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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MARCH 28,1945
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Students Make Plans For Vacationless Holiday
Easter Society
Campus Activities To Be Dormant With Students Gone Over Weekend
Campus social activity will hit a new low for the semester this weekend, for, in spite of the fact that Easter vacation has been eliminated again this year, in keeping with the Navy program, nearly all students who live close enough to Lawrence are planning to go home for the weekend.
Enid, Okla., (ACP)—Dean Stephen J. England was recently recommended by the Department of Religious Education of the United Society to work on the advisory committee revising the American Standard version of the Bible.
An Easter vesper service, sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. for students and faculty members, at 4:30 p.m. in Fraser theater, will conclude the week's Easter activities. The program, under the direction of Patricia Creel, will present an Easter devotional service by Miss Creel's Y.M. C.A. dramatics commission, and will feature several numbers by the Women's glee club.
This committee consists of representatives of the major Protestant bodies and includes Dean Weigle, head of the committee and dean of the Yale Divinity school. Prominent in founding the committee was the late James Moffatt. Dean England is the only representative of the Disciples brotherhood. Revision of the Bible is under the sponsorship of the International Council of Religious Education.
Other Easter week highlights included a vesper program Sunday afternoon by the School of Fine Arts, and various services by church groups in Lawrence.
Dean England To Help Revise Bible Version
The duty of the committee is to revise the American Standard version in the light of recent manuscript discoveries and to modernize the diction. At present, England is working on the books of Genesis and Amos and a section of Psalms.
In making the revision, various portions of the Bible are assigned to scholars who revise the American translation, mimeograph copies and send then to the committee members. The committee, in turn, using all available source material, make suggestions and send back criticisms. Portions of the Bible may be returned a number of times to committee members before a consensus of agreed revision is reached, Dean England explained. The New Testament is now in the hands of the printer and the committee is working on the Old Testament. It is hoped that publication will be made by the end of this year.
Starts Big Sister Movement
The Y.W.C.A. is credited with
starting the Big Sister plan on March
31, 1914.
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munion and baptism services at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The Congregational church's communion and reception will be at 7:30 Thursday night. The Lutheran church will hold baptism services for children Sunday afternoon and a candelight communion service at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Starts Big Sister Movement
CHURCHES FEATURE---of fertility and became an Easter symbol as the sign of the new life. The egg came to be regarded as symbolical of the resurrection because it holds the seed of the new life.
Many University students will be homeward bound Friday afternoon to spend Easter with their families, but those who remain in Lawrence will find soul-satisfying services in the city's churches.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cox Visitors
M. HARRIS M.S. C.U.C. VENTUS
Mr. and Mrs. J. Clark Cox, former students of the University, visited several departments on the campus Monday. Mr. Cox received his degree in entomology in 1943, and he is now employed with the Union Pacific railroad in Denver, Colo.
Caps and gowns were worn for the first time at a University of Kansas commencement in 1897.
Midweek to Be Held But Resort Will Be Closed This Weekend
The regular midweek dance in the lounge of the Memorial Union building will be held from 7:30 until 9 p.m. tonight as usual, Eugenia Hepworth, president of Student Union activities has announced, but the Last Resort, coke and dance room in the Union, will be closed this weekend because of Easter.
The Navy band will play for the midweek dance tonight. The Last Resort will be open next weekend on Friday and Saturday nights from 7 until 12 p.m. as usual.
Buy Dates at Wisconsin
Coeds at the University of Wisconsin can now buy a chance to date leading men on the campus for 50 cents or more. The money is then donated to the Red Cross drive.
Easter Rabbit Holds Preference Over Kansas Cottontail This Week
I am the Easter "Wabbitt." There are all kinds and shapes and sizes of "wabbits" in the world, but I am the most famous of all.
There is Bugs Bunny with his inevitable query, "What's up, Doc?," and there's Walt Disney's little Thumper. There's Peter Wabbit and Breer Wabbit. There's the little cottontail "wabbitb" of the woods and the angora "wabbitb." But everyone knows me and likes me the best. I am the Easter "Wabbitb."
How I came to be associated with the Easter celebration and all its many customs is a long story, dating back "furry many long ears ago." What a tale!
The rabbitt was the pagan emblem
Dying of eggs became a worldwide custom through the first dying by children in Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome, in which the eggs were painted red for joyousness of the festival and the blood shed on Mt. Calvary. In Christian society, the eating of eggs was forbidden during Lent, and it has since became traditional to search for and eat eggs on Easter Sunday.
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