The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-16
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
COLLEGE NORMAL SCHOOL
LECTURES INTERESTING

ten the address ITO Mary in Heav.I
en-" Speaking of his travels in SEQ
land DR.. Hulley wondered why the see
so close to Burns childhood horne |
had never been sung to by the poe |
He ted Of meeting a number of oil |
Scotch gIays,' decrepit ard pen |
stoned off after the war, bu' oil thei !
way to Burns cid home to Nhici
more PILGRIMS so tlaa to tie SIN me q
Shakespeare at Avon. although the hi
ter is more accessible. Flow gently
sweet Alton. and Il Love My .can."
written to his wife, were sven in Dr.
Hulley's own inimitable manner, then
that beautiful gem, John Andersen,
My Jo,' was touched upon-the
speaker reminding his audience that
all the Plowboy Poets poems were
not to young people.
The poet, he claimed was a moral
man, despite the fact that many
rallied against him. Burns was even
better than his father, who is pictured
as the cotter in the 'Cotter's Satlr-
day Night" A strange plea for Burns
was made then, the explanation being
given that although Burns drank.
many people did in those days. even
the clergy drinking their wine. Some
say Burns went to the dogs, but just
think where he sprang from-a pillow.
boy uneducated and then what short
life, for he died at 81. This child of
nature sang songs that set the world
singing and now there scattered where
group of Scotch are-Scotch socie.
ties are formed to keep green his
memory DR.. Hulley claimed that
Burns is not the ideal Scot, but the
| typical Scot of that period, showing
the worst and best in mankind.
The streak of vulgarity is there, but
he was raised in a wreck heap and had
not the chance people have these days.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Burns were spent all
alone-no one to minister to their
wants but a little girl and how did
he thank her With a song, a poem,
but all he had.
The story of his folk lore poems was
next touched upon, an old woman liv-
ing in the poets home being the I'M
conscious influence which gave this
tinge to some of his poems, for in
| stance Tam O'Shanter's Ride,
| Burns confessing that, like Tam
when he went out on dark night, he
looked around fearfully. The rhythm
and music of his poems and his bit
| ing satire alike were shown his sa-
tire showing the power of the pen for
it was known to drive a policeman
| from town. Burns sang to the devil
and to nature, to daisy or mouse dis.
turbed by his pillow with equal grace,
yet he was uneducated and scratched
his poem to the daisy, quoted in all
/ languages, on a scrap of paper, while
blowing, reading it after work by a
tallow dip.
DIR. Hulley's humOr and expression
and thorough knowledge of the sub
! ject with his good delivery made the
lecture interesting and at the same
/ time did full justice to the poet born
by the sea, akin to nature and flow
ers, the grass, birds and trees.
DIR. HUXLEY will lecture this even
ing at o'clock and Ralph Bingham
at s o'clock.
The public is always welcome at
| these lectures of the summer school
and the Hattiesburg people are al
ways invited.
Prof. Herrick, formerly professor OF
entomology at the A. & NJ. College at
Starksville, Miss, was a visitor to
friends at the college Tuesday even
ing while en- route to Cornell Univer.
sity where he WI be professor of
entomology. Pref. He.rok hos many
friends throughout the state Nto are
glad of his deserved iromot.on.
It my not be ae-eraily known, b It
P-Cf. Thames has arranged .or a