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There are few sounds as ominously suggestive of the passing of time as the regular tramp of feet. Guilty men hear in it the approaching minions of the law and in their terror rush to confess. The imaginative are reminded of tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative...
...Sunday pastime of Roosevelt's was to set out for a tramp with the children following one line as far as possible, to some unscalable wall or impassable river. The design: to have an exciting time, to teach tenacity of purpose...
...general scheme of college education, finally, can be complete, which does not contemplate the continuous and valued relation between student bodies in all colleges. I have heard that the tramp student is becoming common in this country, the student, that is, who visits first one college and then another in his pursuit of learning. I would welcome such an exchange of students if we were only sure that the purpose of such an exchange were the advancement of learning. I believe profoundly in the value of such contacts between students of the East and West, between students of American...
...Just prior to the Alcock-Brown flight, Pilot Harry Hawker and Lieut. MacKenzie Grieve made a bid for the Northcliffe money in a single-motored plane, but pitched into the sea short of Ireland, being rescued by a Danish tramp-steamer. The U. S. Army globe-fliers (1924) stopped at Greenland en route from Scotland. Dirigibles to cross the Atlantic without a stop: the R34 (British), 1919; the ZR3 (Los Angeles...
...play in which a young woman, longing for a sexual experience, took on a tramp who casually happened by her house. (The New Gallantry...