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Show Professor Joanna Baker. Professor Joanna Baker of Iowa was instructed in Greek and Latin by her parents from the age of 4 At 8 she had finished all the primary books in Greek, Latin and French. At 12 she had read Demosthenes, Herodotus, Sallust and Cicero. At 14 she had read (Edipus Ty-rannis Ty-rannis and made critical notes. In her teens she was a Greek tutor in Simpson college, Iowa, in which her father was Greek professor, and published a translation trans-lation of "Plato's Apology." Having studied at Cornell and De Pauw university, univer-sity, Professor Joanna returned to Iowa, where she is now filling her father's chair of Greek in Simpson college. St Louis Globe-Democrat. |