Word: vagabonder
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...Vagabond knows, three-hundred-and-five feed long, one-hundred-and-thirteen feet wide, and the tower rises one-hundred-and-ninety feet above the Delta, but he is not appalled by that. It was on this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their...
...Vagabond would never take issue with Harvard's President and her Fellows who considered Memorial Hall "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to coast, daily usefulness, and moral significance." He would remind no one of Professor James, who lecturing in Emerson D, would glance across the heads of his listeners at the Gothic tower and exclaim: "Gentlemen, take Memorial Hall for instance. What else could you take it for!" Nor would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany...
Were it not for his native store of that urbanity which knows no frantic distress, no crying in the wilderness nor whining in the prior, the Vagabond would be sore at heart. He comes from his annual scuffle with the defenders of that most unaccountable of God's creatures, the Boston debutante. And of course his eloquence has been vain in the face of adamantine prejudice. The Vagabond, however, would not have his wisdom lost to humanity and he here sets down for the Ages the choicest of his thoughts...
...course of his years the Vagabond has watched three cousins and two dear friends move gracefully into the garish light of the Somerset or into the dimmer glow of the Chilton Club. He has helped compose letters to enable girls to enter the Junior League, he has sat through innumerable suppers of scrambled eggs and sausages, he has worn many white ties, and seen countless suns rise slowly out of the district men call Back Bay. He has even, in the rush of his youth sat through one entire Vincent Show--later, in the dignity of his age, he departed...
From his observation and ripe reflection the Vagabond draws this conclusion: that, with the probable exception of life at Versailles in the reign of the Sun God, there never existed a more vacant, unintelligent, wasteful, slack, stupid, unsound, decayed, vapid, altogether delightful way for a young woman of ability and beauty to spend her evenings and sleep her mornings. The three cousins and the two dear friends have never quite agreed with the Vagabond, but then neither will Anne-whom Aristotle would call the efficient cause of this disquisition. Anne may, near the end of January come near admitting that...