Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Founder of Deaf-Mute Instruction in America (Classic Reprint)

On the one hundredth anniversary of Dr. Gallaudet sbirth, this record of his life is completed and offered to the deaf of A merica, and their friends, with an assurance of their friendly interest in its publication. The writer ventures to hope, also, that to promoters of education and benevolent effort, generally, the volume will be welcome. A word of explanation is due for an omission which may be noticed by certain readers. The Hartford School for the Deaf has in its corporate and popular name the word asylum. Whatever may be said in justification of the use of this term in earlier years, it is now generally condemned as altogether out of place when applied to establishments designed solely for educational purposes. Many institutions for the deaf have dropped it from their official titles as inappropriate and misleading. No schools organized within the last thirty years make use of it. It has been thought best, therefore, in the interest of a most reasonable reform, to omit it fromthe following pages.
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