VAGABONDING

On April 26 all undergraduates are required to fill out a study-card for their proposed studies for the next year. Most undergraduates will see their tutors and arrange courses fitted to their subject of concentration. But there are several courses outside their field which are optional and must be taken to fulfill the requirements for a degree. The problem of finding suitable subjects for this purpose is a problem which is perplexing to many undergraduates.

Too often the student pores over the booklet of courses of instruction and selects a course which either appears interesting, easy, or which falls at a convenient and gentlemanly time of day,--say eleven o'clock on Mondays and Wednesdays. Once having checked with a friend to reassure himself that no tests or theses will be forthcoming, he makes no further inquiries, and the study card is turned in. Comes the Fall and the first weeks of lectures, and the student finds to his dismay that either the lectures or the material are not to his liking. Usually it is too late to correct the error, or there is no better alternative.

To forestall this situation, the CRIMSON feels called upon to make a pertinent suggestion about this time every year. With a little judicious "vagabonding," that is, sitting in on courses, an undergraduate can obtain this year, before it is too late, a very fair idea of what his prospective whole courses will be like. The custom is one that has always been popular, and has the most salutary effects for both student and professor.