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It is certainly remarkable that Schoolmen Webb and Taft were both: Prohibitionists, believers in a strong Classical education, users of homely illustrations; but the former antedating the latter by some 20 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Schoolmen had used it to describe whatever could not be comprehended in or classified under the so-called categories of Aristotle, who was the recognized prince of the intellectual world.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Rejected by his own people, the fame of Averro�s came later through his study by European Schoolmen.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

The statement of these equivalents is a puzzling exercise which no doubt accounts for the prominence given it by Aristotle and the Schoolmen.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The Schoolmen devoted most of their attention to Aristotle, and we may here briefly note the successive stages in their gradually increasing knowledge of his works.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various