Word: vagabonder
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...indeed "a-cuminage in". There is no surer sign of it than the advent of the spring vacation-now for once the Easter vacation-and the completion of the first batch of April hours. O custom, what crime are committed in thy name! And then yesterday afternoon, as the Vagabond was wandering along the sylvan banks of the limpid, winding Charles-somewhere up near Watertown, just this side of the abattoir-wandering be it said with no ulterior purpose but perhaps with a lurking desire to see a burnished dove and prove the business about the newer iris...
Even a Student Vagabond is now and then sorely tempted by the bright lights and dancing figures, so while solar eclipses and state income taxes wend their way through the class room, the Vagabond will drowsily clutch his bottle and enjoy a brief nap in preparation for an evening of relaxation from the strain of being intellectual among the greater immortals. For, although the Pudding show comes every year, it is not always with the brand of music and dancing that accompany the present show. So with the best of intentions he hopes that some kind-mortal will notice...
...attributes of literature is to give pleasure to the reader--and from much recent writing this might be doubted--then certainly few writers have achieved, in the Vagabond's opinion, a greater right to be called preeminent at least in this department than Mark Twain. From the time he was first able to read, the Vagabond has chuckled, laughed and even been most undignifiedly convulsed by the inimitable stories and essays of this little man with the bushy white hair and fierce moustaches...
...even though he will not perhaps be regaled with the same humor in hearing about his life and position in literature, nevertheless the Vagabond intends to attend Professor Murdock's lecture on Mark Twain at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard...
Years of dependence upon the eleemosynary institutions of Harvard Square have strongly enforced upon the Vagabond the inadvisability of putting much faith in the economist's interpretations of the dollar. But it is at least consoltion to him to be assured that others have struggled feebly to enjoy life and yet withstand the cost of living, in past centuries. It must be therefore in a sympathetic frame of mind that Professor Usher will lecture on "The Rise in Prices 1500 to 1700" in Widener U at 12 o'clock today...