The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-10
MISS PHILTPPA FAWCETT
u,aBRAoKErED ABOVE THE
WEI .sENIoR wRANGLER

A Girl Who has iaAen :
p s 'crampridge-Her Education ana
Plans ,.,,,
,oxnoy. Aug. There Is PLAIN -FOUR
LoN IAN coIored house IN qule'' IN
slot3 ,,u.hIe street close to the BRUSH ,hu-
f's''O"'' .nits neighbors are of the DARK
seuin' %, 90 dear to the Londoner. 1t Is
anoAS ',i,+i,suised from them by It's PINK
fuI'n st;te awnings, the flowers in ITS win
sDI .and its air of liveableness notlceaOle
'O"' nasser. If you strike the knocKer
even ling little maid who opens the door
tpe ,+-d 1ou I'D the softly carpe'ed stair
VIII 20 80 the study where the English
case Case 10 whom so many of the most intel
w W. If her sex look for guidance, and the
HSeu' wi who this summer stands proudly
youDS in,,,ost shrine of the Athene Prom
III TUG - Cambridge pass much of their
time ,Io, err, foil across
:, Fashioned bureau, strewn with papers
ah o'1 -,.ing materials, and cunningly en-
ara W.; w. q corner by the fireplace, where,
sconce1 - the suns feeble efforts, If 1t be
II Spl'I1 nigbt. a cherry blaze is leaplng.
ID,aoor IS warm with brlght-colored rugs,
1ns lI green and crimson draperles haug
H1u 80 doorways and at the windows. flct-
III w Iool, down from the walls, prominent
ule o-, them, being portrait IN OIL OF the
s altO Postmaster General Fawcett, OF froi.
Manrv Fawcett, as the men OF TRINITY Coi,
heui ycoT,l ridge. still affectionatelv call
nm Opal-tinted vases are nlleo WIN tne
n InI, and yellow peoples that make the
cilni I'eL Add Glorious in summer, books are
hn n-nTrbere. and so are quaint art objects,
eve e..e mare is nothing in the way. nothing
~ e. nua could knock off or throw down. 1t
In'O yon n sense of comfort, of ability to
1T about if YOU wish, TO see the china
sofaIv rer o,ing in a chitfonier. The room
= ons in which you feel at home.
Presently. perhaps. the curtains part and
.baro annear two figures: one Glow medf-
nm HIGHT. small but perfectly proportloned,
sTgbt erect. well-knit and active looking,
rr,7b Iarge. expressive blue-gray eyes and a
o-aat nleited coroneu of light brown hair.
Fbo fresh. healthy complexion and the
simnla gray cloth walking-dress go admira-
hlv with the light step that suggest much
outdoor exercise.
With an arm about the shoulders of this
f,ure there may be another, somewhat
taller. Younger, with girlish curves and shy,
rirIish ways. You note darker hair than
Fer mothers, drawn loosely back from a
nrattv forehead and coiled high. The eyes
anet straightforward, with a questioning
Iook uuder their curved brows The hands
are we'll formed, not small. but supple and
n1adorned with rings. A jersey waist, with
bunch of dewy roses at the belt, completes
for YOU the picture of as fire; h, fair and rosy
girl as ever played tennis or applauded a
game of cricket, to say nothing of wrestling
In the grapple of intellectual thew and
sinew. in which sheer mental strength and
staying powers are the only things that
count to the wranglers.
These are Mrs. Aiillicent Garrett Fawcett,
in whose drawing room at Cambridge the
first Of the meetings that resulted in the
founding of Newman college was held
twenty years ago, and her daughter, Miss
Philipa Garrett Fawcett, who was then a
baby in her cradle, and who this summer
has won at the college her mother did so
much to establish signal victory over ''the
hard-grained masses of the cube and square"
aud earned the right to wear the blue rib
DO Of the mathematical year at England's
university of mathematics.
And how does it feel" the question
springs nvoluntarilv to the lips in face of
this young girl, robust like Diana and full
Of bushes, "how does 1t feel to be brecketed
above the Senior Wrangler' o.
And then she tells you there are no
especial sensations, and she crimsons. She
is glad AID yes, in a way, she is proud to
have succeeded, but she wishes people
would not make SO much of it because she is
girl, The truest compliment will be paid
when girls success is recognized as quietly
as young mans, with no flourish of
tumpetS, as If 1t were a strange thing to
lind some degree of ability in one sex and a
matter Of course to find it in the other.
But people, you suggest, shave not
been used to looking for mathematics in a
woman"
And then Mrs. Fawcett smiles and takes
the word. 1t is smile that one would q
far and give much to see. Her daughter
has been modest about her school successes
always, but she has not grown up thinking
mat because she was a girl there were GER
IAN paths IN which it was hopeless for her
70 enter, or in which she could expect but q
tnlrd rate success, suited to woman She
inherited her bent for mathematics from
her lather, who was seventh wrangler oil
MS year, and she has been encouraged tc
develop her tastes always.
You do not look it is impossible 'tc
AVOID saying, las is you had injured your
health by your stu les"
And again it is the mother who answers.
5nlllppa has been well always, aud. IN
ueed, Mrs. tawcett thinks there has been
mucl cry and little wool in the alarm
raised ABOUT the education of women.
lnluq at the expense Of their bodies. There
was MISS Ramsey, who, three years ago
was the hrSt woman senior classic. She
married the master Of Trinity College. and
there's not in all England chuhb bier, hand
soner specimen Of ba5yhood than her
Splendid little boy.
men you ask how girl is brought UT
70 oe senior wrangler. Has Miss Faw
eeOv studied as She chose or has she had a
., Inc things she didn't like, she tells YOU
iue uaS not studied at all. She is fond OF
ea'Iug music, but she had not the patience
in. 1g9In Inc piano, and her talent did no,
s saa',ty tne hours of practice required. Sc
&c was allowed to give up the drudperv
one went TO Clapham high school Sor1,
VI Her earlier teachers will tell Won her snc
ees Ia Latin was so great thai she nigh
~ ~ gone IN for honors in classics with ar
la la chance of succeeding.) AfterwarC
enc enc London University, and for the ex
"lSH'naylon there she worked harder tha =
80 uaS done since. (Agaln. some Of he,
t t55atlerS ore authority for the Statement
t .Sa. she worked as if in a fever No,
w. vna. u was all work by any means. Their,
ere %gte long walks wi h her mother anr
cot ttoo ana travels in Italy, and one long va
Son she and mamma" made a deliqhtfn'
0"iss excursion mountain climbing. -
1uu at Cambridge
s,r Ter she went to NEWMAN. saws tn,
T1uue,,I' and settled down for the thre
II S4oa pull she planned her life so as to tax,
end ''a My and not be used up before tn,
baII. Mss Cough, the head Of the collega