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The Vagabond

GINI, JEANIE, AND SOCIOLOGY

Due of the most pleasant places in which the Vagabond has found to study is the Sociology Library on the second floor of Emerson Hall. He discovered it the other day in an attempt to locate some of the volumes which he understood were to have something to do with his midyear exam in Sociology.

He burst into the room after an exhilarating dash from Widener, where the books he wanted seemed to mean nothing to the catalogue cards but "Soc Lib," and coasted to a stop in front of an expensive window. As far as the eye could see, the panorama spelled knowledge. "Ah, at home with the Gods of Wisdom." he sighed as the gazed from one end to the other of the second floor of President Conant's house.

After watching a grocery boy deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl's checked cost. "Pardon me," he stammered, "I was looking for Gini." "Well, she's not here," came the answer.

Finding no "Rise and Fall of Populations" under Corrado Gini's name in the Catalogue, the Vagabond complained to the attendant who said, "Oh, that's listed under 'Harris'."

"Well," he thought, "Harris probably is an easier name to remember than Gini anyway," and looked up Harris.

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At the other end of the room was a table with many extra seats to accommodate one's hat, cost, and feet. While the Vagabond stood planning his prospective posture, he found that across from him was a Radcliffe girl who looked almost beautiful. He promptly sat down and nonchalantly fingered the pages of his book, noticing at the same taking voluminous notes, that she really was beautiful, and that he initials were "J> P." He pretended to be working by flipping a page over now and then, but soon gave up and said in a send-bored voice, "Going into the prison business?" "No, Radcliffe," she replied with sweet smile.

"What's your name?" he ventured after a while, at his book and though that if it was between Jeanic and Gini he'd take Jeanie. He didn't get much Sociology done.

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