The Vagabond has always held the conventional beliefs about Russia that one culls from the Stygian gloom of Chekov or Tolstoi. Russian peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly imaginative fellow with a passion for the sordid.

The war brought with it many changes. The Vagabond had heard from stray sources that Russia too has changed. Something about the Czar's fall and a communistic government. This was more than he had bargained for; he would have to find out about it all. Today at ten, therefore, he goes to Boylston to hear a lecture about post war Russia and the Soviets by Professor Karpovitch. It has come to the Vagabond's cars that the lecturer was an engineer in Russia before 1917, the Russia which the Vagabond knew so well, and also a minister in the Kerensky government.

TODAY

9 o'clock

"D.H. Lawrence," Professor Richards, Sever 36.

"The Latter Part of the Reign of Charles H," Professor Merriman, Harvard 6.

10 o'clock

"Contemporary American Prose," Dr. Carpenter, Harvard 2.

"The New Socialist' Drive in Soviet Russia," Professor Karpovitch, Boylston 21.

"Internal Germany After Versailles," Professor Fay, Germanic Museum.

11 o'clock

"Swinburne and William Morris," Professor Elton, Sever 11.