Word: vagabonder
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...Vagabond is fit to faint as his sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...
There was something lacking to the occasion which left an uneasy longing in the complicated structure which passed for anatomy with the Vagabond. It was only with the advent of major-general Apted and the boys that he realized what had been missing. The evening's performance was immediately elevated from the petty and amateur to the dignity of proportions of a professional riot...
...difficult to accept as logical or just a recent editorial on English 72. Nothing is more legitimate than editorial criticism of existing courses; indeed, it might be pointed out the Harvard CRIMSON, especially in its Student Vagabond, has performed a valuable service, on the side of eulogy, in calling the auditor's attention to stimulating lectures which otherwise he might have missed. On one occasion last autumn, the Vagabond, after confessing his own inability to enjoy Wordsworth, announced that Mr. Lowes would lecture on the gentleman that morning. No one who heard the superb analysis of the Westmoreland poet...
...rise out of a wine dark sea at the entrance to San Juan harbor. Through the harbor mouth, by the great Spanish fort, to the land of romance beyond, the land of ebony-haired Spanish girls with flashing eyes, the land of Ponce de Leon and the Conquistadores, the Vagabond goes until the doors of Sever open again. Or, it may be, for a little longer...
There is more than a touch of Dickens about this passage and perhaps it would have been fairer to put it in quotation marks, but the Vagabond's memory is too faulty for such precision and it is too good to allow him to write something of his very own. Today occurs in Emerson 211 what the Vagabond feels is one of the finest lectures in College. He has heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame...