Identifier: encyclopediaopth01wood (find matches)
Title: The American encyclopedia and dictionary of ophthalmology Edited by Casey A. Wood, assisted by a large staff of collaborators
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Publisher: Chicago : Cleveland Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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^ increased. 6. The Braille system is too firmly rooted in England ever to bechanged; and it would be a great calamity to the blind to have twopoint systems, unless the new were greatly superior to the old.This objection applies with still greater force to the musical nota-tion, which ought to be as universal among the blind as it is amongthe seeing. Great numbers of valuable musical works have alreadybeen published iu Paris, London, Copenhagen, and elsewhere. Thesewould be illegible by and useless to the pupils of an institution usingthe New York system for musical notation, the adoption of whichcould only be excused by great superiority, and it is by no means 268 ALPHABETS AND LITERATURE FOR THE BLIND
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Arithmetic Board Used for Geometrical Designs. ALPHABETS AND LITERATURE FOR THE BLIND 269 proved that the New York musical notation is even as good as theBraille. Unhappily the battle of the types has continued unceasingly sincethe several systems were introduced. And now another Committee,representing the American Association of Workers for the Blind,is making a tour throughout the country and conducting furtherinvestigations and tests. When the work is finished the ladieswill have traveled about 10,000 miles and conducted experimentsin 30 residential schools aijd 12 centers for adults, and will have hadsome of their sheets read by approximately one thousand blindpeople. But, the question has been asked, will not Braille peoplecontinue to use Braille and New York Point people continue to usepoint? The investigators think not. If only the managers ofthe printing houses and the heads of institutions could be made tofeel the need, says one of the investigators, as those who go outfrom t

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