The San Francisco call., 1910-01-17
MARVELLOUS DEVELOPMENT

w Hen he was . years old he was not
only able to read, write and speak good
English and to use a typewriter but he
was an expert accountant. had begun to
study Frenth and Latin and was pro
ficient in anatomy.
AT the age of he entered a gram
mar school in Brookline He arrived
at the school at o'clock in the morn
( ing, and when his mother came at noon
I to take him home for luncheon he was
in the third grade. In six months he
completed the work of seven grades.
At the age of Z he had gone so far
with his mathematical studies that his
father could be of little assistance to
him. He worked out the most abstruse
and difficult problems with the greatest
ease, and invented several new sys-
TENS OF computation which We're pro-
nounced by teachers of mathema tics
correct in every detail.
He entered the Brookline high school
when years old. In six weeks from
the day he entered ne had completed
the mathematical course and had begun
writing book on astronomy. Then
ne plunged into the study of German
French, Latin and Russian The lat
ter he took up at home after school
hours with his father
On leaving school he took up the
study of mathematics in earnest and
lnnnlteslmaI calculus became one of
his hobbies. In addition he invented a
system of lOgarithms based on the
number u instead of 10. This was in
spected by several well known math-
ematicians and pronounced perfect in
every detail
Three years ago he applied to Har-
ward university for admission but the
authorities refused his petition solely
because OF his youth, since he could
have passed the examina tions with
"a 1lz-f l.
admission was again refused on the
same ground. Whe nhe entered Har-
ward last fall he had already passed the
entrance examination for the Massa-
chusetts Institute OF Technology, and
knew enough of chemistry and kindred
subjects to make him eligible for ad-
mission TO the Harvard medical school
SPECIAL COURSE At HARVARD
He picked the university, after spend
ing a year at Tufts college, because he
desired to continue his special work in
mathematics. AS the ordinary course
in college would no more fit this pre-
cocious boy than the clothing of a boy
of IL would fit the ordinary freshman,
he is taking a~special course at Har-
ward. in which his companions are
young men of 20.
Professor Jafnes of Harvard has pro-
nounced him the greatest mental mar
vel he has ever come in contact with
He could recite pages Of Shakespeare
by heart at an age when the ordinary
boy is learning his alphabet
SO interested has Mrs Frank Jones,
widow of a millionaire Portsmouth
brewer, become in the lad that she
arranged to give the boys father.
Professor Boris Sides, her great es-
tate, Echo park, to be used as a school
for the cure of the blues" She has
great faith in Professor Sides modern
specialized mind treatment and physi-
caiical methods He is to take special
cases OF verge insanity and neursae-
thenia and treat them at this new in
stitution.
1T is we'll known and corresponding
ly deplored among physicians SAYS
Professor Sides. that there are fully
so per cent Of mentally disturbed cases
that can not be cared for in insane asy-
lume. These persons are not actually
insane but are on the verge of that
condition AS things are now neuras-
thenic cases are often sent to the in
sane asylum or hospital when they
require physical treatment At the
Portsmouth institution I will take Just
such cases and treat them by special
methods elaborated within recent years
in this country and Europe These
methods have not been applied widely
anywhere, and might be said to have
been demonstrated only in laboratories,
but they are nevertheless, proved as
thoroughly as are many surgical and
medical treatments. We shall start with
about dozen patients in the spring