The Student Vagabond

1848! '49! Great days. The Vagabond often wishes that he could have shared in the tension and dynamic optimism which swept Europe like a flame in those two glorious years of revolution. The world made heroic gestures which were to crumple at the touch of steel, but the story of Rome and of Vienna, of Budapest, and Paris, was written too well to be obliterated under the returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism had had its day and the foundations of the old order rocked beneath the blare of its victorious trumpets. A new Napoleon had risen from the bloody barricades of the "June Days" in Paris, and Empire was soon to triumph in the shadow of the Republic.

Germany and Italy both, were moulded in the fires of revolution. But while Garibaldi defended the Janiculum and Manin led Venice to starving martyrdom, Germany talked and blustered and Bismarck had his way. Perhaps in no other gathering in the history of the world would the Vagabond have been so at home as at the National Parliament which met at Frankfort to create a united Germany, and which dispersed in the face of armed fact. There he could have satisfied his lust for unlimited declamation. Cheated of his heritage by a trick of Fate, he can at least assuage his yearning by letting Professor Fay burnish the plates of memory when he talks of "German Unity in 1848 and '49", in Harvard 1, today, at 10 o'clock.

TODAY

10 o'clock

"Efforts at German Unity in 1848-49," Professor Fay, Harvard 1.

"John Neal, D. P. Thompson, J. K. Paulding," Professor Murdock, Sever 11.

"Roman Elegy, Gallus, Tibullus, Propertius," Professor Rand, Sever 13.

11 o'clock

"The Experiment in Southern Independence", Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall.