Word: vagabonder
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Being one of God's intellectual grandchildren is no easy task, as the Student Vagabond, bowed and bent with impending Divisionals, has disgustedly observed. Notwithstanding the generally accredited levity of mind common to the season, the ponderousness of intellectual activity in the last few weeks has had a profound effect upon the Vagabond's already apparent bewilderment...
Ever since he first began to feed the squirrels in the Yard, and haunt the shades of Sever--not to mention other sanctuaries--the Student Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...
...Already we have had the new opera company in our midst for a week and today those who wish to non-operatic music may do so in Paine Hall of the Music Building at 10 o'clock. At that hour, Mr. Raymond Havens will play selections from Schumann the Vagabond, quite a precocious infant, whistled some of his melodies with his first breath Chopin and Liszt...
...past few months, the Student Vagabond--as his readers may perhaps have noticed--has been, as it were in seclusion, sending out, if you will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects...
...wanderings the Vagabond has seen a number of Le Notre's lay-outs, notably the gardens of Versailles, and be it said softly, he has never been enthusiastic for them. Purely incidentally it has occurred to the Vagabond that styles in gardens show a marked relation to history and literature. A chance for a new department possibly? And after that remark the Vagabond had better retire...