Word: bookishly
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Academic emphasis in academic fields has gained for Harvard a nationwide reputation, but when this emphasis is carried into the University's first aid courses unfortunate results are to be expected. The setting of a broken arm requires more practical experience than the bookish knowledge of an "absent-minded professor," and the use of a text written before the war will hardly help the training of a group which aims to aid civilians in the event of air-raids...
Professor Seavey said further that there are only two handicaps that stand in the way of college men. "The Army dislikes nothing more than men who 'know it all', and it must be admitted that bookish students do not make good officers...
This ad is one of those which have made the whimsical "personal" column of the Saturday Review of Literature the best-read section of that otherwise sedately bookish weekly...
...ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. He learned his letters in bookish Boston, graduated at the head of his class ('82) from Harvard, taught Latin at Phillips Exeter. Thereafter for 48 years he was Kittredge of Harvard, Shakespearean and Chaucerian scholar, authority on witchcraft and Norse religion, one of the last Victorians. But above all, "Kitty" was Harvard. When he died last week, part of Harvard died with...
...mean but strong and realistic peasants, there is a sloganeering and strength-through-joy unreality about Knut Toring's Young People's Society and their cooperative commonwealth. Both have high humanitarian motives, but they spring from the same cause that makes Knut a half-baked hero - as bookish boy, as self-righteous editor, as crusading cooperator, Knut is a good deal of a prig...