Word: pedantic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then went, The Jungle (1905) flaying Chicago's stockyards, The Metropolis (1908) flaying Manhattan and The Brass Check (1919) flaying journalism, were equivalent to the later temblors of Main Street and Babbitt. And it may be to the ian, constitutes himself the scourger of Vulgarity. Upton Sinclair, Marxian pedant, is the novelistnemesis of Capitalism...
...exact line of demarcation which separates the scholar from the pedant has never been determined to the satisfaction of any one man, much less an academy. One may always accuse a scholar of being pedantical merely, as Professor Kittredge has pointed out, because his work is uninteresting to the reader as an individual; and the fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully...
...have been in "The Orange Comedy," Miss Effinger playing the part of the Queen. Miss Adele Wood who has played in "The Straw" given by the Radcliffe Idler Club and the freshman play, will act as Tranio. D. W. Moreland '28, is Vincentio and G. W. Harrington '30, the Pedant. Both have played before in Dramatic Club plays, the latter having participated in Brown and Nichols dramatics previous to entering Harvard. Miss Wilber, who plays the Widow, has studied at the Barnstelle Stock Company in Detroit and took part in "The Great Gatsby" there...
...Carpenter '29, Abbot Peterson '30, Paul Sherbert '30. Baptista, Charles Leatherbee '29 Vincentio, D. W. Moreland '28 Lucentio, H. W. B. Donegan E.T.S. Petruchio, K. A. Perry '28 Hortensio, A. S. Gerstein '30 Tranio, Adele Wood Biondelo, Charles Hicks ocC. Grumio, G. B. Bingham '28 A Pedant, G. W. Harrington '27 Katharina Frances Small Bianca, Mary Caperton Widow, Corlies Wilber Curtis, Margaret Effinger Specialty Dancers, Sara Sherburne Ogden Goelet '29 Servants, Margaret Child Judy Brown Lydia Edwards Tailor, Abbott Peterson '30 Haberdasher, Paul Sherbert '30 Cook, Lambert Ennis '28 Butler, Richard Bennett...
Raptista Charles Leatherbee, '29 Vincentio D. W. Moreland, '28 Luncentio H. W. B. Donegan E.T.C. Petruchio K. A. Perry, '28 Gremio J. L. Beauchamp, '28 Hortensio A. S. Gerstein, '30 Tranio Adele Wood, Radcliffe Biondello C. A. Hicks, ocC. Grumio G. B. Bingham, '28 Curtis Margaret Effinger, Radcliffe A Pedant G. W. Harrington, '27 Katharina Frances Small, Radcliffe Bianca Mary Caperton, Radcliffe Widow Corlis Wilbuy, Radcliffe...