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...cheerful cream thin was substituted for the depressing green of former years on the walls of the above-mentioned rooms, and all the pictures were removed. choice of new mural decoration will probably be in the hands of Professor P.J. Sachs of the Fogg Art. Museum, and they may include several replicas of famous tapestries now in the possession of the museum...
...southernmost of these is some thirty miles north of Muyil and about two miles back of the coastal village of Acomal, the northernmost settlement of the independent Indians. Acomal shows a use of realistic instead of conventionalized sculpture for mural decorations. This consists of the use of realistic human heads, sculptured in stone and affixed to temple exteriors. We found similar things on Cozumel Island, and the realistic head of a parrot on a building at Xkaret, which is on the coast north of Acomal...
...Mayas, like the Greeks, made much use of color. Sometimes a whole building would be painted one tint. Mural paintings are not uncommon, and from them alone has been learned much of what we know about the ancients. The red hand, a very common symbol, has been something of a puzzle. The suggestion has been made that it signifies strength, power, and mastery, and that it is the sign of some secret brotherhood...
...Harvard were divided into colleges numbering about 300 students apiece, individuality would get a chance to assert itself once more. Instruction would become personal, and intra-mural sports the main athletic activity. All without loss of the advantages of the larger center...
...Jews consider his portrayal of the synagog as a fallen, ineffectual institution, a libel on their religion. Vandals befouled this particular mural with ink some years back...