Word: vagabonder
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This balmy spring weather is entering the Vagabond's soul. And in the past few days he has embraced the conviction that it is also getting the better of most of the professors hereabouts. Those Saturday classes which are given only at the pleasure of the instructor have vanished like the March winds. Sever on Saturdays assumes the hollow emptiness that has settled upon the Spanish Imperial Palace of late days...
This understandable lassitude on the part of our elders has thrown the Vagabond out of work and he has been forced to meander about the streets in search of an occupation. All yesterday afternoon he wasted leather on the gritty paving stones in an attempt to keep the fire of life flaming high. He toyed with the idea of seeing the Red Sox, but then they always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener...
...Vagabond in sheer disgust turned back to Memorial Hall. As he climbed the steep ascent to Haven his steps were laggard. And then, on the three hold he stood transfixed. There, staring out of the tower, spy glass in hand, was a wily Oriental peering off to the Charles where Princeton was practicing for the race. As he watched, he muttered to himself, "Oh Tiger, father Tiger...
...Vagabond has always held the conventional beliefs about Russia that one culls from the Stygian gloom of Chekov or Tolstoi. Russian peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly...
...brought with it many changes. The Vagabond had heard from stray sources that Russia too has changed. Something about the Czar's fall and a communistic government. This was more than he had bargained for; he would have to find out about it all. Today at ten, therefore, he goes to Boylston to hear a lecture about post war Russia and the Soviets by Professor Karpovitch. It has come to the Vagabond's cars that the lecturer was an engineer in Russia before 1917, the Russia which the Vagabond knew so well, and also a minister in the Kerensky government...