New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1924, Page 32

e P e e ’ OTHER CASES e e Tvalliam o, Bl ey | Chess Wonder O Arthur Goktsman His supermind will be g al works. 1le is be 1z to study for the and at 21 will be ordained In the Episco- » warp and woo » varlous teach- , he has concluded that man nceds religion. e expected oung Hardy might ba found a complete modernist Ing tha re- ligious creeds and a v of faith as wough he has definite {deas and not enough real religion in the He feels that, hecaus vears, he t an older man CHANGES MIND ' tend prea I'eo “Whe vas five years old T wanted to be a issionary,” says young Hardy, who interfects hoyish eppeals against being mistaken for a molly- coddle or a sissy ot a Lord Fauntleroy type. . “Then I thought I'd like to go to the Near East, r South America on missions, But I think now hall take the pulpit. I have always had I have thught Sun and intends ly has the needs only s in reading ran es to Pope's ¥ 1 that so much reading iy be the case with I have MASTERS 12 TONGUES 10 JAT ich would seem to knock many i aly when it is c ang: fred Sa ed as an ou TURNS TO CHURCH James M. Haré]e/ Baffle Science HILD prodigles have alwa:s C been objects of consideralie curlosity. . Dus to e very natural tendency upon the part of fond parents to overrate the ability of their offspring, precocity is too often mistaken for a sign of genlus. Of late years, however, science has been peering more carefully into the case of the genfuschild. Some years ago a Boston organization secured an arnual fund of $50,000 to be used in eearching the mation for unusual children and putting them to certain tests. This fund was placed in the hands of Professor Lewls Terman of Stan- ford University, Calif., who has made several Interesting discoveries. Iferest In the finding of prodigies does not end with the mere discovery and test, but the career of the child is followed over a period of years and regular histories are kept. This is to continue over an nite perfod of years and, in the event of Terman's death or termination of office, the work goes on in other hends The resuit Is expected to be great biological and scientific inter- cst, for the children of the prodigy will be watched as weil ()1" the famous prod tory none s more Interesting than Mozart, the celebrated com poser, 1t 18 related that at the age of five he had composed several min was discovered at work on @ certo) At six he had become 8o profic at the plano that his father took on a tour of Europe and he astound ed the musical world. His sister, NanneM, also great promise and Mozart's first terest in music was displayed when Tie heard his sist When he had ) his father tc The child had with him an composition, Bastien and Basticnne h was given a private per op at Rome. which had been so jealc Lat musiclans were for py it under penalty of exe Af So impressed was the pope t the boy Knight of the ( en to write an ¢ ton was another At 12 he was studyi Italian and Hebre France is to have h ng intellect a' an early age and Charles Darwin is 1 as another classic exarple =3 &