What America Looked Like- Blind Athletes in Pyrami

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a life of doldrums. In what must have been a great excitement, Overbrook gymnasts even performed for the president during the exhibition (although it is unclear whether this picture, dated the same day as the Metropolitan Opera House exhibition,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], depicts those particular boys). Helen Keller who, seven years earlier, had become the first deaf-blind person to earn an undergraduate degree, was invited to the event, but sent a letter instead. In the correspondence, she expressed astonishment in how quickly blind-awareness had spread since the turn of the century. "Ten years ago all that was known about the blind was locked up in institutions," she wrote. "Now they have come forth from cloistered seclusion and have become your fellow citizens." At least one attendee overcame such ignorance in the course of the exposition. "I always pitied the blind," an anonymous observer told The New Outlook for the Blind, a quarterly journal. "I knew that they could be taught to read and