Word: pedantic
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...befall higher education in America is for a clique of dramatists, no matter of what complexion, to dominate the colleges. In a recent report upon the "Freedom of Teaching in Science, presented before the American Association of University Professors, it was shown beyond all doubt that the one-eyed pedant, Intolerance, is tightening his grip upon American education...
Never was there a scholar who was less of a pedant, or a statesman who was more impatient with empty forms and artificial contrivances and more anxious to lay hold of living realities. The League of Nations was to him not so much an international covenant as a process of international co-operation. His unyielding stand against modifying or attaching reservations to the covenant of the League was based, we may reasonably suppose, upon his conviction that the avowed enemies of some of the clauses of the covenant were really seeking to find a way to attack the life...
...think it of the pedant to be event referring to first causes and fundamental principles, yet we cannot help remarking that the secret of Mr. Power success as an actor lies in his belonging to the noble and illustrious family of buffoons, of his being of Rabelais Tristam Shandy and Till Eulensprege...
...second performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given Saturday evening in Brattle Hall before an appreciative audience. As on Thursday evening, the most successful part of the performance proved to be the ballets. F. W. Morrison '00, as the stupid peasant, was again very pleasing. The third performance will be held in Copley Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The final performance will take place tomorrow evening at the same hour and place...
...first performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given last night in Brattle Hall. Considerable credit is due H. B. Stanton '00 and his assistants who have taken a crude, old fashioned play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...