There is perhaps, subtle psychological reason why the first of January should be singled out from amongst all the other days of the year as a time particularly appropriate for the making of good resolutions, for the not always congenial matter of turning over a new page in the book of life. No doubt it is because it is the only time known to man when the first of a month and the first of the year coincide, and that impelled by the year coincide, and that impelled by the double action of both of these useful but in themselves relatively unspectacular events people are moved to consider the renunciation of those things which they ought not to do and the pursuit of those things which they ought to do--for a time at least.

Now the Vagabond has little or no patience with the scheme of things which reserves the first of January for good resolutions and the first of April, a mere three months later, for practical jokes. So he feels that he is wholly within his rights in making a resolution on the first of May--namely that his suggestions for the second day of this month eschew the consideration of laudable but after all secondary matters such as excursions up the river and Divisional Examinations, in favor of what is in the last analysis his particular line of activity: the academic.

Especially does the Vagabond wish to recommend to those who are interested in the growth of socio-political thought a lecture which is to be given today at 10 o'clock in Emerson M by Mr. Arthur Baker Lewis the District Secretary of the Socialist Party. True the Vagabond does not know exactly what Mr. Lewis will speak about, but he can hazzard a guess and so probably can most of his readers. As for other lectures, he would mention the following:

TODAY

9 o'clock

"Determination and Motivation", Professor Boring: Emerson D.

10 o'clock

"The United States and Disarmament", Professor Baxter, Harvard 2.

"Ethics of Evolution", Professor R. B. Perry, Emerson A.

"Recent American Poetry", Professor Murdock, Harvard 2.

12 o'clock

"Erik Satie", Professor Hill, Music Building.

"Old English Music", Professor Davison, Lawrence Hall 20.