The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12


Professor, Is Master of Higher
Mathematics, the Sciences and Sew
eral Dead Languages-At Eighteen
Months He Knew His Alphabet and
at Five Years He Was Reading
Latin.
Although he is only nine years old,
Norbert Wiener, son of Professor Leo
Wiener, instructor of Slavic at Har
ward college, is master of higher math-
ematics, of the sciences and of several
dead languages, says a special dis
patch from Cambridge, Mass, to the
New York Herald. With little prepa-
ration he could enter Harvard, but his
father will not permit him to do so
until he is fifteen years old. In the
meantime he will continue course Of
study Professor Wiener has mapped
out for him, and it is predicted by sew
aral Of the Harvard faculty who have
Tatci ed his wonderful progress that at
lif,ecn lie will be one of the education
A r!a!yels Of the century.
Ioang Wiener does not look like the
suGent tEat lie is lie l...es play as
woll rs am boy os his age. and his
c.ui.ls are robust looking little fellows.
1T is a pleasure to study" said Nor
bert. land | find much amusement in
making tests in chemistry in the little
laboratory which papa has fitted W
for ne. spend an hour in the labora
tory every day, and then l read some
Latin, German or French author.
Dury's History of Greece also find
interesting.
My eyes trouble me at times, and
! for that reason | have been obliged
to give up reading extensively for
more than three months Ny mamma
reads to ne about an hour each day eX-
ccpt Saturdays. that being vacation
Jay to me as well as to the other boys
ami girls in Cambridge I have been
outdoors all day playing marbles run,
ming about with my playmate5.
"rhe only thing that | read today
vas tie morning paper story about the
war between Russia AID Japan. | am
for TIE i,us5.anS because ~ pApl WAS
DJra ana educated in l.gasil ana tAat
Is his country. Re and ,a.z a3oat the
battles every Cay and night, ana hope
that Russia viii win"
Professor Wiener does not consider
his boy any brighter than the ordinary
lad OF his ase and tries to impress this
Fact upon him The little fellow has
had advantages to learn which do not
come. TO every boy, his father has told
him, and he is often warned not to
make a display Of his knowledge that
woNld MAKE i.iS playmates feel uneo'a-
| fOrtaLie,
Il detest allowing the boy to i'm.
agine that there il anything out Of the
ordinary IN his makeup" said Profess
or Wieaer. "and throughout his life
haye taught him to consider himself in
foslor rather than superior to any OF
the children OF his own age
The boy has been remarkable in
many things. When he was only eight
cen months old he knew his alphabet
and when hs vas three years old he
oewld write and spell very we'll 1t was
| during his third ysar that discovered
tkat he ros&ly had u desire to learn
and VIXEN ha WA ave years old he was
skHssyiaas Latia a en- be was eight he
csGld rasSOa chi 1roblems In differen-
4sl calculus. perform tests in chemis-
tsy and read iassiMsantly Latin. French
snd GssGlaa. besides having q fair idea
| Of slavic.
When lie was nve years old / toak
him 10 pubAe school. bat found that
he was not fitted Cor any 0lasS thaEe.
He was either too advanced for some
class &C not Onough advanced fer an
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