Word: vagabonde
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...Vagabond knows no laws, nor of time, nor of space, nor of men; from this arise most of the numerous peccadillos which, from time to time, stain his fair name and reputation. He is not alone in this, for there was once a distinguished gentleman, known to all and sundry . . . but that, as Kipling says, is another story. Not that he has no interest in the vague and changing things which men call laws: the music of the spheres, and the glamour of the dusty night-court alike bewitch him. But the laws that govern men are most enticing. Horoscopes...
...year received a polite note consigning him to that other world, from which there is no return--to Cambridge. The Freshman dropped from sight and mind, and of him nothing was heard except from the awful depths of the Times social page. But now (was the Vagabond meandering?) he is at Princeton...
Such is the Vagabond's interest in natural laws, and in Men, and he will be in Emerson F at twelve today, to hear Professor Whitehead tell what he alone knows of "The Laws of Nature...
...vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
...meaning followed, Freedom of the Seas! Grotius, writing twenty-seven years before the founding of Harvard College, established the ideas of the liberty of the sea, and the impossibility of its monopoly by any one-nation, a doctrine of far-reaching consequences. And being in a thoughtful mood, the Vagabond this morning will visit Harvard 6 at 11 o'clock, to hear Professor George Grafton Wilson give his interpretation of the significance of Grotius in the development of human history...