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Excerpt from: Technical Department As has been often stated in these reports, the influence of manual labor is of inestimable value to all men, but most especially to the blind. It promotes physical strength and soundness of health. It induces confidence in the use of their bodily powers, and independence of character. It prevents them, in the midst of the mental exercises required of them, from underestimating the practical needs of life.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Technical Department | |
| From: | Fiftieth Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts School For The Blind | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | October 1881 | |
| Format: | Annual Report | |
| Publisher: | Rand Avery, & Company, Boston | |
| Source: | American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library | |
| Location: | vol.50, pp.44-47 | |
| Keywords: | Blind; Boston, MA; Education; Educational Institutions; Institutions; Labor; Massachusetts; Perkins School For The Blind; Poetry; Schools; Sheltered Workshop; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; Vocational Rehabilitation; Work | |
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