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...Riders of the Purple Sage" is in the William S. Hart tradition, which means that it is not to be sniffed at by anyone but a pedant. The south-western scenery is splendid, and you should be able to lose yourself very pleasantly in watching it and remembering last summer out west. Ignore the story; watch placidly as the hardriding Mr. O'Brien jumps his canyons, but don't try to bridge the chasms in the plot. This approach will be understood by all true devotees of the primeval horse-opera...
...Dewey is a bridgebuilder. Seeing the gulf between savant and citizen, he works to span it, building out on one side by educating the plain man, on the other by rousing the pedant to action...
...post. Man and boy, writer and editor, he had labored for the American since he was 27. He is now 40. The War, temporarily interrupting his journalistic orbit, took him as a second lieutenant, left him a major. Carroty-haired down-Easter (from North Newport, Me.), no dilettante, no pedant, he admired teamwork, organization bankers...
...speak the King's English, but I can swear in the English vernacular. . . . I distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone and gristle...
...immortalized as the formidable headmaster, rex atque sacerdos. In his son Matthew's ode on Rugby Chapel he stands with "radiant vigor." In Dean Stanley's enthusiastic biography he is the religiously inspired pedagog. And in Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold's changes in school curriculum as the beginning of educational reform...