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THE STUDENT VAGABOND

Due to various considerations, a discussion whose exact nature would add nothing to this dissertation, the night before last marked the initial appearance of the Vagabond in person at the Pops, although, during the last two weeks he has often urged others to attend, and wished that he might go himself. Be that as it may, as he sat at one of the tables with an accomplice in crime sipping near dear out of glass lily-sups, and munching pretzela to the tune of one thing or another, he could not help letting his imagination transport him some 3000 miles in space and some nine months back in time. For a few moments Symphony Hall was transformed. Instead of the galleries and plaster statues, a canepy of foliage rustled in the breeze over the heads of two wanderers who were seated at a little table. Close beside them were a score of other tables similar in most respects; a few yards off a mountain the water splashed merrily in the evening coolness. Somewhere an orchestra was playing softly. But all this was of minor interest to the wanderers; their interest was focused upon a white aproned individual who bore a number of tall round receptacles clinking upon a tray. He approached-and placed before each ein grosses helles'. The vision vanished, Alas, this is Boston!

Perhaps some will think the Vagabond has become too lyrical, too little the student and too much the vagabond. He offers no excuse; he merely asks indulgence for one of his failings. He will try to mend his ways. But before he departs to try to become a student let him again suggest that if anyone would enjoy himself he could do worse than bend his steps toward Symphony Hall tonight since-Let us be chivalrous whatever be the cost-it is Radcliffe Night.

The program for tonight's Pops follows:

March from Aida  Verlt Overture R Le' Rol 1 Ys  Lalo Radeliffe Choral Society selections  G. W. Woodworth '24 conducting. Marche Joyeuse  Chabrier Danse Macabre  Saintaacns Invocation cello solo  Massenet Rumanian Rhapsody'  Enesco Polonaise  Ghopin Caprice Viennofs  Kriesler The Carnival at Pesth  Liszo

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