The American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf President, A. L. E. CROUTER, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. First Vice-President, EDMUND LYON, Rochester, N. Y. Second Vice-President, CAROLINE A. YALE, Northampton, Mass. Official Secretary, Z. F. WESTERVELT, 945 N. St. Paul St., Rochester, N. Y. General Secretary, HARRIS TAYLOR, Volta Bureau, 35th Street and Volta Place, Washington, D. C. Treasurer, FREDERICK EICHELBERGER, Washington Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D. C. Auditor, GILBErt H. Grosvenor, Washington, D. C. THE VOLTA REVIEW, the organ of the Association, an illustrated monthly magazine. Chairman Publication Committee, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Washington, D. C. Editor, ERNEST GREGORY, Washington, D. C. SARAH FULLER, E. MCKAY GOODWIN, E. A. GRUVER, E. G. HURD, Z. F. Westervelt. (TERMS EXPIRE 1915.) HARRIS TAYLOR, A. L. E. CROUTER, G. H. GROSVENOR, W. B. MASON, MARY McCowen. Advisory Committee. Chairman, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Washington, D. C. B. ST. JOHN ACKERS, Gloucester, Eng. MARTIN H. HOLT, Oakridge, N. C. S. WESSELIUS, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Association welcomes to its membership all persons who desire to promote the teaching of speech to the deaf. Membership dues, $2.00 a year, with no entrance fee. Life membership, $50.00. Persons desiring to become members should apply to Harris Taylor, General Secretary of the Association, 35th Street and Volta Place, Washington, D. C., enclosing their membership fee. THE VOLTA REVIEW is sent free to members. Subscription price to non-members, $2.50 a year; 25 cents per copy. THE VOLTA REVIEW, published by the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Entered as second-class matter March 29, 1910, at the PostOffice, Washington, D. C., under the Act of July 16, 1894. Published by the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Volta Bureau, 35th Street and Volta Place, Washington, D. C. Volume 14 NOVEMBER, 1912 Number 7 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH SUMMER MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE THE TEACHING OF SPEECH TO THE DEAF RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF, PROVIDENCE, R. I., Tuesday, June 25, 1912-8 p. m. The Ninth Summer Meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf met in the Assembly Hall of the Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf. Mr. John F. McAlevy, President of the Board of Trustees of the Institute, presiding, called the meeting to order. Addresses of welcome were made by President John F. McAlevy; Zenas W. Bliss, Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island; Prof. Walter Ballou Jacobs and Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates; and addresses in response by Dr. A. L. E. Crouter, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, and Prof. Martin H. Holt. These addresses follow: ADDRESS OF WELCOME JOHN F. MCALEVY, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is a pleasure for me to welcome this Convention. On behalf of the Trustees of the Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf, I wish to thank your Association for accepting our invitation to hold your Ninth Summer Meeting in Rhode Island. Our State is famed for its hospitality, and its resources for entertaining are second to none. We hope to impress upon you the sincerity of our greeting and to make you feel that we are friendly to your organization and interested in its work. You have labored diligently to promote the education of the deaf, and we can consistently feel that the work of this convention will further the aims and objects of your organization. It would be a pleasure to me to relate to you in detail the story of the Rhode Island school, but it is my duty only to present to you the speakers of the evening. However, I cannot refrain from expressing to you and acknowledging the debt of gratitude which the deaf of the State of Rhode Island owe to the founder of this institution, and to the generous spirit which the members of her family have always shown to those in authority. I refer to the late Mrs. Mary A. Lippitt. We had hoped that our distinguished Governor would be present with us this evening, but you all know that the events at Chicago were of a little different nature than some anticipated, with the consequence that our Governor is not able to be with us at this session. However, I feel it is safe to assure you that you will have the pleasure of meeting him before all your sessions are ended. We have, however, a distinguished citizen of this State with us-a member of our Board, a man who has always taken active interest in this work, and who is the Acting Governor of our State. It is with pleasure that I present to you the Hon. Zenas W. Bliss, our Lieutenant-Governor. ADDRESS OF WELCOME HON. ZENAS W. BLISS, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND Mr. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE THE TEACHING OF SPEECH TO THE Deaf, Ladies and GENTLEMEN: I feel very highly honored in being with you this evening and being permitted to say a few words in behalf of the State to welcome you and to encourage you in your work. I join in regretting very sincerely the absence of His Excellency the Governor, and I am very sorry that you will be deprived of the inspiration of his genial personality and brilliant oratory; but I bring to you, however, at his request, his most cordial greeting and good wishes. Now of course you all know that the State of Rhode Island is what is called an industrial State. This is very largely due to nature, for nature has not been very bountiful to us here except in the way of water power and the fact that the climate is particularly well adapted to the manufacturing of textiles. Now this diversified and highly developed industry has tended to a denseness of population, so that Rhode Island is the most densely populated State in the Union, and, with one exception, in the world. The class of labor for which we have the greatest market has to be intelligent, and therefore we have developed a high degree of intelligence and skill, and these things all lead to a high standard of living, which we possess and maintain. Now, our manufacturing prosperity is very well shown by our per capita wealth, as evidenced by the census report, which gives us a very high place in this regard-and we hope, very soon, to have a very much higher position. But if this were all I could tell you, it would be a rather sorry story. There are a great many other things besides material prosperity, a great many activities in which the State must take part if it is to really do what it should for society. The vicious and the criminal must be restrained and reformed, the sick must be healed-at least, their sufferings alleviated-the poor must be cared for, defectives must be helped, and all must be educated; above all, all must be educated, because intelligence and morality are the foundations of our continent. We are very apt to measure our civilization and our progress by purely material things. We saw, a few hundred years ago, this continent peopled by savages, and we try to draw a parallel between a war canoe manned by Indians armed with clubs and stones and a modern battleship; or some little dug-out and a trans-Atlantic liner; or a narrow, winding trail through the primeval wilderness-we compare that with a great transcontinental railway, groaning under its burden of freight collected from the whole world, and we try to measure our advance in civilization by such things as that. Now there has been a considerable change in other directions, which seems to me to be at least as fair a measure— and at the time that those canoes and trails and that sort of thing were the regular methods in use, there were other things, other methods which were employed; for instance, the old and the infirm and the defective were made away with. Now the old and infirm are cared for, defectives are helped, and we try to bring them up to a point where they can be self-sustaining, not burdens upon the State, and where they are able at last to carry their share of the burden which falls upon all citizens. It seems to me that that is quite as accurate a method by which to judge our advance in civilization as to use the mere material things. It seems to me, as I |