Is preparing for law an !S regarded S one of the nio.t ambitious students at the university. He goes about the ampus unassisted, feeling his way. Friends lead to hun and copy lectures. Smith s life ambition is to study medicine med-icine John Bezlock of Detroit, a sophomore, sopho-more, Is practlcallv blind, being unable un-able to read. HIS friends assist him In obtaining a literary' education. .T. M. Caldwell of Indiana, Pa., to-tall'.- blind, entered the unlverslt, last full as a means of "passing the dark l)QUrs," as he expresses It to friends ! H employs two readers in the ac-, ademlo course he Is taking Each of the four entered the university uni-versity after being afflicted. |