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There is danger that institution life may unfit for life in the world. The staff of our institution have been trained to neutralize this tendency. They demand the same excellency in work as in study, and they encourage individual pupils to be prepared for any proper employment -- to seize chances when they offer and even to make them when they do not. They tell these blind boys and girls that such employment, whether it be selling newspapers or washing dishes or "going out to service," is more honorable than receiving what they do not earn.

Every one cannot be a successful teacher or a tuner or even a mattress maker. Many more can earn in the commoner pursuits. Last July, through the help of an agent of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, one of our older boys and five of our girls took summer places -- the boy as dishwasher in a hotel, and the girls as mothers' helpers in families; and what is more to the point, they made good. There is no single event of the year which we are prouder to report than this.