That Thoreau was once offered a job in a machine shop by a gentleman who had observed the naturalist's skill in grappling with a railroad car window, is an interesting sidelight that Professor Murdock will probably not disclose when he lecturees at 10 o'clock this morning on the famous recluse.

Thoreau, as anyone familiar with that distinguished circle of New England transcendentalists which included Emerson and Hawthorne among its members, will know, became immortal when he made his famous experiment at Walker Pond. Here, desiring to prove that man could be as independent as the animals, he lived in a hut supporting himself by tilling a small plot and doing odd jobs in the neihboring village--and renouncing the society of men, for the society of birds.

While at Walden, Thoreau proved that individual men may overcome wild creature's instinctive fear of humanity. Birds and beasts showed no terror of him and it has been said by enthusiasts that the very fish of the stream would swim unafraid between his fingers.

Thoreau, however, was not a naturalist in the scientific sense; he was a lover of nature, free from the shackles of pedantry.

Although it is not the custom of The Vagabond to mention events so far ahead, he thought that it would be well to tell his readers that Beethoven's Missa Solemnis will be performed on Sunday, March 25, at Symphony Hall as well as the already announced presentation on the preceding Tuesday. Vagabonds desiring to hear this would do well to procure their accommodations early.

9 O'clock

"Association and Memory in the Factory," Mr. E.D. Smith, Emerson A.

10 O'clock

"The Monroe Doctrine," Professor C.W. Webster, Harvard 3.

"Federal Nature of the Constitution," Professor Elliott, Harvard 1.

11 O'clock

"Goldsmith," Professor Murray, Harvard 3.

"Heinrich von Kleist," Professor Howard, Sever 6.