PAGF FOUR Students to Approise> Wilder to Read 'Carol' Monday ■ ■ • • - | | I Jon Barry Wilder, junior in : University Calendaris-JSTJr.S: Students will be asked for their reactions to a change,ing of Charles Dickens’ “A; in the University calendar with a questionnaire to be sent'Christmas Carol” at 8 p.m. [Monday in the Helen Eakin Eis- out next semester. PeU;r Fishburn, student representativ® to the Senate Cal- i en^e^e^ >I t hi C seventh oreadendar 0 read endar Committee, last night told the Senate a “pilot running of the Dickens classic. Wilder of tiie questionnaire probably will be taken before this hi* many ter ends. m . Players productions including He said the actual poll of stu- ®* ■‘S,.Ben Johnson’s “The Alchemist.” dents will be made next semester, *niment. election*, publications, Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya’’ with the results probably avail- dormitory systems, fraternity and Jean Giraudoux’ ‘The En-j able in March. i ®. n<l *°l?F**T "“hing and opera- c hanted.” He also participated in; The questionnaire, to be han-. dled by the Division of Academic; comi £ lUee - also win seek ’ss*™" Services and Research will be de- information from other schools The Lark at the Intercollegiate signed to determine the student under ca]endar svstems which festival reaction to suggested changes djffor from uhe University’s. The ; The Dlckenl classic wUI com l_ the calendar. possible application of other ns-' , _ . One purpose of the poll will terns to University student life ’Eng ProteSSOr speaks be to determine what propor- will lie studied. j George L. Thuering, professor tion of students would attend The results of the question- of industrial engineering, spoke each session of a quarter sys- naire and of the research done to the Reading chapter of the tem. a trimester system, and a by the committee will be inte-. Society for the Advancement of system of two semesters plus grated and will be considered in Management recently on “Meth an 11-week summer term. University action on calendar re- ods of Reducing Material Hand- Anothcr objective will be to de- vision, Fishburn said. ling Costs.” termine how student summer would be affected, what perccn- I tage of students earn part of their * expenses through jobs, and when most of the summer jobs begin and end. The poll also will try to determine what jobs now held by students during the summer could be obtained at some other time of the year. A Cabinet Committee on Cal endar Revision (Committee on Trimester System) was set up ■when it was announced that the Senate had begun a study of cal endar revision. It will deal with the effects m '.u.uum mm V f i wt. Food? It's the best . . . Music? What a treat . . . Beverages? Can't be beat! Jim Robbins Combo Friday 9-12:30 SHAMPOO FOR MEN Formulated for a man's hair and scalp. Conditions while it cleans. 1.25 ptui *9l THE DAfIY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA L.A. STUDENTS! Don't Miss Career Night You're Future May Depend Upon it! 7 p.m. December 19 . HUB Auditorium presented by The Liberal Arts Student Council • You'll get answers to your job hunting and career problems. • You'll learn how the University Placement Service helps you. • You'll discover what job opportunities exist for L.A. graduates. • You'll find out what employees look for and expect in an interview. Everyone Invited No Charge IN UNBREAKABLE PLASTIC! SHULTON Ntw York • Toronto plete its if4th year this month as one of the most popular pieces of writing in all Christ mas lore. ; Dickens wrote the “Carol” ‘within two months, while preoc cupied with the publication of "Martin Chuzzlewit.” The idea for the story, with Scrooge and Tiny Tim as characters, came to the novelist while at a meeting in Manchester, England. He de veloped the story while walking the back streets of London, about 118 to 20 miles a night. The book was a success from DECK THE HALLS The days grow short, the nights grow long, the north wind doth blow, and a light frost appears on the knees of coeds. Christmas is icumen in, and once more our keen young minds turn to the vexing problem of Christmas gifts. Let us examine first the most vexing of all gift problems: What do you buy for the person who has everything? Well sir, when you encounter this dilemma, the best thing to do is seize it by the horns. Ask yourself this question: Does he truly have everything? Does he, for example, have a birthmark? A Mach number? A lacrosse net? An I-beam? An S-hook? A U-bolt? A T-square? A Primus stove? (There is, incidentally, quite an interesting little story about how Primus came to invent thestove. Before Primus’s invention, cooking was rather a hazardous occupation. People just built fires any old piece—the floor, the closet, the escritoire—and often as not the whole house would go up in flames along with the dinner. Primus, a goose plucker of Frankfurt-am-Main, kept thinking there must be a more efficient way to cook. Finally, in a flash of in spiration, it came to him: Why not build a device to contain the fire and keep it from spreading? (Well sir, he built precisely such a device and named it after his beloved wife Stove. Primus’s first Stove, it must he confessed, was less than a triumph; his mistake was in -building it out of paper. The next Stove, built of wood, fared hardly better. Not until he made one out of metal could the Stove really be called a success. (But even then the Stove was not entirely satisfactory. The trouble was that the Stove filled up with ashes and became useless after a few weeks. It remained for Primus's son Frederick to conquer that problem. He invented a mechanism to remove ashes from the bottom of the Stove and was thenceforth known to posterity as Frederick the Grate.) But I digress. We were discussing Christmas gifts. This year, as every year, a popular gift is the smoking jacket. And what do the smoking jackets smoke? Why, Marlboro, of course—every man jacket of them. And why wouldn't they smoke Marlboros? Why wouldn’t anybody with a taste bud in his head? You get such a lot to like in a Marl boro—filter ... flavor... flip-top box. Here is no filter to hollow the cheeks and bug the eye balls; here is a filter that draws nice and easy. Here is no flavor to pale and pall; here is a flavor ever fresh, ever zestful. Here is no flimsy pack to crumble and shred its precious cargo; here is a sturdy box that keeps each ciga rette plump and pristine. Speaking of smoking, the year’s most unusual gift item is a brand-new cigarette lighter that never needs refilling. You are scoffing. You are saving you have heard such claims before. But it s true, I promise you. This new lighter ne\ er, ne\ cr needs refilling! The fuel supply lasts forever. Of course, there are certain disadvantages. For one thing, the lighter is rather bulky-170 feet long and three stories high. But look on the bright side: As the fuel runs out, you can rent rooms in it. Good to give, good to receive, at Christmas or any other time U a carton of filter-tip Marlboros, whose makers take pleasure In bringing you this column throughout the school year. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1957 , the starli on lha Gist day of sales—December 19, 1843—6000 copies were sold. Queen Vic toria was so impressed by tha story that, on the death of Wil liam Thackery. me queen pur chased the signed copy Dickens had given Thackery. Miss Harriet Nesbitt, assistant professor of speech, said, “This classic is enjoyed in the fullest measure only when read aloud. This enables one to hear Scrooge growl, ‘Christmas! Humbug!’ and Tiny Tim echo, ‘God bless us ev ery one!’" On Campus WaxShuJman the A uthor of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and, “Barefoot Boy with Cheek") © 1957, Mu Sbdau
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