Word: vagabonde
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...feet of the last and not the least of its apostles. If we cannot find in the pages of Goethe the answer to all the ills which beset us, those who know how to look can find at worst the spirit in which they must be met. Today, the Vagabond will be in Sever 13 at 9 o'clock to hear Professor Walz give a much more profound discussion of Goethe and his works...
...Vagabond, his dependable felt hat pulled dryly down over one ear, was making his quiet way across the Yard last evening, wondering why the Gods had not arranged a rotating weather schedule for the Fall. Cambridge puts on a cloak of the Mediaeval for rainy weather, especially on drenching evenings, and as the Vagabond trudged along, drawing himself bodily farther into the innermost warmth of his copious waterproof, he could not help exploring a trifle the grey depths of his youth. From faraway Massachusetts Avenue the groaning of a homebound orange street car was subdued by the nearer steady trickle...
...dull indistinctness of everything about him, the Vagabond fell into a muddle of thought of unsettled religious aims and clamorous politics. Then he thought of the history of the early seventeenth century. In a hazy and clouded storm of religious, political, and feudal quarrels, the Thirty Years' War was given to the history of man, and the cities of Munster and Osnabruck, separated by a few miles of cool night air similar to what the Vagabond now breathed provided conditions creative of the Treaty of Westphalia...
...Vagabond is interested in the history of this turbulent period in the development of Europe, and intends to learn more about it this morning from Professor Fay, who is to lecture in Harvard 1 at 11 o'clock...
...hour of freedom was over, and he returned to his tower cell to continue his vast "History of the World" on which he never got further than the Roman conquest of Greece. But the History was not all that came from Raleigh's pen, and so today the Vagabond will go to Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor Munn talk on Raleigh's prose works...