Word: hal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HAL was not the first blind student to go through Harvard, although he does predate the reading rooms in the basement of Emerson. They were finished in 1966, partially due to a study Hal did for the now defunct Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs. Hal was an English major, and lived in Adams House. He prefers using readers to Braille books or tapes; for himself, he finds readers faster and more flexible, and it is also a way of meeting new people -- a perennial problem for the blind. Harvard makes no special dispensation as to the science requirement. Hal took...
Perhaps the most famous blind student in the world is Harold E. Krents, Harvard graduate and second-year Harvard Law student. Hal won international reknown when he was classified 1-A by Local Draft Board 10 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. last spring. Hal said he would be glad to serve his country in any way possible, but hoped he'd be able to request the post of bombardier. His "Open Letter to General Hershey," to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey" was printed in Esquire this fall. Legally blind since birth, Hal had limited vision until...
...Hal's first crucial tests when he reached Cambridge was learning to cross a street alone. Back home in Scarsdale everybody drove. "I didn't know how to use a cane," he recalled. "I used to wave it over my head, utter a few prayers, and run." He made one attempt to get a seeing eye dog, but gave it up when Helen (his dog) objected vocally to Professor Alfred's rendition of Beowulf in old English...
Last year Hal became the first blind student at Harvard Law in recent years. Now there are three new blind students. "I proved," Hal explained, "that a blind student is draft exempt." According to Hal, it is not so easy for a blind person to get into law school. Many of the schools where he was interviewed were quite discouraging about the prospects of his getting in and getting along there. He had a particularly bad interview at Duke: "You mean to tell me you're really that blind?" the Duke interviewer asked. When Hal inquired as to the ease...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Hal Holbrook's enchanting portrayal of the great author and humorist. Repeat...