Word: bookishness
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Learn this, and although failing in all manner of bookish wisdom, your college education will not have been in vain, for you will have learned to rub elbows with the broad, infinitely varied outside world...
...high ideals of Europe. It is always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened by his own provincialism, which he considers cosmopolitan breadth, the highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability...
...Almeh" by J. R. Dos Passos is a sketch set in Cairo. It seems oddly old-fashioned, like some story written in the sixties or seventies, for it is overloaded with unnecessary details and the dialogue is bookish. The start is slow; the emotions of Mansford are not so treated as to rouse the eager sympathy which will give the surprise at the end its full value. Such a sketch falls if it is ungenuinely dramatic and this...
...this must possibly be added another consideration. Even if he should recall the name of some one who had won honors for scholarship, he would often hesitate to write his name on the ballot, out of deference to the sentiment that such a man was most likely too bookish for any "practical" job. The net result is the same as if most of the elections were formally limited to athletes, and constitutes a demonstration of the state of university public opinion...
...fiction is a little lurid, but moral. To call it bookish is little more than to call it contemporary. H. Hagedorn, Jr., draws indeed from the night-life of Harvard: but one soon scents the moral thesis--a 'horrible example' to the text of the admirable sermon of the editorial: and soon recognizes Pengrove and Farrell for what they must have been to the author's own mind--less prodigals than premisses...