Word: vagabonde
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While on a comprehensive tour of Memorial Hall under the guidance of the Vagabond, we noted the other day the twin of the John Harvard statue in the Yard. This second Mr. Harvard is coarse-featured and without the refinement of his Yard counterpart...
Whereupon I took occasion to tell him of the noise and that I could not sleep in the Tower this morning but, bless my soul, he was not aware that this be the Vagabond's home these twelve years past. Whereupon he told me he had not been in the Tower since he himself was a student here; whereupon I, very proud, did invite him to visit it again. And he says: "Let's go now." He being a good man I could not refuse...
Thence to the office all the morning and was pleased to note Professor Whitehead doth lecture on Saturday in Emerson A at 12. This did awaken in me some thoughts how happy I would be if as a merry Vagabond I did help impress some uninspired ones that it be men who count and not courses; that it be inspiration that doth move us along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth...
...have witnessed a great war...our sense of values has changed considerably--ours is the mechanical age and the era of mass education--idealists are tolerated but not believed (and here he looked towards the four-poster where the Vagabond was sitting) but, my friends I am happy to say that despite our materialistic way of things our Alice is just as real today as are the dreams of children. It is therefore fitting that we remember Mr. Carroll today who has brought such a bit of beauty to our lives so often all too drab...
...this there was greater applause which quite startled even the Dormouse and brought a rich crimson to Alice's cheeks. And it all did please the Vagabond very much...