LAST SENIOR WRANGLER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 537, 18 June 1909, Page 7

LAST SENIOR WRANGLER.

' CHANGES AT CAMBRIDGE. ' (by TELEOHAPU— rItESS ASSOCIATION—COI'TRIOUT.) London,. Juno 16. Mr. Percy Damniall (Trinity Oo)lego) ia tho Sonior Wrangler for 'tho year "at Cambridge University. He also be the last Senior Wrangler, as, owing to tlio . organisation Boliomo deoided upon, somo time ago/ other methods of examination are to be adopted. '" ; St. Join's and -Trinity College bad previously had 52 (P) Senior Wranglers each.

THE LAST PRIZE! COLLEGES' RjVALRY. Even- since tlm year "IT tie head of the urst class m the Mathematical Trims at' Cambridge % University hits .been called the Senior t, ™.y° ilrs 1 «80. it!decided '.fif jn 1910 the various olt.ssos should'be ™bdivided as in other triposes, ant! (hat no more detailed onler of merit should bo published. Consequently the present is tho. last of the Senior Wranglers. ■ Tlio rivalry betweon Trinity and' St. John's to seoure tlio last honour was very keen ■ bocause, prior to this examination, eoch college had an equal number of Senior Wranglers to its orcdit, According to a London paper, the numbor ifi 55 cach-though to-day's cablegram says 52. Cams is tlio only other college that tuns into double figures, with a tofal Of 11 oenior Wranglers. ttc ? ) " Ji . n e to 'o-day's cablegram, has \von the coveted honour and establintiotl a lead that u beyond reoovory. Tho candidates this' M . d St;. John's eaol! K if q' A nity S I" 01 !"' 0 candidate was the son of Sir George Darwin, and grandson of Chas. Darwin. Tho student upon whom St' John s pinned most of its hopes was an Ameri-' won Mordell. But neither favourite

In 1890 Miss G. p. Fawcett, daughter of the late Professor Fawoott, was above the Senior Wrangler in mathematics, .