The figures of Clive and Hastings, Wolfe, and Montcalm stand out in the story of French and English colonial expansion in the eighteenth century. It was a period when Europe had enough energy to overflow into little geographical odds and ends like India and America. Professor Lord will speak on this expansion in the History I lecture which comes at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall and to hear it will be for me but a small gesture of filial respect for those intrepid vagabonds.

One of the most perilous sports known is that of picking writers who will survive the memories of their own brief generation. There is one writer alive today, however, in whose case the game loses all its uncertainty and danger. Were it only for the remarkable span of his literary life, Thomas Hardy will be a landmark. The Victorian ago, the decadence of the nineties, the war and its subsequent unsettled period have passed by Thomas Hardy and his most recent book, published a few months ago, has enough recent writing in it to prove his imperturbability. Professor Lowes will spend an hour on this near-century of literary activity, beginning at 11 o'clock in the Germanic Museum.

What Argentina did in the war will be Professor Hackett's subject in History 60 this afternoon at 2 o'clock. His lecture, which will be in Sever 11, should be interesting as a treatment of one of the many nations whose entrance into the war constituted little more than diplomatic cooperation.