Word: vagabonder
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Today the Vagabond is planning to attend a lecture which at first thought would seem to be a scholastic paradox. He is going to hear one of the most eminent workers for world peace analyze one of the most important wars of modern history. The speaker is Professor Sidney B. Fay, and the war in question is the Franco-Prussian of 1870. The War of 1870 was the starting point of Professor Fay's researches when he began his long and arduous quest for the real origins of the World War. That he has succeeded in untangling many...
...will be the lecturer as well as the subject that will draw the Vaga bond to the Germanic Museum at ten o'clock. Professor Fay, unquestionably an indefatigable scholar is still a hum an lecturer. It is due to the example of such men that the Vagabond has come to the conclusion that a good teacher on the plat form is worth any two professorial pedants is the stack room...
Yesterday evening the Vagabond was regaling himself with a copy of "The History and Traditions of Harvard College." He came to a description of the pleasant town of Cambridge in the days when John Adams was president, and Harvard men still knew Greek and Latin. He read of a quiet country town, of meadows that stretched away from the confines of the Yard, of tidal marshes bordering the Charles and of the elms that made Massachusetts Avenue a shady, restful country lane. Well--, the Vagabond realizes that the world must change, and he supposes that twentieth century traffic...
...library, a beautiful memorial park, small, perhaps, but perfect. Cambridge is too encumbered at present with brick and stone. In the years to come the situation will only grow more pressing. Why not substitute a spot of natural beauty, for the Garganiuan pile that has been proposed? The Vagabond can think of no more fitting memorial to the war dead...
...found balm for his fevered brain. And he breathed a prayer of fervent thanks to Professor Greenough. For today at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, the Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour. The Vagabond breathed his wonted sigh. Like Cowper's "John Gilpin" he had gone...