Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will read Dickens' "Christmas Carol" at tonight's "Christmas Send-Off Party" at the Union. Jones' reading, at 7 p.m. in the Upper Common Room, will be preceded by a plano recital by Paul Knudson '53.
Harvard students backed the plan in weekend petitions, as almost 400 undergraduates promised to stay in Cambridge during Christmas if the University would let girls share their showers.
"The CRIMSON Plan" calls for New York Harvard men to remain in Cambridge during the Christmas holiday, thus preventing a further drain on New York's depleted reservoirs. In addition, each of these men would invite a New York college woman to Cambridge.
Community singing of Christmas carols will conclude the festivities. According to party chairman Ernest T. Berkely '53, the reading of Dickens' work will re-establish a Christmas tradition begun many years age by Charles T Coneland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emertius.
It has, for instance, the tap dancing of Fred Astaire, who clicks his heels and tocs through several excellent routines. In the best of these he dances better while playing a drunk than most of the hoofers could cold sober. Throughout "Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby...