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" All great establishments in the nature of boarding schools, where the sexes must be separated ; where there must be boarding in common and sleeping in congregate dormitories ; where there must be routine and formality, and restraint and repression of... "
Annual Report - Page 26
by Perkins School for the Blind - 1857
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Children of the State: The Training of Juvenile Paupers

Florence Davenport Hill - 1868 - 300 pages
...like asylums ; which threaten to cause real asylums to grow out of them, and to engender other evils All great establishments, in the nature of boarding...and those few should be kept as small as possible. . . . We should be cautious about establishing artificial communities, or those approaching them in...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 15

1870 - 688 pages
...acknowledged his mistake. "All great establishments," he says, "in the nature of boarding-schools, where the sexes must be separated ; where there must...abuse. We should have as few of them as is possible. . . . We should be cautious about establishing artificial communities, or those approaching them in...
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Aufsätze, Vorträge und Reden v. 1, Volume 1

Abraham Jacobi - 1893 - 692 pages
...the comparative value of large institutions and private homes (not for the blind only), says : ' ' All great establishments in the nature of boarding...and those few should be kept as small as possible. . . . We should be cautious about establishing artificial communities, or those approaching them in...
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Dr. Jacobi's Works: Collected Essays, Addresses, Scientific Papers ..., Volume 6

Abraham Jacobi - 1909 - 476 pages
...speaking of the comparative value of large institutions and private homes (not for the blind only), says: "All great establishments in the nature of boarding...and those few should be kept as small as possible. . . . We should be cautious about establishing artificial communities, or those approaching them in...
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Outlook for the Blind, Volume 15

1921 - 238 pages
...but they do not want to be segregated from ordinary society, nor to be considered as a class apart." "All great establishments in the nature of boarding...liable to abuse. We should have as few of them as possible, and those few should be kept as small as possible." tion to the method of congregating for...
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Moralists and Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers

Steven Mintz - 1995 - 214 pages
...residential institutions had done blind people a disservice by separating the sightless from the seeing: "All great establishments in the nature of boarding...and those few should be kept as small as possible." It is a great irony that Samuel Gridley Howe, the individual most responsible for establishing residential...
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The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in the United States

Frances A. Koestler - 2004 - 678 pages
...organic principles of our institutions for the blind, which make them already too much like asylums. ... All great establishments in the nature of boarding...and those few should be kept as small as possible. [Any] class of young persons marked by an infirmity like deafness or blindness . . . depend more than...
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