THE STUDENT VAGABOND

Economics and two of the arts, music and painting, compose the bulk of today's intellectual bill-of-fare for the individual possessed of much leisure and many interests who hies himself from hall to hall under the name of the Student Vagabond.

Be he up betimes in the morning, he must choose, between two subjects to serve as the first coarse of his repast.

In Economics 5, Professor Burbank will lecture on "the General Property Tax," and his offering should be of considerable interest because of its practical importance.

The other choice open for the nine o'clock period is of interest more per se than from any possible practical point of view. Professor Usher will speak in Economics 10b on "Merchant Shipping of England and Holland in 1600" in Widener U.

At noon, Professor Hill will give a lecture in the Music Building, for which the Vagabond has long been waiting: a lecture on Wagner. Wagner has always been for him a most fascinating figure, not only because of the music to which the Vagabond is an ardent convert -- but because of the man himself. Unquestionably, the composer's greatest works were written not merely for the sake of the music as is usually the case but as much to embody his philosophical ideas and theories. Wagner was what one might call a musical-dramatist; he was also a stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example, his idea of an idyllic state of society not dissimilar to that of Shelley's "Promethens Unbound". In "Tristan" he brings his reading of Schoppenhauer to its logical and extreme conclusion. All in all, the figure of Wagner is gigantic not only in music, where he is supreme, but also in literature where he looms large in the field of the drama being without much doubt the greatest German dramatist of the latter part of the last century. One might do worse than go to Professor Hill's lecture.

Then, later in the day, if the indomitable desire for culture still persist, the Vagabond can hasten back from Soldiers Field when the sun begins to glow comfortably in the late afternoon. If he has time, let him stop a minute on the Anderson Bridge to watch the oars dip and flash as an eight pulls up the Charles. He cannot linger long, however, for Mr. Forbes Watson, editor of "The Arts", will speak at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum on "Civilized Contemporary Painting from Cozanne to Picasso."