The Senior Wrangler of last year, Mr. Purkiss, a Scholar
of Trinity College, was &owned in the Cam last Sunday. He was -a fair but not a strong swimmer, and appears to have been caught in some weeds in a deep place near the bank, within a few yards of it. Two companions were bathing with him, and had swum on before, but did not attribute his delay in following to the true cause. He was a man of brilliant promise, who had gained for himself dis- tinction in the City of London School, and so obtained the means -of prosecuting his studies ;—first in connection with the London University, where he took the highest honours, and afterwards in -Cambridge, where he carried away the greatest mathematical -distinction England has to bestow. His sad death has even awed the Record into piety. It "improves the occasion" without once .attributing it to the judgment of God on Sunday bathing.
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