LEDGER
HUSSON
Volume XXI,
No. 2
HUSSON
December, 1947
COLLEGE, BANGOR, MAINE
MERRY CHRISTMAS from
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HUSSON LEDGER WHAT IS CHRISTMAS? BERNARD A. WILBUR, JR. Christmas is the one day in the year when people ev:erywhere take leave of By
their daily tasks to exchange gif-ts. _It is the day when children await in anxious anticipation the opening of the gaily wrapped gifts, which have lain undisturbed, for some few days, beneath the fragrant evergreen tree in the front room. It is the day when family, friends, and
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relatives gather around a huge table in the center of which sets a large, nutbrowned, roasted chicken, surrounded with dishes of all the other traditional delicacies of the perfect Christmas dinner. But wait! Something is lacking here. It is Christmas is more than this. more than gifts and evergreen trees and Christmas dinners. It is more than just a day. It is even more than a state of mind. ' It is a way of life. Because of the commercialization of Christmas we have come to lose sight of this day's true significance. And, too, the world is filled with skeptics and defeatists whose belief in Christmas is sadly lacking; who laugh at it and refer to it as a myth and a hoax. Because the limit of their conception of human values is based upon a dollar
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CHRISTMAS EVE By CHARLES
T. ·BUTERA
The city is covering with a blanket
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There's Christmas spirit where ever you go. 'Tis Christmas Eve, let's all be gay, For tomorrow is a merry day. The minstrels on the corner sing And passing by the sleigh-bells ring. Asleep at home are the little tots, With Santa Claus among their thoughts. A lovelier sight I'll never see, Than a decorated Christmas tree. A gay prevailing atmosphere, With humble hearts all filled with cheer. Most people are happy on this fine night, Even the pove1·ty stricken forget their plight. • For tomorrow is the day of days, When Christ was born to mend our ways.
CHRISTMAS ASSEMBLY Fellow students, on Friday Dec. 12, Mr. Haurin will again present you with another glee club assembly. This assembly will be in conjunction with the coming of Christmas. Most of you by then will have the Christmas spirit deeply i111bedded in your hearts, so it will come to you as a pleasant surprise. I myself cannot think of anything more beautiful than the corning of Christmas and the singing :if Christmas songs. Mr. Haurin with this in mind has prepared a musical program. 'A program devoted solely to the corning of Christmas with such beautiful and sacred songs, we remember since childhood, as "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", "Joy to the World", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "Silent Night", "While the Shepherds Watched Their Flocks"; the gay and rollicking "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" and "Jingle Bells". -1\nd the still popular lilting melodies of "Winter Wonderland"; "White Christmas" and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town". Richard Danforth, the president of the glee club, will sing "O Holy Night". Mr. Hourin and the glee club have worked out a specialty number on "We three Kings of Orient are".
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