Word: vagabonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond had found many things to admire in New England, but until recently the excellent qualities of its rural postmen had escaped his attention. But now his enthusiasm for that portion of its population is unbounded, and the reason may be found in the events of the last week...
While living up to his title in the literal by investigating some of the remoter recesses of the New Hampshire hills from behind the wheel of an aged but still active automobile, the Vagabond was called upon to navigate a narrow passage between a car parked on one side of the road and a large mudhole on the other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes...
...bearing the local representative of the R.F.D. Out he jumped, surveyed the situation, and then attacked a road-side sapling with an axe he carried in his car. With the aid of this and a few flat stones to serve for what he called a "bait" but what the Vagabond's physics professors would have termed a fulcrum, the errant auto was soon back on the road...
...practice of vagabonding in classes as carried on at Harvard has now been adopted by Princeton and a column in The Daily Princetonian entitled "The Third Elective" has been instituted to carry announcements of the most noteworthy lectures of the day. "The Student Vagabond" in The Harvard Crimson has accomplished that same purpose for some time and has been considered of valuable aid in announcing topics of the day to students who might be interested in visiting certain classes...
...Student Vagabond" and "The Third Elective" are doing their present mechanical duty in widening the tastes and opportunities of their readers, but beneath their outward purpose there seems to lie a suggestion of a more significant movement. This method of the student sitting in on classes when he wishes and doing as little or as much work as he desires may be a forerunner of an educational system somewhat similar to the "reading method" now utilized in some institutions. Such a system would require only optional attendance to lectures or classes and independent reading and outside work, guided however...