Word: bookishness
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...Longfellow who is often more European than American, sentimental didactic, too imitative often, bookish in inspiration, didactic, and typical of much of the narowness in his time and environment, has been often displayed before. So far as facts are concerned, Mr. Gorman repeats with accuracy for the most part. It may not be ungenerous, however, to remark that his summary (pp. 96-97) of American literature before Longfellow seems unhappy in its choice of critical epithets, and shaky in its chronology. One may be excused for disagreeing with the biographer's view that Longfellow's appreciation of wine...
...farmer' or because U. S. farming is fundamentally unprofitable, I do not know. To decide this point, I turned over Wabeek Farms last week for a five-year term, rent and tax free, to Mark N. Williamson, Michigan 'dirt' farmer, and his brother, Frank H., bookish graduate of Michigan State College and post-graduate of the University of Minnesota. Frank Williamson's statement that 'the character and value of dairy products depend more on the handling of the herd and the products than on expensive registered stock' sounded sensible...
...Harvard. There is, in Harvard's junior class, a onetime member of Yale's present senior class, one Lucius Beebe. After three years of moon-calfing about in New Haven, Student Beebe is in a position to tell Harvard men much about their Eli contemporaries. A bookish, loose-tongued fellow, with poetic ideas and no great respect for conventions, he is willing to make a public stir in the columns of the Crimson, Harvard's live undergraduate daily. Last autumn he supplied a comparison of Yale and Harvard rather flattering to the latter (TIME, Nov. 30). Last...
...activities. Many institutions furnish collegiate atmosphere, but not the opportunity for earnest study which presents itself at Johns Hopkins. In universities which combine the functions of graduate and undergraduate instruction, the college man often looks with suspicion on the older student who is so obviously and completely engrossed in bookish work. At best, the two sections of the college world pursue their diverse interests interfering with one another as little as possible. But in the classroom, friction develops between the needs of mature and the capacities of immature minds...
...weeks ago he sailed unostentatiously from the U. S. to attend the Madras conference, leaving behind him in the Philosophers' Book Shop, Manhattan, one Captain R. L. Jones, full of faith. To a reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, the bookish Captain hinted that the reincarnation of Christ in Mr. Krishnamurti would occur quite soon, he being now 30 years of age?again reminiscent. And this information the Herald Tribune reporter expansively divulged to the public...