Word: vagabonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond in his Attic after a day filled with bustle but productive of no visible results. How much of his college life has been precisely like today! Wake at three minutes to nine--too late for his first class--toss till quarter to ten when up and a hasty brushing of his teeth and a poor shave with four bad nicks to staunch with stypic pencil. To breakfast at Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back...
...after dessert and during coffee. Too many cigarettes, have to get back to pack-a-day. Tutor at two, thesis subject not yet selected, think it will be Fenimore Cooper, haven't got it exactly. Assignment for next week Miracle Plays. Should have done them sophomore year. The Vagabond has a field of concentration but he consistently ignores...
...shoes to tap instead of suit to press, might be tickets for French movies instead of Dartmouth game. Might even get up in time for nine o'clock and then miss twelve to eat an early lunch. The stretch from eight to one is sometimes too much for the Vagabond. Might be cocktails before dinner and might not. It's all the same and before long it's all over. Somehow it never seems like wasted time...
...Vagabond's best wishes then, to Mr. DeVoto and the Saturday Review. They have a chance for fame and influence, a chance that should be seized upon avidly for the sake of culture in America...
...Vagabond is weary with worry about culture in America and on Tuesday morning at nine travels to Harvard 6 to hear Professor Brinton begin his lectures in History 34a--"The Intellectual History of Europe...