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It would have made the fortune of the Mouse-trap, if it had not been so contrary to its principles, and it had really been sent to them in mischief, together with The 'Girton Girl', of which some were proud, though when she saw it in print, with a lyre and wreath on the page, sober Mysie looked grave. "Do you think it profane to parody Jane Taylor?" said Gerald.
The relation between the college and the university is in certain respects similar to that of Newnham and Girton with the University of Cambridge, with the essential difference that Barnard College constitutes, as stated, an integral part of the university, and that the Barnard students are entitled to secure their university degrees from A.B. to Ph.D."
She was an almost perfect type of the highly developed, highly educated American girl of to-day, a marvellous compound of intense energy and languorous grace. She had done as brilliantly at Vassar as Nitocris had done at Girton and London, and she had also rowed stroke in the Ladies' Eight, and was champion fencer of the College.
The woman you speak of acted selfishly, rejecting the crown of womanhood because not tendered to her by hands she had chosen." "You would have us marry without love?" asked the Girton Girl. "With love, if possible," answered the Minor Poet; "without, rather than not at all. It is the fulfilment of the woman's law." "You would make of us goods and chattels," cried the Girton Girl.
Studying them, I came to the conclusion that the ways and manners of love are very same-like throughout the world, as though the foolish boy, unheedful of human advance, kept but one school for minor poet and East End shop-boy, for Girton girl and little milliner; taught but the one lesson to the end-of-the-nineteenth-century Johnny that he taught to bearded Pict and Hun four thousand years ago.
"The bishop could not possibly have read the paper," said the Bachelor of Arts, one of the guests; "not as a gentleman, nor a bishop." "I wish I had had the chance," said the Girton girl. "Perhaps the confession was in Latin," said the Bachelor of Arts. The Girton girl disdained to reply to this unworthy sneer.
A great deal of nonsense has been talked and written about the spectacled Girton girl competing with men in knowledge, at the expense of forfeiting their admiration and thereby losing her vantage-ground. Spectacles do not enter into the matter at all. As has already been pointed out, physical attraction has nothing, or very little, to do with feminine wire-pulling.
"Will any one take any more wine?" asked Lord Birkenhead, in tones of deep emotion. "No? Then suppose we join the ladies." "Well," said one of the ladies, the Girton girl, when the squire had finished the prelate's narrative, "I don't call that much of a story. What was Lady Birkenhead's confession about? That's what one really wants to know."
Now, honestly, when you talk about us among yourselves, do you gush about our virtue, and goodness, and wisdom?" "'Gush," said the Philosopher, reflecting, "'gush' would hardly be the correct word." "In justice to the truth," I said, "I must admit our Girton friend is to a certain extent correct. Every man at some time of his life esteems to excess some one particular woman.
"Exactly?" demanded the Girton Girl. "Precisely," I replied. "Strange," murmured the Girton Girl. "There is no accounting for it, yet it always is so." "What is there no accounting for?" I inquired. "What is strange?" "It is a German superstition," explained the Girton Girl, "I learnt it at school. Whenever complete silence falls upon any company, it is always twenty minutes past the hour."
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