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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1940
News From Page One
STORER SAYS---was the first person to count time from the birth of Christ. Up to 200 A.D. no one even thought of celebration the birth of Christ. Epiphany, or Christ's spiritual rebirth, was celebrated instead. Celebrated at Various Times
Dec. 25 was not agreed upon as the date of the birth of Christ until the fourth century A.D. Christmas was celebrated at various times from November up to May. Dec. 21 was the Norwegian celebration, until Dec. 25 was accepted finally as an attempt of the Christian to compromise with the Pagan festival. Charlemagne in 800 A.D. was the first civil authority who kept time records dating from the birth of Christ. It is often accepted, however, that Christ was born between 5 and 4 B.C. because Christ was born during the reign of King Herod who died in 4 B.C.
Since the exact time of the birth of Christ is unsettled, it is difficult to ascribe some specific star, comet, or meteor the dignity of being THE star of Bethlehem.
Halley's comet which appears about every 75 years, might have been one explanation of the Bethlehem Star, but it appeared in 11 B.C. which again would upset present ideas regarding the date of the birth of Christ.
Myth Plays Large Part
If the original star of Bethlehem were a physical affair, it is certain that a good deal of myth was connected with it.
Storer says that if any error is made in estimating a location in the sky equal to the diameter of the moon, this would mean an error of 60 miles on the earth or a distance equal to that across Palestine Therefore, it would be almost impossible to say that a star was directly over Bethlehem.
Anyway, take a look tonight
The supposed star of Bethlehem might have been a meteor, but since it is impossible to know when a meteor is going to appear, one could not accurately say that the Bethlehem Star was a meteor.
CLAY BUILDING--mate size of 28 by 35 feet, making it the largest room in the building.
The other studio and the control room will be 12 by 20 feet.
The large administration reception hall will be the first room inside the main entrance, and the main desk will be located here. A small office, 8 by 14 feet, will be adjacent to the first laboratory in the west wing.
The over-all dimension of the building will be approximately 160 by 40 feet. A concrete service apron will be adjoining five laboratories in the rear of the building.
To Construct New Road
A new road will also be constructed behind the concrete apron
which will connect the parking area west of Hoch auditorium to the road going south of the Chi Omega house.
The outside surface of the building will have a medium-smooth texture such as concrete. This surface then may be painted any color desired. The structure will have a monolothic concrete floor, a composition board ceiling, and a roof covering of asbestos shingles.
HARBUR IN BATTLE—
supremacy. Clayton Harbur takes the field for Kansas, Matt Betton will battle for Kansas State, and George Tide's Missouri Collegians will fight for "Ole Mizzou."
Parading before three judges for the title of "Miss Jamboree" will be candidates from social clubs and sororities of Kansas City and surrounding territory.
Youth Leaders In Session Here Jan.24,25
University of Kansas becomes host Jan.24 and 25 to Christian youth group leaders throughout the state. The two day session will include discussion and study of better techniques for character training of modern youth.
Organizations sponsoring the forum are the University Y.M.C.A., the Kansas Y.W.C.A., and the Kansas Council of Churches.
Leaders scheduled to appear on the program are Paul Roberts, dean of St. John's Cathedral, Denver; Leo L. Gessell, area program director for the state Hi-Y, Topeka; Arno Haack, secretary of the Y.W. and Y.M.C.A. at Washington University, St. Louis; Dr. Bert A. Nash, professor of education, University of Kansas; and Miss Elizabeth Herring, of the national council of the Y.W.C.A., New York City.
Hi-Y and Girl Reserve sponsors, Y.M. and Y.W.C.A. secretaries, and church workers allied with youth groups are expected to attend the two day conference.
Beatrice Lins, physician of the Student Health Service, will leave for her home at Spring Green, Wisc., Saturday.
The program committee is composed of Lee Gemmel, extension division, University of Kansas, chairman; Rev. James Chubb, Baldwin; Gessell; Florence E. Stone, state Y.W.C.A. secretary, Wichita; John J. O. Moore, University Y.M.C.A. secretary; Dr. Nash; and Miss Roberta Tucker, University Y.W.C.A. secretary.
Lins Leaves for Wisconsin
Heading East . .
BOB ALLEN
Griffith Paintings Now On Display
Of the 21 pictures on exhibition, four are of scenes in and about Lawrence. "Mount Oread" was painted in 1815 and gives the view of Lawrence northeast from old College hill. This view is still much the same today.
The memorial exhibition of the paintings by William A. Griffith is now on display in the Spooner-Thayer museum. Griffith was a professor of drawing and painting at the University of Kansas from 1899 to 1921. It was through his efforts that the Thayer Collection of Arts was brought to the University.
"Foggy Morning in Spring" will bring back memories to those who recall an old windmill which Griffith painted in 1906.
"On the Links" and "Kansas Nocturne" are paintings of natural landscapes on a Lawrence golf course in 1914 and a scene along
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