Twenty-First Report of the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind, to the General Assembly of Kentucky: For the Year 1868 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Twenty-First Report of the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind, to the General Assembly of Kentucky: For the Year 1868 The lot of twenty acres of land adjoining the grounds of the Institution on the north and east was, as we anticipated at the date of our last report, sold at auction in October last. It was sold at a low price, but without division, and for a sum far beyond the appropriation made by the Legislature for the purchase of land. We deeply regret that we had. Not the means and authority to purchase the entire lot for the Institution, in order.te protect the School from the annoying buildings and uncongenial neighbors alluded to in former reports. This land is now held at an advanced price; but, for the reasons presented in our last report, we recom mend that the Trustees be authorized to purchase, at least, that part of it lying north of the Institution, and between it and the Browns boro road. The Institution, by act of the Legislature at the last session, is now within the limits of the city of Louisville; and the value of land in this vicinity is rapidly increasing. The oil lamps by which the Institution is lighted are constant sources of danger to the lives of the pupils and the property of the Institution; and we cannot too earnestly recommend the intro duction of gas into all the rooms in which lights are needed by teachers, pupils, attendants and servants. Suitable walks and avenues, properly laid out through the grounds of the Institution, would greatly promote the health and happiness of the pupils, by inducing them to take more frequent exercise in the open air; but the limited means of the Institution have hitherto prevented us from making these desirable improvements. 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.