Word: speciousness
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...There is nothing specious in his enthusiasm for literature. It is not affected as decently due to his profession. Rather his love of letters preceded and informs his professional knowledge and skill with persuasive warmth. It would be a part of him whatever he did, and would communicate itself in ways superior to formal instruction. Colleges need such teachers. Liberal studies depend on them. And what is more needed, in college and beyond, that the spirit of those who have been enlightened by liberal studies...
True scholarship is as easily distinguished from pedantry as day from night, once the true scholar is recognized. But the student who is not already a scholar cannot be blamed for confounding the two, especially since they have a specious resemblance. When a professor who is also a pedant poses as a scholar, such a student, if he is human, may be pardoned for saying: "If that be scholarship, I'll none...
...England a resolute band of males seceded from the National Union of Teachers, a few years ago, with the battle-cry : "More pay for men than for women." Feeling this to be rather specious, they later added : "Men teachers for boys," contending that the gentle influence of woman during a young hearty's formative years robbed him of his proper British hardihood, made him a "softie." Last year, Novelist H. G. Wells backed up this contention by notifying the U. S. that "coeducation in American universities is ruinous to youth and is 'sissifying...
While in some specious language they confuse...
...courses, and possibly athletics. The third has no interest in the intellectual life proper, being too much occupied with the pleasure of clothes, tobacco, alcohol, the atres, clubs, and so on. I believe that all these types exist at Harvard, although it must be remembered that strict classification is specious and that hybrids also are present...