Word: vagabondism
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...Vagabond must needs pass lightly over today's offerings. With a semi-interested glance he may perhaps take in Professor Haring's lecture concerned with our unruly neighbor to the South, but the Vagabond's real thoughts are on the morrow. For tomorrow Massachusetts celebrates Patriot's Day, and the Vagabond, not to be outdone in the last refuge of a scoundrel, intends to lead his followers to water and to worship at the historic shrines of Lexington and Concord...
...times that the Vagabond is permitted to listen to the literature or the history of today. Except for occasional visiting speakers Harvard seems to fight shy of the moderns or to first with them spasmodically and surreptitiously. And so the Vagabond, medievalized by House plans and Lampoons and lectures will try to come back to earth this morning in a front row seat of Harvard 2. For there, at 10 o'clock Professor Murdock will treat the recent American novel...
...transition from chivalry and castles to realism and red lights is not too severe for the Vagabond's gentle tastes, he will follow Professor Murdock across the yard, keeping out of sight as a well-bred Vagabond should, and slink into Sever 11 to listen to Professor Murdock on Mark Twain...
Mark Twain was of course the first good-humoured Vagabond, and so his lineal descendent may perhaps be pardoned for being a bit partial to him. Therefore he is quite sorry for anyone who has missed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn from his cradle side, and almost as regretful over a lost soul who has failed to try "Life on the Mississippi" or "A Tramp Abroad" for his later and more travelsome years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years...
Through all the rain and raw mist that swallowed Cambridge in one gulp last night an old comrade came slipping along in the mud all the way to Lowell House where the Vagabond lives in the construction shack. This true friend of Vagabondia brought good tidings of the morning's adventure...