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Title: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Fay, Edward Allen, 1843-1923
Subjects: Deaf Deaf Deaf
Publisher: Washington : Volta Bureau
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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n being obtained, a school-house withthree class-rooms and a gymnasium was at once erected onthe grounds. These quarters at 6027 Indiana avenue wereoccupied until May, 1890, when the School was transferred toits present location, 6550 Yale avenue, which property, in themeantime, had been purchased and remodelled for its occu-pancy. Incorporation. In November, 1890, the School was incorporated under thename of The McCowen Oral School for Young DeafChildren, with the following gentlemen as board of trustees :: John W. Streeter, M. D., . . . . Fresident. Sidney O. Blair, ...... Secretary.. John C. Black, ...... Treasurer^ A. C. Bartlett.O. S. A. Sprague.Joy Morton.W. S. Henderson. They assumed the financial control of the School, leaving-Miss McCowen entirely free to carry out her advanced ideas-with regard to the age of admission of pupils, and, as before,,in full control and management of the School. A large neigh-boiing house was soon rented for the better accommodation,of the family.
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The McCowen Oral School. 9 In the summer of 1892 the ten-room house next adjoiningthe School on the north was purchased, and seives as dormi-tories for the girls. A building for school-rooms and gym-nasium was also erected between the two, immediately in therear, a covered walk on the second floor connecting it withboth. In the original building, an eighteen-room house, arethe office, recer)tion-room, family parlor, dining-rooms, kitchen,and the dormitories for the boys. The expenses of the School are met by tuition fees, sup-plemented by donations, there still being no permanent endow-ment. The School has, from the first, published a monthly paper,called The Nev) Method, which is, so far as we know, the onlyone published by an oral school. Childeen Continually in the Caee oe Teacheks. The home-life of the puj)ils is made to conform as nearlyas possible to that of the best family home, they being en-couraged by their teachers to have a knowledge of and aninterest in all the details of

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