Excerpt from Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, Opened March 1st, 1872: Report for the Year 1895 There has thus been a very rapid increase in numbers during the last two years, arising mainly from the action of School Boards, under the Act passed in 1893, to the result of which and their consequent action, the Committee refer more at length below. It is highly gratifying to state that the Education Department has recognized our Normal Department for Teachers as a National Training College. 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.