Punch, or the London Charivari
Volume 98, June 21st 1890
edited by Sir Francis Burnand
"PLACE AUX DAMES!"
[Following the brilliant success of Miss Fawcett at Cambridge, Mlle.Belcesco, a Roumanian lady, took her degree to-day as Docteur en Droit.Like Miss Fawcett, she obtained the highest place at the examination forthe Licentiate's Degree, and her success was not less brilliant at the examinationfor the Doctor's Degree.—"Daily News" Paris Correspondent.]
"SENIORA FAWCETT."
So to be entitled henceforth, as she is Seniorer to the Senior Wrangler.
To Seniora Fawcett,
The Wranglers yield first place;
And now, first of the Law set,
One of another race,
Beauty, Brunette, Roumanian,
From man takes top Degree!
In learning's race Melanion
Is beaten, one can see,
By the new Atalanta;
At Law School or Sorbonne,
As at our native Granta,
The girls the prize have won.
Bravo, brunette Belcesco!
Some limner ought to draw
A quasi-classic fresco,
O Lady of the Law!
O Mathematic Maiden!
And show the pretty pair
With Learning's trophies laden
And manhood in a scare.
Ah, Portia of Paris!
Urania of the Cam!
Punch, whose especial care is
To sever truth from sham,
Is no great Woman's-Rightist,
But this is not clap-trap;
Of pundits the politest,
To you he lifts his cap!
Docteur en Droit, Punch watches
Miss Fawcett by the Cam;
To you she quick despatches
A friendly telegram.
He, friend of all the Nations,
Of Woman as of Man,
Adds his "felicitations."
Well done, Roumanian!!!
WEEK BY WEEK.
The prevalence of wet weather has had a painful effect on theaspect of the metropolitan streets. We do not refer so much to theirhaving been universally inundated with rain, but rather to the absencefrom them of those pretty dresses in which it is customary for ladiesto disport themselves during sunny weather. For instance, it wascalculated the other day by a well-known wrangler, that if the tangentialsurface of a Bond Street pavement be represented by theformula:
x(π + ynth) = y + x - π⁄x,
the decrease in the number of pedestrians appearing on a wet day may be set down as18426 1⁄52.
A Correspondent calls our attention to the prevalence of green onthe various trees of the Metropolis. "This phenomenon," heobserves, "is noticeable in May and early June every ye