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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt:... At the time of Mr. Anagnos' death many newspapers published reviews of his life and work and showed much interest and sympathy. From these notices, editorials and reports, as well as from the testimonials in the papers connected with other schools, the following extracts have been made. Boston Herald, July 4, 1906. The death of Michael Anagnos, head of the Perkins Institution of the Blind in South Boston, son-in-law of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and perhaps the hest known educator of the blind in the world, is announced in a cable message from the Greek minister of foreign affairs, which the acting Boston consul, Thomas F. Maguire, received yesterday afternoon, but which his friends in Boston refuse to believe until it is confirmed by further messages from Athens and from his bankers, the Barings in London, which were asked for yesterday and are expected to arrive in Boston this morning. The hope of the friends of Mr. Anagnos is based on the fact that he had gone to Eoumania on March 17 last to visit an uncle of the same name who had written prior to the Boston teacher's departure that he was near to death and only hoped to hold out until he saw his nephew once more. The message, which was in French, arrived here about 4 o'clock. It said that Michael Anagnos of Boston was dead in Turn Severin, Eoumania, and asked if anything had been left to Greek charities. The Greek consul knew of no other of that name in Boston than the head of the Perkins Institution, and none other appears in the Boston directory. Neither did the Greek colony know of any other of that name, and they concluded that it was their eminent countryman. Mr. Wallace Pierce, one of the closest friends of Mr. Anagnos, was among the first notified, and he declined to believe it was his friend beca...