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This school is situated at Drain, on the Oregon & California railroad, in Douglas county, Oregon, a beautiful and healthful locality; To saloon or other immoral resort can be found. The best social and church privileges are enjoyed by all students.

Graduates from the academy department are prepared to enter The freshman year of any college in this State. Graduates from the normal department receive State diplomas, good for six years. Looks used are those prescribed by the State.

PRIMARY GRADE.

Reading to Third Reader,

Primary Arithmetic,

Oral Geography and Grammar,

Spelling and Writing.

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Two years of Latin and one year of Greek, additional to norma

course.

NORMAL SCHOOL AT WESTON.

No report has been received from this school during the present year. The county superintendent of schools reports that the school will be reopened in February, 1889.

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The school has been in session during the past two years except daring vacations. I would earnestly recommend that the usual appropriation be made by the legislature for the support of the school for the ensuing two years. In connection with this recommendation I would repeat what was said on the same subject in a former report.

"The work of instructing the blind is a difficult task-it is a slow process, as it should be remembered that the instruction given in such English branches as geography, grammar, history, etc., is mostly oral and therefore requires time. Having forever lost one of the chief aids in the acquirement of knowledge, they are shut ou from all the ordinary means of mental and physical training. Again their great physical infirmity begets an extreme diffidence and sensitiveness which can only be overcome by the careful and attentive teacher. Again, the blind pupil leaves his home and parents to enter the school with a trembling uncertainty of receiving that care and attention which he has always received fron indulgent friends. From these and other considerations it will be seen that there is no class of persons so dependent in life as the blind. Generous provision has been made for this unfortunate class in most of the States in the Union. This is a fact which is shown in the table of statistics presented herewith, and it is worthy of consideration and a tribute to the broad philanthropy of the American people. The work which the State has undertaken of estab lishing and supporting a school for the education of the blind is deserving of the support and commendation of all good citizens.

One of the chief obstacles in the way of securing the attendance of all the blind children in the State of proper age is, that the naturalties existing between parents and children are exceedingly strong when these children suffer from the greatest of physical mis

fortunes.

The companionship of parent and child, in such cases, is constant and sympathetic and the cords of kinship seem more gentle and tender than with children who are not thus afflicted.

There are several children in the State who should be in the school. The parents of the children have been seen and written to by the superintendent, but still these parents hesitate, and, while deeply solicitious about the future of their unfortunate children and anxious that they should secure some learning, yet, so far they have regarded the separation as a necessity too harsh and great to bear and hence they have postponed sending to the school. Within the next year or two, age will overcome these difficulties and most of these children will be enrolled in the school. Already several of these have expressed a desire to enter the school next year.

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Of Institutions for the Blind in other States compiled from the reports of 1885-86, United States Commissioner of Education.

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