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...Vagabond wandered along his favorite path beside the Charles River last evening and reflected on the possibilities of a beautiful Harvard if grass and God were allowed half a chance. In the smoke of autumn some of the grossness of the Harvard architecture was lost and the fire warden's caboose atop Eliot almost disappeared in mist. A few blades of grass between the Houses would have reduced their architectural wranglings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...open season for lecturers is upon the College so the Vagabond must soon to his profession. It is pleasant to have as one's vocation one's avocation. A professional listener-to-music is no distant relative of the Vagabond's. For many times the old boy of Harvard has heard the same voice give the same lecture. And there are good and there are bad performances. The art of speech has suffered of recent years and rare indeed are the lecturers who command graceful address. But the Vagabond can point to some of his friends, most excellent fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...with something of an eye to the past that the Vagabond girded his loins last spring and ventured forth to add his voice to the battle against a new Memorial chapel in the Yard, a battle that was typically doomed to defeat before it began. But then, he felt at the time that as long as Harvard was embracing anglophile leanings of some degree, it might as well replace Oxford as the home of Lost Causes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...yawning chasm, with concrete foundation, had replaced the roaming greensward of past years. It was ugly and repellent in the promise of its towering potentiality, a potentiality that upon realization will change the Yard into a Wall Street of shadow and skyscrapers. It would be more fitting, the Vagabond mused, as a monument to a deceased Harvard Yard than to a partisan memory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Only one detail, naive in its irony, contrived to lift the clouds from the Vagabond's shoulders. As he walked up the path to the Harvard Memorial Chapel he had been guided by signs pointing the way to "the new chapel." When he reached what will presumably be the entrance, his way was barred by another sign: DANGER! KEEP...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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