SWEET SENIOR WRANGLER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 30, 26 July 1890, Page 14

SWEET SENIOR WRANGLER.

A LONDON cablegram announces that Miss Fawcett, scholar of Newham College, Cambridge, has been declared to have attained a rank above that of Senior AVrangier at the Mathematical Tiipos Examination at Cambridge University. Miss Fawcett is the gifted young daughter of the late lamented Professor Fawcett, who at the time of his death occupied the chair of political economy at Cambridge and the office of Postmaster-General, signalising his tenure of the latter by instituting sixpenny telegrams and post-office savings banks. Her mother, the wellknown authoress of ‘ Political Economy for Beginners,’ ‘Tales in Political Economy,’ and of, jointly, with her husband, a volume of essays and lectures on political economy, was well-known as Miss Millicent Garrett, ami the youngest sister of Mrs Garrett Anderson, the eminent lady physician. The title * Wrangler ’is given to some thirty of the most successful students in the highest mathematical examination at Cambridge. The highest on the list is known as the ‘Senior AVrangler,’ and is the highest honour that can be won at the University. Miss Fawcett is, therefore, pronounced the first mathematical scholar of the year. Lady students are not admitted to compete with males, but have the same papers, which go before the same examiners, and the lists afterwards issued of successful candidates show the places they would occupy if classed together with their rivals of the other sex.