The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-21

harvard is all agog over its two new
orodicies. William James Sidis and
p'1~ wiener Sldis is the eleven
Nh wonder who has just entered
"S' ',,.orsiir with tho highest honors
ur ',,,so unsurpassed record for schol-
s0i -,coc,ty includes such feats as
rur end spelling at . years old: op-
fsauu,.7 the typewriter eNpcruE AT Z
sin9lu, ousliIy!ng as an accountant. al
fc& a'.u c-Isring Brookline high school
esosle and inven;ing Il new system OF
Vsrthms at ~. . ,,,.
lcgaIiii.." lcgeaIli. parallcl with this Interesting
odqy ,baf of Young Wiener He is an
.sse - sp"Sfon lad. who also entered col
.cher ,hc age of IL. but his original
kge u. ,o,nr WAS Tufts college. When he
ans n,iated there in the fell Of 1906 he
ss found TO be further acEahSeu III
.lhlos,V.P..c senior He was graduated last
5nat' ,Ser NJ the age OF II. he received
i lun,ai aoyrec Of bachelor Of arts with honor,
", ,h,s autumn hc has entered IN"
.snu department OF Harvard. where
graduIamp' take an advanced course in BIZ
oIos! "s s,rance similarity In these cases
IN. nne of axe alone, but the fathers
;, nU ,Se nrococioUs Youths were both born
y p prssia arc both men OF science. ana
IN NUE. been connected with Harvard.
hase oS ,e student. the other as q
The on Dr. Bris Sidis, the father OF
paso,ocY av ocY Harvard prodigy, is a psyche
nna,,bo,orisr. practlcing at BrooKilne.
Jlme 90 wiener father OF the Tufts
ylolIry yI'ltI is assistant professor of Slavic
,.O@1Sges at Harvard
other Harvard Prodigies.
Il ,..d Harvard seems TO have a mo-
n n"ir on our chiet phenomena Of this
.orv W. II used TO be Edward Everett
II osse .,"as its prize prodigy. Ire having en-
W. va when bu; ~. and having been
Il aSnated with the highest honors at
Ts was Indeed a marvel of pre-
III, Gaining the reputation OF an ac-
tocG.,iis5ed scholar and eloquent divine
,ap but 10 while al II he was appoint
1 " rrcfessor of Greek at his alma mater.
,pS when our fathers were young.
4 r-mh,ydes was excited over the arrival 1T
fsTard OF the then boy wonder. Tru-
na s alenry SaMoI,i This lad. born on II
l r.rrrnnt farm In 1888. had commenced
Il y show mathematical genius as early as
II ~ ace OF thrc., when his parents COM
\ mod to amusa themselves by testing
| Il. strange ability. When he was sIN, II
rran The number OF rods around any
1 ir, in the country he could mentally
,,rula,e the number OF barley corns con-
L sned and one Of his mental calcula-
4 bns al this age was that there were
Z 4, ;o0 barley corns In l0i0 yards. When
r.
"a ceometry, and coon afteTvard higher
|-,tSematlcs and astronomy. Wanting
,one logarthms, he found them himself
4 The formulas, and n his tenrh year he
ratlIshed an almanac Of his own COM
:1tston. That year a skilled mathe-
rstIclan who examined him produced 4
IN Of eighteen figugcs which he asked
4 ID boy 10 square, and the correct an
sTsr was given within 4 minute. He
ruN st the same tiue multiply four
srurts By four figures as rapidly as could
y done upon paper.
II Astronomical Discoveries at Eleven.
Il When eleven he turned out five alma
Irzu ono OF which. compiled for Cincir-
Ihu. reached q sale Of "a 900 copies. The
IaEe year by systems OF his own inyen-
tpa be reduced by one fourth the labor
ID calculating the rising and setting Of
q moon and lessened by one-third the
tHtle Of calculating eclipses, But he
Wa range OF genius wider than mathe-
rziscs and including chemistry. botany
hInsopby, geography and history. He
tsS bis degree at Harvard IN 1858. when
~ Eighteen, and was engaged until
Tenty-six in a series OF computations
v orbits Of planets and comets, COM
cGced when he was only fourteen. Aft
Z / EsSrj he became director OF the OBJ
Ifratory at Harvard, professor OF astron-
!, N ~ at the Chicago university and at
VILLAINS college, at which latter institu-