Campus Christmas

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Abstract

This program celebrates with photos and songs the centuries of international university Christmases, such as at Johns Hopkins' Bologna (Italy) Center. The seventy-member Johns Hopkins University Glee Club, directed by James Mitchell, sings such pieces as "O Come, O Come, Emanuel," "Indulci Jubilo," "Salvation is Created," and "Angels We Have Heard on High." An 1884 photo shows the first 13-member Hopkins Glee Club including Woodrow Wilson, and a 1957 photo shows the traditional Gilman Hall Step Sing. Projecting into the future, an electronic brain generates Christmas songs with electrons, as they might be played in 2057. Johns Hopkins University president Milton S. Eisenhower discusses the celebration of the nativity and the Christian principles by which free men live and on which universities center their programs.