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On this date in history: Deaf Educator Frederick Barnard died
It was on this date (May 5) in 1889 that Frederick Barnard died at the age of 80. His full name was Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. The deaf American educator was quite the renaissance man. Besides teaching college students, he was a scientist, writer and mathematician. Barnard served as president of the University of Mississippi, then took the same position at Columbia College in New York City (it later became a university). The year he died, an affiliated college for wom
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Mississippi School for the Deaf opens season on brand new field
The Bulldogs started the season with a 66-8 loss to the Oklahoma School for the Deaf. WJTV has a video report about the new football...
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A first for basketball in Mississippi
Alexis Roberts is the first deaf basketball player to sign a Division 1 basketball scholarship in the state of Mississippi. Roberts will...
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Deaf Student Sues Univ of Miss over captioning
University of Mississippi graduate Joshua Sisco has filed a lawsuit against the school because its social media are not closed captioned...
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