Word: vagabonder
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...Vagabond has not stirred much abroad of late, but sits in close-striving study over Kant's "Ethics," and for relaxation counts the number of students taking History 1 in the New Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters...
Seeking wild escape the Vagabond turned up into the net of quiet which stretches between the river and Massachusetts avenue. Until sundown he paced their pleasant and unchanging lengths, and absorbed in reflection forgot the pricking of spring...
Cambridge and Harvard have gone to bed. The Vagabond is hunched wearily in his dusty niche high on the silent rafters of Memorial Hall. The strange quiet of early morning is so intense that it pulsates sonorously, and by degrees his tired body seems to be dissolved into the infinite darkness and silence lying round about like a thick, suffocating blanket...
...night falters, the all but unbearable pressure of the vast silence is relieved. Then almost imperceptibly the lost beat gradually resumes its monotonous crescendo; the night, forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height...
...even so the Vagabond is a new man. Up in the morning, on the wagen, spinach for lunch, early to bed and off to sleep. The Vagabond had to use Luminol at first but now he reads the papers in bed and it's much better! Spring takes care of everything...