PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOLUME 93.
JULY 16, 1887.
THE LAST VISIT TO THE ACADEMY.
 No. 691. The Donkey Rider Stopped. "You can't go furtherthan this for twopence." |  No. 540. Arrival of the G.O.M. Collars in Venice. |
 No. 35. A Brave Lassie. "Come on!—the whole lot of you!I'll give it you!" |  No. 928. Cat and Child Fight. |
ABSURD TO A DEGREE.
Now that girls have proved themselves capable of earning the highestUniversity honours, why should women remain debarred of Universitydegrees? If any senatorial difficulty precludes the removal of thatridiculous injustice, a girl forbidden to term herself a Bachelor ofArts, for example, might, it has been suggested, "invent some othertitle more significant of the distinction she has won." No inventioncould be easier. Her alternative for Bachelor would be obviouslySpinster of Arts. No Graduate able to pass the Pons Asinorum can besuch a preposterous donkey as to persist in denying even theplainest—possibly the prettiest—Passwoman that. The Dons will beunworthy of the name they go by unless they immediately remove thedisability their old-world statutes have imposed upon the Donne.
ROBERT AT THE ACADEMY.
I paid my reglar wisit to the Academy last week, and was glad to findthat my werry ernest remonstrance of last year had perduced sech achange as regards Staggerers. No Miss Menads a hunting in BurnhamBeeches without no close on to speak of, and no Mr. Cassandra a carryingoff of a pore yung lady afore she's had time to dress, merely becauseshe upset the salad-bowl.
I don't think it's because "familyaryty breeds content," as the poetsays, that I am less staggered than last year, but becos there ain't somany staggerers to be staggered at. Not that there ain't none. Why,there's one lady in the werry same dishabil as Madame Wenus herself aporing out somethink that the Catalog says is a incantashun, but thenher pecoolia