With only 21 days left until Christmas and even fewer until the annual rite of Secret Santa-ing starts, students are prowling the Square for out-of-the-ordinary gift ideas. But most students' ideas are just too prosaic, so here are some ideas for people who are tired of the routine Hershey kisses and reindeer pins, brought to you by a source of higher knowledge.

`Twas three weeks before Christmas and all through the college,

The students were weary and tired of knowledge.

Instead they were trying to plan a cool Yule,

Searching out gifts for friends at home and at school.

And desperate for suggestions they turned to Old John,

Bronze guardian of veritas they could rely on.

"Tell us John, tell us John, what can we give

To our friends and our families with whom we must live?"

And such pleas of worry they cried through the night,

`Til John deigned to dispense his wisdom and might:

"Students, dear students, be calm and think clearly,

Remember the differences among those you love dearly.

To those for whom studies are supreme over all,

Give a new Barron's book with a toilet trained doll.