Produced by Lesley Halamek, Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOLUME 98, JUNE 21ST 1890 _edited by Sir Francis Burnand_ "PLACE AUX DAMES!" [Following the brilliant success of Miss FAWCETT at Cambridge, Mlle. BELCESCO, a Roumanian lady, took her degree to-day as _Docteur en Droit_. Like Miss FAWCETT, she obtained the highest place at the examination for the Licentiate's Degree, and her success was not less brilliant at the examination for the Doctor's Degree.--_"Daily News" Paris Correspondent._] * * * * * [Illustration: "SENIORA FAWCETT." _So to be entitled henceforth, as she is Seniorer to the Senior Wrangler._] To Seniora FAWCETT, The Wranglers yield first place; And now, first of the Law set, One of another race, Beauty, Brunette, Roumanian, From man takes top Degree! In learning's race Melanion Is beaten, one can see, By the new Atalanta; At Law School or Sorbonne, As at our native Granta, The girls the prize have won. Bravo, brunette BELCESCO! Some limner ought to draw A quasi-classic fresco, O Lady of the Law! O Mathematic Maiden! And show the pretty pair With Learning's trophies laden And manhood in a scare. Ah, _Portia_ of Paris! _Urania_ of the Cam! _Punch_, whose especial care is To sever truth from sham, Is no great Woman's-Rightist, But _this_ is not clap-trap; Of pundits the politest, To you he lifts his cap! _Docteur en Droit_, _Punch_ watches Miss FAWCETT by the Cam; To you she quick despatches A friendly telegram. He, friend of all the Nations, Of Woman as of Man, Adds _his_ "felicitations." Well done, Roumanian!!! * * * * * WEEK BY WEEK. The prevalence of wet weather has had a painful effect on the aspect of the metropolitan streets. We do not refer so much to their having been universally inundated with rain, but rather to the absence from them of those pretty dresses in which it is customary for ladies to disport themselves during sunny weather. For instance, it was calculated the other day by a well-known wrangler, that if the tangential surface of a Bond Street pavement be represented by the formula: x([Greek: pi] + y^{n^th}) = y + x - [Greek: pi]/x, the decrease in the number of pedestrians appearing on a wet day may be set down as 18426-1/52. * * * * *