Show Student Career of a PrecocIous Girl Prof Joanna Bakers career as a student and teacher has been one of most extraordinary precocity She learned Greek and Latin conjugations for amusement as soon as she could speak plainly In her fourth year she had daily lessons n Greek Latin and French At 12 years of age she had read Herodotus Demosthenes Sallust and Cicero and then she took up mathematics At 1 she had read I Dedipus Tyrannus in Greek and made a lexicon of it with critical notes on the text While yet in her teens she was appointed tutor in Greek at Simpson Simp-son college with a degree At 20 she graduated from Cornell college with a degree Later she entered De Pauw university and took the degree of A M and finally returned to Simpson college where she took the chair of Greek which her father had held since her childhood She is also a musician and a social favorite New York Sun |