A few years ago the Vagabond sat in the Century Theatre and watched a New York audience file out at the end of a play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway.

Time has only added to the glory of the man who was recognized in his time as the greatest of the trinity of tragedians that flourished in Periclean Athens: The work of Sophocles finds the mean between the rather conservative religions views of Aeschylus and the radical thought of Euripides Similarly, the Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet "who saw life steadily and saw it whole."

Intellectual vagrants who are disinclined to labor but who must have their daily dose of mental stimulus may be interested in the following.

9 O'clock

"Japan Unlocking the Door. First Treaties." Dr. Hornbeek Harvard's History 18.

10 O'clock

"Constitutional Organization in Argentina." Professor Haring, Harvard 3, History 56.

11 O'clock

"Italian Renaissance Architecture." Professor Edgell. New Fogg Museum. Fine Arts Id.

"The Struggle for White Rule in the South". Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall, History 33b.

12 O'clock

"Franz Grillparzer". Professor Burkhard. Sever 6, German 26b.