 | Executive departments - 1998 - 884 pages
...National Museum of American Art in Smithsonian Institution by act of Oct. 13, 1980 (94 Stat. 1884). Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind Established by act of Feb. 16, 1857(11 Stat. 161). Renamed Columbia Institution for the Instruction... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1912 - 422 pages
...the school. He secured the passage of an Act of Congress, approved February 16, 1857, incorporating the Columbia institution for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, and granting an allowance of one hundred and fifty dollars a year for the maintenance and tuition... | |
 | Kenneth White Munden, Henry Putney Beers - History - 1986 - 744 pages
...Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (Gallaudet College) " Incorporated as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind (act of Feb. 16, 1857; 11 Stat. 161), this institution had been empowered to own land and other... | |
 | Jerome Daniel Schein, David Alan Stewart - Health & Fitness - 1995 - 248 pages
...— has been used as the principal instructional mode at Gallaudet University since its inception as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind (ca. 1860). It has dominated the total communication programs in US and Canadian schools since... | |
 | Jane Maher - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 230 pages
...of Representatives was lighted up last evening. ... It was the first public exhibition of the pupils of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, who entered at the appointed hour neatly dressed and took seats around the Speaker's rostrum.... | |
 | Bernan Press - Political Science - 1996 - 878 pages
...Programs GLENN B. ANDERSON I. KING JORDAN ROSLYN ROSEN PAUL KELLY MARGARETE HALL JANE K. FERNANDES The Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind was incorporated by act of February 16, 1 857 (1 1 Stat. 1 61 ). An amendatory act of February... | |
 | Bernan Press - Political Science - 1996 - 878 pages
...Programs GLENN B. ANDERSON I. KING JORDAN ROSLYN ROSEN PAUL KELLY MARGARETS HALL JANE K. FERNANDES The Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind was incorporated by act of February 16, 1857 (11 Stat. 161). An amendatory act of February 23,... | |
 | Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman, Michael Bury - Medical - 2001 - 868 pages
...estate in Washington, DC, was used to establish a residential school for 12 deaf and 6 blind students, the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind (Gallaudet 1983; Lane 1989). In 1864, President Lincoln signed legislation authorizing Columbia... | |
 | Donald B. Cole - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 368 pages
...them to live in another of his empty houses. Early in 1857 he secured an act of Congress establishing the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, with a grant of $150 a year for each student. Kendall was elected president and began looking... | |
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Columbia Institution for the Deaf was incorporated as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind under act of Congress, February 16, 1857 (11 Stat. 
