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| What did Helen do in the summer of 1894? | She attended the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf and she attended the Wright-Humas School for the Deaf in New York city. Helen was 14 years old and she went there ot learn to speak more clearly, but her progress in lip-reading ad speech was not what Helen hoped for. |
| What did Helen and Miss Sullivan do in new York City in 1894? | She went for walks in Central Park. In the spring, they sailed on the Hudson River and visited West Point, Tarrytown, the home of Washington Irving, where she walked through Sleepy Hollow". |
| Before Helen left New York City in 1896, what saddened her? | Her dear friend Mr. John P. Spaulding of Boston died in February 1896. |
| What school did Helen attend in October 1896? | she started attending the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, to get herself prepared for Radcliffe and going to college. |
| Where did Helen really want to go to college? | She wanted to go to Harvard. |
| How did Helen's education progress while at the Cambridge School for Young Ladies? | Miss Sullivan had to translate and spell out everything for Helen, and it was exhaustin for Miss Sullivan, teaching Helen the subjects of English, History and literature, German, Latin, arithmetic and Latin composition. |
| Which teacher learned to sign the letters to Helen so Miss Sullivan didn't have to do everything for her? | Frau Grote was Helen's German teacher who taught her using sign language into Helen's hands. |
| What did Helen enjoy for the first time in her life at the Cambridge school? | Helen enjoyed seeing and hearing girls of her own age. She lived with several others in one of the pleasant houses connnected with the school, the house where Mr. Howells used to live. Helen took long walks with them and discussed her studies and read aloud the things that interested them. |
| What did the other girls learn so they could "talk" with Helen? | Some of the girls learned to speak to Helen, so that Miss Sullivan did not have to repeat their conversation in sign language. |
| Who came to visit at Christmas 1896? | Helen's mother and little sister, Mildred spent the holidays with her. Mr. Gilman offered to let Mildred study in the Cambridge school, too. So Mildred got to stay and go to school in the spring with Helen. |
| What did Helen take on June 29-July3 of 1897? | She took her preliminary examinations for Radcliffe and was very nervous about them. Her number was 233. |
| Why did everyone know that #233 was Helen's Examination # at Cambridge School for Girls? | Everyone knew it was her number when the scores were posted because Helen typed her answers, and she had to type them in a separate room so that she would not disturb the other girls who were writing their examination responses. |
| What was Helen's first exam at Cambridge? | Her first exam was German, and Professor Schoilling came in and informed Helen that she had passed satifactorily in German. |
| What was Helen's second year at the Cambridge School for Girls like? | It was much harder because she had to take mostly math classes. She took physics, algebra, geometry, astronomy, Greek ad Latin. It was really hard because her books were not printed in Braile and ready when school started. |
| Once the Braille Books arrived during the second year at the Cambridge School for Girls, how was school for Helen? | It went a little better, but algebra and geometry were the only studies that continued to frustrate Helen. Mr. Gilman reduced the number of recitations, so it would take 5 years to prepare for college because he was worried that Helen was overworked. Helen wanted to continue with her classes, so this upset her. |
| What did Helen's mother do since Helen was upset about having her workload reduced? | Helen's mother withdrew Helen and Mildred and hired a private tutor to give her lessons in algebra, geometry, Greek and Latin while Miss Sullivan interpreted his instruction. The tutor was named Mr. Keith and from February to July 1898, he went to Wrehtham, Massachusetts twice a week and taught Helen. Mr. Keith was a patient insturctor. |
| What happened in October 1898 to Helen? | She returned to Boston and Mr. Keith taught her for 8 months giving her lessons five times a week in periods of about an hour, so that she was prepared to take her final examinations for Radcliffe College on June 29, 1899. |
| Why were the geometry and algebra exams particularly harder for Helen than the other exams? | Helen had always done the problems in her head or in braille, so she had not trained to write examination papers, so her work was painfully slow. She found it hard to keep her wits about her. |
| How did Helen feel about her Radcliffe entrance examinations? | She did not blame any one because htey did not realize how difficult they were making her examination |
| When did Helen enter Radcliffe College? | She started Radcliffe College in the fall of 1900. she began with great eagerness and she thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom, but she soon discovered that college was not quite what she expected and she began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. |
| What was the one thing that Helen felt she lacked the most of in college? | She lacked time. She realized that one goes to college to learn, not to think. |
| What machine did Helen use to do her writing in college? | She used her Hammond typewriter and found it is the best to her needs. With this machine movable type shuttles can be used, so she can work in Greek, French, math or anything else. Without it, Helen doubts that she would be able to go to college. |
| qWhat did Helen call examinations in college? | Examinations are the chief BUGBEARSof her college life. She longs to sweep away half the things that she is expected to learn; her mind of overtaxed and cannot enjoy the treasure of the new information |
| What does Helen call the information that she reads hurriedly and nervously in college? | She calls this unnecessary information or bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use. |
| What does Helen say it is like to memorize the facts for an exam? | The facts you have garnered with infinite trouble fail you in a pinch. Your faculties take to themselves with wings and they fly away and you with the books and science and you were buried in the depth of the sea. |
| What happens with the proctor when he informs someone that the examination in college is over becaue time is up? | Helen says that she was to kick the mass of rubbish into a corner with digust and go home scheming to end the right of professors to ask questions without the sonsent of the student being questioned. |
| What seems to be the most important things that Helen should never have known unless she tried the experiment of going to Radcliffe College? | She learns the science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country. Knowledge floods the soul with a tidalwave, and it is to know truth from false things. |
| When did Helen read her first connected story? | She read her first connected story in May 1887 when she was 7 years old |
| What was one of Helen's favorite stories when she was 8 years old? | Little Lord Fauntleroy. She considered him to be her constant companion and it was her first favorite book. |
| What were some other favorite books of Helen's when she was 8 or younger? | "Greek Heroes," "Fables," "the Swiss Family Robinson" |
| What book did Helen not especially like when she was young? | "The Pilgrim's Progress" |
| Who were some of the women in the Bible that Helen admired? | Esther and Ruth |
| What were some of the Shakespeare plays that Helen read? | MacBeth and King Lear |
| What does German literature value most according to Helen? | strength before beauty and truth before convention |
| Who was the American Author that Helen particularly liked from her youth? | Mark Twain |
| In a word, what did Helen call literature? | She called it her Utopia. Her book-friends talk to her without embarrassment or awkwardness. |
| What sports did Helen learn to do when she was quite a little girl? | She learned to row in canoes and swim when she was in Wrentham, Massachusetts |
| when did Helen enjoy canoeing? | She enjoyed canoeing on moonlight nights. |
| What was Helen's favorite amusement or sport? | Her favorite amusement was sailing, and she enjoyed this in the summer of 1900 in Nova Scotia. She sailed to Bedford Basin, to McNabb Island, to York Redoubt and to the Northwest Arm. |
| What is the universal religion? | love |
