Word: vagabonder
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...clamactic excellence of Harvard's representatives in the field last Saturday sets a high standard for more regular activities in Cambridge. The very words "normal routine" have a some what distasteful ring in the ears of the Vagabond and he fears that today's lectures will suffer an inevitably allied taint. Perhaps the break from the glorification of the week-end when more than one Vagabond was king for a day, had best be made at one plunge. With this in mind the Vagabond recommends the lecture by Professor Holcombe to be given today in Harvard 2, on "The Rule...
This afternoon the Vagabond finds himself with no choice but to follow the crowd to the Union to watch the turn of the tide reflect on the grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...
...Vagabond finds that the best way to begin this week is to make a selection from these lectures...
...effect at Oxford. Cambridge has some features in common with the country which includes its more venerable name sake. The most noticeable of these is that, during the fall at least, the history of Cambridge, like that of England, is one of continual invasion. Already this year the Vagabond has seen successive onslaughts by cadets, Indians, Quakers and other forces, and here another weekend is at hand and with it he discovers that his favorite haunts have been invaded by an army of purple-clad Crusaders. And so, not feeling up to playing the part of a Saracen even...
Courses in which more or less continuous attendance is required for real benefit to the listener, under which category come most of the sciences, ordinarily cannot attract the transitory attention of the Vagabond. One exception that has managed to attract his wandering steps for several successive times is the course being given by Professor Hurlbut on English Literature of the first half of the XVIII century. It comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 in Emerson J, and he passes on the word with confidence others will find their way there...