TOPPING THE TRIPOS;
Or, Something like a Score for the Sex.
[In the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Miss P. G. Fawcett, of Newnham, daughter of the late Professor Fawcett, is declared to be "above the Senior Wrangler.">[
Above the Senior Wrangler! Pheugh!
Where now are male reactionaries
Who flout the feminine, and pooh-pooh
Sweet Mathematic Megs and Maries?
Who says a girl is only fit
To be a dainty, dancing dangler?
Here's girlhood's prompt reply to it:
Miss Fawcett tops the Senior Wrangler!
Would it not have rejoiced the heart
Of her stout sire, the brave Professor?
Agneta Ramsay made good start,
But here's a shining she-successor!
Many a male who failed to pass
Will hear it with flushed face and jaw set.
But Mr. Punch brims high his glass,
And drinks your health, Miss P. G. Fawcett!
