Every true vagabond feels a distinct urge toward the tropics. To sit before a typewriter and attempt to transcribe that urge is to essay the impossible. But nearly all residents of the more temperate zones have their dreams and visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire results of a coincidence of man, woman and a bottle of gin in a languorons tropical setting, with a steady shower of rain out-side.

But like all vicarious enjoyment, the common delight in the Equator is nothing more than a set of illusions. The "summer isles of Eden laying in dark purple spheres of sea" are, and embody much more, than grass skirts and ukeleles. Today, in his lecture in Economics 10b. at 9 o'clock in Widener U, Professor Usher will speak of the offstage tropics, under the title of "Modern Tropical Colonization; Its Purposes. Methods, and Ethical Concepts."

Other lectures of interest are:

10 O'clock

"The Dramatic Theories of Racine", Professor Wright, French 9.

"Sismondi", Professor Mason, Economics TR, Emerson F

11 O'clock

"French Romanesque Architecture", Professor Edgell, Fine Arts ID, New Fogg Museum.

"How Civil War was Avoided in 1850", Professor Sckleslager, History 32B, Now Lecture Hall.

12 O'clock

"The Original Nature of Man", Mr Joslyn, Economics 8, Sever 17.

"The Origin of Life", Professor Mather, Geology 5, Geological Lecture Room.