Word: vagabonde
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...various departments of Harvard, sayeth the Vagabond this fair morning, have individual cycles of greatness. There was the English department, which boasted of Briggs, Copeland, Perry, Hurlbut, and countless others. The Vagabond had spasms of fear last spring that the glory that was English was beginning to suffer a tangible decline. For such upward trends, symbolized by the youthful Murdock and Matthiessen, he is thankful...
This morning at 12 o'clock the Vagabond leaves the tower of Lowell House for Sever 11 and a lecture by the greatest of the humanists, Irving Babbitt. At the same hour Professor Lake continues his lectures on the Old Testament. It seems that the Vagabond is the victim of what is popularly known as The System. Other lectures of interest follow...
...week ago today the average undergraduate turned off his alarm-clock with the pleasant reaction that that particular Monday was a pleasant interlude in the general scheme of things. And turn about is fair play. So the Vagabond beckons his first finger of the year in the direction of his adherents and, akin to the Pied Piper, leads them up the marble stairs of Widener into Room U. where at high noon, an hour will be devoted to several remarks on Christopher Columbus, the "a priori" of last week's holiday. The lecture given by Professor Usher under the title...
Casting a wary eye about for tomorrow's entertainment the Vagabond has a stimulating lecture in the offering of Professor Babbitt in Comparative Literature 11 at Sever 11. also at 12 o'clock. While the subject matter is entitled the "Cult of the Child", it shouldn't be discouraging Everyone who knows but a mere bagatelle about the Harvard Humanist is quite sure that William Wordsworth, nature-commuter extraordinary, will, in the parlance of Chicago, "go for a long ride." And the Vagabond wants to be in the back seat...
...reader is as bored with this column as the Vagabond, the special round trip rates to Montreal are envogue. And this ought to fill the column anyway. If it doesn't, a book review will turn the trick...