LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT. DEC. 14. 1901.
The Dramatic Club. Art Notes.
"Shore Acres" is the play Scott Sterling. son'of Profes-
Shop Suggestions
A Communication.
That the Automobile in Nov issue in guise of criticising B should give expression to pei prejudices is not commendal
In a college paper treating c matters without fear or favor ical slander is out of place. political bitterness must out,) more in accordance with the mary courageous attitude o editor, to seek no subterfuge f claring that our government tyranny, our past adminis salfish and corrupt, and our sc brutes and murderers. Sim editor apparently follows e the spirit of the one whose po views the American people cast contemptuously upon dumping ground for cowardic moon-eyed statesmanship, n will doubt that his scurriller can produce profane ballads Tennessee regiment, as inde can on all other matters; and the dirty work of defaim country and its soldiers, is enticing to him than the dirt, of fighting his country's battl
EDWARD H. Sr
The following is the arti which Mr. Smith referred.
It is not inappropriate for one who has a grudge againsting to take advantage of the fortune he now offers to them t up and swat him in the neck he always exploited the doctr hate, of the strong against the In his success he had the net ridicule and hate the people (Aans), who swelled his coffers their dough. Now since he shown that he is shameless merely in for the money, he his singing voice. But he fails to wag the stump of it as there is gold in sight. Our people are sick of British soldiers, those wounded of loot and slau hive grawn awful to us since we have slaughtered and plunder inferior race, half devil and child." We could write blust profane ballads about a Tem regiment starting for Manilla forty Filipino prisoners and seven of them having till they there, and could ring in a cl ab about beating out the Tagalog s bthat would be great. We could sweetly about bloody deeds in brake and rice field, of burning pleading fathers with dead chi on their shoulders, "no qu and the bayonette, but we ashamed of our villainy, and fer to have our dirty work un
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The California beauty, Miss vie Kane, whose marked su last season, as Marquirete to Morrison's Faust gave her a pention place among the youngering women of the profession be seen as Rueen in "The Kirtho Opium Ring" at opera 1 monday night. The press in ge is loud in praise of her effe acting, remarkable beauty an picturesque gowns she wear Georgette, the Queen.
--to man" is the true Christian idea of Christmas. The Christmas dinner, the fat turkey and crambury sause, and plum pudding and mince pie, all the feasting and merry-making, are not truly Christian, but come from the Roman Saturnalia. For about four centuries the nativity of Christ was observed on January sixth. The Saturnalia came upon December twenty-fifth. This was the great feast of the Romans, when servants were equal of masters, and to eat, to eat. It should be mery was the order of the day. Sometimes in the celebration of Christmas was changed from January sixth to December twenty-fifth, and so the Saturnalia and Christmas became confused, and Christmas acquired the character of a feasting day.
The Phi Gams have boo the Summerfield house on Liana street, which will be r the fraternity chapter house
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The WEEKLY extends Christmas greetings to you all. May you have a truly "Merry Chrstmas" and a happy New Year.
If the suggestion of Mr. Gleed in regard to foot ball was followed, it might be a pretty good idea-
The students rate this year is one third fare more than usual. Every year the railroads are becoming more stringent in their rules regarding rates.
The faculty seem to be having a little excitement—meeting every day or two. Perhaps they are preparing some grand Christmas surprise for the students. We have heard many students wondering audibly what's up. Nobody seems very wise.
Christmas Customs,
Our American Christmas, like most of our American institutions is a result of the mixture of many customs brought from the old country. Our Christmas tree comes of Germany, the hanging up of the Christmas stocking from Belgium, Santa Claus from Holland, and the "Jungle" Christmas tree from New York. "Year" is a greeting shouted by our old English forefathers from window to street, and street to window.
And as we trace back Christmas customs, we find that the most of them are old pagan ideas, which either by accident or paraphrase the true meaning of their tradition holiday. "Peace on earth, good will
The holly was dedicated to Saturn, and a sprig of holly was sent by the Romans in the gifts to one another at the time of Saturnalia. The Christians borrowed the idea, and holly has come to be a symbol of Christmas, and the word itself comes from the fact that it is associated with the holy season. Poets have made it the symbol of resurrection so that it is especially appropriate to the season.
Our Christmas tree is a truly pagan institution. The evergreen tree used to be fixed up, somewhat as it is today, by the early Germans, in honor of Berchta, the goddess of Spring. It was introduced as a Christmas custom by the German reformers, in the time of Luther. Before the Reformation, Christmas gifts were distributed from a manager, where the Christ-child was supposed to have left them. But this was such a distinctly Roman idea that the Protestants borrowed the old German evergreen. The evergreen which used to symbolize Spring they made the symbol of Eternal Spring. The candle lights were to remind one that Christ is the "Light of the World," and gifts, that "God gave His only begotten Son, to the end that we should not perish, but have everlasting life." The Christmas tree was for a long time only used by the Protestants, but it has now come to be used for Christmas celebrations in almost all parts of Christendom.
The mistletoe was a sacred plant to the Druids. Its berries were considered a symbol of purity and it was used in the Anglo-Saxon marriage ceremony. It is probably from this old English idea that our modern one comes, that if a young man catch his sweetheart, or any one's else, for that matter, standing under the mistletoe, the only thing to be done is to kiss her. Long before the Anglo-Saxons knew of Christ, it was the custom on the shortest day of the year, December twenty-first, to burn a great log of wood and an immense candle. Afterward this was changed to a Christmas custom and was called the Yuletide cake. This was also the Yule log or Yuke log, as it is still retained by old English families who do not like to forget old traditions. A mummoth log, or root of a tree, is brought in with great ceremony on Christmas Eve and it is lighted with the brand of last year's log, and while it is burning there is great story telling and drinking. It is considered bad luck if the fire goes out, or if a squinting or barefoot person comes into the house while it is burning.
Mr. Hermann a Senior Pharmics has pledged to Alpha Tau Omega.
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Mr. Hooley on the University.
“And have ye ever heard av the University’/, Mr. Hooley asked his friend mr. Dennessey. ‘Shure, an’tis a nowble an sowl-inspiring institution. The innormous oppu-
chunities it offers to tinder youth`n’marvellous injancusiness with weich youth sees these same, an’takes advantage av them is something astonishing to th’reflective moind. So shmall and insignificant an article as a piece of pigskish gives roise to wan iv th’most sthriking performances, inspiring inhrest in all behoulders.No words can descrioibe it, me frind, unless they are howled at ye through a migaphone, or blown at ye through a tin horn, but‘tis a fut-ball game I’m maning—ye may have heard wan.”
"An' shure it is, though we have pigskins in ould Oireland, an' plinty av thim, 'tis sildom we wad think av taking advantage av thim that way.
"An thin there's stairs—an' shure thare's nothing so common as thim. We couldn't get upstairs without thim—but there's cases up at the University have dishoverd an entoirely new use for thim. Ol've same it done,but the process is complicated an' difficult av description. It takes two to do it. Twad be hrdr for some, but 'tis an ordinary performance among University youth. "Ah those, Dinissey, is ownly instances.
"Well may the noble founders av this institution in future generations sthrut about in their trailing robes an' goulden crowns a scorning av Gabriel an' Co., an' slapping each other th' back whin they look down an' see th' grand oppurchunities they have given those tinder youth an' swate maids to divilose their young moins by those exercises an' th' same tome to bask in th, intellectual atmospher av Professors an' Sharks."
"I always thought," said Mr. Dennessey, "that stuhdents at the University imploved their toim in th' stundy av sciences an' lang-widges."
"Dinnessey," replied his friend, "I have heard there is a few that do this, but 'tis kipt sacrit. But, ah, me, me frind, th' more I consider it, the more I'm sthruck be the fact that 'tis a wonderful institution."
"THE GOLFER."
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