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...short, the Vagabond means that void between the end of examinations and the beginning of the next term. Most undergraduates have anywhere from a week to ten days of freedom with nothing in prospect but a bacchanalian wassail or a scant jaunt to the hearth of his childhood. Both of these have their disadvantages. The first, purely aside from constitutional controversy, is bound to grow tiresome as a steady diet, and the latter very likely proves an unwonted strain on the purse-strings...
From his mother's hearth Editor Daudet rushed to the grave of his son Philippe- famed as a martyr royalist. Picture postcards of this youth are constantly distributed by L'Action, each boldly imprinted: "Philippe Daudet, born Jan. 7th, 1909, assassinated Nov. 24th, 1923, by the police of the French Republic...
Damage: $75.000. Cause: Secretary Newton insisted it was a short circuit. Washington fire chiefs blamed a faulty flue in the chimney from Secretary Newton's office. A fire had been burning on his hearth barely an hour before while he was dressing there for the White House party. The half-story garret above was a fire-nest where flames fed greedily on bundled papers in storage...
...When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with...
...game on its bi-annual circuit to Cambridge the Vagabond feels the long departed spirit of youth creeping over him once more. It is the sort of thing that infuses a peculiar warmth throughout his windswept diggings high up in Memorial Tower and makes the fresh log on the hearth glow to a merry Crimson...