Word: vagabondism
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...Vagabond is no graduate-student blowing dust from books in Widener, but once in a while he wanders into the library. And recently in the stacks he became so interested in a subject he forgot that the building closed this year at six o'clock--at least until it was too late...
Unlike George Herbert Palmer who, locked in Appleton Chapel, attracted the attention of a yard cop from a high up circular window, the Vagabond settled down to enjoy himself. The arrangement of some of the books took his fancy. The Harvard University Publications, he found, were placed, appropriately enough, next to books on Games and Sports; while War Songs next to Individual and Individualistic Composers made him suspect that the world of music was not without its skirmishes. He discovered Manchuria defended only by Thibet, between China and Japan...
...sharp "How" broke in on his thought. Whence came this white-haired intruder who braved double vengeance, so the Vagabond hoped, with his crass "Don't you think. . ." A sole invasion, perhaps. But no. There was the seedy individual who whined it down his long spectacle bestridden nose; there was the impeccable curlyhead, doubtless a Freshman, who wheedled; there was the lumpy cherub who peeped. The pack...
Somewhere a clock tinkled, and friendly man hopped from his chair. Within a minute the long nose, the curlyhead, the cherub would be gone. For a moment the Vagabond sensed the greatness of a man who had built his house by the side of the road. And then there was Quincy Street...
Today, President Lowell passes his seventy-sixth birthday, and tonight the Vagabond will hasten to another House where a grateful generation will in some measure repay a heavy debt of hospitality...