As the vanguard of March examinations strangely miscalled the April hours, begins to mark black days on the student calendar, the Vagabond finds himself frequenting more and more the archives of Widener Library.

By way of relaxation from this prescribed labor, however, the Vagabond will find time this morning to bend his steps toward Harvard Hall, where there will be two lectures on literature, the first of these taking place at 10 o'clock in Harvard 2 where Professor Murdock will speak on Nathaniel Hawthorne. At 11 o'clock the Vagabond will remove to Harvard 3 to hear Professor Murray on Sheridan.

While at Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Longfellow's, Hawthorne indulged in frivolity sufficient to incur occasional censure from the authorities, behaviour in contrast to his later position as one of the spiritual leaders of literature. In this role he was not of the type of Dickens in the handling of concrete and social questions, but was more akin to Thoreau in looking at life from an individual point of view, and in leading the movement for greater individual freedom.

With the lecture on Richard Brinsley Sheridan we leave the literary sphere of dignified New England Victorianism to visit the frivolous, frothy world of eighteenth century fashion.

On Thursday Professor Murray spoke of Sheridan's contemporary; Goldsmith. Sheridan differs from Goldsmith in his dramatic treatment of eighteenth century society in that he was brilliant, devastating satire quite in contrast to the beginnings of idealism which appear in the work of Goldsmith.

Other lectures of interest are:

9 o'clock

"Industrial Aspects of Problems of Memory and Understanding," Mr. E. D. Smith, Emerson A.

10 o'clock

"The Expansion of Rome," Dr. Dickinson, Sever 18.

"The United States and Mexico to 1837," Dr. Baxter, Sever 35.