Word: vagabonder
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Freshman registration has ever been full of interest for the Vagabond and he motored down from the hills yesterday to indulge his hobby. For the Vagabond is a connoisseur, a collector of personalities. Among his subjects he browses as an antiquarian among his antiques. However, and in this the antiquarians, the collectors are more fortunate than the Vagabond, he cannot furnish his den with live or stuffed specimens. In the first place the subjects might object and in the second place too much of a good thing is too much. And so he must content himself with examining his objects...
...Yard was populated by the knowing ones. Stoughton, Hollis, approved by Copey, his thoughts wandered and he glanced at the printed lists which advertise the names of former inmates of the old digs. Ah, here was a cousin of his father's, an old rogue's hangout. And the Vagabond wondered if the word hangout originated as a term for the age-old practice of hanging out one's window to watch parades, fights, riots, lovers, Yard cops, and other civil commotions. He was disturbed to discover that the lists of inmates are no longer kept, in fact addition...
...Vagabond spent yesterday morning in a vain effort to solve the problem of his rooming accommodations for this year. The best location, judged from a physical standpoint, is the pump shack by Appleton Canyon in the Yard. But there the miniature landscape even now is cluttered by a few early Freshmen. One of them asked Mr. Apted, who was loitering around, if he would care to join him in a round of peewee golf; freshmen must band together, you know, we're all Harvard...
...other hand, the pagoda on Bow Street is very handy to the Cambridge Gas and Electric Light Company (Plympton Street elevation) and to the First National Bank of Adams House. But the Vagabond dislikes the sound of riveters. He tossed a coin. When it rolled down the sewer he took the first train for the New Hampshire hills and spent the afternoon wondering if telegraphically transmitted copy would be full of errors. It seems...
...without pleasure that the Vagabond arrived in Cambridge a day or so ago. For it turned out that it was the same old place that it had always been. Or, literally speaking, similar in its differences. A couple of Freshmen were wandering about with their mothers; one, smiling knowingly and signifying the New Indoor Athletic Building, confidentially informed the mater that "the Master of this House even had a private swimming pool", some friend had told...