The Vagabond is fit to faint as his sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life.

Whirl was King. There were half-naked Freshmen sowing their wild oats and tasting the wine of life in the few short moments that were left them before old age and burgherdom crept in upon them. There were Juniors who should have been Freshmen trying to look as if they weren't enjoying this brief return to the elemental. On the fringes of the melee hung those who did not dare and those who did not care but who were yet doomed to be drawn by the flame.

There was something lacking to the occasion which left an uneasy longing in the complicated structure which passed for anatomy with the Vagabond. It was only with the advent of major-general Apted and the boys that he realized what had been missing. The evening's performance was immediately elevated from the petty and amateur to the dignity of proportions of a professional riot.

Everything was progressing with the happy and aimless inevitability natural to such situations. A few vegetables, a few soft heads, it was the usual time had by all in the usual manner. But tragedy stalked from Billings to Stover. The law injected a sordid note when the first cop pulled the first tear bomb. What had been valor and pleasantry became stark and earnest and the Freshmen wished they had never left home.

TODAY

9 o'clock

"The Provinces of the Later Empire," Mr. Hammond, Sever 18.

"The Unification of Germany and Italy," Professor Webster, New Lecture Hall.

11 o'clock

"American Diplomacy in the World War," Professor Baxter, Harvard 1.

"Latin American Relations since 1900," Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall.

12 o'clock

"The Anglo-Russian Entente," Professor Langer, Harvard 6.

"Wagner," Professor Hill, Music Building.

"Dramatic Works of Middleton and Rowley," Professor J. T. Murray, Harvard 3.