Word: vagabondism
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...complexity of this day there was a challenge, in its very danger there was a thrill of reality, and in the vision it offered there lay the reward. For all these the Vagabond was grateful. And he was grateful for Harvard, too, because it fitted in and was fitting him . . . Perhaps he would have the chance someday to trace the steps of some pioneer, doing the job quietly, methodically, the way they taught him at Harvard, Perhaps someday he would even have some hens. Even more than for the present, Vag was grateful for the future...
There are times when the Vagabond cannot write for everyone. This is one such occasion, for tomorrow brings the biggest single athletic event of every Harvard scholastic year--the Yale game. Vag would like to speak now to some of the men on the team--particularly to those who will enter their last gridiron battle tomorrow--the footballers of the Class of 1939. So pardon him, please...
Today at twelve o'clock the Vagabond will go to Emerson 211 to hear Professor Wild lecture on the closing portion of Plato's "Phacdo" describing the last conversation of Socrates...
...Vagabond would learn more of this amazing, ribald, religious man who wrote the "Gulliver's Travels" every boy knows but does not understand. For this purpose, he journeys to Sever 11 at eleven o'clock this morning to hear Dr. Knox Chandler lecture on Jonathan Swift...
...When the Vagabond was a little shaver of five, he used to climb on his father's knee after supper and demand a story. Now, these many years later, the first ones he can recollect being told concerned a man who went to a strange country of Little Men. Or sometimes he went to a land of Big People. The man's adventures were all very fascinating and exciting...