The Detroit times., 1910-01-25
-FOUR PRODIGIEs,
. HOWARD's STARS
With Ages Ranging From II To. is
Years, startle Faculty With
knowledge Of Abstruse.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Jan. 2i.-When
Harvard University threw open her
gates last fall she found an assert
ment OF Infant Prodigies" knocking
for admittance. No less than four OF
them were admitted. whose ages range
from III TO 10 years. One OF them is
|entered as a special student in higher
mathematics and is an authority on
THAT abstruse romantic study, The
Fourth Dimension" a diversion which
has perpIexed wiser and older men.
Two OF them are Ia and Is years old,
Iboth members OF the same family,
land are freshmen. The fourth at "a
Is already an A. b. and is In the Har-
Ward Graduate school. All tTS are
lproducts of a new system OF educis-
don evolved and practised by their
Fathers. Neither system resembled
the other except that each departed
from the beaten path Lard down for
the usual modern pedagogical rules
The authors of these systems agree
unanimously that their children We're
not forced. that they possessed no un-
usual gifts, and that attachments sim
far 10 theirs are possible In any nor
NAL child.
Two of the prodigies are sons OF
Russian fathers who hold professor
ships NJ Harvard University. Two
OF them are children OF German.
who Is noted Boston divine and
Harvard graduate All or them en-
tered college unhampereG with con
dltions. and their standing In their
classes compares favorably with their
older classmates. All are distinctly
and intellectually original. All en-
ioy perfect health. All were born III
America. One lives in Brookline.
Youngest GROUP Of College "Men."
Not only is there included in this
quartet the youngest college man" in
the history OF American education.
Nut one OF the youngest the world
has ever. known Together they rep
reaent the largest group OF the young
est students ever gathered at the same
time In a single American college.
They are Adolf A. Berle. IL, the
onng.full-nedged freshman at Har-
ward. and Lima w Berle. 10. children
or the Rev. DIR. A. A. Berle OF this
n city. Dastor OF the Shawmuth Con
erecational Church of Boston, Nor
bert Weiner. IA, Tufts '09. son OF Prof.
Leo Weiner. Instructor In Slavonic
languages at Harvard. and William
lanes Sidis. IL, son OF DR.. Boris
gfdis OF Brookline. instructor in med'-
cophychology at the Harvard medical
school
Miss Lima w Berle is a freshman
at Radcliffe and not at Harvard. but
Radcliffe College having Harvard pro-
fessors, Harvard examinations ana
the signature OF the Harvard presi-
dent on It's sheepskins. is for all prac-
fical purposes branch OF Harvard
University DIR. Berle employed the
German methods in training his on
npring. According to his theory the
immature mind of a very young child
4 A not capable of grasping the intri'
nnfies OF mathematics sufficiently 10
make It's study of that subject OF any
real value. Therefore DIR. Berle taught
Ms children languages at an age when
most Youngsters are struggling with
mathematics, and taught them mathe-
tnntics later AS q result. Lima ana
Adolf were able to take all their col
lego examinations In the same June
Instead Of two consecutive Junes.
Roth children have the distinction
.kf being admitted to college year
before they really entered.
Lampoons President Lowell.
Scarcely had young Berle called
harvard his alma mater than he went
IA for literary work. and his maiden
EFFORT gave the Lampoon. the leading
college afun sheet" one OF the wit
TEST offerings II ever published on
President Lowell from various stand
r,ninte. following his inauguration,
thus:
"CAMEO PORTRAITS OF NEW
I PRESIDENT
ssPhysIology, He most strikingly
illustrates the principles of anato-
s1fOrnical science. He is brachycep-
halid. evidently having a capital In
der OF about so per cent contrast
inr ia this respect with the obvious
doliehocephalic characteristics OF our
outgoing chief He is brevicorporal
and has the outstanding blond charac-
fpfistics Of the Teutonic superman.
Not the slightest symptom appears oil
innything approaching blue follicles.
His constant search for his right
trousers pocket while delivering the
Inaugural address was distinctly
symptomatic of what must be left 10
further investigation.
Zoology, las a morphological
evolution OF Abbott. Lawrence and
Lowell he IS most unique and high.
\ 1v developed specimen. and shows
distinctly the characteristics Of the
combined strains ZoOgeographically
Viewed. he is a-Bostonese. Deco
ipgicaIly treated lie is exactly fitted
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