The secretary for children and families is hereby authorized and empowered to select such persons as are entitled to the benefits of this act in the several colleges, universities or schools. The secretary for children and families shall not furnish a reader to any blind person who is not regularly matriculated, who is not in good and regular standing, who is not working for a degree from the institution in which such person is matriculated and who is not doing the work regularly prescribed by the institution for the degree for which such person is a candidate, and after making such selection the secretary for children and families is authorized to name and designate some suitable and capable person to read to such blind student from textbooks and pamphlets used by such person in studies in such college, university, or school and to fix the pay to be received by such reader for such services.