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Unlike George Herbert Palmer who, locked in Appleton Chapel, attracted the attention of a yard cop from a high up circular window, the Vagabond settled down to enjoy himself. The arrangement of some of the books took his fancy. The Harvard University Publications, he found, were placed, appropriately enough, next to books on Games and Sports; while War Songs next to Individual and Individualistic Composers made him suspect that the world of music was not without its skirmishes. He discovered Manchuria defended only by Thibet, between China and Japan...
...shadow of Thayer, riding on the wings of the wind, a novel element broke into the sombre afternoon. Two fleet cyclists bore down the pathway, while far behind, somewhat encumbered by his ulster and muffler, panted a burly Yard cop. The hounds, it seemed, were in full cry, but the quarry was a wheel, and away. The Vagabond has been a cycler of sorts from early youth, and if he has never raced Harvard's finest about the pathways of the Yard, at least he recognizes the novelty of such a chase...
...best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic cop on his boat in Harlem are excellent sources for news stories...
...Devil help the criminal who injures a policeman or his family. Outside Albany last week Edward ("Fats") McCarthy, "cop killer." was shot in the head and killed by avenging detectives, who were praised, promised promotion for their deed...
Everything was progressing with the happy and aimless inevitability natural to such situations. A few vegetables, a few soft heads, it was the usual time had by all in the usual manner. But tragedy stalked from Billings to Stover. The law injected a sordid note when the first cop pulled the first tear bomb. What had been valor and pleasantry became stark and earnest and the Freshmen wished they had never left home...