Word: vagabonde
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Mayhap, it was the dreary weather and the drafty atmosphere atop Memorial Hall that saddened the Vagabond last night. Moving day comes the first of May, he recalled and by then Spring too would have come and there would be no sense in moving. Ah, the futility of it all, he mused...
...wind blew fitfully and the rain spattered with the same display of temperament. The Vagabond shivered audibly. There was something large and ominous, and supernatural, perhaps, in the aura. He imagined ghosts and skeletons, rattling bones...
...Vagabond has, in the last few years; become particularly "architecture-conscious", (if he can use such an ill-sounding phrase). He has his reasons. From his lofty tower in Memorial Hall he looks down on one of the most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth century fire-escapes has long intrigued him. He would hate to have to use them in case of fire, but then, they provide a good roosting place for pigeons. Far to the southwest, with binocular to eye, the Vagabond can spot, on clear days, the small American flag which marks...
...Vagabond knows one way in which he can free himself from the atmosphere of red brick. He can go to the Fogg Lecture Room at eleven this morning and hear Prof. Edgell expound the glories of French Gothic. He has been to this group of lectures on Gothic before, and he will doubtless go again, for if he should ever grow weary of the text of the lecture he will never tire of the slides which illustrate...
...view of the fact that years ago the Vagabond formed a half-hearted resolution to be one of the "world's workers", and forego for the time being anything in the nature of an entangling alliance his reasons may differ slightly from those of some for being present at nine o'clock in Sever, when and where Professor Richards will talk about the late poet laureate. Robert Bridges...