Word: pedanticism
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Lord Balfour, veteran, said that the Tory Party was in peril. In his inimitable and pedantic style he said: " I look forward certainly not without hope-but not without anxiety- to the result of the election."
All in all the book falls considerably short of its desired achievement--that or blazing the trail for present and future generations of Thespians, merely because of a seeming desire on the part of the author to show a pedantic knowledge of the stage.
And so, after all, the College years were "formative and fruitful" even for one of the critics. Pedantic learning was neglected or forgotten and lives underwent "no single definitive and manifest change." But in the end there was perhaps an intangible but real gain "a sense sublime of something far...
"Eruditi professores" are in large measure what their students make them. These men who teach us must be pedantic pedagogues, they always have been and will continue so. The child's tutor was so inhuman as to call him from his play to books; and the child persisting later finds...
Mr. Kister's "Flats and Mansions" seems directly influenced by the much discussed and probably overrated "Lifiom". The hero, who, though an Irishman, is not a villain, goes to Heaven and completes a terrestrial romance with the soda-fountain lady of his dreams. Such is the plot, by far the...