Punch (94.1888)

1w«y 4, 1888.1 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES OF MIXED UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

t „i r„mim-j„ -with no other occupation than reading for an ordinary degree,
" The result of having a considerahle number of young women resident at CambrJ^, ™«Q ' s j,:,nih, J)avies, in her Letter to the Times, Jan. 25.
might be very serious "—" Objection to 'Proposed admission of Women to Degrees,' gvotcd Oy miss jxm y , ,

■n tktiip atfk that t1ie YOUNG LADY UnDEEGEADTJATISSES WOTjLD

Peofessor Punch's Answer is given Fictorially above, a*d»n^™ an Ordinaey Degree.

find plenty of " other occupation " besides, or IN the course OF, beading for ak w__

I Punch's greetings! The world should see
A PLEA FOE THE PEOPLE'S POET, j That neeaiess sorrow come not to thee,

Broken yet cheery at Seventy-three.

Let all who have heard, under many a sky,

Singes for many and many a year
Of songs that gladden the people's ear,
"A Oood Time Coming'' and" Cheer, Boys,
Cheer!"

Poet and patriot, champion still

Of simple manhood and honest skill,

Of pure Home-love, and of frank good-will:

Friend of Jerrold, and foe of wrong ;

Very Voice of the toiling throne,

Its needs and yearnings, in touching song :

UCli ail yviiv ua v yj "v-^-i ,

The manlv music he lifted high,
Thank-offering render to Charms Mackay !

A Fund is being raised for the literary
veteran, Dr. Cham.es mackay-known wherever
the English tongue is spoken or Enghsb, songs are
sung, who is now in his seventy-thud year, m
reduced circumstances, and broken in health, but

?.ankers :;TThe Bank of Scotland, Lothbury, E.C.
Messrs. Roharts, Lubbock & Co., Lombard
Street, E.C.; Messrs. Drummond, Charirg Cross,
W.C.; or by the Honorary Secretary, L. C. Alex-
ander, LL.D , Putney, S."W.

"Weed v. "Wheat.—A Conference of British
tohacco-growers, on the report of their Com-
mittee, has decided on forming an Association
"to resuscitate and encourage the cultivation
and manufacture of tobacco " in the United

Seed fiance, ^okenuiheaUh, but ~S^C*^
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