Word: vagabonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Have you seen the Autumn foliage? The Vagabond just returned from a short jaunt to the New Hampshire country. It is thus with joy that he leaves his Tower this morning at 12 for the Fogg Museum and a lecture by the kindly Professor Lake. At 11 in the X-Ray room Mr. Burroughts will talk informally on 17th century painting in New England. On second thought it does seem that the Vagabond is a victim of what is popularly known as the system. Other lectures follow...
...fathers are alarmed; politicians revengeful. The youth are being corrupted; the Gods defamed. "Socrates is making the worse appear the better and the better the worse." There is no place for this man who slums riches and seeks only the truth. The conclusion, gentlemen, is well known. But the Vagabond will listen to Professor Demos in Emerson D at 10 this morning tell the story of Socrates again...
...leaves and crisp breezes and blue skies--and even multicolored thoughts--are not the only things which throb in the Vagabond's heart. There's the shrill of the whistle....the sound of the punt...the dodge of the runner....the cries of the crowd....the grunt of the tackle....the call of a play, and, all over again. Yes, gentlemen, there's also the taste of hot dogs, racoons and bad ale. There are passes too high; there are seats too low. There are kicks on the field; there's kicking in the grandstand. There is good interference...
...Vagabond is glad to have this opportunity to welcome Springfield. All he knows about them is what his Sunday-school teacher told him. And for that, for everything he wishes them a nice time. It was from Springfield, he recalls, that a psychologist not so long ago broke into print by breaking the ice in the local lake and saving a drowning terrier. Gentlemen, Welcome to Harvard...
...Vagabond has the pleasure also to suggest the following lectures...