Excerpt from Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind: For the Year Ending September 30, 1878 The history of the past year, like that of the preced ing one, has been quite uneventful. General prosperity has attended the concerns of the Institution since our last report was laid before you. Its course of usefulness has been uninterrupted; and we have good reason to believe that the favor with Which it has so long been regarded by the community. 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.