Word: vagabonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the blight of the hour examination hanging heavy over Cambridge and the coming of a few warm days to make its inhabitants begin to count the weeks to June, the Vagabond began to yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...
...matter how the creators of cultured men feel about it, the fact remains that very few students meet those ancient authors of whose distant fame they have heard since their Gore Hall period, until the melancholy days of Divisionals are near. So the Vagabond was pleasantly surprised to learn that Sophocles' tragedy Electra was being presented at Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. There he found the ancient drama excellently played against a background of temple and poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information...
...Vagabond had it on his calendar to say something today about the fact that spring is only ten days off now, but the poor arithmetic of a janitor who thought it had already come and took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much...
...flood conditions in Harvard Square have abated enough to make navigation practical as far as the Yard, the Vagabond has several lectures of special interest to visit today. Count Carlo Sforza, formerly French Ambassador to Italy, will speak in Harvard 6 at 2 o'clock on "The New Fascist State", and the opportunity to add to his knowledge of this great experiment from a first-hand authority should not be missed by any vagabonder...
Just about once in every New England winter the Vagabond is inspired with a desire to break away from his customary urban surroundings and restore his vigor by a few days in the snowy open spaces. This year the attack was so long delayed the Vagabond thought an immunity had been established, but last Thursday's blizzard made Cambridge look so unlike its customary rather grimy self that yesterday he sallied forth. To spare the more gruesome details, the morning's jaunt on snowshoes managed to give him a very intimate acquaintance with the snow by tripping him up every...