Jones Reads Dickens To Freshmen Tonight

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.

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.