Word: pedanticism
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The special iniquity of the School is that it takes a large body of men of the most diverse capacities and intentions and submits them all to the same regimen, to a regimen that is cramping, often pedantic, and usually unadjusted to the demands of the modern world. Its state...
In the current New England Quarterly, Professor E. K. Rand has undertaken to investigate and annotate Harvard's earliest commencement exercises. He has entitled his article, "Liberal Education in Seventeenth-Century Harvard," utilizing this apparent anachronism as a graceful method of introducing the vir liberalis and the trivium-quadrivium. The...
Since the material of this course is conveyed almost entirely in the lectures, its success has been in large part the result of Professor Chase's pleasing personality and solid lecture method. Most of the time up to November Hours is spent in a study of the rather esoteric arts...
During the last few years, the two courses have tended to cover more and more of each other's material. This seems unnecessary. The detailed analysis of Chaucer's works, with its inevitably pedantic point of view, is at present as uninteresting to the lecturer as to the handful of...
London's Morning Post comments on the large number of new words of "America's queer coinage (which so often proves ancient currency disinterred)." E. g.- "Racket-a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action. 1812." "Skirt-A woman. Now vulgar slang, 1560.'' Unlike...