The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-10

has won at the college her mother did so
| much to establish signal victory over ''the
hard-grained muses. of the cube and square,"
and earned the right to wear the blue rib
| bon of the mathematical year at England's
| university of mathematics.
And how does it feel,' the question
springs involuntarily to the lips in face of
this young girl. robust like Diana and full
of bushes. show does it feel to be brack-
eted above the Senior Wrangler.'
And then she tells you there are no espe-
cial sensations and she crimsons. She is
glad, and yes, IN way, she is proud to
have succeeded, but she wishes people would
not make SO much of it because she is a
girl. The truest compliment will be paid
when girls success is recognized as quietly
as young mans, with no flourish of trum-
pets. as if it were strange thing to find
some degree of ability in one sex and a
matter of course to find it in another.
But people, you suggest, "have not
been used to looking for mathematics in a
woman"
And then Mrs. Fawcett smiles and takes
the word. 1t is a smile that one would go
tar and give much to see. Her daughter
has been modest about her school successes
always, but she has grown up thinking that
because she was girl there were certain
venture, or in which she could expect but a
thlrd-rate success suited to a woman. She
inherited her bent for mathematics from
her father, who was Seventh Wrangler of
his year, and she has been encouraged to
develop her tastes always.
You do not look" it is impossible to
avoid saying, "as if you had injured your
health by your Studies"
And again it is the mother who answers
Philippa has been we'll always, and indeed
Mrs. Fawcett thinks there has been much
cry and little wool in the alarm raised
about the education of women's minds al
the expense of their bodies. There was
Miss Ramsey, who three years ago was tn.
first woman senior classic. She married
not II all England a chubbier, handsome
specimen of babyhood than her splendit
little boy.
Then YOU ask how girl is brought up t.
be a Senior Wrangler. Has Miss Fawcet
studied as she chose or has she had sys
TEN?
The things she didn't like, she tells you
she has not studied at all. She IS fond o
hearing music. but she had not the patience
to learn the piano, and her talent DID no 40
Justify the hours of practice required. 81
she was allowed to give up the drudgery
She went to the Chaplain high school
(Some of her earlier teachers viii
tell you her success in Latir
was so great that she might hav,
gone III for honors in classics with an equa
chance of succeeding.) Afterward came
London university, and Tor the eAamlna
tions there she worked harder than she ha
done since. again, some of her teacher
are authority for the statement that sh
worked as if in fever.) Not that it wa
all work by any means. There were lon
walks with her mother and drives and trav
els in Italy and one long vacation she an
..mamma'' made delightful Swiss excur
sion mountain climbing.
And at Cambridge?'
After she went to Newnham. says the stu
dent, and settled down for the three year,
pull, she planned her life so as to take
steadily and not be used up before the enc
| helped her greatly. She resolved. IN tn
| first place. never to work more than 81
| hours a day.
Morning or afternoou?"
| As far as possible in the morning, bu
| that varied according to the lectures thS
| were open to the girls, her hours with he
| coach and the season of the year. Sh
made point of regular meals, going to be
/, early and getting out every aftel
noon, in bad weather for a walk, in goo
for tennis or boating. Indeed. she protest
| wsh bright shy smile; she thinks she
better at tennis than at mathematics. The
| is reading for q Tripos. to lose ones intel
est in what is going on in the world. Sh
has tried to have time to read the daily p,
pers, and to keep her German with be
mother, aud to read little economics an
literature. Then there has been the soci,
life of the college and of Cambridge, th
girls cocoa parties, ETC., to make mp veS
pleasant three years.
- do You look forward to time whe