Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroism is not always what is required, and SNCC feels it has no interest in getting its summer workers hospitalized. "Absenting oneself," as it is wryly put, is often the best answer to a bad situation. Robert E. Wright '65, who worked in Jackson last summer, found that by keeping calm and using good sense it was possible to avoid explosive confrontations. John W. Perdew '64 reports similar experiences from Americas...
Candy is awakened to the joys of giving by her philosophy professor, a lecherous old phony named Mephisto. "To give of oneself fully," he tells a completely snowed Candy, "is a beautiful and thrilling privilege." Mephisto is not urging Candy to plunge into SNCC work...
...Easterns (even if it is of short duration). "Closing our club" as Mr. Graham suggests would result in too great a stagnation in the quality of Ivy wrestling. If there were not this absolute aesthetic quality about wrestling I would see no reason in trying to improve oneself through competition with other schools--we could all stagnate in an intramural program...
...Wright's order regarding the blood transfusion that saved the reluctant patient's life indicates his clear-cut and courageous thinking. A society has the right to prevent its citizens from committing suicide, whether that suicide takes the form of handling rattlesnakes in a religious ceremony, barbecuing oneself with gasoline, or refusing to accept medical care on the threshold of death...
...true savorer of the seed would trust another to roast his kernels for him. Yet few desire the reddened fingers and tattered tongue that comes of shelling them oneself. "If you are ever forced into a sheller's market, however, I suggest you improvise an anvil out of the nearest table and a hammer out of an empty Coke bottle. With luck and experience, you will be able to shell as many as ten in a minute...