Word: vagabondism
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...deceptive fractiousness of the March climate in New England has lured the Vagabond into such indiscretions in the matter of overcoats, that he has contrived to contract one of those annoyingly persistent coughs which characterize Spring. He is endeavoring, however, by the use of lotions and liniments to subdue the ailment before the first Dowse lecture on Monday evening. Since Professor Kittredge is giving the series this year, the Vagabond will go to Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock thoroughly equipped with cough drops, knowing the aversion of the erudite professor to the noisy accompaniment of a spring cold...
Professor Kittredge's series of lectures on "The Appreciation of Shakespeare" brings to the Vagabond's mind the story of Thomas Dowse, the founder of the lectures...
...years ago the Vagabond sat in the Century Theatre and watched a New York audience file out at the end of a play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway...
...opportunity offers the Vagabond will endeavor to attend some of the following lectures in addition to his other wanderings...
From Ruskin, the Vagabond will turn to the more recent artists whose works are on exhibition at the Fogg Museum and at Robinson Hall. The collection at Fogg, is of examples of modern French art. At Robinson Hall the Vagabond looks forward to seeing the drawings of R. K. Webel which won him the fellowship at the American Academy at Rome as well as works of Norman T. Newton, a former holder of the same scholarship...