Word: hobos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question is being discussed and the answer sought for every day in the papers by presidents, prelates, and the principals of high schools. Between them they have succeeded in excluding from college everybody theoretically except the professional hobo. He has none of those objectionable qualities of ancestors, wealth, social standing, or ambition. Moreover, he hails from rolling stock and has a decided preference for aristocracy, whether it be the aristocracy of brains or the aristocracy of the rough and ready. This last named qualification insures a dogged determination in, as well as an easy adaptability to, the academic life...
...Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters is different, more of a doer than a talker, a getter of information at first hand. Not soon will his old friends stop chaffing him about his adventure to see for himself how the "down...