Word: vagabondism
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...vagabond who enjoys good music, today offers opportunities, which come all too seldom in the life of a peripatetic seeker after higher learning. But today he may revel in the sweet regions of melody even as early when he has scarcely rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, for at 10 o'clock in Professor Spaldings course in Music 4, a string quarter will play a number of selections from Mozart...
...however, who wishes to spend his morning scholastically, the Vagabond can think of no better place to go at 11 o'clock or a moment or two after, than Harvard 3, where Professor Murray will lecture on Richard Steele...
...common complaint heard often from the followers of academic pathways is that so much time must be spent on studies that there is little left for acquiring our education. Though, to put it mildly, this is an exaggeration, the fact remains that for the Student Vagabond at least, the week-end offers a bright and golden opportunity from wanderings from the strictly academic pastures into regions where, to continue the metaphor, he may feed upon the more tender verdure of the art galleries and drink of the sparkling streams of music...
...exhibition of paintings of wild animals by Carl Rungins now being held at the Casson Galleries at 576 Boylston street, should present many attractions, while one with a taste for water colors might well take a trip to the Grace Horne Gallery or the Copley Gallery. Even the Vagabond who wanders further and finds himself at Wellesley, could do worse than go to the Farnsworth Art Museum there and see an original portrait by Tinforetto. But it is hardly to be expected that such a one would be interested in Tinforetto at the time...
...Vagabonds have always been notoriously lazy folk; statute passed in England in the reign of Elizabeth provide compulsory employment for the peripatetic vagrants of the time, and dire punishments for those who refused to work. Today there are no such restrictions, and one who is at best a Student Vagabond may enjoy the priviliges of his order, especially during this unseasonable weather that makes his legs tingle for the hard road beneath them, and the joys of true vagabondage. So the explaining of the course of French socialism in the eighteenth century I shall, with true vagabondish carelessness, leave...