Word: vagabonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today at twelve o'clock the Vagabond will go to Emerson 211 to hear Professor Wild lecture on the closing portion of Plato's "Phacdo" describing the last conversation of Socrates...
...Vagabond would learn more of this amazing, ribald, religious man who wrote the "Gulliver's Travels" every boy knows but does not understand. For this purpose, he journeys to Sever 11 at eleven o'clock this morning to hear Dr. Knox Chandler lecture on Jonathan Swift...
...When the Vagabond was a little shaver of five, he used to climb on his father's knee after supper and demand a story. Now, these many years later, the first ones he can recollect being told concerned a man who went to a strange country of Little Men. Or sometimes he went to a land of Big People. The man's adventures were all very fascinating and exciting...
When it comes to talking of Virginia, the Vagabond is on sure ground. Brown is an unimposing place the Rockefellers graduated from: Cornell is a co-ed place where his Uncle Jack used to stroke the crew; Army is a uniformed place which is Navy's Yale; Dartmouth is an informal place where the Winter Carnival is held; Princeton is a formal place where they don't have much fun; and Chicago is a fairly new place which the Rockefellers have a hand in, too. This much the Vagabond knows about the colleges whose teams have held the Saturday spotlight...
...Vagabond might just as well admit it right now--he is train-whacky. Other people can have their airplanes, their boats, their dogs, their cameras, their movie queens, their horses. But give Vag a train every time. There is something about trains which gets this sentimental old fellow. It isn't the mechanical end that lures him, for he is an awful dud at such things. It must be some bit of the romance and glamor of the "high iron" in his blood. His mother tends to blame it on his Uncle Rome who is a conductor and a mighty...