Members of the Freshman Class will have the privilege of hearing Charles Townsend Copeland '82, known as "Copey" to thousands of his Harvard admirers, give his annual Christmas reading this year on Thursday, December 17, at 8 o'clock in the evening, in the Upstairs Common Room of the Harvard Union.

Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Oratory and nationally famous for his popular anthology, "The Copeland Reader," has always made a practice of reading several selections aloud on an evening prior to the Christmas vacation at the Union. Last year he read several poems, and Dickens' "Christmas Carol."

By consenting to appear at the Union, Professor Copeland, who returned to his famous room in Hollis Hall this fall, despite the new personnel of the Yard, has stated his willingness to offer his services to his new neighbors.

With characteristic positiveness, however, Professor Copeland refused to read in the Large Common Room, and so at best, slightly more than 300 out of the 1000 first year men will be able to hear him. If is largely for this reason that upperclassmen will be excluded, and the advisability of issuing tickets to the first applicants, in the anticipation of a rush, is being considered by the Union Committee.