Annual Burns Supper

Morningside students and fellows celebrated the life of Robert Burns with a traditional Scottish Burns Supper.

Burns Supper at Morningside was a night of revelry, poetry, and bag pipes. A celebration of the life and poetry of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, Burns Supper is observed by Scots throughout the world near the renowned poet's birthday on 25 January. Traditionally, a Burns Supper involves the Scottish dish haggis, made of sheep organs, grains, and spices, served with potatoes and turnips, and recitations of select poems by Burns, many in the Scots language.

Students stood by in the dining hall as a bagpiper piped in the haggis. College Fellow Professor Simon Haines then spoke briefly on the "Immortal Life of Robert Burns" and Professor Colin Graham recited Burns' poem "To a Mouse". To wrap up the evening, Master Professor Sir James Mirrlees, led students and Fellows in singing Burns' "Auld Lang Syne". A memorable night was had by all!