The Vagabond's head was full of romantic confusion. The Garibaldi of '49 fighting a lost battle on the walls of Rome moved in the blue smoke which filled the room and penetrated the imagination. This man who was to lead a tortured Italy to unity and freedom seemed to have ridden out of the pages of Trevelyan and to have swept the reader back to the riddled summit of the Janiculum. Standing there with the calm courage of a god, miraculously proof to the bullets of the enemy, one could understand why Italy rose to follow this man. His steps were guided by the inevitable fate which raised him above the common run of fears and hesitations hampering the course of ordinary men. The illusion was so real that the Vagabond's twentieth century body stirred unconsciously while his imagination hurled itself against the French, spurred by the example of Italy's Man of Destiny.

But necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps the Vagabond climbed, dimly conscious that he had tasted a life and a time foreign to the ordered scholasticism of this place.

TODAY

9 o'clock

"The Pardoner's Tale," Professor Robinson, Sever 11.

11 o'clock

"Isthmian Diplomacy to 1853," Professor Baxter.

12 o'clock

"Fra Lippo Lippi," Professor Post, Fogg Large Room.

"Shakespeare's Early Dramatic Works," Professor Murray, Harvard S.

"Phillip IV's Foreign Policy," Professor Taylor, Emerson H.

"Heat Equivalent of Work," Professor Black, Jefferson Physical Laboratory 250.

2 o'clock

"English Literature, 1783-1800," H, Professor Greenough, Sever 7.

TOMORROW