The New York herald., 1921-12-04
\ ETTY JANE HAMILTON. aged 10,
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~ ETTY JANE HAMILTON. aged 1S,
X started something when she entered
Westminster College as a freshman
last fall. She started hunt for the young
est freshman in the various colleges of the
country; she started also an inquiry as to
whether precocity in education indicates
anything special for the future.
The latter investigation may safely be left
to the scientific student who makes that
proper study of mankind. e.. man-his
life work. II is a big subject which has
been undertaken by a number of investi-
gators who seldom get to the general from
the particular.
To revert to Miss Betty for a moment
She lives at New Castle Pa, and was grad
usted from the high school there at IL, TAX
ing rank at once the youngest graduate
by two years of any class in that school.
She evidently comes from a precocious
family, for her brother Edmund was grad
uated from the same school two years ago
when he was but IL. and in the following
fall entered Westminster College fresh
man.
At Vassar the authorities are used to en-
rolling young girls and by custom have
grown Indifferent to figures except as they
appear on examination papers. The dean
and age of the youngest freshman of this
year:
II remember saying to that young person
that she was about to have a sixteenth birth
day. but quite forget her name"
The two youngest students in Cornell
University are Miss Ysabel Muller of the
town of Ulysses, Tompkns county, y. Y.
and Paul TIillegas. a New York city youth.
whose family has established temporary
in, thafr obi ttp
their studies at the university. Both en-
tered by special permit because neither has
yet reached the required age Of registration.
which is 16. The average age of the enter
ing class is close to 1S
Miss Muller is the daughter of a pros
porous chicken farmer who has a farm
about seven miles northwest of Ithaca.
Her father Enrique X Muller. was gradu-
ated with the degree of mechanical engineer
ing from Cornell in 1897, and for a time was
a successful engineer in Brooklyn. His
health failed however. and for years he has
been unable to get about except In chair.
He conceived the idea OF raising chickens
and has prospered.
Miss Ysabel was graduated from the
Ithaca High School last June i'm the modern
language course and has entered the Col
lege of Agriculture. She is said to be the
youngest student ever to enter the State
College of Agriculture
Paul Hillegas is the son OF the late How
ard c.. Hillegas. for years an editorial writer
Of THE New York HERALD. a contributor TO
various magazines and the author Of several
books on the Beers. Mrs. Hlegas moved
from New York to Ithaca a few weeks ago
to educate her children. a daughter, two
years older than Paul, has also entered
Cornell.
Young Hillcgas was graduated last June
from the Curtis High School, where he com j.
pleted four year course In three years.
lie is specializing in higher mathematics
and has entered the college OF mechanical
engineering at Cornell. Professors say they
cannot recall another case OF ffteen-year-
old boy matriculating in this course. which
is highly technical and one Of the most diff
ncut in the university.
The youngest member Of tho freshman
class at Wesleyan University, which num-