Word: vagabonde
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There are but few positions in the academic world which the Vagabond would be fitted to undertake. It is impossible to confine the soul of a rover within the cloisters and the hearths of an institution symbolized by Tuesday, Thursday, and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Saturday classes. For a roving genius cannot be bound by engagements collegiate or marital. One appointment, however, that the Vagabond will not fail to meet, is with Professor C.K. Webster this morning at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This is rather a large place for a tete-a-tete...
...much overpowering interest in the last--may it be the last--conflict. The overpowering desire which will lead the Vagabond to Oxford Street is the will to meet one of those rare people who hold an academic position which would be acceptable to his roving genius. For a Professor who can spend four months of the year in Wales and four in Cambridge, and use the remaining weeks for attending Pacific conferences and international conclaves has somewhere in him the wee small voice that tells a wanderer. Not enough for him to know the secret workings of diplomacy so intimately...
...Vagabond has a pleasant surprise to unfold to his minions this morning, albeit with chagrin. The chagrin is due to the fact that he almost lost his reputation, and despite the inroads of ultra-modernism, he is still old-fashioned enough in matters of this kind to wish to retain that intangible quality. The manner is thus: for the better part of a year this columnist has had his eye on a certain date, which falls on this coming Saturday. He had planned to set it aside as Official Vagabond Day: insignia and epaulets were to be worn...
...crux of the matter is this: The Day of Days for Vagabonds was to have been the last lecture of Bliss Perry in Harvard College, which was scheduled by the authorities that be for Saturday morning at 9 o'clock in Sever 11 and the course was English 41. But some unscrupulous clique has decided to do away with this lecture, and do away with it in a secret and dank manner, so the place wouldn't be overrun with Vagabonds. But if a Vagabond wishes to overrun, he overruns, and that's that. The dastardly deed came...
...spite of this horticultural vagary, the Vagabond has confided that today he may find an hour or two for the Great World. From rhododendrons he will proceed at noon to the Anglo-French Entente as set forth by Professor Langer. The following lectures and lecturers may also find him in an inconspicuous rear seat this morning...