Word: vagabonde
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...with a certain, profound regret that the Vagabond begins today with an apologia. In his little treatise on Franklin yesterday an error here and there cropped out to relieve the dullness of the tale. Professor Matthiessen will speak at 10 o'clock in Harvard 6--not Harvard 26 as was previously given forth. Also it was pointed out, by one of those cavilling materialists who blot the world, that the Vagabond at one point said the lecture was "today" and at another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal...
After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...
...perhaps a sound enough criticism of modern life, but unfortunately we are not content to belittle ourselves, we must go back and belittle our fathers. Washington was a cursing drunkard, Hamilton gadded about with far too many women, Jefferson was a pompous hypocrite. This is a bad business. The Vagabond likes to feel that there were giants upon the earth in the old days, and that, as like as not, there will be giants again. He is willing to accept great men for the service they rendered the country; it matters as little how much Washington drank as what...
...Franklin are common knowledge, but; there is another which few know. In the realm of literature there is his Autobiography, and Poor Richard. There is also the Saturday Evening Post if you want it, but you don't. Franklin, however, made other contributions to American letters, contributions which the Vagabond is frank to admit he sees only through a glass darkly. So, that this fog may be dispelled, he goes tomorrow at 10 o'clock to Harvard...
...made at 12 o'clock today in Professor Ballantine's Music 4c, Beethoven, in the Music Building. Professor Ballantine, piano; Malcolm Holmes, violin; and R. U. Jameson, 'cello, will collaborate in a repetition of the trio, Opus 1, number 3, which they performed at Dunster House last night. The Vagabond never did believe in the myth of the Moonlight Sonata and the more he hears of Beethoven the more far-fetched such tales seem to him. Beethoven was too great to think of pictorial music. He wrote of the effect externals have on the singing soul and the trio Music...