is $300. Payment for the indigent blind children of the District of Columbia is made from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Maryland Institution for the Blind, at Baltimore, where are sent the indigent blind children of persons actively engaged in the military and naval service of the United States and the indigent blind children of the District of Columbia, has a regular course of study, beginning with a kindergarten and advancing to courses in political economy, philosophy, ethics, chemistry, and the theory and practice of music. Instruction is given also in piano tuning, chair caning, and broom and mattress making. The school is nonsectarian, and the discussion of religious questions is forbidden; the pupils, however, are required to attend such churches and Sunday schools as are selected by their respective parents or guardians.' In 1867 the needs of the Columbia Institution were such as to lead Congress to appropriate $39,000 for the erection of a dormitory building, and by 1870 a central building, containing a public hall and refectories, had been finished, at a cost of $120,000; and besides, two commodious dwellings had been erected for the college officers. In 1870 the appropriation for salaries and expenses, which had started at $3,000 in 1858, was $40,775, and two years later it rose to $48,000. In the first eighteen years of the life of the institution, from 1857 to 1875, the Government appropriatious for maintenance, tuition, and general expenses amounted to $470,134.51. From 1872 to 1874 Congress provided for the purchase of 80 acres of land, the estate of the late Amos Kendall, at a cost of $80,000. These lands, adjoining on two sides the holdings of the institution, made the entire domain amount to 100 acres, all lying within 2 miles of the Capitol. It was provided at the same time that all the real estate owned by the Columbia institution shall be vested in the United States as trustee, for the sole use and purpose provided in the act of incorporation; and that whenever Congress shall so determine, any part of the estate may be sold, and so much of the proceeds thereof as may be needful for the purpose shall be applied to reimburse the United States for the expenditure caused by the purchase of the Kendall estate.2 1 See Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior. 2 In the purchase of Kendall Green, private aid was rendered by the following contributors: Hon. A. E. Borie, Clement Biddle, J. Harrison, jr., William Welsh, A. J. Drexel, M. Baird & Co., H. P. McKean, William Sellers & Co., Jay Cooke & Co., J. S. Lentz & Co., William Weightman, George W. Childs, John Farnum, Hon. Horace Binney, James L. Claghorn, Charles Wheeler, C. and H. Borie, Jacob P. Jones, Thomas H. Powers, George F. Tyler, H. G. Morris, Samuel Welsh, H. C. Gibson, Clarence H. Clark, J. E. Caldwell, H. Geiger, J. M. Whitall, L. A. Godey, Charles Yarnall, and F. J. Dreer, of Philadelphia; Edson Fessenden, Thomas Smith, Tertius Wadsworth, T. M. Allyn, Mrs. Samuel Colt, C. C. Lyman, and J. F. Burns, of Hartford, Conn.; and John Amory Lowell, H. P. Kidder, William T. Andrews, Benjamin E. Bates, George C. Richardson, Samuel D. Warren, J. S. Ropes, and Percival L. Everett, of Boston. Additions to the buildings were also provided for from time to time, so that by 1875 the purchase and construction account showed an expenditure on the part of the United States amounting to $538,165.33.1 In 1881 a fine gymnasium, built according to the plans and suggestions of Dr. D. A. Sargent, the director of the Heminway Gymnasium at Harvard University, was added to the equipment, at an expense of $14,000, and in 1887 a chemical laboratory, costing $8,000, was completed. IV. The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb now embraces three departments: The Gallaudet College for the Deaf, the Kendall School, and the Normal School. The college course of study includes an introductory course of one year, leading to the regular four years of work in the college proper. Necessarily the studies are adapted to the pupils. In mathematics, algebra, geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, calculus, and mechanics; in English the course covers four years and includes history of English literature and original work; 1 Ex. Doc. No. 84, Forty-fifth Congress, second session, p. 114. 2 The name of the college was changed from the National Deaf-Mute College to the Gallaudet College for the Deaf on the petition of the alumni association. In 1893 this association held a meeting at Chicago, Ill., which resulted in the following action: To the Board of Directors of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. GENTLEMEN: Agreeably to instructions from the alumni of the association of the National Deaf-Mute College, at a meeting held in Chicago, Ill., July 21, 1893, we, a committee representing the alumni, respectfully present to the attention of your honorable body the following resolution adopted by the association: Resolved, That it is the earnest desire of the alumni association that the distinguished services of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, the founder of deaf-mute instruction in America, should be commemorated by changing the title of that department of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb now known as the National Deaf-Mute College to Gallandet College for the Deaf. It has been truly said that with the appearance of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet upon the scene the intellectual history of the deaf in this country begins. By him was founded a system which, embodying all the elements of growth and improvement, made the higher education of the deaf as afforded by the college a practical possibility. His work and the manifold blessings to humanity flowing therefrom are too familiar to call for mention. The honor for which we petition, of naming our college after this distinguished educator and philanthropist, may, we trust, find an echoing response in your favorable action. Respectfully submitted. THOMAS F. Fox, 1883, New York, Chairman. At the commencement exercises held on May 2, 1894, President Welling, of the Columbian University, made this reference to the change of name: It is known to us all that institutions of the higher learning in the United States, while having corporate and official names and designations, are required, in order that they may explain to the public the differentiated work in which they are engaged, to indicate by special and descriptive titles the peculiar educational functions discharged by the schools which are embraced under their general official designation. * * # Now, it so happens that in our great seat of learning established here for the special benefit of those who are deaf (I can not say those who are deaf and dumb, because they are not all dumb), in this institution of learning established for the instruction of the deaf, as the range of its studies has grown, as it has ramified, as it has developed, we are required to have subclassifications by which we may know the various and the specialized work to which it devotes itself. Some years ago, when a school was established here for instruction in the elemen |