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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 believer in the soviet form of government, that he believed in evolution, that he does not believe in a god, that his god is evolution, and that he believes in our form of ...
Sidis was born to Jewish emigrants from Ukraine, [1] on April 1, 1898, in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] His father, Boris Sidis, had emigrated in 1887 to escape political and antisemitic persecution. [3] His mother, Sarah (Mandelbaum) Sidis, and her family had fled the pogroms in the late 1880s. [4]
- John W. Shattuck, Frank Folupa, Parker Greene, Jacob Marmor
- July 17, 1944 (aged 46), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- April 1, 1898, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
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"William James Sidis, the Harvard Prodigy Who Graduated At 16, as he looks today (caption under photo)." Fragment from Boston Sunday Herald ----- Bruce, Harold Addington The Riddle of Personality . NY: Moffat Yard, 1915, 88-93 Bruce offers a 'bending the twig' theory of education.
Jan 23, 2011 · A Child Prodigy. Born in Boston in 1898, William James Sidis made the headlines in the early 20th century as a child prodigy with an amazing intellect. His IQ was estimated to be 50 to 100...
The Herald 's history traces back through two lineages, the Daily Advertiser and the old Boston Herald, and two media moguls, William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch. Founding. The original Boston Herald was founded in 1846 by a group of Boston printers jointly under the name of John A. French & Company. The paper was published as a single ...
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Aug 14, 2022 · William Sidis briefly courted controversy when he was arrested at a Boston May Day Socialist March in 1919. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for rioting and assaulting a police officer, but he had actually done neither. That said, Sidis was determined to live in quiet solitude after his brush with the law.
Aug 9, 2021 · PUBLISHED: July 13, 1986 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 9, 2021 at 6:24 a.m. In 1909 and 1910 one could scarcely pick up a newspaper that had not carried stories of the incredible mental exploits...
