quired. Many of these agencies are already at work in the field. It will not be an easy task to incorporate them into a common program, but it can be done. The interests of the State and Nation are involved, and each organization must be impressed with the necessity for teamwork if the proper results are to be secured.

With vision, sympathy, tolerance, and a sincere friendliness toward the foreign born by those in authority within the States, with adequate funds for the provision of educational facilities for their needs, and with earnest and cordial cooperation on the part of all the powerful forces of the Nation, State, and community, America can within a decade weld all of its various peoples into one great, harmonious, homogeneous whole and the words of its national motto be at last achieved-"One out of many."

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SCHOOLS AND CLASSES FOR THE BLIND, 1917-18.

CONTENTS.-Number of schools reporting-Dual schools-Control-Instructors-Number of pupils— Graduates-Enrollment by grades-Enrollment by courses of study-Value of property-Volumes in libraries-How the States provide for the education of their blind-Receipts-Total expendituresStatistical tables.

TABLE 1.-Review of statistics of schools for the blind, 1900 to 1918.

NUMBER OF SCHOOLS REPORTING.

This report, for 1917-18, includes the statistics of 62 schools for the blind. In addition to these, 9 other such schools, known to be in existence, did not submit a report. The list of institutions not reporting this year follows. By including these schools this chapter serves as a complete directory of schools for the blind.

Arkansas School for the Blind, Little Rock, Ark.

Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (both white and colored), St. Augustine, Fla. Georgia Academy for the Blind (colored only), Macon, Ga.

Louisiana State School for the Blind, Baton Rouge, La.

Tennessee School for the Blind (colored only), Nashville, Tenn.

Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children, Newport News, Va. Racine Day School for the Blind, Racine, Wis.

Catholic Institute for the Blind, One hundred and seventy-fifth Street and University Avenue, New York City.

The Institution for the Deaf, Blind, and Orphans (colored only) at Taft, Okla., has had thus far no blind pupils to report.

The Austine Institution for the Deaf and Blind, Brattleboro, Vt.. no longer admits blind pupils and is not properly included in this chapter.

The highest number of schools reporting in any year was in 1913, when 64 schools were represented. The increase from 41 schools in 1909 to 64 schools in 1913 is very pronounced. The decrease since the latter date is due to the failure of certain institutions to report and not to an actual decrease in the number of such schools, as will be noted from the list of delinquent schools given above.