Cambridge girls have well''maintained the honour of the sex in this year's examinations, There is only tone Wrangler, in the Mathematics Tripos, Miss B. 1. ham, but. as Wranglers is always small-and the standard required of them exerucl ingly high, the honour gained much. In the English Tripos, Part 21, Miss BIN. Smith also of Newnham took a first.
Then comes a splendid bag, four girls all placed alone in the first class of their respective triposes—Miss Portsmore, Natural Science; Mus C. M. Waterlow, History; Miss E. M. Heslop, Modern and Mediaeval Languages; Miss D. Featherstonhaugh, Geography. Not the least remarkable part of these successes is that they are all Newnham girls. Their college, which is already putting up new Dulldings, will need to be still further enlarged, Girton will have to pull Up its skirte—in the decorous sur roundings of Cambridge skirts are still Tong enough to be pulled.
'One interesting feature of this: year's Cambridge lists (though con-Zerning men, not girls) is the appear tance of a pair of Chinese twins, Yuchung Hsi, and Yucho Hi, In classes and 3 respectively of the' Economics Tripos, Part 1. They are first-year men, at Trinity, and come from St. [John's College, Shanghai.
"Beyond The Game"
'There will: be many readers for! Miss Helen Jacobs' book "Beyond the Game." Miss Jacobs, one feels, has suffered a litle unfairly, one always: feels, at Fate's hands in being 301 continually, yet on the whole by 20 ttle, eclipsed ey that brighter' luminary, Mrs, Helen Wills Moody. One gathers from many sources that Miss Jacobs 1s a very sweet. gi, besides being a magnificent lawn tennis player—dare one say that these two qualities are by no means al-
She writes most modestly, with warm tributes to her rivals, and though the Arst person necessarily figures a good deal in the narrative it is anything [but egotistic.
Of Mrs. Wills Moody she does not say very much thus showing her in-hate good taste, They have known each other for years, lived successive Jy in the same house, and have often been described as friends. But in such a rivalry true ftlendship would heed Superhuman qualities to survive. Wherever successful Miss Jacobs. far more eager to find excuses, for her defeated opponent. than to, laud herself. She admires, wholeheartedly the alder school of players, whom she considers free. from many" limitations Which beset the younger generation, 'And she" pays a carticuatly. pretty compliment to Mire. Mallory." who "had never to stop and consider' the sporting thing to do on any occasion She knew instinctively because. she never forgot that tennis is only a game, Tilked Mrs, Mallory for her Spontaneous smile in defeat and her considerately' repressed triumph in Victory" the right of amateur players to make Miss Jacobs. speaks vigorously "on
money by writing about the game, his or her only means of doing to, she thinks, "Is" that statement. quite correct? Andis it not begging. the question to assume that an amateur should be allowed to make money in any way' out of the game, without tulomatically Becoming. professional?
a highly controversial question fu which modern opinion 1s sensibly Simerent from that of the past. Miss 'Jacobs emphatically thinks' that amas leurs should be allowed to prot by their skill and' years of hard work. And one does not care to differ from tone. whose engaging welting reveals 0 pleasant a mind.
Two Biblical Heroines It Is interesting to notice that tomorrow's Lessons (the second Sunday after Trinity) tell the story In whole or in part of two of the most vivid woman characters In the Bible—Vael, wile of Bober the Kenite, and Ruth. Nothing is more dificult now than to appreciate the praise bestowed on Jacl. To us the murder of Siiera appears the blackest treachery. She deliberably couraged him to believe that ko would be safe in her tent—"Turn in my lord, turn in to me, fear not" and then when' he was asleep she came on tiptoe and drove the reek-Ing nail through his the "Old Testament' surprise us. One. neldent in' Jacob's life which does not imply a crafty, even a mean nature, By the way Sisera comets Iron," which evidently terrorized the Israelites, "Might one call them the frst tanks in' history?
As for Ruth, it is one of the most exquisite stories in the world "and with its usual skill the Bible in very few words has sot out the different characters and scenes in it so vividly that one seems. to be living among them, One feature in it has always strucic mea little curiously. Ruth lived with her mother-in-law for 10 years from her marriage before they went back to Bothichom. Say she had been married at 15 probably was. She would have be 25 when she first met Bot that "age Oriental women, Southern Europeans, are, not' to put too rudely, decidedly tossing their first bloom.' But evidently' Boaz Found her perfect, It was clearly a case of love at first sight, the name with how: afterwards in also heard It trans One feels Instine-, tively that that quality was as. true of Ruth as the first one certainly was, Exercise Limits With its usual solicitude for the welfare of citizens and the multiplication of them in days to come, the German Government has prescribed a scale for the walking and bicycling expeditions of young git From 10 to 12 no girl must march more than 62 miles in' three. to three-and-a-half "hours and that without pack, From 12 to 14 she may do 93 miles" in four hours carrying an 11 Ib pack. At 16 and over a girl muy carry a 22 1b, pack and march 13% miles, But if the marching extends over several days, a full day's rest is imposed at varying intervals according to age.
On bicycles a girl of 1214 limited to 25 miles on a single day, 18% per day of a protracted tour. Over "14, the allowance is respectively 37 and 25 miles.
I wonder what happens if a convenient inn is not found at the exact Stopping-point. In a punctilious rule-abiding country like Germany the only thing to do would be to back to the nearest inn within the limit, prescribed for the day. Or, simply camp by the road. It is a grave problem for the managers of the Hilter youth organization outings.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.