Word: vagabonder
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...Vagabond is low in his mind; a situation which is exceedingly serious in the case of one whose eyes are habitually fixed on the furthest nebulae. His present intellectual depression is the result of a surfeit of extreme contrasts, a diet upon which he has subsisted entirely since returning to Widener's profound shades...
...surging is all about; it thrusts itself upon our presence with persistency that will not be denied. The Vagabond has sickened of depressions, business cycles, nations in ashes, and economic theories. His frail mind can not encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place to obliterate the memory of the first. He has, therefore, resorted to an old dodge, one frowned upon by psychologists and sociologists. He has taken unto himself comfort and refuge in romantic escape. He has harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words...
Quite frankly the Vagabond has never cared deeply for Wordsworth. He exhibits, in his poetry, too frank an interest in the exact size of a newly dug grave, or the precise circumference of a huntsman's swollen ankle. But he has compensated for this rather crass precision by developing an excellent and timely theory to the effect that the world is too much with us. And so the Vagabond will go today to hear Sholley, Keats, and Wordsworth as they troop across the platform, and to see them bow gracefully, when they pass Professor Lowes...
...Vagabond looks forward to this lecture, for Professor Lowes has but recently returned from England. During his absence English 72 languished in sepulchral silence, and it will be a pleasure to welcome back the calmness and tranquility of the Victorians...
These and kindred thought welled up within the Vagabond's soul as he stared up some nights ago at the clear harvest moon. Cambridge is a hard place for such gifts of nature, but the wanderlust was upon him. There dashed across his mind the swift thought that the dubutante season had begun. It was a tough thought, but classes had just begun and there was the moon. And, for a bit of rationalization, it is the Vagabond's business to have traffic with all peoples. Like the cat that walks by himself all places are alike...