With the reading period and examinations coming we think it about time for our annual Christmas story with moral. It is a true story, it might happen to you, or even to your roommate.

Once upon a time, last spring, a Freshman football player was faced with his weekly English A theme, as yet unborn after an evening at the movies. His gridiron experience, however, had given him resource in crises, and this particular resource he found in his desk drawer. It was an "A" theme in English A, submitted by his brother some years before. In its earliest known history it had been handed in by a long graduated cousin and had also received an A.

The Freshman blithely recopled the work, and added it to the sum total of Freshman required intellect. A week later at a section meeting he got it back marked "E" and also annotated "This is the worst thing I have ever seen in English A. Please see me at the end of the hour." The Freshman was more incensed at the unnatural grade on the paper than his discretion could bear. So he made a clean breast of the affair, including some covered references to the instructor's ability to grade.

"I confess, I find it hard to give your paper an E," said the latter, "especially inasmuch as I received an 'A' on it when it was originally written eight years ago."