When the Vagabond was still young enough to be chastised for his pernicious habit of taking off his shoes and running about the yard barefoot every warm afternoon, to the dismay of the tea-party on the porch, there stood in the library a small statue of a gentleman whose naked freedom was a source of envy to the Vagabond. This gentleman was bent in a very athletic position, and in his right hand, withdrawn behind his back, was a circular object like a dinner-plate. Uncles and aunts had disclosed to the Vagabond the fact that the gentleman was preparing to throw the dinner-plate, but in hours of watching he never got it off, and great was the wonderment at his slowness.

But the gentleman has been in the act of throwing the plate, or discus, for some centuries since he was carved out of Attic marble by Myron, the Greek sculptor, and he is known to the world as Diskobolos, or discus thrower. Professor Chase will speak on the Diskobolos and other works of Myron at 12 o'clock today in the Fogg Museum.

Other imminent lectures of interest follow:

TODAY

9 O'clock

"Germany and Italy in the late Middle Ages", Professor Merriman, New Lecture Hall.

"China, 1860-1894," Professor Hornbeck, Harvard 6.

10 O'clock

"Don Juan and the Misanthrope," Professor Wright, Harvard 1.

"Meredith," Professor Maynadier, Sever 11.

12 O'clock

"Existing Snowfields and Glaciers," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Room.

TOMORROW

9 O'clock

"Memory," Professor Boring, Psychology 1.

10 O'clock

"From Peter the Great to Catherine 11," Professor Karpovich, Sever 21.

"Self-Realization and Rationalism," Professor Perry, Emerson A.

"Philip Freneau," Professor Murdock, Harvard 1.