The resignation of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart from the University has as its most minor result the edict from the managing editor bidding me to cramp my style this morning. Professor Hart has long been a friend to academic vagabonds, and it would be hard to give him higher praise than to say that he has given many of them a purpose and a reason in their strolling.

Bolivar, the George Washington of South America, who bulks so large in the history of the northern part of that continent, is to be Professor Hackett's subject at 10 o'clock this morning in Sever 11. At the same time, Professor Wright will give a rival attraction to vagabonds in Harvard 1, when he talks on Esther and Athalie, the two plays which Racine wrote near the end of his life for Madame de Maintenon's school at St. Cyr.

With a pomegranate in one hand and a green carnation in my buttonhole I am going to the Semitic Museum at 10 o'clock. Professor Lowes has reached the dim and yeasty 'nineties in English 26, and he will talk this morning on Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, the two gaily mad and sadly gay giants of the fin de siecle

Tonight's lecture at the Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock by Dr. John Haynes Holmes on Mahatma Ghandi should be more than worth-while. I would not miss such an opportunity to hear an eminent Occidental divine discuss an eminent Orientals saga