Word: vagabondism
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...conscientious Vagabond has a many-sided nature and is an earnest devotee of art, literature or science indiscriminately. It is rare, however, that simultaneous opportunities are offered to satisfy such divers appetites. It is, therefore, with keen anticipation that the Vagabond plans pilgrimages to Widener, Fogg and Robinson to study the varied exhibitions that are in progress. The exhibition at Widener of early editions of Newton's famous treatises has been open for several days, but it is of undiminished interest for the scientific dilettante. Rare speciments of Dante's work are no less attractive to the dabbler in literature...
Tennyson certainly did not mean to exclude even a young Vagabond when he wrote his famous lines reminiscent of a certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves...
...also on hand, and a splash of sunshine on the arm of the chair or a glimpse of blue sky is all that is necessary for a tour of Europe, a flight around the bases, or a cross channel swim. For a couple of weeks at least one Student Vagabond will not have to give minute attention to the lectures he visits in his morning peregrinations. For today's program, however, he chooses to feature Professor Murdock's talk on Nathaniel Hawthorne because his first vagabonding beyond Cambridge this spring took him to Salem where he experienced all the thrills...
...vanguard of March examinations strangely miscalled the April hours, begins to mark black days on the student calendar, the Vagabond finds himself frequenting more and more the archives of Widener Library...
...relaxation from this prescribed labor, however, the Vagabond will find time this morning to bend his steps toward Harvard Hall, where there will be two lectures on literature, the first of these taking place at 10 o'clock in Harvard 2 where Professor Murdock will speak on Nathaniel Hawthorne. At 11 o'clock the Vagabond will remove to Harvard 3 to hear Professor Murray on Sheridan...