Word: vagabonder
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Weathering a mediocre first act, "The Red Robe," at the Shubert, gets under way in the second and third, and areas through to a place well up among the "Vagabond kings" and "Student Princes" of historical musical comedy. Its source is "Under the Red Robe," the novel of twenty years ago by Stanley Weyman, and its plot, if you are a stickler about things like that, is so definite as to inspire bold-faced play acting by Cardinal Richelieu, in the person of Jose Ruben. Add his name to the sedentary principals who have dared do their historical atmosphere well...
...that the November hours have arrived in their full strength and the visitor to lecture halls is in peril of finding even the pleasantest of courses infected with its unsavory interludes, the Vagabond will take the occasion to try to remedy one defect that is an inevitable accompaniment of a column acting as a guide to lectures. Dealing as it does with the smallest unit of the course--the lecture--it must treat it as self-supporting and must give it a definite title as an indicator to the prospective listener of what it is to be about. Two groups...
...remedy this condition as much as possible the Vagabond will recommend from time to time courses which the casual student can attend at any time with a good chance of spending a profitable hour. At present there comes to his mind Professor Lake's course on the New Testament being given at 12 o'clock in Harvard 5 on Tuesday and Thursday, and that on American History since the Civil War under the auspices of Professor Channing in Emerson A at 11 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
...other type of course, that in which more or less continuous attendance is necessary, will be discussed at another time. While on the subject, if any of the Vagabond's readers have suggestions to make concerning any course they think deserves attention, their suggestions will be welcomed...
...today the Vagabond sets out with a heart as light as that of Manis Twain's hero who slew his conscience and then murdered thirty-eight within two weeks as a start towards settling some ancient scores. From all he has been able to gather from acquaintances who ought to know. Dartmouth is situated on the top of a sky jump somewhere near the Canadian border and was once patronized by one of the Webster boys. But with a few simple rules, such as being careful not to ask if green ties are in honor of St. Patrick...