Word: vagabonde
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...Vagabond has always liked shows. So he went to the Horse Show last night to see Boston's best. He noted that most of the gentlemen wore plug hats and wondered if there were anything in it. There were a few among the spectators that know something concerning horse hands and feet and there were many who treated the show much as they treat the opera--to a display of themselves...
Today to get a more scholarly, but equally palatable version of King John's reign the Vagabond will go to hear Professor Whitney in Emerson 211 at 12 o'clock...
...Vagabond has always liked the picture of the honest, slow, bull necked, barons rumbling down to the waters of Runnymede to defend their rights and the right. All unconscious of the fact that they were transforming English history, interested only in the problems of the day, they confronted the greatest tyrant the nation has ever known and snarled out Magna Charta. The significance of 1215 can be found in Kipling's "The Reeds of Runnymede" which the Vagabond would like to suggest as a comfortable method of absorbing history. Because he knows the lassitude of the mind, he will quote...
...Vagabond is not interested in psychology, it is a dismal subject at best. So it is with great pleasure that he goes today at 12 to Emerson D to hear Professor Lowes talk on Wordsworth, the precursor of the Romanticists. Wordsworth himself, the Vagabond firmly believes, only wrote five poems that can be read without the aid of a bromo-seltzer, but he was the primary influence in one of the greatest literary periods the modern world has ever known...
...Vagabond's hope that Harvard will avail herself of these opportunities for she can both teach much and learn much. Texas lies on the Gulf of Mexico and Massachusetts stares off at the Atlantic, but they are connected by those American traditions which went winding west in covered wagons...