The Vagabond, dozing in his favorite armchair, and pulling peacefully on his favorite briar, watched a bookcase full of forbidding volumes slowly sink into a summer sea, precisely the same sea, in fact, on which the Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal gun on the prow of the cutter, and an instant later the towering schooner was headed into the wind, her tops' I canvas rattling like the sound of cannon on high.

The vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius.

In a flash the meaning followed, Freedom of the Seas! Grotius, writing twenty-seven years before the founding of Harvard College, established the ideas of the liberty of the sea, and the impossibility of its monopoly by any one-nation, a doctrine of far-reaching consequences. And being in a thoughtful mood, the Vagabond this morning will visit Harvard 6 at 11 o'clock, to hear Professor George Grafton Wilson give his interpretation of the significance of Grotius in the development of human history.

TODAY

9 o'clock

"Robert Southey's Prose," Professor Rollins, Emerson F.

10 o'clock

"Historians in Early New England," Professor Murdock, Harvard 6.

12 o'clock

Mr. Malcolm Holmes and Professor Ballantine will play an early souata of MoFart for piano and violin in the Music Building.

"The Laws of Nature," Professor Whitehead, Emerson F.

TOMORROW

11 o'clock

"The Peace Nagutailons of 1782," Professor Baxter, Harvard 1.