Probably because the Vagabond has never been there. Peru has always appealed to him as a country of romance, one of those places toward which there is the feeling. "Some day I shall go there." Perhaps the root of this feeling could be traced to the Vagabond's salad days when, in company with the vast majority of his contemporaries, he was an ardent if largely unsuccessful collector of foreign postage stamps, and spent pleasant hours gazing at brightly colored. Peruvian llamas perched precariously upon impossible rocky peaks.

Fertilizer was added to the root so to speak, when he read Prescott's account of the conquest of the country. And after all, he must be a hardened sophisticate who would not thrill over the expedition of Pizarro with his mere handful of men, an expedition of mingled courage and treachery that reads like a fairly tale.

All of which brings us to the point of mentioning, not at all incidentally, that Professor Haring will speak on the conquest of Peru this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 3.

Other lectures of interest are.

TODAY

9 O'clock

"Great Britain and China, Policies and War, 1834-1842," Professor Hornbeck, Harvard 6.

10 O'clock

"The Government of Territories and Dependencies," Professor Yeomans, Old Fogg Museum.

11 O'clock

"Commerce and the National Domain 1783-1787," Professor Boyd, New Lecture Hall.

12 O'clock

"The Principles of the Early State Constitutions," Professor Wright, Harvard 2.

"Spanish Romanesque Architecture, Professor Post, Fogg Museum, small room.

"The Newer Teleology," Professor Hocking, Emerson D.