Word: vagabonder
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With green bag drooping wearily over one shoulder, the Vagabond picked his way along that slushy stretch of sidewalk which borders the Fogg Museum. It was five o'clock, foggy, and the end of a hard and bitter day. The bells in Memorial Hall had just ceased tolling, and those of St. Paul's had brazenly clattered their answer. A short distance ahead the Vagabond caught sight of an old woman. She was dressed in rags, she tottered onwards unmindful through the myriad puddles, and now and then she addressed a plaintive supplication to passers by. For this the Vagabond...
...Coolidge has been giving a very advanced course in Geometry, so advanced that the ordinary undergraduate can hardly conceive it. At the beginning of the year there were only two students enrolled in it, and also a graduate student who was merely sitting in on the course, a veritable vagabond among vectors and vertices...
Later on in the term the two enrolled students dropped the course, but the lectures continued for the benefit of the vagabond. According to our latest intelligene the Mathematical Master of Lowell House has no idea that his sole student is merely sitting in on the course, and he is probably even now thinking up a devlish midyear for this dilettante, who will probably not be in Cambridge at the time. Someday, however, tiring of vectors and vertices, the sole student will probably come to class early and write plainly on the board for Professor Coolidge to see, "There will...
...before winter comes the Vagabond will do one thing. Some day, soon the sky will clear and shine with a glowing, enchanting blue. The leaves will crackle under foot, and the dying plant life glimmer deceptively gold and crimson in the sun, as with a vernal life and freshness. The tang in the air will stimulate the will to live, when old men will feel young and explain "Indian summer." Then the Vagabond will take to Nature a bottle of sweet wine, and bread and cheese, and her, to make one more memory against the icy death of winter...
...Vagabond began armed with the firm resolve to provide his gentle readers with an introduction to Professor Boring's lecture on Night Vision. It seemed proper to have a slight knowledge of the subject, something awe-in-spring even if superficial. So he set out, diligently to plumb Night Vision's mysteries. His searching hand paused before the shelf and drew down "The Science of General Psychology," by Wheeler, a good and solid book, of some six-hundred pages, fitted with two indices, charmingly adapted to the pose of earnest endeavor. But somehow, as his finger ran down the index...