Word: ideals
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Home maker, or "Ideal" type...
...contrasting the three universities instinct impels one to speak of Harvard first. Harvard men may be said to represent an ideal which the rest of the country looks forward to achieving after several centuries of intensive culture. The Harvard man is a sort of vidette of American civilization. Far in advance of the main body, he has time to contemplate the masses with sympathy and compassion. While he is tolerant of others, he scarcely expects others to understand him. He enjoys an independence of action bred of conscious superiority...
...case of a man who risks his life for an ideal only to have the world disbelieve him seems to be the inevitable fate of Mr. Heilner, of the American Museum of Natural History, who recently returned from an expedition to the Bahamas with the news that sharks are harmless. According to Mr. Heilner, he exposed himself to these much-maligned creatures repeatedly without their showing the least interest in him as a possible article of diet. It is to be feared, however, that even before such evidence the popular mind will cling to its delusion. Generations of South...
...possibility of a group of undergraduates turning to serious music was hooted down as futile, and even worse, as unfitting. Unpleasantness was bound to result; the self-imposed ostracism of the University Glee Club from the intercollegiate organization brought more accusations of snobbishness; but the ideal was chosen, the standard set, and for better or worse Doctor Davison led his group on its unique...
...planes. The Germans decided, Fitzmaurice rushed from the room, burst into the Officers' Mess at Baldonnel. "Crack goes the whip, off go the horses, and round go the wheels at 5 o'clock!" he shouted. The report just received from the British Air Ministry said that almost ideal conditions might be expected as far as mid-Atlantic, though beyond lay possible danger...