This is the time of year for a certain persistent nostalgia, a vague regret for the semester that might have been. Well, it's too late for that semester, but it's not too late for the next. We sent Cardigan Bay, our peripatetic academic troubleshooter, out to the Coast last week, and he ended up discovering the transfer student's dream, the Midpeninsula Free University of Stanford, California.

Reprinted below, to give just a hint of the education you've been missing, are a few of the choicest entries from the MPFU catalogue. It's for real. Don't believe us? You can check it out for yourself. The address is P.O.Box 6691, Stanford. Phone 321-2300, extension 4341, afternoons only. Quarterly fee ten dollars.

4. T. S. ELIOT AS GURU

Mondays at 8 p.m.

Eliot pursued his self-development with diligence, and chronicled that pursuit with such precision and eloquence that he left us behind one of the most valuable records and manuals of the process of self-realization ever written.

Now, when so many are looking to the East for instruction and inspiration, it is well to remind ourselves that we have here in the West all (or almost all) we need to do the job.

15. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TASTE OF WATER

Mondays at 8:30 p.m.

An extensive series of Zen meditations for the serious student. Each student is expected to do daily meditation on his own as well. Students are also expected to participate in whatever retreats and all-day meditation sessions that may be offered.

30. TO BE GENTLE

Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.

The concepts and focus of this seminar are those attitudes and meanings which are brought to mind by such words as gentleness, communion, compassion, sincerity, honesty, sensitivity, and freedom. Although the "teaching methods" and course activities will be strictly experimental, they will, tentatively, include aspects of sensory awareness techniques, non-verbar communication, sensitivity and encounter and T-group techniques, music, dancing, massage, woodsing, and beaching.

46. TANTRA: THE YOGA OF SEX

Thursdays, time to be announced.

This course is to be patterned on the fourteen week specific discipline described in Omar Garrison's English translation of the Tantric learnings. Prerequisites for participation: adequate mastery of the Hatha Yoga physical positions and diaphragmatic breathing, purchase of the text, and an insouciant attitude toward group nudity.