XXV. 



THE ROOT OF THE MATTER. 



EVERY Girton girl (vice Macaulay's school- 

 boy, retired from overwork) every Girton 

 girl knows that a well-conducted British 

 oak " spreads its roots as far and wide 

 through the soil beneath as it rears its 

 boughs above toward the air of heaven." 

 Every Girton girl is probably also of 

 opinion that the British oak does this 

 mainly or solely in order to fix itself by 

 firm anchors in the soil to withstand 

 the battling winds and the constant pull 

 of hostile gravitation. But what every 

 Girton girl does not, perhaps, quite so con- 

 fidently know is this that, on the whole, 

 the tips of the roots and the tips of the 

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