Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — A Smart Young Woman. [ARTICLE]

A Smart Young Woman.

All France is talking of Mile. Jeanne Benabcn. She received the college degree of bachelor of arts two years ago, When she was 10. She then became professor of philosophy In a woman’s college at Lyons, and this year was a candidate at the Sorbonne for the degree of licentiate in philosophy. The examiners, though not prepared for a prodigy, were amazed at the extent of her erudition and her serene composure in dealing with the vexed problems of Descartes, Kant and Comte. She was third on the list of 200 candidates, all of them older than herself, and is now a lecturer on science of mind in the College of Rouen.