Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vagabondage time is here, but it is not necessarily toward the lecture room that one's feet would wind their sprightly way. Mental vagabondage is also on hand, and a splash of sunshine on the arm of the chair or a glimpse of blue sky is all that is necessary for a tour of Europe, a flight around the bases, or a cross channel swim. For a couple of weeks at least one Student Vagabond will not have to give minute attention to the lectures he visits in his morning peregrinations. For today's program, however, he chooses to feature...
...office has been open to all who voluntarily sought his aid and to those whose conduct or failure in studies caused their deans to suspect such conduct or failure to be due to physical or mental ill health. Dr. Worcester feels that in most cases a thorough study of the students' physical and mental condition is necessary...
...plunged into the water. Last year the Eskimo repudiated this entire explanation and declared that he was the murderer himself. Although great publicity was given to this episode, the latter story was never accepted by any of Marvin's companions. Captain Bartlett believes that the Eskimo suffered some mental derangement because of the perils which he underwent and then sought notoriety for himself by giving a villainous reputation...
...Vagabond this Wednesday morning. Wandering at will in the vast intellectual cafeteria that is Harvard, he finds that the day's fare is so plentiful and so temptingly varied, that he is quite appalled at the prospect of choosing the lectures to serve as his daily morsels of mental delecation. In such sore doubt himself, it is with trepidation that he undertakes the perilous task of scanning the menu for the entertainment of his parishioners...
...cogitations and conferences came, by easy mental association, the name of René Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle. The Cadillac, General Motors' pride, had been named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who in the 18th Century established Detroit. He was King Louis XIV's Governor of Louisiana Territory, but the man who had explored and named that territory a few years before was the intrepid, swashbuckling Sieur de LaSalle. In his name were connotations of reverence, dash, finesse. Therefore the new General Motors car is called the LaSalle...