Springtime Is Icumen In---Lhude Sing!

Around the world, there were unmistakable signs that something was afoot.

In Egypt, the corn god Osiris was plucked from the Nile early this morning. In Babylon, Tammuz was retrieved from the sea. In the Perilous Chapel, Parsifal located the Grail and thus restored the Fisher King's fertility. It could mean only one thing.

At 11:23 in Cambridge, Homer D. Q. Tobit '64 was seen reading Kafka's The Castle in Lamont Library. At 11:24 he glanced out the window of the third level reading room. By 11:25 he had deposited his reading fare in a nearby receptacle, forgotten Humanities 119, and left the tomblike gloom of the library with the comment, "I am going to participate in the rebirth of the land."

Throughout the city, a quiet mania was perceptible. People were smiling. Even people with sophomore essays, theses, and Sanskrit 103 exams impending. People lay motionless on the banks of the Charles, feigning study. People lay motionless in the Yard, feigning study. At Radcliffe, most of the girls were studying, of course, but usually reliable sources told the CRIMSON that several 'Cliffies were seen sitting under trees in the quad, wearing shorts, and feigning study. Elsewhere, people were going for long walks, eating ice cream cones (with jimmies), and playing baseball.

Only four days behind schedule, spring arrived yesterday. It brought the sort of weather that, had we been studying all year, would have made us stop yesterday.

The Weather Bureau reports that today will be cloudy and cold with scattered thundershowers.