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Show -Utl CORNELL'S YOUNG MARVEL. Nicholas Wiener, 1G Years Old, is' ) Specializing in Philosophy 'to Become Teacher. (New York World.) linn aril is not tho only university with a youthful schola'stic marvel, siich as William James Sidie, for In Nicholas Welner Cornell possesses a 8tudent who celebrated his sixteenth blrthdny anniversary last Saturday and who Is taking second-year graduate gradu-ate work. Ho rts graduated from a Massachusetts high school when only 11 years old and completed tho regu-four-year courso at Tufts college In three yoars, leaving that Institution at nn earlier ago than that at which SIdls will receive his degree at Harvard. Har-vard. After ono year of graduate study at Han-ard he won the Sage graduate scholarship at Cornell and ihla fall he came to Ithaca. Tho master of several languages, many sciences and most theoretical mntliematlcs, Welner is specializing In philosophy at Cornell with a vlow to teaching that subject. His program of study consists of courses In empiricism, em-piricism, rationalism, ethics, tho history his-tory of philosophy, experimental psychology, and as subsidiary subjects sub-jects is reading Plato In the original, Gorman reading and tho theory of functions in mathematics. Young Welner's father, Prof. Leo Welnor of Harvard, Is a Russian, llko his colleague. Professor James SIdls, and his mother was born In Kansas City, Mo. Professor Weiqer Is assistant assist-ant professor of Slavic languages at Harvard, formerly tenching romance and Germanic languages at Missouri State university. At eighteen months young Welner know his alphabet; ho could read and wrlto English at two and a half years, and whon four years old ho was acquainted ac-quainted with most arithmetic and some French. From 5 to G years, ol ago he was in the second grade in the country school at Foxborough, Mnss., and when 7 ho passed through the third and fourth grades, staying In the latter only ono or two wooks Then for half a year ho was unable to do any reading by order of an occu-list, occu-list, who feared the boy was becoming becom-ing near-sighted. During this period he was tutored In chemistry, Latin, history and English, and ns soon aa he could read again ho commenced geometry and trigonometry, and was well along in analytical geometry before be-fore entering at 9 as a special student stu-dent at tho high school at Ayer, Mass. There In his first year ho studied Caesar aud Cicero, English history and advanced algebra. In his second year he entered tho sonlor class, tnk-1 tnk-1 lng up Virgil, Germun, English and solid geomotry and studying American history himself. Upon graduation at 11, he entered Tufts collego. Tho first ear ut Tufts he studied advanced mntliematlcs, metaphysics, history, Greek and English; the second sec-ond year tho same, except history and English, with physics, political economy, eco-nomy, French and Latin. His third year was devoted to organic chemistry, chemis-try, vertebrate anatomy, Greek, Latin, philosophy and calculus In 6pltc of his unusual mental attainments at-tainments nnd his very thorough general gen-eral education, he Is a normal aud healthy boy. . |