B.A. FOR A GIRL
LEARNED TO READ AT ELEVEN MONTHS A dispatch from Madrid states that eleven-year-old Hildegarde Fernandez Carballeira, who matriculated at the University at the age of seven, has now finished three of the necessary courses for the' Bachelor of Arts degree, and isi astonishing the country by her precocity. Hildegarde learned to read at the phenomenal age of eleven months. Iler latest triumph was a special session of the Federated Society for the Protection of Animals and Plants, arranged to award her individual honours. The Royal Princesses Beatriz and Christina presided, and delivered to the child prodigy a special prize for attainments in literature. Hildegarde at this meeting drew enthusiastic acclamation from the audience with an address. She is an accomplished linguist, and as a musician has devoted much of her talent to the piano.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19612, 17 July 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)
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138B.A. FOR A GIRL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19612, 17 July 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)
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