The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-17
Graduation Exercises at Med
ford Institution
WERE LARGELY ATTENDED
Commencement Dinner Was Served i
the Gymnasium and It Was Fol-
lowed BY a Reception BY
President Hamilton.

Medford, Mass, June l7.--One Of the
largest assemblies Of Tufts college grad
yates and their friends that ever met
on College hill was that which attended
the ffty-third commencement exercises
yesterday. The formal exercises were
held during the forenoon in Goddard
chapel with President Frederick W Ham
ilton presiding. The commencement din
ner was served in the gymnasium and
the afternoon was devoted to reception
by the president, the medical and dental
class day and other festivities.
Degrees were conferred upon ga stu
dents, and for work done in course and
honorary degrees Of master OF arts were
awarded to three persons, two 81 whom
are men and graduates Of the college
Hon. Charles Neil Barney, '95, former
mayor Of Lynn, and Rev. Harry Fay
Fister ~ Of Brockton, Mass. The third
honorary A. M. was awarded 70 Miss
Mabel Irene Emerson ofsRoxbury The
degrees conferred upon students we're dis.
fributed As follows. thirty-nye from
the college Of letters, from the depart
ment 81 philosophy, I from the depart
ment Of chemistry, ! in general science,
i 2 in the medical preparatory depart
ment, in the mechanics art department,
IA in civil engineering, 10 IN electrical
engineering, 3 in mechanical engineering,
| i n chemical engineering, | in the theo-
| logical department, II in the medical
school, So in the medical dentistry de-
partment, with 10 more in post graduate
branch Of that department, and gradu-
ate degrees.
The exercises in the chapel began at
ll0.S0 O'Clock and shortly before that
hour the~senior class met near Ballou
1 HAL and. led bv Hon. Augustus E Scott
s5e. chief marshal Of the day, and escort
ca By the faculty and corporation, march
ed TO the chapel The faculty and cor
poration members occupied seats in the
chancel. while the seniors sat IN the
l transept. Or. Hamilton opened the OK.
ercises with prayer. after which the com
mencement parts were read.
No little attention was attracted by
tie graduation Of Norbert Wiener OF
Medford with the degree Of A. B. lcum
laude) Wiener Is only fourteen years
old. He is the son Of Professor Leo
Wiener Of Harvard and has completed
the regular four.year course at TUFTS
\ IN three years. He could repeat the ell
phabet at the age Of eleven months,
could read and write at three years, and
at the age Of eight be was fitted for
college in mathematics, philosophy, mod
4 ern languages and the sciences. Ii re
quired less than three years of school
! ing, after DOMINIC short trousers, for
\ him To prepare for college. When Wien
er entered Tufts IN the autumn Of 1908,
1 he had gone further in chemistry and
philosophy than the average senior. He
\ was REQUIRED 80 take several entrance
examinations, mathematics among them,
/ IN which he was found to be far in ad-
vance Of the freshman class. Sc, as
Ia freedman. he did upper-elass work
+ il the theory Of equations and in deter
minants. while in philosophy 1t was
found necessary to place him in class
4 by himself He had read Spencer, Hack
81. Darwin, Huxley and many others.
Now he has read Locke, Hobbies and 9TH
e. English philosophers; he has trans.
lated Homer and several plays Of Aesch-
4 ylus, as well as similar amount 81
4 Latin. In mathematics be has delYed
/ the Galois theory OF equations, and has
completed diflcrential and integral calcu.
/ lus. he win continue this branch this
year, and viii study the philosophers
lof Leibnitz. Spinoza and Kant ia Greek
he will read Herodotus and Spohoeles;
the rest Of his Tina will BE taken up by
biology and oreanic chemistry.
In the autumn he viii enter the Har-
ward graduate school, where he will elect
work in higher mathematics, with a sup
Elementary course III biology or chem
istrv. After receiving the doctors degree
at seventeen, he intends TO spend two or
three years ii Germany and France, de-
/ voting himself TO philosophy and science.
That is, at an age when the average boy
has still two years Of work ahead Of
him for his bachelors degree, Wiener
lexpects to be doing advanced scientific
work among the sayants Of German
/ university.