"His conversation is always so very improving;"
i.e., "A pedantic prig, who bores you with Darwinism in the dance, and 'earnestness' at a tennis-party."
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