Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors which have been current in the Freshman class lately that the 1929 Red Book was going to be suppressed on account of two drawings which are going to appear in it were denied last night by members of the Committee. They said that the reports of possible suppression were entirely false...
Last year the Red Book appeared on the day of the Jubilee as scheduled, but the year before was several days late in coming out. The problem of getting pictures of all the individuals in the class has always proved a baffling one and in several instances has seriously delayed the publication of the book...
Four miles south of Paalmul, at Chakalal, we found a temple, on whose interior walls were painted red hands and the jaguar and the feathered serpent...
...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...
There is reason to believe that some of the impressions of this sign were put in Maya buildings after the conquest: in short that here is a tangible piece of the old ritual remembered by degenerate descendants of great ancestors. On Cozumel Island our expedition found examples of the red hand so conventionalized by the artist that the five fingers looked like five petals of a flower or the five flames of a lamp...