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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950
Medieval Students Celebrated Easter With Egg Rolling, Shoe Buckle Stealing
By LEW SCIORTINO
A few more class periods from now, Easter will be here. And with it will come vacation. Students will travel home to celebrate Easter by eating good food, coloring eggs, and attending parties and family gatherings. Going home for the Easter holiday is a tradition students have cherished since medieval times, and only the ways of celebrating it have changed.
Medieval students in England took their Easter celebration in earnest. They started the celebration a week before the actual holiday and closed it a week later. Easter feasting was done on a grand scale with all the trimmings of a Mardi Gras. Monday to Thursday before Easter were days of hubbub activity. Eggs were roasted, pastries were made, and the traditional hot cross buns were baked. Then came Thursday and with it the customary drinking bout. Often these beuts ended in brails over who could drink the most wine. However, by the next day, all was forgotten and friendships were restored.
On Friday, the buns were passed out among the students. They were hard but the sugared cross on top was a delicacy after 40 days of rigid fasting.
Saturday was quiet. Usually it was spent preparing for the next day. Clothes were put in order. Last minute items were purchased. Friends and relations were met at the crossroads. On Easter Eve everyone marched down the streets in a colorful pageant carrying candles, banners, and early spring flowers. Students sporting their best clothes held hands with their girls and danced in the streets. Wine flowed freely and the spirit of carnival was everywhere.
Easter day started early at Eton. It was the custom for students to arise before daybreak and go out in the country to see the "sun dance" which ancient superstition said always occurred that day. Those who doubted that the sun did dance were taken to a creek or a pond. Then the water was stirred and the doubting one told to watch the rays of the sun play on the trembling water. If the doubting one still persisted that the sun didn't dance, he was shoved into the water for deeper study.
Maduros Installed As YW President
Helen Maduros, College sophomore, was installed as president of the Y.W.C.A. in ceremonies Tuesday in Danforth chapel.
Seven other officers began their one-year terms at that time. They are Diana Sherwood, College junior, vice president; Susan Manoville, College sophomore, secretary; Helene Steinbuchel, College sophomore, treasurer; Jane Baker, College sophomore, district representative; Natalie Logan, education junior; All Student council representative; Patsy Cameron, College junior, and Sue Ihinger, College sophomore, delegates to the Student Religious council.
Students at Oxford took their Easter morning a little more strenuous than their Eton brothers. Locking their hands behind their heads and doubling up into a ball, they would roll down a hill. However, as time went on and bruises got worse, one bright Oxford student thought of rolling eggs down the hill instead. The idea was that everyone line up and roll an egg down. At a signal, all would scramble down the hill and hunt for the eggs. The one who gathered the most won a prize.
At Cambridge, the egg was put to another use. There the roasted eggs were clashed together in football fashion. The egg which did not break in the competition was the champion egg and its owner was duly honored. Following the egg-football game, the Cambridge swains would go to the town and permit their ladies to throw eggs at them. The lucky one who received a black eye was convinced that he was greatly honored by his sweetheart. The bigger the shiner, the deeper the love.
On the Monday after Easter, the young men went about the town preceded by a fiddle player to take off the young girls' shoe buckles. On Tuesday, the young men's buckles were taken off by the young women. All travelers who passed were also relieved of their shoe ornaments. In order to redeem the buckles, a small
Gilbert W. Fuller, engineering senior, will present "A.C. Network Analyzers" at the student paper competition to be held at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers' convention, at Norman, Okla.
The architectural staff and 15 graduating architectural students will be the guests of the Kansas City, Mo., chapter of the American Institute of Architects at a dinner meeting Tuesday, April 11.
Fuller's paper was one of the winning papers of the student competition recently held at the University.
Architecture Staff, 15 Students To KC
Eight students and three staff members of the electrical engineering department plan to attend the convention. ___
Alfred Roth, visiting professor from Zurich University, Switzerland, will deliver a speech on "Basic Theory of Art and Composition." A tour of the institute will be made by the K.U. group following the meeting.
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Los Angeles, —(U.P.)—Amusement park operator Mike Collins went "rabbit" hunting Wednesday. He told police a woman in a red dress, accompanied by a girl in a rabbit costume, recently offered to impersonate a pair of rabbits in front of his park during Easter week. He thought it was a good idea and gave the two a $10 advance. Mr. Collins is still waiting for his rabbits to appear.
fine had to be paid. Near the end of the week when all of the buckles were returned, a great street dance was held and with it the Easter season was brought to a close.
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Bridge Tourney Into Semi-Finals
The elimination round for the Big Seven Bridge tournament will be held at 7 p.m. today in the Union ballroom.
Any undergraduate student may enter the contest. The two top ranking teams will represent the University at the Big Seven tournament at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22.
and Saturday, April 14. Ada Watson, education sophomore is chairman of the local contest.
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Riley Burcham, vice president of the Lawrence National bank, will speak to students in the drugstore pharmacy class at 1 p.m. Friday on the financial aspects of the drug business.
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