For the Vagabond who keeps an alert eye on the development of his country and that development's sources in the history of the past, there is a lecture this morning that touches upon some very sensitive spots in our foreign policies and affairs. The subject of the lecture is "American Interests in the Pacific and Far East, 1865-1898," and it will be given by Dr. Baxter in Sever 35 at 10 o'clock.

The tile, of course, embraces the Chinese problem, and the ramifications of industrial development, treaties, and troubles which featured the situation during that period, and their relation to the acute difficulties which are necessitating the present concentration of thousands of American marines in Shanghai.

Another situation included in the subject is the subtler, if somewhat less pressing, problem in the Philippine Islands, where some day, according to terrorists, expanding Japan will come to grips with America, unless, the latter withdraws. All this without taking into account the temper of the natives themselves, who have evinced an understandable desire for self-government.

For those, however, to whom history and the speculations which it evokes, is less attractive than the realm of literature, Professor Murdock is speaking also a 10 o'clock on "American Novels, 1860-1900."