Word: vagabonder
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...Vagabond has been wondering; a peculiarly collegiate occupation. His thoughts have been tinged with the melancholy of the times and the sadness of youth faced with an uncertain future. There has been mingled in his soul a great desire to probe to the foundations and an equally strong fear and shrinking from exposing his inner workings to the chill light of analysis. But like the thief returning to the scene of his crime, the Vagabond returns again and again to his morbid pastime...
...money should be spent, time should be wasted, energies exhausted, tempers lost, vacations granted, plan puddings made, dinner coats pressed, wreaths hung, the Vagabond is the quite sure. But one cannot analyze Christmas without becoming philosophical, and philosophy at such a season is like tea in rum. Nor must one be fulsomely benevolent. There are already too many Tiny Tims, too many Edgar Guests, too many three penny printed hosannahs. What then...
...have failed, nations have rotted on the vine of empire. Such are the things which make men show and thoughtful. Economists are bewildered by economics, reason has not led the world to reason, depression seems a long lane down which there is no corner. And on this lane the Vagabond must leave you. All that he might say has been said before, that which he could do no man would do. But it is his hope that these forces which have made the idiom false and empty may in themselves restore a truer, fuller moaning to his wish...
Tomorrow the Vagabond will go to Harvard 3 to hear Professor Murray speak on the quiddities of W. S. Gilbert, Some time in the New York he hopes to do as much for Sir Arthur Sullivas...
Today at two Mr. Hersey will lecture on Dickens and his travels along a well known route from London into Canterbury. It is a lecture that is as good as all of Mr. Hersey's and the Vagabond from the depths of romantic admiration will say no more...