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A Brief History Of The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb

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Date: 1893
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The charge for board and tuition is $175 a year and this expense is met by State appropriations. This covers from two-thirds to three-fourths of the actual cost, the rest being provided from the income of the funds.

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The school employs sixteen regular teachers, a special teacher for a blind deaf-mute, a teacher of drawing, and an instructor of Swedish gymnastics.

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BOOKS PUBLISHED.

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The Ellen Lyman Memorial Fund of $2,000, given by Mrs. Lafayette S. Foster of Norwich, Conn., and an Illustrative Fund given by the Hon. Joseph Davis of Lynn, Mass., have provided means for publishing a few books specially adapted to the use of deaf children. By this aid the following books have been published and are doing useful service in a large proportion of the schools for the deaf in the United States and in some schools in Canada and England, viz.: First Lessons in English -- a graded course of instruction in language in four volumes -- by Miss Caroline C. Sweet; Talbs and Stories -- One hundred short stories and seventy-five conversations for practice in language -- prepared by W. G. Jenkins, M. A.; Bits of History -- one hundred stories gathered from United States history compiled by John E. Crane, B. A., and "A Story Reader"-- a volume of short stories for young pupils -- compiled by Miss Ida V. Hammond.

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The American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, now known all over the world as the official organ for the schools for the deaf in America, originated with the teachers of this school, and they furnished nearly all of the articles for the first two volumes. It was published quarterly then, as now, and the Board of Directors of the school appropriated $300 towards the expense of publishing the first volume.

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At the First Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf and Dumb, held at the New York Institution in 1850, the magazine was adopted by that body, which became responsible for its support, and placed it under the management of its executive committee, but the editorship was still filled by a teacher of the American Asylum, first by Mr. Luzerne Rae, and after his death by Mr. Samuel Porter, who held it until the magazine was suspended on account of the Civil War.

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The management of the school is wisely conservative, but it moves on in no old grooves, is wedded to no system. It gladly examines and tests every new thing that promises to be an improvement, and with alacrity adopts whatever proves itself worthy of adoption. It believes in proving all things and in holding fast that which is good. It makes no changes merely for the sake of change, but is ever ready to make any change for the sake of improvement. It stands where it has always stood, in the front rank of schools for the deaf.

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JOB WILLIAMS.

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AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CONNECTICUT ASYLUM FOR THE EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION OF DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS.

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1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled: That John Caldwell, Nathaniel Terry, Daniel Wadsworth, Mehitable Wadsworth, Susan Tracy, Ward Woodbridge, Henry Hudson, Daniel Buck, Mason F. Cogswell, Joseph Battell, William H. Imlay, Charles Sigourney, David Porter, David McKinney, Isaac Bull, Thomas S. Williams, John Morgan, Samuel Tudor, Jr., John Butler, George Goodwin, John Beach, James Ward, Roswell Bartholomew, George Smith, Joseph Rogers, Moses Tryon, Jr., Nathan Strong, Jr., Charles Seymour, James H. Wells, Jonathan W. Edwards, William W. Ellsworth, William Watson, Russel Bunce, Eliphalet Terry, Seth Terry, Lynds Olmsted, Thomas Lloyd, James B. Hosmer, Joseph Trumbull, Samuel Tinker, Horace Burr, Russell Talcott, Christopher Colt, Eliphalet Averill, Nathaniel Fatten, Joseph Wells, William Ely, Spencer Whiting, Barzillai Hudson, Jr., Jonathan Law, George Goodwin, Jr., Daniel Crowell, Charles Goodwin, Michael Shepherd, Caleb Goodwin, Dudley Buck, Aaron Chapin, Jared Yarborough, Barzillai Hudson, Jacob Sargeant, Peter Thatcher, Talcott Wolcott, Nathaniel Spencer, and their associates be, and they hereby are, formed into, constituted, and made a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons," and by that name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession: shall be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in all suits of what nature soever, may have a Common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure, and may also purchase, receive, hold, and convey any estate, real or personal, the annual income of which shall not exceed five thousand dollars.

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2. And be it further enacted, That the said Asylum may, from time to time, elect a President, and such other officers as they may find necessary or convenient, may elect additional members, and the said Asylum may make by-laws, respecting the number, qualifications, and duties of their officers the mode of election and admission of members, the time, place, and manner of holding their meetings, and the number necessary to make a quorum, and all other by-laws which they may deem necessary for the due regulation of said Asylum, not repugnant to the laws of this State or of the United States.

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