Word: vagabonded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to the following letter and the clipping from the Yale News, printed in yesterday's Crimson, which gave rise to the discussion, attention is called to today's Student Vagabond, wherein the correct statement of facts is set forth...
...with something of a shock that the Vagabond read in yesterday's CRIMSON under the heading of "The Press" a clipping casting the reproach of crescent materialism upon what is in a modest sort of way the clay, so to speak, for the Vagabond's statue, the merchandise, if you must, of his business--namely, the Harvard curriculum. The writer of the clipping raised, figuratively speaking, his hands in well simulated horror at the thought that whereas the University "has a gigantic new Business School" it offers only 5 courses in Greek, while Princeton and Yale take their places...
Lectures today and tomorrow which the Vagabond deems worthy of auditors are the following...
...Vagabond is the descendant of an ancient family of wanderers--some say of Hebraic origin, though this is open to much doubt. Indeed, the whole matter is so deeply shrouded in the dust of time, that no one, least of all the Vagabond himself, who was not present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that...
...Vagabond has come down to the present generation and with the more dispatch for, indeed, we live in the present and future; in the past we are dead, and the Vagabond has as yet no desire to wander into Appleton Chapel and become a tradition. It is to the present and future then that he will turn today. From his abode under the shadow, so to speak, of the founder's statue he will set forth not toward the massive Norman portal of Sever, or the Georgian chastity of Harvard but in a very different direction. For it is quite...