What problems did the board of Radcliffe create for helen ?? How did she over come them ????
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The chief problems at Radcliffe College that Helen encountered were centred around the braille. The braille worked well enough in languages but when it came to geometry and algebra, difficulties arose. Helen was familiar with all literary braille but the various signs and symbols in geometry and algebra were different for the three systems and she had only used the English braille in algebra. Two days before the examinations, Mr Vining sent her a braille copy of one of the old Harvard papers in algebra and much to her dismay, Helen found out that it was in the American notation.She had to write to Mr Vining immediately regarding the problem with the braille and thus, received another paper and a table of signs by return mail. But on the night of the algebra examination, she had struggled over some very complicated examples as she could not tell the combinations of bracket, brace and radical. In geometry, Helen's chief difficulty was that she had always been accustomed to read the propositions in line print or to have them spelled into her hand. In this instance, the propositions were right before her but she found the braille confusing and could not fix clearly in her mind what she was reading. The signs became harder even with algebra and she became more perplexed. She could not see what she wrote on her typewriter and had always worked in braille or in her hand. Therefore, her work was painfully slow and she had to read her examples over and over before an idea formed in her head regarding what was required of her to do. The administrative board of Radcliffe had not realized the amount of difficulties Helen had to overcome but she had the consolation of knowing that she overcame them all.
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The chief problems at Radcliffe College that Helen encountered were centred around the braille. The braille worked well enough in languages but when it came to geometry and algebra, difficulties arose. Helen was familiar with all literary braille but the various signs and symbols in geometry and algebra were different for the three systems and she had only used the English braille in algebra. Two days before the examinations, Mr Vining sent her a braille copy of one of the old Harvard papers in algebra and much to her dismay, Helen found out that it was in the American notation.She had to write to Mr Vining immediately regarding the problem with the braille and thus, received another paper and a table of signs by return mail. But on the night of the algebra examination, she had struggled over some very complicated examples as she could not tell the combinations of bracket, brace and radical. In geometry, Helen's chief difficulty was that she had always been accustomed to read the propositions in line print or to have them spelled into her hand. In this instance, the propositions were right before her but she found the braille confusing and could not fix clearly in her mind what she was reading. The signs became harder even with algebra and she became more perplexed. She could not see what she wrote on her typewriter and had always worked in braille or in her hand. Therefore, her work was painfully slow and she had to read her examples over and over before an idea formed in her head regarding what was required of her to do. The administrative board of Radcliffe had not realized the amount of difficulties Helen had to overcome but she had the consolation of knowing that she overcame them all.
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