Word: vagabonde
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...Vagabond returns from vainly trying to incite a revolution in Nicaragua to find those greatest of academic blasphemies, the examinations, apparently over. The r. p. m. of Nicaragua is not what it used to be. He returns from gun-running in the face of the marines to a quiet corner in Sever 11 and the drone of the immemorial past. It was, however, too late to break into print on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Professor Whitehead last Saturday. To one to whom time conceptions are merely mental gymnastics, age a philosophical paradox, it is almost impertinent...
Editor, The Student Vagabond: Dear...
...past ten years I have read your column with bated breath. I might as well say right at the start that I think it's marvelous the way you have kept it up to its high inspirational note throughout these long and happy years. The Student Vagabond has a Big Message. I think and I think that you have stuff to put it over. As my last professor in English A said about Shakespeare: "his dashing vigour of phrase has all the earmarks of diablerie in pen and ink." And her I am saying it about you! Well...
...Vagabond does not necessarily endorse printed or unprinted communications, but nevertheless receives the rebuke in the spirit in which it is offered. There is indeed something indescribably moving about this solicitude shown on the part of one who has so aptly described himself...
...brains in Harvard College, Law, Medicine and Business Schools were devoted to petty thievery, some exceptional jobs might be done. . . Yet, outside of University circles probably no-one would accuse the operators of being in particularly good form. The Vagabond who has never taken anything in his life but other people's time, and not so much of that, was therefore mildly surprised to hear that the old Philosophy A examinations managed to get through the Widener customs down by the turnstiles. This appears to be just another symptom of overemphasis of examinations. Outside of the repulsive enthusiasm that must...