Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Alumni Bulletin is an appreciation which the Boston Transcript reprints, of the work done by the ubiquitous and nebulous Student Vagabond. Rightly or wrongly, he is given credit for the spread of a new word in the local vocabulary, the verb to vagabond-meaning to attend lectures at which one's presence will not be noticed by the Dean's office, for the sole purpose of hearing what is said...
...such be the case, the Vagabond has time to pause in his daily journeys through the Yard and the elusive corners of the graduate schools to give himself congratulations. If, in some far distant day the student body shall have reached such a stage of discretion that it will be at liberty to choose all its lectures day by day-a most remote contingency-a statue of the Vagabond, mounted on roller skates or whatever means he uses to attend consecutive lectures in different parts of Cambridge, should be erected in the Square. That his efforts do more than fill...
...organization and direction of his journey. Fearing for his eyesight-for it has been falling somewhat-and the feeling that the added burden of spectacles would be more than his depleted circumstances would bear comfortably, he had decided to be at least as much of a vagabond as a student and occasionally tread upon the sweet, scented pathways of wholly useless enjoyment...
...hope," said Williams, "that the young man in college today will use a sort of trinity of tools for his education--first book knowledge that is derived from campus and quadrangle; second, overalls in vacation work which will help the student to get the feel of modern business and industries; and third, steamships by which, in vacations either by working his passage or by other methods, the student can get the feel of Latin-America or Europe...
...Lodge--'25, former president of the club and now a second-year student in the Law School, opened the meeting with a talk in which he outlined the policy of the Cercle to the members and candidates who gathered to try out for parts in the plays. Lodge declared that the Cercle Francais is not primarily a dramatic organization, nor a limited gathering of students accomplished in the French lanuage, but is an association the purpose of which is to further French parlance in the University and good relations with French students and universities...