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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
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L.A. STUDENTS!
Don't Miss
Career Night
You're Future May Depend Upon it!
7 p.m. December 19 . HUB Auditorium
presented by
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• 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
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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