Word: vagabondism
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...surprisingly amiable dawn. The sunny and warm, outdoors a few birds voices, up and bathe and into the Dining Hall just in time for breakfast. Back in the Attic and the papers all read, the Vagabond picks up his Foerster. John Smith, Wm. Bradford, roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Franklin. John Dickinson, Thomas Paine...
Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, at 10 o'clock the Vagabond listens to Professor Matthiessen in English 7, on "Thomas Paine." Harvard...
This is the first of a series of Oxford letters which will run in The Crimson to replace The Cambridge letter of last year. They are being written by Chris Janus '36, who wrote the "Vagabond" for the Crimson last year and who is now attending Wadham College, Oxford...
...today the Vagabond cannot dawdle. At twelve he has a date with Harvard Hall, Room 6, and thither he god to hear Professor Langer on "Italy and the Revolution of 1820." He never misses a chance to hear the Great Young Man of the Department of History. Down in front, pencil in hand, sits the Vagabond as Mr. Langer mounts the platform to begin his lecture in the grating singsong voice that that startles you at first--and then picks you up and carries you along on a flood of fact, anecdote, opinion; now amusing, now perplexing, but continually...
Back in the Attic on his desk the Vagabond has memorandum for a really big day tomorrow. Tomorrow the Vagabond puts on his seven-league boots and winged helmet and does a superhuman job of Vagabonding. At nine he listens to Crane Brinton, Harvard 5, on "Rousseau." At ten to Professor Nolte, Sever 7, on "The Age of Enlightenment". At eleven to Professor Arthur J. Nock, Harvard 2, in History of Religions 1, on "Zoroaster". A well balanced metaphysical diet...