3rd. Aftermath. Storming jubilantly out of the Stadium as cold grey dusk comes on, warm warm warm with happiness. A tie score and hurrah hurrah for our side. Cocktails in a little apartment on Mass Avenue that looks over roofs and towers to the river. Shouting outside, cheers, crescendoes of happy animal noises. A little fire, just right, in the fireplace, five good friends who are very vary good friends before the cocktails are through.

Supper in the Sanctum. More very good friends. Pump hands, throw arms around shoulders talk loud and fast. Everyone extremely amiable, everyone extremely clever, exceptional company. Exceptional company indeed. Out, and on to town, Jostling In the subway, singing, other noise, numbers of people carrying sunflowers wearing western sambreros. A regular Harvard cheer for Roosevelt. . .

A whirl and a dash around Boston. Take hundreds of taxis, pay hundreds of taxi-drivers. Lights, bad music, bad drinks, enthusiasm subsides. Dash around a little more and home.

A surprisingly amiable dawn. The sunny and warm, outdoors a few birds voices, up and bathe and into the Dining Hall just in time for breakfast. Back in the Attic and the papers all read, the Vagabond picks up his Foerster. John Smith, Wm. Bradford, roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Franklin. John Dickinson, Thomas Paine. . . .

Tom Paine, the "dirty little atheists," as Greatheart put it. In "The Age of Reason" Tom Paine on religion:

"It is impossible to calculate that moral mischief . . . . that mental lying has produced in society. When * man has so far corrupted. . . . the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. . . . "

"I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing Justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. . . . "

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, at 10 o'clock the Vagabond listens to Professor Matthiessen in English 7, on "Thomas Paine." Harvard 6.