Word: bookishness
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Right from the start, the rumpled-look-ing graduate student from Vermont made a deep impression on President Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins University. But President Gilman did think that the young man was off on a wrong track. "Don't be so bookish," Gilman thundered. "Get out and see more people." Student John Dewey listened politely to his president, and then ignored the advice. He had long since made up his mind that he would keep right on studying: his ambition in life was to become a philosopher...
...tests we ought ever to dare to decide, at the age of ten, whether an intelligent boy with practical aptitude is destined to become an academic scientist via a grammar school or a practical engineer via a secondary technical school ... Is it right to segregate . . . dull and bright, bookish-minded and practical-minded pupils . . . during the impressionable and formative period of adolescence? ... Is it right to determine the type of education so early without reference to the changes of interest that so often develop during adolescence...
...palship was not the only thing S.R.L. had outgrown. By adding reviews of phonograph records, art, theater, radio and movies and articles on travel and international affairs, S.R.L. had become more than a bookish magazine. Its circulation had risen from 32,000 to 110,000 in a decade and it was solidly in the black. With last week's issue, S.R.L. officially noted its broader outlook; it clipped the of Literature off its cover title. S.R.L.'s editors wanted to call the magazine the Saturday Review when it was founded in 1924, but the title was then used...
...Through his father, Victoria's uncle, the bookish and liberal-minded Duke of Sussex, who outraged King George III by marrying Lady Augusta Murray, a commoner. The old king declared the marriage void under the Royal Marriage Act. The son took one of his family's ancestral names, d'Este, and never tired of trying to win recognition from the British Court. He was fobbed off with a Hanoverian knighthood...
...year's non-fiction was plummed with good reading, mainly concerned with the middle-road facts of modern life. Most of the war books told of battles long ago. A bookish fellow from another planet-unless he saw David Douglas Duncan's chilling pictures of the fighting in Korea, This Is War!-might have found it hard to believe that the nation was engaged in one of the stubbornest wars in its history...