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BOSTON, July 17 -- William James Sidis, boy prodigy of thirty-five years ago, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 16, died today in a hospital. His age was 46.
The Tribes and the States ( c. 1935) William James Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name).
Sidis went to Harvard Law School at age 18. Harvard Transcript. New York Times, July 18, 1944. "The best study of his character was written by Jared L. Manley for The New Yorker." In his lawsuit against The New Yorker, Sidis said that nearly all of the article was untrue and so listed only the few actual facts.
SIDIS GETS YEAR AND HALF IN JAIL. Boston Herald, Wednesday, May 14, 1919. Click to enlarge. Distortion of his likeness aside, this article contains some of his trial testimony. William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal Court yesterday that he is a Socialist, a ...
Boston Herald, May 3, 1919----- "Riot" = peaceful protest. Arrest 102 In Roxbury Boston Transcript, May 3, 1919 . Four Boston Radicals Get Prison Sentences New York Times, May 3, 1919 . Boston Rioters' Cases Disposed Of Bangor [Maine] Commercial, May 3, 1919 . Sidis Gets Year And Half In Jail Boston Herald, May 14, 1919.
Feb 12, 2023 · Boston Herald started the report about Sidis’s court case in 1919: “William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal ...
Jan 28, 2012 · 2012. January. 28. The Boston Herald can trace its roots to 1846, when a new newspaper named The Herald first appeared. Since that edition, Boston has always had a newspaper with the name ...
