BLIND GIRL'S SUCCESS
A blind girl, Miss Ruth Mary Hitchcock, has now gained a double first in the Theological Tripos at Cambridge. She is 21, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Hitchcock, of St. John's Road, Ipswich. She has been blind since she was ten. Miss Hitchcock was at the Chorley Wood College for the Blind. She did not sit in the normal examination room with the other candidates, but in a quiet room in her own college, Newnham, with a speciallyappointed inspector, 'present all the time. The papers had to be read to her, and she typed out her answers in Braille. Her answers had to be decoded before being passed on to the examiners. She is both a poet and musician, as well as a theologian.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 13
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131BLIND GIRL'S SUCCESS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 13
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