Word: vagabonder
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...university as large as Harvard, the student, even a confirmed Vagabond, finds it impossible to know by sight the greater number of the faculty even in his own department...
...coming over the newspaper exchanges to while away an idle hour the Vagabond came upon the above clipping, and was immediately struck with a medley of perplexing notions. To discover that the gentle art of vagabonding had found a safe haven amid the western plains was healing balm to his quite misdirected suspicion that he was never listened...
...speedily put all such self-centered thoughts away as unworthy, and turned to a serious consideration of the clipping itself. The incessant voicings of the theory that intelligent curiosity must be aroused in the student have made it almost trite and certainly wearisome. Howsoever, it is one of the Vagabond's cherished beliefs. More, it is a pillar supporting the remainder of his beliefs. For if one is not curious he may never penetrate that pleasure, enhancing circle of native vagabonds who wander in and out of classrooms supremely unaware of monitors...
Which brings him to the crux of the matter. Monitors represent compulsory enrollment. It is fortunate for the Vagabond's existence that the authorities at Harvard are lenient in their handling of this weapon. To cut a class for the purpose of gaining a rare treat in some other classroom is, from his point of view praiseworthy. So saying, the Vagabond baits the lion in his den, and regards with approval the expediency of allowing the wanderer an excused cut when there is a conflict between his regular class and the unusual lecture...
Bermuda with its tropic warmth and transported British Christmas cheer is a very pleasant picture to anticipate. But in any clime Christmas itself isn't such a bad idea. With the prospect of his own vacation right before him, the Vagabond is in no mood to moralize about the spirit of Christmas, or anything else, for that matter. But he does feel cheerio about the day, about the whole season. Since that is tantamount to a confession of old fashioned sentimentality, the Vagabond is willing to go the whole ways. He sincerely greets all his friends with...