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...doubt meteorologists and physicists would deny such a phenomenon, but to the Vagabond the day or two leading up to a "big game" week-end seems to be lived in an atmosphere of steadily growing pressure. Tension gradually develops with the first appearance of curb-side speculators and new faces in the streets. On Saturday morning, with phonographs blaring forth the Harvard songs and marches from every dormitory; students rushing their girls up and down the streets in a seemingly aimless fashion, and dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point...
...this condition, aggravated no doubt by the exhilirating sight of a usually sedate Yard swarming with uniforms, that last Saturday delivered a mortal blow to the resolution formed by the Vagabond after last year's Yale game not to let himself be lured from the narrow path of duty by anything so alien to his proper sphere of interest as a football game. At the first sign or the coming of the Hanoverian horde nothing could save it, and last night its remains were buried by its sorrowing owner in the bottommost cellar of Widener...
...institution of exchange professorships is one that ranks high in the Vagabond's private list of things worth preserving in the University. For who suspected as little as he on returning to college this fall that he would have an opportunity to listen in on a lecture at the College de France in Paris or at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg? Both establishments seemed as firmly fixed as any mountain and Mohammed was very much engaged in Cambridge. Yet the magic carpet of the exchange professorship brings both to him in the form of the series of public lectures, being given...
Editorials, Crime Column, the Student Vagabond (now and in 1800), football statistics and vital facts...
Among the other collections of an infancy spent in a very politically-minded family, the Vagabond recalls distinctly one occasion some presidential campaigns ago when his father, growing irate against a stubborn uncle, overwhelmed the claims of the latter for his candidate with the words "But he doesn't respect the Constitution!" Between his wanderings from lecture hall to lecture hall the Vagabond has picked up enough knowledge about the current campaign to assure him that there is still no more destructive charge Same of the factors that influenced the birth of this criterion of Americanism will be discussed...