Excerpt from The Mentor, Vol. 1: Published Monthly by the Alumni Association of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, Boston, Mass.; May, 1891 The rules of the institution at first limited the number of free pupils to ten; but in 1873 a. Law was passed by Parliament, by the terms of which the number of free pupils was limited only by the accommodations. In 1872 was laid the foundation of a building sufficiently large, when completed, to receive Six hundred pupils, - four hun dred boys and two hundred girls. The annual receipts of five lotteries were appropriated to this institution, this sum, 'with the accumulating interest and various donations which would be given, /to constitute a fund for the main tenance of the establishment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.