Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — CO-EDS AID A BLIND SENIOR [ARTICLE]

CO-EDS AID A BLIND SENIOR

Girls Forego Luxuries and Allowances to Enable Sightless Student to Graduate. New York. —Seniors at Barnard college, by sacrificing luxuries and donating part of their. allowances, have enabled Margaret Hogan, a blind student, to secure her degree. Miss Hogan, blind from birth and left an orphan when young, won a three-year scholarship at Barnard. Her advance was rapid. A wealthy woman became interested and took care of the girl up to the present year. Miss Hogan was about to leave college to earn her own living when her classmates heard of it. They raised >450 among themse:v»s for the girt