Word: vagabonder
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Jean Jacques, who used to lie dreaming in a tiny skiff, lulled by the lap of the waves and comforted by the steady, reliable warmth of the sun, is the patron saint of an agnostic Vagabond. For the Vagabond, too, would pass many a quiet hour soothed by the opiate of day dreams, as did romantic Rousseau, but he is condemned to live in a climate too harsh, and an age to unkind. Therefore, he consoles himself by patient procrastination, by doing the things he ought not do, and by leaving undone the things he ought...
Last night the Vagabond went for a stroll. He went for a stroll under the elms in the Yard. It was not, as you might think, the Freshmen, listening to inspired oratory in Phillips Brooks House, nor the splendor of the chapel, nor even the hope of hearing a first, tentative 'Rinehard' which prompted him. The Vagabond was possessed by a deeper nostalgia as he walked by the walls of Hollis, and thought of the things that are passed...
...should the Vagabond, to whom, as to most Harvard men today, Professor Copeland is the most elusive of Harvard's sages, heard and seen once perhaps in the college year, take this exodus to heart? He might answer lightly that with "Copey" goes also the last hope of walking into the Yard to find the famous Boylston cow placidly cropping the lawn in front of Hollis: always a favorite, though remote, dream of the Vagabond's. For although any Boylston professor has the traditional right to pasture his hypothetical cow in the Yard, what person less venerable than "Copey" might...
...Vagabond is in town and having been slighted by the social editor of the Transcript he is forced to blow his own trumpet. He is looking very well in his spectral way and is enjoying the health which only a vigorous summer close to nature can produce. Economic disaster directed the Vagabond's steps toward the farm where he patterned his life upon the teachings of Roussean and the Rural New Yorker...
...company with his friends the cows and the pigs and the little birds the Vagabond devoted himself entirely to thinking beautiful thoughts which he did regularly before breakfast with the most beneficial results. The rest of the day he spent wrapped in the warm glow which only a beautiful thought well digested is capable of lending one. Thus with his armory of old saws refurbished and his mind cleared of all the dreary troubles which had harassed his past the Vagabond is prepared to resume the apostolic robes which he had left behind...