Show texas boy finds high school work too easy austin texas eight year old mar vin C ettlinger Is so smart that when he enters the third year of austin high school this fall at the age when most children are in the third and courtl grade of primary schools hell he 11 be al lowed to attend classes only half as often as his classmates son of dr and mrs 11 3 ettlinger marvin Is expected to enter the uni varsity of texas when he Is ten years old tie he was nine years old octo ber her 5 ills II 11 s father worked his way through washington university st louis where he played football and basketball for three years later attended university of wisconsin and harvard and now Is a member of the faculty of the sity of texas teaching mathematics marvin already has covered the field of mathematics up to the courses taught la in the second year of college has covered the equivalent ot of a tour four yeas year sonea bading courve tl chemij IL try his 1 parents wont won t let him do expert ments in chemistry for fear of acal dents psychologists have tested his read Inga ing bilty find he can read 2200 2 wolds a it minute marvin la is entirely normal otherwise he lie likes to swim and ride horseback and has attended a boys boy s camp each summer until this year when he accompanied his parents to alaska |