Anyhow that girl to blunder.
She cried, “You Dons shan’t bully me,
For fame I’m now an angler!”
And fame rewarded her ways so free,
As she came out Senior Wrangler!
Funny Folks, March 12, 1881.
(The Senate of Cambridge University had recently decided to admit female students, resident at either Girton or Newnham College, to the Tripos Examination.)
The Grand Old Minstrel Boy.
The National Eisteddfod of Wales.—Towards defraying the expenses of this annual literary meeting, the Prince of Wales had sent a sum of twenty guineas. Mr. Gladstone had consented to act as President on the closing day.