Tusculum English Student Organization holds ‘Burns Supper’

Tusculum English Student Organization holds ‘Burns Supper’

On Monday evening (Jan. 26), the Tusculum College English Student Organization hosted its third annual Burns Supper to celebrate the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns. Students and English Department faculty enjoyed a traditional Scottish meal while students read selections of Burns’ poetry. Burns, an eighteenth century Romantic poet, is widely considered the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. The Tusculum event followed the order of a traditional Burns Supper that begins with the reading of Burns’ “Selkirk Grace,” includes the “piping and cutting of the haggis” and concludes with the singing of perhaps Burns’ most well known work, “Auld Lang Syne.”