Word: vagabonded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few months, the Student Vagabond--as his readers may perhaps have noticed--has been, as it were in seclusion, sending out, if you will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects...
...undergraduates as a whole, and even to those with the intellectual curiosity to read his column, the Student Vagabond feels safe in saying, Washington's birthday comes as a very pleasant event. In fact it is in the highest degree gratifying to think that over a century and a half ago the father of his country had the remarkable foresight to be born just at this time midway between Christmas and Easter, when the spirit is wearied with much study and what...
...moreover, particularly well arranged that the right-feeling vagabond may today usher in his day's respite with listening to a Beethoven quartet--number one of Opus 59 to be exact--played at 10 o'clock this morning in Paine Hall of the Music Building by the Darrell String Quartet. After hearing it one should be in a proper frame of mind for the following festivities...
...name, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of the college announced at a dinner of Columbia alumni that in his judgement "snap courses serve an excellent purpose." Such a statement, it would seem, would have few farther flung associations than that with the cultivated tastes of the student vagabond of Harvard. But closer examination reveals a similarity of educational ideas that is more than superficial...
...little other work in the course as he wishes, a custom of old and honorable standing at Harvard, is gaining in identity when it is given official status at Columbia. The desire of Harvard men for breadth in culture, as well as depth, is what has given the "Student Vagabond" position in the columns of the CRIMSON. His presence has made it possible in a degree to correlate the studies in different fields, to fit the art, the music and the literature of a period into a complementary whole, rather than one that might have to be patched together...