WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1926
PAGE THREE
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Romans Celebrated Saturnalia at Our Same Yuletide Season Long Before Birth of Christ
Christmas, which means the mass of Christ, is known to us as the sensor in which the birth of Christ is commemorated.
However, festivals were celebrates at this season long before it was held sacred as the birthday of Jesus of God. The celebration of Romans was celebrated at this time, a festival instituted, it is believed, in commemoration of the happy period under the reign of Saturn when free-masonry was popular violence and oppression were unknown.
At the beginning of the festival a great number of wax tapers were used to make the masks and signs that no more human victims were to be sacrificed. During the celebration of seven days no public business could be transacted, the schools kept holiday, to commence war was implems, and to punish a malefactor involved pollution.
Sir Walter Raleigh and Potato Legend False, Says Safford
History Places Origin of Tuber in Peru, Not Virginia as Formerly Believed
(Salomon Survival)
Washington, Dec. 15—"The legend that Sir Watele Raleigh first introduced the petate into England belongs to the category of the story of George Washington and the cherry tree," says Dr. William E. Safford, botanical expert of the Department of Agriculture.
The early history of the potato, this botanist maintains in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution just issued, is obscured by conflicting stories, many of which must be relegated to the sphere of romance.
Sir Francis Drake is another legendary potato hero who is said to have brought the nourishing tuber to Europe, where it was cultivated. But it is well known to scientists that the variety of potato popally called Irish did not exist in Virginia when white men first came to country, but had its origin in Europe.
As a matter of fact, no one knows just who it was that first brought it to Europe or when it was introduced to that continent, declares Dr. Safford. There is evidence that it was growing there by the beginning of the century and cultivated in private gardens merely as a botical curiosity for many years.
The slaves were freed from restraint, wore caps as caps of freedom, and went about dressed in tunics, adorned with purple and in white togas. Masters and slaves changed places, and while the slaves sat and banqueted at the tables, they were waited on by their masters, who, if free, could return them to submit to all sorts of ridiculous punishments. Jeets and freedom everywhere prevailed, and all ceased from their various occupations.
Miss Lynn Writes Story for Atlantic Monthly
Research among early documents shows that it was probably carried from Peru to Spain as an example of one of the food plants of the New World. The study finds that by the early inhabitants of Chile and the Incas. The story goes in an ancient record that many Spaniards amassed enough of this world's goods from carrying quantities of the lowly potato to the ruins at Potosí for food and to enable them to reiveir to their native peninsula and live in prosperity.
"Jaridlee," a short character sketch by Miss Margaret Lynn of the department of English, appears in the issue of *The Atlantic Monthly*.
In this image Miss Lynn pictures an uneducated young girl who is engaged to stay and "do chores" for a writer while she is confined to her room. The teacher asks the girl, however, feels that her biggest responsibility is to entertain the writer, which she does by various devices such as a May pole dance and a "sneech" with appropriate gestures, or by using her own workwork. In true pedagogical form, her benefactor endows her to correct her grammar, but Jur坠enple promptly tells her she does not wish to speak there is no need for so much learning.
The story "is whimsically told. Jurieleen may symbolize for Miss Lynn some freshman in rhetoric, thus the inspiration" for her theme.
The Women's Student Government Association held a dinner and a short meeting at the Trimble Theater on Friday. The dinner short talks were given by the council advisers, Agnes Hauan-dean, deed of women; Elise Neuen-Schwender, professor of romance literature; Jennifer Meng, professor of home economics.
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ROOMS FOR GIRLS—For the second semester, Miss Graham. 1005 Indiana. 70
The change from crude oil to coal as a fuel for the University power plant has resulted in a saving of 15 per cent, according to H. H. Ball, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
Change From Oil to Coal as Fuel Makes Saving
Stop at
Suiting You That's My Business
Disposal of ashes since the change has not become a serious problem, Mr. Ball said. There are always numerous drives on and near the campus where ashes can be properly proven purpose, and these are using all the ashes produced, he said.
In some cases large quantities of ashes have been sold to the city to pay for the costs of disposal so that there has been a direct return to the state on its fuel bill.
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During the past year more than twice as many women as men took extension courses in American universities.
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All Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., students are asked to attend a joint meeting in Frazier校前 at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in preparation for the football capitals that will be held in Kansas City during the holidays. Presidents of: Westport high school club, Manual high school club, Central high school club, Northwest high school club, Wyandotte county club.
The faculty at Colorado Agricultural College has required that each student's picture appear on his or her transfer to prevent a transfer of tickets.
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Twenty fellowships in German Universities for the year 1927-1928 are to be awarded to American students. These fellowships are established in exchange for similar ones in American universities for German students.
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or just sticking around
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will wear surprisingly
long.
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College gentlemen prefer P.A.
BLOND gentlemen and dark-haired gentlemen,
divident* freshmen and august seniors . . .
Prince Albert is the overwhelming campus-
favorite of every type and every pipe. (Yes,
the pipes do have a voice in the matter.
They can act in a docile, friendly manner or they can be mean. It depends on what you feed them.)
Open a tidy red tin of good old P. A. That first fragrant whiff will tell you why gentlemen prefer Prince Albert. Tuck a load into the bowl of your pipe and light up. Fragrance and taste alone are enough to win you.
But P. A. doesn't stop there. It is cook-
smoking. It is mild as Maytime, yet it has
plenty of body. It is kind to your tongue and
threat. You can hit it up all you like and
it never hits back. Try a tin of P. A. You'll
certainly prefer it after that.
*Not too difficult.*
PRINGE ALBERT
—no other tobacco is like it!
Pc. A1 is sold everywhere in the world and will be used by thousands of people with symptom management instructions, self-management instructions, and treatment recommendations. It is also sold in health centres where it has been received from doctors and nurses.
1927, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C.