A CLEVER SCHOOLGIRL.

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1922, Page 3

A CLEVER SCHOOLGIRL.

COMPILES DICTIONARY. Fourteen-year old Birdie Reeve, daughter of a London, Ontario, teacher of j shorthand, has completed the compilation of a dictionary containing 64,000 words. The dictionary is not arranged alphabetically but in groups of words | having common roots, or ending in similar syllables. It is to some extent a rhymed dictionary, but differs in certain points easily detected as existing j in the arrangement but difficult to understand, unless one has been more or . less thoroughly initiated into the new i system of education, memory training, I applied psychology and stenography of which her father Thomas I/eopold Reeve is the founder and chief exponent. It is claimed by her father whom she assists in teaching his shorthand and business classes that Birdie Reeve fully understand the use and moaning of every one of these 64,000'words, ami in fact can. recite at will page after page of the long and nearly jaw-break-ing words-groups. j Last .September, Birdie was admitted to the Western University, of London, Ontario, as a freshman student, and her university teachers stat-e that she made quite satisfactory progress, ranking often ahead of students five or s* years older who had completed the regular high school courses. But Birdie found little to interest her in the dead languages, history, and sciences of her university course and she went back to the business college to teach shorthand and memory courses to lawyers doctors, journalists, and hardheaded businessmen, three or four times as old as herself.