Show NC Hanks Graduates from Harvard Harvard University last week conferred con con- con I the highest of scholarship hon hon- orn oln on N. N C. C Hanks of Heber City Utah who Is handless and totally blind bUnd Deprived of vision and of touch in the first Brut glow of youth N N. C. C Hanks with supreme courage and lion hon will has risen ilsen above his afflic tons After Arter patient years of study lit he has placed himself among the notable notable no no- table taule lecturers It of ot the country Born Dorn in Heber City Utah Mr Hanks was one of ten children He lie was ent sent to school at Charleston Utah and planned to enter college f r the study of ot mineralogy There were no nJ funds at hand to 1 provide for such education for tur the lad But Dut he cm oiled at the Brigham Young oung tty at Provo determined to work his ils way through The Che summer bummer of his twenty-first twenty year with two college friends he went to Mt Ml Nebo to work a lead and silver sliver mine Here the youth knocked over a box of mIning raining caps which exploded resulting In ht loss 1088 of his eyes and bands hande More Mora than two years was spent in inthe inthe the hospital and after aCter that there i were months and mouths of discouragement die dis and heartache Mr Hanks Is ls surely entitled to the succors success II which has come to him Ills His advancement has been remarkable nail U is the result of many years of labor Mr 11 Hanks is well known In Park C City lr where he ho has entertained on numerous occa occasions lons and his hosts hOlt of ot friends all over the thu state extends to this lisle embodiment of ot grit courage cheer end anti optimise |