. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . FREDERICK KNAPP. The Department for the Deaf ofF. Knapps Institute, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1877-1893. By WILLIAM A. KNAPP, Principal of the School. THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE DEAF OF F. KNAPPSINSTITUTE. F. Knai^ps Institute was founded by Prof. Frederick Knapp,of Wiirtemberg, a graduate of the Normal College at Ess-lingen, who in 1850, at the age of twenty-nine years, emigratedto the United States and settled in Baltimore. At EsslingenMr. Knapj) attained the distinction of being a so-called star. F. KNAPP S INSTITUTE, COR. HOLLINS AND PAEKIN
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . FREDERICK KNAPP. The Department for the Deaf ofF. Knapps Institute, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1877-1893. By WILLIAM A. KNAPP, Principal of the School. THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE DEAF OF F. KNAPPSINSTITUTE. F. Knai^ps Institute was founded by Prof. Frederick Knapp,of Wiirtemberg, a graduate of the Normal College at Ess-lingen, who in 1850, at the age of twenty-nine years, emigratedto the United States and settled in Baltimore. At EsslingenMr. Knapj) attained the distinction of being a so-called star. F. KNAPP S INSTITUTE, COR. HOLLINS AND PAEKIN STS., BALTIMORE, MD. student, equivalent to the highest rank for scholarship^, obli-gating him, during the last year of his studies, to take also thespecial course instituted to qualify graduates for the instruc-tion of the deaf, and render him available not only as a candi-date for employment in an ordinary academic school, but alsoqualified as a teacher of the deaf, with increased emolument—a feature of normal instruction prevalent at the time in all ofthe better class of normal institutions of German3\ Mr. Knapps Institute was opened in the year 1853 as aGerman and English Academic School, with 76 pupils on itsroll. It rapidly increased in popularity until, in 1876, it at- 4 F. Kna/pps Instihite. tained an attendance of 896 pupils, with a corps of 26 teachers,constituting it the largest purely private school (conductedwithout board of managers, solely by the principal) in thecountry. Adding German to the curriculum of the publicschool
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