"In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
Tennyson certainly did not mean to exclude even a young Vagabond when he wrote his famous lines reminiscent of a certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces of the Westmorly swimming pool, and increase the amount of his breakfast by a quarter of a dollar. Bright eyed and mentally alert he can sit through all his lectures with one eye on his watch, the other on the window whence come signs of spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep, for now it is the plunk-plunk of a banjo drifting over rippling waters or the splash of a perfect "watermelon" from a twenty foot spring board that imparts a faint glean of intelligence to the student's shining face. Even the most exacting of lecturers are pleased these days with the brilliant countenances before them.
Vagabondage time is here, but it is not necessarily toward the lecture room that one's feet would wind their sprightly way. Mental vagabondage is also on hand, and a splash of sunshine on the arm of the chair or a glimpse of blue sky is all that is necessary for a tour of Europe, a flight around the bases, or a cross channel swim. For a couple of weeks at least one Student Vagabond will not have to give minute attention to the lectures he visits in his morning peregrinations. For today's program, however, he chooses to feature Professor Murdock's talk on Nathaniel Hawthorne because his first vagabonding beyond Cambridge this spring took him to Salem where he experienced all the thrills of the secret passage way. They were as nothing though to similar ones offered by the streets of the Witch City.
10 O'clock
"Nathaniel Hawthorne," Professor Murdock, Harvard 2.
"Animal Tissues," Professor Parker, Geological Lecture Room.
11 O'clock
"States... Rights," Professor Elliott, Harvard 1.
"Sheridan," Professor Murray Harvard 3.
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