PAGE TWO Fishbum Caroling Professor Hummel Fishburn, who has participated in each of the traditional Christmas Carol Sings held in front of Old Main for the past 27 years, will again direct the singing tomorrow night. Although it wasn't held last year, the sing, reinaugurated this year under the sponsorship of the Department of Music, the College Chapel, and the Penn State Christ ian Association, will be held at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow, The Chapel Choir, directed by Mrs. Willa C. Taylor, will sing "Two English Carols," "Herrik's Carol," "Sussex Carol," and "In. Dulci Jubilo." Kenworthy to Speak A brass quartet, made up of members of the Blue Band, will participate in the program under Fishburn's direction. Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, will speak. Traditional carols on the pro gram include "Joy to the World," "Adeste Fidelis," "Hark, the Her ald Angels Sing," "First Noel," "Silent Night," and "Good Christ ian Men Rejoice." Traditional Service Words of the carols will be pro jected on a screen by Philip Man nino and Paul V. Myers of the Audio-Visual Aids Library. The service will be about 30 minutes in length. It is a tradition of long standing that fraternities, sororities, and other organizations come to the Carol Sing following Christmas parties and dinners held before the vacation. The pub lic is invited to participate. Woman Marine Forms Ready January women graduates who wish to file applications for the next Marine women officers' training class must do so by Sat urday, the Marine Corps has an nounced. The class will begin at Quantico, Va., Jan. , l2. Candidates who com plete the 12-week training pro gram will receive commissions as Marine second lieutenants. Pay for an officer of this grade is $270.18 monthly if quarters are furnished and $338.58 without quarters. Graduates who are less than 27 years old may apply at the office of Marine Officer Procurement, Room 605 New Custom House, 2d and Chestnut streets, Philadel phia. Exam Conflicts Due Saturday Noon Fall semester final examination conflicts must be filed at the Scheduling office in the basement of Willard Hall before noon Satur day, Ray V. Watkins, scheduling officer, has announced. Graduating - seniors with final examinations after 7 p.m., Jan. 21 must file a conflict. Grades of graduating seniors must be in the Office of the Recorder by 9 a.m. Jan. 22. Students with three tests on the same day may file a conflict if they wish. Rod and Coccus Club To Hold Party at TUB The Rod and Coccus Club will hold its Christmas party 7:30 to 10 tonight at the Temporary Union Building. There will be refreshments and entertainment, and members will exchange .25 cent gifts. Admission charge is 35 cents. The TAVERN ENJOY OUR ' DELICIOUS PIZZA PIE. SERVED, OR TO TAKE OUT from 9 to 11:30 to Direct Tomorrow Hummel Fishburn Directs Carol Sing Organizations Get Charters Four old campus organizations and one new group received char ters recently from the Senate committee on student affairs. As a result of a new policy set up by the committee, to be ap proved' by the College, campus organizations must receive a char ter from thd committee after sub mitting information pertaining to the group. The New Bavarian Schuhplat ters, a folk dancing group, was the new organization receiving a charter. _ Old organizations r ec eiv in g charters were the Education Stu dent Council; Parmi Nous, senior men's hat society; Penn State chapter of the American Society for Metals; and the student branch of the American Society of Agri cultural Engineers. 5 Attend Meeting Of Ag Engineers Three students and two faculty members are representing the Penn State chapter of the Ameri can Society of Agricultural En gineers this week at a national convention in Chicago. Students attending are Morris Schroeder, Joseph Campbell, and Gerald Birth. Faculty members include Arthur Clyde, professor of agricultural engineering, and Elwood F. Oliver, associate pro fessor of agricultural engineer ing. The local ASAE branch has been selected to publish the 1953 annual student journal of ASAE. More than 99 per cent of the air at sea level is composed of oxygen and nitrogen. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA NOW ON SALE! Elattg Totirgiatt o . llr The Daily Collegian offers to you for only $2.00 a semester's subscription for those on your Christmas gift list. It will be on sale in the Collegian of fice in Carnegie Hall. Stop in and have a GIFT CERTIFICATE sent to that friend and solve your Christmas gift problem , Chest Drive To Continue January 8 A final "clean up" drive for the Campus Chest will be held Jan. 8, according to Joseph Haines, acting drive chairman. The short drive will be an at tempt to make up some of the difference between the contribu tions received_ and the goal set. Latest available figures indicate the drive netted only $7804.14 of the $12,000 goal. The drive which ended Nov. 22 was originally scheduled 'to end Nov. 18. From its start the drive was- hampered by a shortage of solicitors, officials said. Compare Drives Student contributions to the drive reached $5971.88. Contribu tions from:the faculty-administra tion drive which started N0v."17 and ended Nov. 22 reached $1832:26. Indications that the drive was not going well were expressed by Campus Chest officials when they compared it with last year's drive. At - one point in the drive this year $2BOO had been collected, while at the same time last year $6OOO had been collected. Last year's driye came within 99, per cent of its $12,000 goal. Nine Groups Benefit Recipients of drive funds this year include nine charity and service groups: the Penn State Christian Association, the World Student Service Fund, the Wom en's Student Government Asso ciation Christmas Fund, the State College Welfare Fund, the Sal vation Army, the Heart Fund, the American Cancer Society, the Penn State Scholarship Fund, and the National Student Se r vice Fund for Negro Students. 100 to Attend Coffee Hour One hundred county agents and extension personnel are expected to attend the annual Ag Hill Ca:. fee Hour to be held 3 to 5 p.m. to day in the Stock Pavilion. The coffee hour is being held in conjunction with the County Agents Association to give agri culture students a chance to be come better acquainted with their own agricultural extension repre sentatives, Temple Reynolds, cof fee hour chairman, explained. A public address system will be set up in the pavilion so Christ mas carols may be sung. Coffee and doughnuts will be s er v e d throughout the afternoon. Harshbarger to Lead Christmas Meditation A Christmas meditation will be led by Luther Harshbarger, Col lege chaplain, at 7 tonight in 304 Old Main. A Christmas social at 8 p.m will follow. Vet Certifications Due . Veterans training under public law 550 must turn in their com pleted monthly certifications at 6 Old Main by Saturday. Prexy Gets Another pos}tion, that of honorary chairman for, Religion-In-Life W ; ee arY k, Feb. 15-22. He and William Griffith, chairman for the week, discuss plans for the program, with members of the executive committee looking on. Left to right are Richard Altman, John Hoerr, Geraldine Lalli, Philip Kline , and Carolyn Morris. Dickens Popularized Reading of 'carol' Perhaps it was Dickens who made the reading aloud of his "A Christmas Carol" a Christmas tradition, for at the height of his career as England's greatest novelist, he read before large audiences and was acclaimed a brilliant reader. His success at public readings of his works might well be ex plained in his own words—" They were seated about me on the plat form, put into • the doorway of the waiting-room, squeezed into every conceivable place, and a multitude turned away." The 'Carol' will be read at a free public performance by James Ambandos, writer-direc tor for the College Motion Pic ture Studio, at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 121 Sparks. Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is probably his one work that is read aloud most frequently. Dick ens began the tradition which has been carried through to modern times. Dickens gave his first paid pub lic reading at the age of 46. How ever, this was not his first public appearance. He would often read NvEriNgppAy t D4PV.W.m.3,. 17, !at portions of his writings to friends. His audiences gradually increased in size until he was giving benefit readings throughout the country. Tickets were always in demand for Dickens' readings, and it is said that scalpers were able to get as much as $26 for a seat. His readings were given in Eng4nd, Scotland, I r eland, Paris; and America. Although Victorian friends once questioned the taste of Dickens' reading for money, it is now un derstood that the readings were an essential outlet for Dickens' intense restlessness, distrust, and emotionhl strain. He had a secret love affair with Ellen Ternan and needed the assurance of face to face contact with his public. But running away from his (Continued on page eight)
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