Word: vagabonder
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...fell out that the Vagabond had visitors over last weekend. They had read in the CRIMSON of his golden days in the mountains, and they had also read in Emerson of the man in the wilderness who built a better mouse trap than his fellows. So they trooped to the haunts of the Vagabond and lay "upon the hills like Gods together careless of mankind." They were Harvard men; one of the Old Guard of '95, one of '28, a youth who was learning to stroke his lip thatch and was cutting his first History One lecture, and the Vagabond...
Around the fire they gathered in the cool of a May evening to talk, as Harvard men will, "of ships and sealing wax and things." '28 asked the Vagabond about Class Day down in the Houses with a note of stale regret in his voice and the Vagabond answered in the words of, as the newspapers have it, our Dr. Lowell that--"that institution is dead which does not change." "I know," said '28, "but the fountains, what about the fountains, will they play in the quadrangles?" Alas, no one knew, though the lip thatch lifted to impart...
...back a little saddened and shocked, the Vagabond put away his note book; it was not his business to be either saddened or shocked. The lip thatch rose and fell with a slightly audible regularity...
...lunch that the Vagabond fell in with the country doctor. This member of the most noble branch of a noble calling had just finished a call and was about to go off on another, but he spared the moment for a bit of light talk. It seemed that his father had died when he was two, leaving his mother with several worldly children and a few ethereal dividends. There followed for him the public schools with their trials and tribulations, until in his senior year he saw, through the gloom of adolescent disinterestedness, the gleam of his future profession...
...often we hear the remark that Harvard put a premium on scholarship at the expense of teaching ability. The Vagabond does not care to argue the point; he only regrets that a man who so well combines both talents should be leaving the University, that once again a Jonah is being swallowed up in Wales. Who in History 1 will so well uphold the traditions established by Professor Merriman in the first half, including the excellent one of making the late-coming Freshman acutely conscious of his low place in the scale of things? After this morning there will...