Clever Miss Fawcett.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 503, 6 September 1890, Page 3

Clever Miss Fawcett.

It seems curious to note that Miss Fawcett has succeeded where her father failed, and it is still more curious that she succeeded on account of her superior nerve and coolness. Professor Fawcett was expected to be Senior Wrangler, but failed, although he came out high on the list. During his examination he became so excited that he lost an entire night’s rest. His daughter, according to all accounts, took the proceedings in the most businesslike spirit, and throughout exhibited keen self-control. A writer adds “ Keen as she was to succeed, Miss Fawcett made a rigid habit of going to bed by eleven and rising about eight. None of that traditional wet-towel-and-teapot business, to which even Hie male Wrangler is supposed to succumb When the ordeal drew Bigh, Miss Fawcett simply faced it with the consciousness that she bad done her beat, and that worrying would only do harm. She ilept every night as soundly as ever in her life. She wrote her papers coolly, deliberately, without erasure. She thought, of course, that she had done badly; but one thing which gave her this idea was the most notable fact that she did not feel tired at the end. On the day when the Het was to be read Miss Fawcett did indeed wake early with excitement, and confessed to reading * Mansfield Park' in bed to occupy and calm her mind. But now, after all the excitement on the top of the work, she looks pretty nearly as well as ever in her life. Indeed, throughout her Cambridge course Miss Fawcett’s health has rather improved than otherwise; and the lady Senior Wrangler, like the lady Senior Classic, adds one more to the striking statistics lately pubhshed by Mrs Sidgwiok to prove how Unfounded is the assumption that you ruin a woman’s body the minute you improve her mind. Never have the friends of Miss Fawcett seen her brighter and 1 more active than at the present moment,”