Word: schoolmen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very seldom take out a book but I find it defaced by some would-be commentator; such highly aesthetic notes as "Good," "Admirable," "This is fine," are met on almost every page. The only historical precedent for such action I can think of is the appropriation by the schoolmen of the manuscripts of the classical authors for their own worthless scribblings. But then the schoolmen lived at a time when parchment was scarce and dear; now, when stationery is so cheap, the impropriety of any such mediaeval practice is too apparent to admit of further comment...
...founders may be that of our teachers; the great questions about which it is concerned are not new ones, to be sure, but they are in their nineteenth-century dress, and stand in a purer, clearer air than in the scienceless centuries of Thomas Aquinas and the schoolmen. It is just this difference of dress and environment which makes the difference between enthusiasm and apathy which their discussion produces; and no greater mistake can be made by our Faculty, as we see it from the undergraduates' point of view, than to suppose that such a surplus of available enthusiasm exists...