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The Student Vagabond

Geography in the Vagabond's parlance suggests--well, it suggests a vagabondage to more happy hunting grounds than a Cambridge in the labors of a pre-mature spring slush. That's probably half the trouble with a vagabond's life; a little taste here and a sip there soon makes the world go round in such an interesting fashion that it is a triffe difficult to stay safely put in any particular spot.

But for the time being the Student Vagabond's much abused conscience cooperating with his pocket-book requires, nay, demands a little longer dalliance in his Lowell House construction shack.

About recent doings in his Lowell House home; more another time. Just at the moment the Vagabond is extremely absorbed in the question of geography, and, since his explorations must of necessity be purely intellectual, there is nothing to it but a resort to familiar lecture halls.

What has the College to offer in the way of geography, that old acquaintance left back in the shades of grade school?

Wel, a few minute's roving in the catalogue reveals numerous courses hitherto out of the Vagabond's ken. So, with a view of satisfying his lust for travel, the Vagabond intends dropping in on one or two of them in the near future.

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Professor Whittlesey has a course, Geography 1, which meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in room forty-one of the Geology Museum. There during the next ten weeks he will discuss "the different types of agriculture found on the earth: first the sorts of farming within the tropics, next those of middle latitudes, progressing constantly away from the Equator." That program has just the flavor of the unusual to attract to the Vagabond. Incidentally, Professor Whittlesey is treating the course this year from an entirely new angle. Confidentially, it is reported that even his jokes are of the 1930 vintage.

Other lectures of appeal for the casual listener:

TODAY

9 o'clock

"The Reconquest of Spain", Professor Merriman, Emerson J.

10 o'clock

"Rouusean", Professor Morize, Harvard 6.

"Longfellow", Professor Murdock, Harvard 2.

"Electron-magnetism and Mr. Faraday", Dr. Crawford, Jefferson 1.

11 o'clock

"Lucian His Influence", Professor Peterkin, Sever 18.

12 o'clock

"Minor Florentine Architects of the Fifteenth Century", Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall.

"Causes of the Civil Wars in Seventeenth Century England", Professor Whitney, Emerson J.

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