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Show A MENTAL PRODIGY. Boy of Fourteen Receives Diploma as a Bachelor of Arts. Medford, Mass. Norbert Weiner, a senior in Tufts college, this city, who was 14 years old on June 16, has received re-ceived a diploma at the college commencement com-mencement as a Bachelor of Arts. And not only will be receive his re-gree re-gree of Bachelor of Arts, but he will be entered on the rolls of Tufts as having completed a full four years' course in three years. Weiner is the most remarkable student on the roll of any college or university. When he was IS months old he knew the English alphabet; at 3 years he could read and write; at 5 he studied Latin; at 6 he had mas-tred mas-tred arithmetic, algebra, plane and solid geometry, at 8 he read books in Latin. German. French and Russian Rus-sian readily; at 9 he could reason problems in trigonometry and calculus calcu-lus and was given to perusing the works of the ancient philosophers. |