The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-25
-FOUR PRO0IGIEs,
HOWARD STARS
With Ages Ranging From II To 10
Years, startle Faculty With
III knowledge of Abstruse.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Jan. 2.-Whea
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 is years. One OF them as
entered as special student IN higher
mathematics and is an authority on
that abstruse romantic study, The
Fourth Dimension" diversion which
has perplexed wiser and Older men,
Two OF them are IA and IL years old,
both members OF the same family.
and are freshmen. The fourth at a
Is already an A. b. and is in the Har-
ward Graduate school. All four are
products OF new system OF educU-
ton evolved and practised by their
fathers. Neither system resemDled
the othe. except that each departed
from the beaten path lale down TOT
the usual modern pedagogical ruieS'
The authors OF these systems agree
( unanimously that their children were
not forced, that they possessed no un'
usual gifts, and that attachments sim
liar to theirs are possible IN any nor
NAL child.
Two OF the prodigies are sons OF
Russian fathers who hold professor
ships az Harvard University TWO
OF them are children of German.
who is a noted Boston divine and q
Harvard graduate All of them en-
tered college unhampered with con
ditions, and their standing in their
classes compares favorably with their
older classmates. All are disunety
and intellectually original All Ell
Z 10Y perfect health All were born III
America. One lives in Brookhne.
Youngest Group of College Men"
Not only Is there included in this
! quartet the youngest college man In
1.-THE history OF American education.
K hut one OF the youngest the world
has ever known. Together they rep
resent the largest group Of the young
( est students ever gathered at the same
time in a single American college.
They are Adolf A Berle. IA, the
igoung-full-fiedged freshman at Har
ward. and Lima w. Berle. Is, children
OF the Rev DR.. A. A. BeTle OF this
city. pastor Of the Shawmuth Con-
rregational Church Of Boston; Nor
bert Weiner. IA. Tufts '09, son OF Prof.
Leo Weiner. Instructor in Sleyouic
languages at Harvard. and William
James Sidis, IL. son OF DR.. Boris
EidIs OF Brookiine. instructor in med'-
cophychology AT the Harvard medical
school
Miss Lima w. Berle is freshman
at Radcliffe and not at Harvard. but
Radcliffe College having Harvard pro-
fassors. Harvard examinations and
the signature OF the Harvard prest-
dent on its sheepskins, is for all prac-
fichl lpurDoses a branch OF Harvard
University. Dr. Berle employed the
German methods in training his of
spring. According To his theory the
immature mind OF very young enid
"a not capable OF grasping the intrl-
cacles OF mathematics sufficiently 70
make its study OF that subject or any
real value. Therefore DR. BeTle taugbt
his children LANGUAGES at an age when I
most youngsters are struggling with
mathematics, and taught them mathe- I
mates later AS a result Lima ana
Adolf were able TO take all their col /
leee examinations in the same June
instead of two consecutive Junes.
Both children have the distinction
az being admitted 10 college a 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 LampOop. the leading
college "fun sheet" one OF the Wit I.
fiest offerings il ever published on
President Lowell from various stand
points, following his inauguration,
thus:
acAMEo PORTRAITS OF NEW
PRESIDENT.
ssPhysiology, He most strikingly I
illustrates the principles of anato-
nosnical- science. He is brachycep.l
haiid. evidently having capital in
dex OF about 80 per cent. contrast
ing in this respect with the obvious \
dolichocephaIic characteristics OF our
outgoing chief He is breyicorporal
and has the outstanding blond charac-
2eristics of the Teutonic superman
Not the slightest symptom appears OF
anything approaching blue foiiicles
His constant search for his right /
trousers pocket while delivering the
inaugural address was distinctly
Rymptcmatic of what must be left TO
further investigation.
Zoology, t--As d morphologicali
evolution OF Abbott, Lawrence and
Lowell he is a most unique and high I
~ developed specimen. and shows
distinctly the characteristics OF the /
combined strains. ZoogeograDhically (
viewed, ne Is a-Bost0nese. Deco /
logically treated He is exactly fitted