Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warm May week-end disappear as completely as the sun itself. Putting aside thoughts of brighter costumed baseball heroes, of a blue clad runner valiantly battling up the back stretch against baffling breeze, and of far off dreams engendered by the atmosphere of the Pops, the Vagabond will again wander forth into the Yard this morning his eye on Harvard Hall, his mind full of history. For without stirring out of this ancient center of Harvard life nor shifting his mind from its historical focus the Vagabond feels that he can satisfy his academic appetite--at least...
...winds were still tossing hats gaily about the Yard. But no one can say more that these things are a delusion and a share, a trap for the unwary who essay forth coatless, trusting the tempered wind, for the baseball season has arrived. So this afternoon, the Vagabond will wander out toward Soldiers Field, admire in passing the blue of the river as it mirrors the fleecy clouds, and then, having arrived at the diamond, he will stretch out on the grass--being careful to lay a coat beneath him to ward off possible rheumatism--and there lying will spend...
...every week and other members of the college at least twice a term, offers an exhibition of reproductions of some of Pisanello's drawings. This master of pencil work is very little known because of the small number of finished paintings he produced, but for the vagabond who would wander outside the usual pale of masterpiece found in every hallway he presents a variety of work showing a very interesting stage in the development of draftsmanship...
...many years did the Children of Israel wander about before they reached the Promised Land...
...present day undergraduates have ever heard of him, although most of the professors and veterans of the Square can remember the days when John used to wander through the Yard and the dormitories, crying his wares, "'r'nges 'n' b'nanas," or when he used to solemnly walk three times around the plate before a baseball game...