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Evening Star, Issue 10393, 14 August 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

In the tripos list of Cambridge University the name of Miss Annie Whitelaw, of Auckland, appears seventh amongst Senior Optimes for Women, her position being somewhat inferior to that of Mr Whalley, of Peterhouse, forty-ninth on the male list and something better than that of Mr Mallik, of John's, fiftieth on the list. No women achieved to wrangler's position, the most successful of the Girton contestants being Miss E. Willis, who came out equal to Davis, of Pembroke, and Davis, of Magdalen, who were bracketed thirty-fourth on the men's list. . . Mrs Ormiston Chant has returned Home from her nursing expedition in Greece converted—to the cigarette. Addressing a crowded assembly at Whitefield's Tabernacle she said that "on on one occasion she was so hungry that she smoked a cigarette. Hitherto she had been under the impression that smoking was a mere useless vice, but having experienced the marvellous soothing effects of tobacco, she could now quite understand why all men smoked. As" she smoked the hunger was appeased, and for the time she forgot her troubles and was happy again,"