For most students, Christmas signals the end of the first semester, when essays have been finished, Christmas parties attended, and goodbyes said.
In December 1966 he booked Pink Floyd, then yet to make a record, for the Students Christmas Carnival there, paying them a smaller fee than the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
At Fillmore High School last week, economics teacher Debbie Hoffman put her students through Christmas-shopping boot camp.
It seemed like the government was giving students an early Christmas present last month, when George Osborne announced the introduction of a postgraduate loan system.
Last outing for University College London students; high tea at the Wallace Collection followed by final evening at the theatre (Kit Harrington in True West for some students, and A Christmas Carol for others).
Then elicit a list of Christmas symbols from students (such as Santa Claus, Christmas trees, stockings, ornaments, etc).. Take a poll of which holidays (if any) your students celebrate during the month of December, then ask them if Christmas receives too little, too much or just the right amount of media attention.
The detention of Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia economics student who spent his christmas holiday in North Korea, comes at a particularly difficult time in relations between the US and DPRK.
The class enlisted the help of older students, who made plastic Christmas trees for them.
At Christmas the students ruled the Inn for the day, appointing a Lord of Misrule called the Prince of Purpoole, and organising a masque entirely on their own, with the Benchers and other senior members away for the holiday.
