Last week a huge-framed, six-foot scholar marched up to the platform of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary to receive the degree of Master of Sacred Theology. He was Edward Rochie Hardy Jr., 26. and the degree was the fifth for New York City's most famed prodigy.
Son of a New York University insurance lecturer and an able bacteriologist mother who had four academic degrees of her own, he matriculated in N. Y. U. at 5. At 10 he passed Harvard's entrance examinations, but waited until he was 12 to enter Columbia. He got a...
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