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Then there's the case of another follow who's been out a few years. His daily stint was to make up the afternoon sport spages of a Boston paper, which meant getting in to the office every morning at 7.30 o'clock--that magic hour again. In the afternoon he wrote a couple of stories for his paper. His spare time he spent on study, but he got through all right...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...
What follows is a bit of the Vagabond's credo. Not that your Old Fellow's stint around your heads--but it's one way of suggesting to you gentlemen who would be on the scholastic road this morning something about the Chinese philosophy of life. So, bless his soul, the Vagabond is not a Taoist or a Buddhist or a Confucian--though they serve as a basis for the popular religion in China today--no, the Old Rover's way is to make a system of systems. Prithee, "What is truth...
Whimsical...tragic...realistic...exalted...humorous...sensuous...melancholy...cynical...satirical...For joy! for shame! No, 'tis not the Vagabond. Not this time. The little stint this morning has to do with a certain Don Juan hailing from Spain and living many a spicy hour in the land of the Turk; the isles of Greece; the steppes of Russia; even unto Puritanical England...
...that at that point "private" charity must take up the burden. Any other solution, you claimed, would be completely un-American. Is it not slightly inconsistent to charge the very institutions that have of their own initiative assumed a share of the burden with snobbish evasion of their stint? --Yale Daily News...