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An intelligent and cultured pupil of a normal school was much discouraged when he first entered the Lighthouse. Having lost his sight, he thought that his career was over, but little by little hope was brought back to him and he was persuaded to resume his studies. With Braille, stenography and dactylography to help him, he is now working enthusiastically at higher mathematics. He has the advantage of youth, and he again dreams of a happy and successful future. In his spare time he studies the violin. He is reconstructing his library in Braille, copying even scientific works with their complicated mathematical characters.

Statistics are interesting when they denote progress, and one must have them in annual reports, but after all it is the personal, human side of this work that interests Miss Holt and her helpers. These men are very grateful for the new hope and courage that have been painfully born within them.