January, 1898 - June, 1899

While living with family friends, the Chamberlins, in Wrentham, Massachusetts, Helen makes excellent progress with the personal attention of a tutor.  Mr. Keith taught her algebra, geometry, Greek and Latin, usually for just a few hours a day.

June 29 - 30, 1899

Helen completes her final examinations for Radcliffe College, the women's annex of Harvard University.  (Radcliffe  was incorporated into Harvard as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Research in 1999. Radcliffe students could attend Harvard classes starting in 1943, and the first joint commencement was held in 1970.) The first day she took examinations in Elementary Greek and Advanced Latin, and the second day Geometry, Algebra and Advanced Greek.

Summer, 1899 - Spring, 1900

Helen is notified that she has passed the entrance examinations and that she has an open invitation to attend Radcliffe.  She decides that she could use another year of personal instruction with Mr. Keith, and that she will start at Radcliffe in the fall of 1900.  So, at the age of 20, Helen Keller becomes the first deafblind person in the world to enroll in college, and it is the most prestigious college she could possibly attend.