I knew that, like all modern music students, he had absorbed in Germany some of that scholastic pessimism we encounter in the Brahms music, but I had hoped that a mere fashion of the day would not poison the springs of this fresh personality.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
A commission, with Macaulay at its head, reported in the following year that appointments to the Indian service ought to be made on the basis of an open competitive examination of a scholastic character.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Now all of this conception-the notion that the mind has a faculty of thought apart from things, the notion that this faculty is constructed, in and of itself, with a fixed framework, the notion that thinking is the imposing of this fixed framework on some unyielding matter called particular objects, or facts-all of this conception appears to me as highly scholastic.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard