Word: vagabonder
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...could have so surely plunged his rapier to the heart of a system long held the most invulnerable dragon of the American system; there remains only to consider which varies most from the norm, the robot on one side, or he whom the first news article immortalizes as the Vagabond King, on the other. But that is comparatively simple, even the first group man is slave to the academic machine; but he who puts his finger on a weak spot in the works may be forever free...
Although as announced beforehand the Vagabond himself kept strict hibernation throughout the reading period and the ensuing examinations, a disciple has arisen to confound the teacher. Not content with a mere passive exposure to lectures, this King of Vagabonds took the examination given in a course allied to his field though he was neither known to the instructor nor enrolled with the absentee members attending at the meetings of the course immediately before and after holidays last fall...
...astonishment of the reader of his blue book who might well have been baffled by this newest mutation in the evolution of the Vagabondia was somewhat mitigated by a letter brought to light upon further investigation. The Vagabond King explained his sportive joy in the filling of the blue book as follows...
University authorities declined last night to release the name of the course in which this unusual departure occurred for fear that the fact that the vagabond secured a satisfactory grade for his three hour participation might unduly swell the rolls next year. But shrouded in silence as the details of this outbreak of Romanticism must be, brightly shines the moral of the tale; even in the twentieth century a vagabond may be King...
...spite of his good resolutions not to attend classes, movies, or even to drink a drop during the Reading Period, the Vagabond will be lured from his books in order to hear Professors Spalding and Ballantine play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in the Music Building at 10 o'clock today...