Word: vagabonde
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...looked the same. The lush greenness of the Yard. The Navy Officers in the Square. The congregation to Hayes-Bick. Harvard was old Harvard, when Hitler was a pup, and this war wouldn't make any more difference than the other six or seven in her history had. The Vagabond wasn't quite sure how many it was, but exact figures are unimportant. The University was yielding gradually and gracefully; this Y-12 business wouldn't affect Fair Harvard any more than it would affect indifferent Vagabond...
...Vagabond, you can't," an inward voice answered in a serious tone. "Dean Hanford . . . you remember. Probation, Vagabond. Dean Hanford. Probation. President Conant wouldn't like it, Vag. And then there's probation . . . Dean Hanford. Probation...
...mere character parts - are Edmund Gwenn, who last season swaggered through the gaudy title role of The Wookey; Alexander Knox, who last season minced through the prissy title role of Jason; Dennis King, who made girlish hearts beat faster as the hero of Show Boat, Rose Marie, The Vagabond King...
...little people, he had absorbed some hazy ideas about the Intellectual and Social History of Western Civilization and had for better or worse grown up and set. And all the while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have to tell, is when we bid old Yale farewell," only not Yale...
From then on the Vagabond became a man of strong emotions. Losing the game that way was a tremendous blow; it wouldn't have been so bad if they'd outplayed us and won by two touchdowns. On the trolley back he was ready to bite any offensive Yaleman. He went to a friend's room and poured four scotches down his throat. Even that didn't help. He was unhappy, and he didn't recover all night. He couldn't help it--this game meant a lot to him. But to think of what should have been the best...