Word: vagabonder
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...joys of a warm May week-end disappear as completely as the sun itself. Putting aside thoughts of brighter costumed baseball heroes, of a blue clad runner valiantly battling up the back stretch against baffling breeze, and of far off dreams engendered by the atmosphere of the Pops, the Vagabond will again wander forth into the Yard this morning his eye on Harvard Hall, his mind full of history. For without stirring out of this ancient center of Harvard life nor shifting his mind from its historical focus the Vagabond feels that he can satisfy his academic appetite--at least...
...these lectures concerns a period and an event well known to everyone. The triumphant return of "Bonnie Prince Charlie", the lifting of the ban on laughter, the revival of the theatre and the gay court life form a delightful story which can bear a great many re-tellings. The Vagabond wants to hear this story again and he also wants to find out something more about the other side of the picture--the secret negociations between Charles and Louis XIV and their unnatural alliance against the Dutch...
...various considerations, a discussion whose exact nature would add nothing to this dissertation, the night before last marked the initial appearance of the Vagabond in person at the Pops, although, during the last two weeks he has often urged others to attend, and wished that he might go himself. Be that as it may, as he sat at one of the tables with an accomplice in crime sipping near dear out of glass lily-sups, and munching pretzela to the tune of one thing or another, he could not help letting his imagination transport him some 3000 miles in space...
Perhaps some will think the Vagabond has become too lyrical, too little the student and too much the vagabond. He offers no excuse; he merely asks indulgence for one of his failings. He will try to mend his ways. But before he departs to try to become a student let him again suggest that if anyone would enjoy himself he could do worse than bend his steps toward Symphony Hall tonight since-Let us be chivalrous whatever be the cost-it is Radcliffe Night...
...clock this morning the Vagabond will make his way to Emerson F. and choosing a convenient seat prepare to hear a subject explained that has always baffled him. The lecture is "Anarchism", and will be given by Dr. Mason. Amidst the confusion and darkness surrounding the Russian revolution, the word anarchy conveys nothing that the bombing of buildings, and slaughter of dissenters. It will be interesting to learn whether there is any constructive theory behind the terrorism...