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Helen Keller Breaks Down

Creator:		n/a
Date:		June 25, 1904
Publication:		The New York Times
Source:		Available at selected libraries



1		Gifted Blind Deaf-Mute on the Verge of Nervous Prostration.

2		Special to The New York Times.

3		BOSTON, June 24. -- Thousands of admiring friends will sympathize with Miss Helen Keller, the gifted deaf, dumb, and blind student, for, while her sisters in Radcliffe's class of 1904 are in the midst of their graduation festivities, she is ill in her room at Wrent Hall.

4		Miss Keller, whose educational efforts have been so successful as to be commented on the world over, has broken down. It is said, indeed, that she is on the verge of nervous prostration. She began to fail two months ago and was ordered by her physician to abstain from college work. It is believed she will get a degree in spite of her inability to fill all the requirements.