To the Vagabond all life is one great Reading Period in which to indulge his wayward fancies. Untrammeled by the ordinary necessities which hamper men he can lead the pleasant life of the dilettante. For celibacy and his extra-curricular affiliation with the University render him exempt from the cares which burden his fellows.

Dreamer and Poet that the Vagabond is, he has always turned to music for refreshment. In the little understood mysteries of fugue and counterpoint he finds a world where his emotions are free to practice every caprice. Music can turn him about and twist his spirit into a thousand different forms. The proud, moving music of the medieval church carries him closer to the cathedral tradition, to the mysterious power of priest and Virgin, than anything else he knows. Far as the Universal Church may be removed from the intellectual scepticism and the emotional sterility of Cambridge, nevertheless, the Vagabond has found a way to bridge the centuries. Three times a week he makes pilgrimage to Sever's roman halls where he can satisfy himself gloriously in singing Bach's B Minor Mass. In the Gloria and Et Resurrexit he can feel again the might of the church militant, triumphant and jubilant in its spirited movement. In the Crucifixus is the humbleness and the mystery which explain the church's power to bind the simple peasant. Here, with one of the livest men in the University to lead him, the Vagabond succeeds in escaping the Georgian in order to turn back again to the shadowed richness of the Gothic.