Word: vagabondism
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Inspired as he may be by his mission of bringing light into whatever intellectual shadows of doubt can be admitted to exist in and about the Yard, the Vagabond is of too sensitive a nature to remain long indifferent to popular sentiment. For some days he has been noticing a distinct lessening of the bond of sympathy between himself and the rest of the college, and yesterday he realized that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes...
Curious friends have often been anxious to know whether the Vagabond goes into hibernation during the months that intervene before a second term opens or whether he remains about the college to haunt the scones of his former glory. To such unimaginative souls he can quote Shakespeare that "There are more things in Heaven and earth Horation, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" and the Vagabond would have little right to his claims of superior knowledge if he had not managed to discover enough of the more pleasant kind to keep him occupied during the leisure period...
With almost three years of a busy and hectic life behind him and still no signs of gray hairs or rheumatism, the Vagabond has begun to feel that some sort of spirit of eternal youth has come to his support. Ashamed as he may be of such indications of immaturity at most times of the year, the holiday season now in full swing makes him completely at home...
...present generation has also a man who both possesses this magic power and has mastered the difficulties of transmitting it. Sir James Barrie in his "Peter Pan" has turned the trick, and the Vagabond takes this opportunity of announcing that it has recently appeared for the first time in book form (Charles Scribner's Sons; $1.251. After spending a little time in a perusal of this famous work freed from the vagaries of stock companies and the limitations of the mechanical stage the reader should find himself much more tolerant towards the six year old cousin who confidently sent...
With the days getting steadily shorter and the streets of Cambridge assuming already their mid-winter liquidity, the Vagabond was not surprised to find on inspection of a calendar last night that only another week intervenes before attractions less elevating than lectures will be alienating the interests of his followers and even--whisper it softly--of the Vagabond himself. Such a demonstration of the appalling brevity of life has had him hurrying back and forth along the way-stations of his academic route in an attempt to make use of every available opportunity before the Reading Period brings its starvation...