The Student Vagabond

Winterhalter started long at the graceful bevy of women, and then reluctantly turned back to the canvas before him. Haussman cut great swaths through the Hutter of Parisian slums. A man called Offenbach sat back in his box watching he world dance to his thinking melolics. Some where off in a back room a cynic with a long nose was muttering, We dance, but we dance upon a volcano. In such fashion did the Second Empire sweep through the 1350's

For some short while this sort of thing went on. A man who had sat long in a cafe would suddenly spring up upon his chair and shout out, "Vive L'Empire," it didn't matter much which, and straightway thirty more would leap up on their chairs, some laughing, some weeping in an excess of patriotic zoal all shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked polished heels and bowed low over polished finger nails. Workmen would look up through dirty shop windows and salute to a high wheeled gilt carriage with a muttered "Vive l'Imperatrice." It was all very much like a play.

But there was one amongst this happy group who, most regrettably, felt that he had work to do. He sat, part of each day, in a high studded gilt room staring at the ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he called himself Napoleon. It was shortly after he had announced that the Empire meant peace that France drifted into the Crimean War out of whose dreary twilight the world hears only one sweet note, a Nightingale's. Today at 12, Professor Langer will lecture in Harvard 6 upon how the Crimean War came about.

TODAY

9 O'clock

"Lucretius--Poet and Epicurean malgre lui," Prof. Rand, Sever 13.

10 o'clock

"Aristotle's Cosmology," Prof. Perry, Emerson D.

11 o'clock

"The History of the Parthenon," Prof. Chase, Fogg Large Room.

"The Annexation of Texas," Prof Baxter, Harvard 1.

"Northampton Assizes," Professor McIlwain, Harvard 3.

12 o'clock

"Don Lorenzo Monaco," Prof. Post, Fogg Large Room.

"The Background of the Crimean War," Asst. Prof. Langer, Harvard 1.

"English Shipping, 1572-1750," Prof. Usher, Widener U.

1 o'clock

"Christopher Marlow's Dramatic Works," Prof. Murray, Harvard 3.