A grey mist hung close to the grey, metallic Thames. It was early in the morning and the ships that came from Virginia and the East lay at anchor, silent and calm. Out of the murky water stood the colorless walls and turrets of the Tower of London; and, on the big White Tower, the flag of the Stuarts, wet and heavy, slapped against its pole as the giddy wind of a London fog caught it and let it fall.

In a space on the fortified wall between two turrets, Sir Walter Raleigh walked. He had a small white beard and a bedraggled ruff about his neck, of the kind that had been in fashion a dozen years before. He walked back and forth in the narrow space, stopping from time to time to look at the water and at the ships there. He had sailed those boats to Virginia, and brought back wealth and power for himself and his queen. Then he turned away and walked back and forth again, making the four-step turn that British sailors have used since they had decks to walk on.

A bell struck, his hour of freedom was over, and he returned to his tower cell to continue his vast "History of the World" on which he never got further than the Roman conquest of Greece. But the History was not all that came from Raleigh's pen, and so today the Vagabond will go to Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor Munn talk on Raleigh's prose works.

TODAY

9 O'Clock

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

"Goethe," Professor Walz, Sever 13.

10 O'Clock

"Schiller's Romantic Poetry," Professor Silz, Sever 13.

"Poets of Early New England," Professor Murdock, Harvard 6.

"Periods of Geologic History," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Room.

11 O'Clock

"The Heroic Play," Professor Murray, Harvard 3.

12 O'Clock

"The Promised Land," Professor Lake, Fogg Large Room.