Word: mural
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problems that Mr. Lowell points out as facing the athletic board, two are of prime importance,--the overemphasis of first-team games in the minds of undergraduates and the recent lack of interest in inter-mural sports. The latter question has been settled at Harvard for the time being by the rise of class athletics, similar to those at Yale, and the innovation of inter-dormitory games. But Mr. Lowell passes over the first problem--that of over-emphasis--with the following laconic reference (specifically to the practice of having inter collegiate games every Saturday of the autumn)--"It tends...
...comparison of a Boston debutante dance to the auction block, the arrival of a new issue of the Lampoon has been awaited nervously by an those who live in glass houses. People cannot seem to stand having fun poked at them. And now there's more bits of intra-mural irreverence in the January number which cannot but cause offense to members of the Harvard faculty...
Basketball has recently been placed on the list of intra-mural sports. Three leagues have been organized. Six quintets, two from the Business School, three from the Law School, and one from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will form the first group. The second league is made an of eight fraternity teams. The last consists of the four class teams...
...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...
...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...