Word: vagabonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking this morning about so personal a subject as his Christmas schemes, the Vagabond does not wish to set any precedent for the residents of Lowell House. Nor does he wish to have it seem that the first resident of the new dormitory is showing any favoritism between those groups of Lowell House tutors who can't seem to decide between "Yankee Doodle" and "Rule Britannia" for a house anthem...
Although not directly in the employ of the advertising department of the Bermuda Travel Burean, the Vagabond has no scruples against voicing a hope that not a few of those who have faithfully followed him from lecture to lecture this fall will join the old stowaway in welcoming the dawn of a new year in that fair isle of liberty which lies somewhere to the southeast. For with all the wisdom and foresight of three wise men the Vagabond is closing up his quarters in the Lowell House construction shack and leaving Cambridge for the festive season. All of which...
There are all sorts of Christmases, as the Vagabond very well knows. And if the day means one thing in Boston and another in Hamilton, if it means one thing to the man in the pulpit and another to the man in the street, it at least means something to them all. That, perhaps, is more than can be said of any other holiday...
Bermuda with its tropic warmth and transported British Christmas cheer is a very pleasant picture to anticipate. But in any clime Christmas itself isn't such a bad idea. With the prospect of his own vacation right before him, the Vagabond is in no mood to moralize about the spirit of Christmas, or anything else, for that matter. But he does feel cheerio about the day, about the whole season. Since that is tantamount to a confession of old fashioned sentimentality, the Vagabond is willing to go the whole ways. He sincerely greets all his friends with...
There are some excellent lectures coming for this week, and the Vagabond finds the following a good start...