Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, is to give his annual Christmas reading tonight at the Harvard Union at 8.30 o'clock, at which time the doors will be closed promptly and late-comers will be turned away. Union members only will be admitted.

The entire program has not been announced; however among Professor Copeland's readings will be "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain.