Word: vagabonder
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...Vagabond has felt the restlessness of spring strong upon him of late. He has been but little in his pent house on Memorial. Instead the old fellow has wandered about the Yard renewing old friendships and peering about into the various nooks and crannies that are of interest in the University. It cam to him in the course of his peregrinations that there are many good things about that few under graduates seem to appreciate. Perhaps this is due to the press of scholasticism, perhaps to sheer mental disinterest, or perhaps to ignorance, which at Harvard may be construed...
...found housed certain replicas of German culture which he secretly considers, from the depths of his casual knowledge about such things, to be one of the most highly developed and interesting of any nation. There were statues of Frederick the Great and the Great Elector. Before this last the Vagabond paused a moment in indecision. Did the adjective reflect on the man's girth or his mental ability...
...offer but little shelter from the fitful blasts and gusty rain squalls. The reason for his lengthy absence from Memorial is to be found in the many good lectures that are to be heard hereabouts in the next forty-eight hours. It may be said in passing that the Vagabond hopes to use the ensuing two weeks to great advantage before the reading period and the dreary vacation force him to lay his pen by until next September. He has never cared much for the summer school. There is not the air of intellectual luxury about the Yard that...
...Vagabond will go to Emerson this morning at 9 to hear a lecture on Kant. He has always been interested in the man, although his knowledge has been limited to shy, experimental puns on the philosopher's name and a rather dim feeling that Fiechte, Schleiermacher and all the others the Vagabond has heard Babbitt talk about must have followed...
After this the Vagabond will spend two days listening to lectures on imperialism, communism and naval warfare. With all this mundane fare he looks forward tremendously to Mr. Hersey at two o'clock on Tuesday. Mr. Hersey has always been one of his great admiration. Be it understood that the Vagabond is at heart a romantic. Modern life has always been a little above him with its Brattle Halls, its Packard roadsters, and its humanism. Mr. Hersey can bring to the Vagabond a touch of the world he once knew, a world of court levees, dashing Victorias, and humanities...