It has been said with truth that we differ from the Romans in that we like our thrills in tabloid form whereas they chose to get their sensations at closer hand in the gladiatorial fights. Not only, however, do we prefer the sublimated honors which a well practiced imagination can build up, but in the course of 2000 years or so we have become more delicate in our tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury. Even the "eternal triangle" which seemed as permanent as a Platonic idea, is losing its saver. Let us have more pepper in the sauce. Let us make each breakfast when we read the morning papers a 100 per cent Roman-American holiday!

All of which has led the Vagabond far astray from the observation which he was going to make upon the comparatively recent rise and immense power of the Press. Perhaps no other development of the last century and a half has had so great an effect upon human life in general. It is the parent of that rather nebulous but potent force called Public Opinion; it is the public's lay-Bible.

At 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 1, Professor G. K. Webster, exchange professor from the University of Liver-pool, will lecture upon the effect which public opinion and the press has exercised upon British politics and policy since 1792.

Other lectures of interest are

10 O'clock

"International Law and International Relations in 1775," Dr. Baxter, Semitic Museum 2, History 13.

"Colly Cibber," Professor Murray, Harvard 3, English 39.

"Emerson," Professor Murdock, Harvard 2, English 33.

11 O'clock

"History of Zoology," Professor Parker, Geological Lecture Room, Biology A

"General view of the Nineteenth Century," Professor Howard Germanic Museum, German 25 b.