Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never been a sin at Harvard to think for oneself and in the particularly violent times directly following the war, many politically unorthodox professors found their sole defense in the President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...
...gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, personal liberty and personal success." Beside him, on the stage, white lilies curved from the mouths of six vases. "Christ's stern and gentle philosophy, so much more readily understood by the Oriental mind, is the way of self-abnegation, of losing oneself in something beyond oneself." Occasionally, an Indian name came to his lips, hesitant syllables cascaded to a tenebrous penult: Rabindranath Tagore. Sometimes he men- tioned Mahatma Gandhi. Then he seemed to look beyond his audience to India "which is my first love." His face was very quiet. "You cannot...
...subscriptions for the German book of diagrams which could be used to personal advantage only, were vastly greater than those for either of the other causes. Thus we proved that as social distance increases, readiness to help others decreases, while one is ready most of all to help oneself, in spite of all that may be said to the contrary...
Other Mysteries. As if to escape the Chesterbelloc ridicule, Footprints by Kay Cleaver Strahan (Doubleday, Doran, $2) is a detective story with practically no detective. Murder, rope hanging from the window?but no footsteps in the snow: members of the family suspect each other, one even suspects oneself. Ingenious idea, admirably executed...
...question because the pond was buried so deep in snow his hosts did not even know where to start looking for it, and the afternoon spent on skis made the Vagabond wish he had included a few lectures on his list which would have explained the technique of extricating oneself from an inverted position in a six-foot snow drift with grace and precision...