To ride all night in a day coach for lack of other accommodations, to watch the gradual gray of dawn creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were not for the fact that in Symphony Hall at 3.15 o'clock this afternoon M. Serge Koussevitsky will present a program of music by French composers which it would be a great misfortune to miss.

It is impossible to mention French orchestral music without taking notice of Hector Berlioz the very symbol of aesthetic romanticism. In music where be was preeminent, he was a brilliant, even an extravagant colorist; a master of the orchestra who painted in tone with the passionate emotionalism of genius. One of his works, the Overture to the "Roman Carnival" will be given this afternoon.

In contrast to the flery heat of Berlioz, there is the cooler, less sensuous and more spiritual music of Debussy, exemplified this afternoon by two nocturnes. Debussy's work has always seemed to me, if I be pardoned for what may seem to some a grievous confusion of arts, to partake somewhat of the nature of pictures by Corot and some of the Impressionists. There is in them the same silvery quality of overtone, the same sort of shimmering airiness that is found in the paintings; an almost wraithlike quality with its appeal to the imagination combined with an emotional body of ever-shifting sentiment and passion.

In addition to these two composers, Ravel's choregraphic poem "La Valse", and Cesar Franck's Symphony in D minor, will also be played.

Lectures of interest are:

9 O'clock

"What France has Contributed to the Science of Government," Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall, Government 1.

10 O'clock

"Early American Drama" Professor Murdock, Harvard 2, English 38.

"The Philosophy and Character of Leonardo da Vinci." Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts 5h.

12 O'clock

"City Government as Business," Professor Munro, Harvard 6, Government 17a.