Word: vagabonder
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Familiar as the Vagabond is with the general surroundings of the Square, every now and then he finds himself discovering something new. This is just what happened the other afternoon a he was wandering among the pictures in one of the Fogg galleries...
...once, but twice he came upon paintings which surely were not in Fogg when the Vagabond paid his last visit to the museum in June. Both of these treasures are now the property of the University and both are deserving of every true Vagabond's interest...
Following parades was one of the chief sports that made holidays enjoyable in the town where the Vagabond spent his youth, and the chief grievance he has against the city of Cambridge is that it produces nothing in the way of processions save an occasional boy scout troop on patriotic occasions and a few torch-bearing automobiles the night before election. The Army game fills this gap in his emotional life very successfully, and after he has trailed the cadet lines down the streets and across the river he is reconciled to his lot once more. All during the past...
...autumn bronze and gold mixed with the gray of uniforms during the few minutes that mark the yearly visit of the West Pointers, he realizes what a tradition the Army game has acquired in the short time it has become again a feature of the Harvard football season. The Vagabond for one has come to look forward to it as one of the few colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown up seem a little less oppressive. Perhaps...
...Eabelais", the topic of Professor Morize's lecture this morning at ten in Harvard 6, offers the Vagabond an occasion to become a little more familiar with this outstanding figure in French literature. Although Rabelais' work is of such permanent significance as to be a standard, the present activity of book censors and other public officials makes Professor Morize's subject very timely and of special interest even to those to whom French literature itself makes no appeal...