Word: vagabonder
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...regard to the following letter and the clipping from the Yale News, printed in yesterday's Crimson, which gave rise to the discussion, attention is called to today's Student Vagabond, wherein the correct statement of facts is set forth...
Lectures today and tomorrow which the Vagabond deems worthy of auditors are the following...
...sits this evening, enveloped in the fragrant, pearly clouds of smoke from his Rey Odoro Perfecto--".. thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into...
...Vagabond is the descendant of an ancient family of wanderers--some say of Hebraic origin, though this is open to much doubt. Indeed, the whole matter is so deeply shrouded in the dust of time, that no one, least of all the Vagabond himself, who was not present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that...
...Vagabond has come down to the present generation and with the more dispatch for, indeed, we live in the present and future; in the past we are dead, and the Vagabond has as yet no desire to wander into Appleton Chapel and become a tradition. It is to the present and future then that he will turn today. From his abode under the shadow, so to speak, of the founder's statue he will set forth not toward the massive Norman portal of Sever, or the Georgian chastity of Harvard but in a very different direction. For it is quite...