"What is Spring?" she asked, "Spring," he answered, "Why Spring is when men sit on the front steps in the twilight smoking, when their wives sit with them, when all music is a waltz, when little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails and older sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It's when young boys go shouting up the street a older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press, when the man in G-32 borrows a car and goes to Wellesley, when the debutante reads poetry, when the moon is a soft golden cartwheel, and every breeze a zephyr. It's when every man is sick of four walls and ceiling; the time when the last Victorian wrote that "man he must go with a woman which women cannot understand," and Tennyson asked, "Ah, why should life all labor be, why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?" Spring is when seniors try to get worried about Divisional and can't, but only about studying for them; when Juniors feel that here is nothing quite like a Chrysler and a bottle of Rye, when Sophomores first realize they must have studied before, because they need a rest now, when Freshmen write five page letters to Dobbs Ferry. You know, my dear, that Spring is here when all the College pages Reinhart, when the Pops begin, when there are people on the streets, when you don't have to go to a movie to prove to yourself that it's bad, when Scotch doesn't taste as good as Port and Sherry.

"When you feel different than you've ever felt before or ever will feel again, when you almost decide to call up the girl you met at the Somerset in December, when the world goes round, and birds sing, and girls laugh, and colors are bright, and the earth steams, and bands play, and life seems full and gay and ecstatic and you feel empty, and dull, and sodden, why then," he said, "It's Spring."

"Oh yes, I see," she said. "Why-why Spring is here, isn't it?"

Today

9 o'clock

"Aristotle and the Doctrine of the Mean," Professor Gulick, Sever 26.

"Heaviside Calculus," Professor Chaffee, Cruft Lecture Room 3.

10 o'clock

"The November Revolution (1917)," Mr. Vernadsky, Boylston 21.

"Byron," Professor Lowes, Sever 11.

"Henry James," Asst. Professor Matthiessen, Harvard 6.

"Le Theatre Apres 1850," Professor Allard, Sever 5.

11 o'clock

"The Dramatic Works of Maughan, Coward, and Milne," Professor J. T. Murray, Harvard 3.

"Mr. Holmes and Professor Ballantine will play Brahms Violin and Piano Sonata," Music Building.