Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...majestic figure of Homer is treated as the Greeks treated the figure of Jove. The grand head has heavy clustering hair and beard, the mighty chest is bare to the waist. The figure is seen in full face, the attitude is self-reliant, commanding, king-like. A staff is grasped in one hand, the other holds the drapery which comes from the shoulders and covers the lower portion of the body and the lower limbs. The modeling of the chest and limb is masterful, the pose of the head majestic. The pale dull red, green and yellow of the background...
...independent, self-reliant spirit which has grown up at Harvard, partly as a result of the liberal policy by which the government of the university has intrusted to the students the regulation of their own conduct, is less heard of than its rival, "Harvard indifference," but it exists for all that. When men are treated like men instead of like children they begin to feel and act like men. The two great students' organizations, the Harvard Dining Association and the Harvard Co-operative Society, are evidences that the Harvard undergraduate is pretty well able to take care of himself...