Word: vagabonded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Courses in which more or less continuous attendance is required for real benefit to the listener, under which category come most of the sciences, ordinarily cannot attract the transitory attention of the Vagabond. One exception that has managed to attract his wandering steps for several successive times is the course being given by Professor Hurlbut on English Literature of the first half of the XVIII century. It comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 in Emerson J, and he passes on the word with confidence others will find their way there...
...last of his hour examinations, the last major game at Cambridge, and the happily diminuendo echoes of the campaign make the Vagabond feel that one stage of the college year is past. In support of this impression is the fact that the last of Professor Hazard's public lectures occurs this after noon. He speaks in Emerson Hall at 5 o'clock on "Paul Claudel et Paul Valery...
...measure towards cooling brows that may still be fevered after the national sweepstakes which came to an end last Tuesday the Vagabond recommends attendance at a lecture to be given by Professor Murdock in Harvard 2 at 10 o'clock this morning on "Benjamin Franklin." The first few strenuous years of the nations history brought forth many great men but Franklin is in many ways the most interesting of all. Washington still exists for most people as an idealized and almost superhuman character; Hamilton seems aristocratic and haughty and Jefferson is chiefly associated nowadays with various obscure principles dealing with...
...three years ago came from Central America and settled in Chicago, to make her debut the first week in A'ida. Mezzo-sopranos: Grace Divine of Cincinnati, first week debut in Manon Lescant; Jane 'Carroll (nee Helen Howard) of Louisville, Ky., alumna of the Ziegfeld Follies chorus and The Vagabond King, to make her debut in The Egyptian Helen. Mark Windheim is sole male recruit?a German tenor who has already sung with the St. Louis and Philadelphia Opera Companies, to make his debut first week in Manon Lescant...
Thorn Carson. Twenty-two years ago, copper smelting furnaces were loaded from the top and by hand. Each furnace, filled to capacity, held only 240 tons. These facts, known to all miners, were particularly familiar to a vagabond prospector, George Carson, called the "Desert Rat." For 23 years, he had wandered from mine to mine, pursuing an idea. The idea was a smelter which men could load from the side, which might hold twice or three times as much ore as the old top-charging furnace...