Word: vagrant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What if some vagrant urchin did press the unlucky fire-button which started all the excitement? What if Claverly Hall was not in flames, as some of the scurrying undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
...parasite who endangers the safety of the state. Three commonwealths have officially put an end to war-time idleness. In the remainder of the country, where loafing must be equally frowned upon, the same stringent measures are necessary. With the Government drafting millions into military service, the vagrant poor and the idle rich have no place in social organization. The effectiveness of the war's prosecution depends upon the gainful employment of everyone able to be of real service, at home as well as abroad...
Today was a day of rest for all hands, the University squad sailing on H. S. Vanderbilt's schooner "Vagrant," and the Freshmen on Larz Anderson's "Roxanna." In the afternoon the men were permitted to take a short swim...
...Clark's fragment of "vers libre," "The Sea Nymph," we find a vagrant memory fixed in a present mood. The lines, except the second, are musical; Mr. Clark has secured his effect with rare economy of effort. The two sonnets by Mr. Norris, "An Old Story," and "Winter Sunrise," dealing with more clearly defined subjects, show more direct treatment. In form, they are slightly irregular, and suffer from a jerkiness due to the large proportion of end-stopped lines. But the description is good; and Mr. Norris is particularly felicitous in his closing lines...
...with something to sell and proposes to enter the dormitories under one pretext or another, and it is very seldom that the outsider of doubtful mission escapes the surveillance of the patrol. There are, however, thefts carried on in one manner or another, and in order to guard against vagrant trespassers, it is urged that the undergraduates co-operate with the officers and report any missing articles, and give knowledge of thefts or of the whereabouts of miscreants to the office of the College Yard Patrol, in the basement of Thayer Hall, north entry. The attention of Freshmen is especially...