Our respectful and grateful acknowledgments are due to the editors and publishers of the following newspapers and periodicals, who have sent them gratuitously to the Asylum during the past year, and a continuance of such and similar favors is again solicited. RULES RESPECTING THE ADMISSION OF PUPILS. I. Pupils are admitted into the Asylum for one hundred dollars for the session, of ten months, payable quarterly, in advance. This sum covers all expenses, except for clothing, traveling to and from Columbus, and in cases of sickness, the physician's bill. II. The annual session commences on the first day of October, and ends on the first Monday of August. Pupils are admitted at the beginning of the session, and at no other time, except in extraordinary cases. This rule ought to be carefully observed; and those who delay, may be altogether excluded, even if they have been previously in the Asylum. III. The vacation lasts from the first of August to the first of October. Payment must be made at the rate of $150 per week, for those pupils who are permitted to remain in the Asylum during the vacation. IV. Application for admission may be made to Rev. H. L. Hitchcock, Columbus, Sec. of the Board, or to Mr. H. N. Hubbell, Principal of the Asylum; and every application should be accompanied by testimonials from the Associate Judges of the proper county, or other responsible persons, respecting the suitableness of the applicant to be received and educated, agreeably to the design of the Legislature. V. All applicants must, in order to be admitted, be free from immoralities of conduct, and from contagious and offensive diseases. VI. It is expected that all pupils shall come at the very beginning of the term, and continue until its close; and that they all, especially the State pupils, shall remain in the Institution during the entire course of study-five years-unless providentially prevented. VII. It is recommended that pupils should be sent at the age of ten or twelve years, and that, previously, they should be taught to write, and to know their own name, and the names of their parents, and brothers and sisters, and place of residence. VIII. The clothes of the pupils, which require washing, should be marked with the full name of the owner. IX. When a new pupil enters the Asylum, parents are requested to furnish the full name, the exact age, cause of deafness, whether congenital or otherwise, and any information respecting the number that may be afflicted with deafness in the family connexions. X. The name and post office address of parents or guardian. XI. Parents are requested to provide their children with a suitable and comfortable supply of clothing. |