Word: vagabonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author is at present working on a life of Rupert Brookes, but expects soon to start on a vagabond trip through America, concentrating particularly on Civil War sites in the South. "'Little do the people of the United States realize how much romance and adventure can still be found in their own native land even in these hurried times...
...much mutton and wine and heard loose gossip of the queen. By and by a strange drowsiness came upon me--I fear from too much mutton--and I did dream a most strange dream, one more fit to fall upon the mind of our prophetic Bacon than a poor Vagabond like...
...today I hear is overrun by savages but in my dream it was most fair. And I sat in a room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country. And, as I recall, I did delight very much to hear so much about my century; for I agree with...
...worship for the dead the Chinese manage to live a life tranquil and indifferent to the "ways of the world". Strength of character more than strength of mind; knowledge is important as it affects the character of the knower. And that pithy bit, gentle readers, delights the Vagabond...
Professor Bixler will discuss present day Chinese religion this morning in Emerson A at 11. The Vagabond suggests this lecture as a vital and stimulating subject. The present crisis in China is only another example of the many forces which are hastening the collapse of her precious social customs. The patriarchal family is beginning to disintegrate; students are demanding freedom from the customs of the past. To save the gold of China's art of living; and yet give her what enlightenment modernity offers is no mean problem...