Describe the progress made by Helen Keller during the two years she spent at Wright Humason School for the Deaf in New York City.

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Attempt a character sketch of Mr. Gilman as a teacher.

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It was her determination that helped Helen Keller get admission to Radcliffe College. Comment.

Helen joined the Wright-Humason School for the deaf for learning and improving her vocal education and speech. Her progress in lipreading and speech was subpar to the expectations of her and her mentors. Her main motive to go to Wright Humason was to learn to speak with precision and accuracy.

At the Wright-Humason School, Helen learned about the sign language, lip reading and to a certain extent, Braille. However, this does not mean that she ignored other disciplines in favour of speaking. During her two years there Helen also studied Arithmetic, Physical Geography, French and German. It was under Miss Reamy, her German teacher’s guidance that she made more progress in German than in any of the other subjects. She found French much more difficult as her teacher Madame Olivier, did not know the manual alphabet and gave her oral instructions. Helen pursued Physical Geography with unflagging interest. It was a joy for her to learn the secrets of nature.

The two years that Helen spent at New York were happy ones, and she felt satisfied with her education there.

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Mr. Gilman was the principal of the Cambridge School of Young Ladies. A kind, intelligent and able man, Mr. Gilman was always ready to help Helen as a teacher, mentor and interpreter. Though he was a busy man he would spend time with Helen, trying to help her the best he could in her endeavours towards learning. He was a kind-hearted person; always concerned about Helen and her education. He was also most sympathetic towards Helen and her special circumstances, and showed a lot of patience with her. During her examinations, he used to read out whole question papers to her, and acted as her eyes during her stay in Cambridge. Being generous, he even let Milred, Helen’s sister, study at Cambridge with her. But due to a difference in opinion on Helen’s preparing period for college and a misunderstanding with Miss Sullivan, Helen’s mother was forced to withdraw both her daughters from Cambridge School.

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The path to get admission in Radcliffe College was marked with unimaginable difficulties. The College had high requirements from its students, and Helen specially faced a lot of difficulties while preparing for it. But it was the desire Helen harboured and her determination to be successful, despite the odds that helped her to overcome all the obstacles. She faced unexpected problems, from not having books embossed in Braille in time to begin her classes, lack of apparatus for some of her studies, to the problems related to special instructions in the classroom. Many a time even Miss Sullivan, her trusted mentor, fell short of helping her with all the resources required for her preparation. At times this made Helen lose her courage but she did not lose her determination and each time moved on ahead with renewed confidence. Her faith and spirit combined with her determination helped Helen to get admission to Radcliffe College.