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...greeting to Charles Copeland on his 90th birthday invokes so many memories of personal friendship and public benefaction, so much of the spirit of the older and more humanistic Harvard, that the pen falters. All that he taught was precisely yet warmly of the best. No inference in the tremendous Harvard of my day drew its light from purer sources of diffused it more generously...

Author: By Oratory (-), | Title: Hillyer Hails Copeland As 'Example Forever' | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Roylsion Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emerlins, celebration his 90th birthday today. Copey, as he was known during his 36 years at the University, will spend the day quietly at his Concord Avenue home. His health forbids the elaborate observances that used to be held...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Professor Copeland Is 90, Taught Here for 36 Years | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

Copey was one member of the famed literature-teaching trio at the University which included the late George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English, and Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus, who will himself celebrate his 90th birthday in November...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Professor Copeland Is 90, Taught Here for 36 Years | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

...oldest living alumnus of the Law School, Winthrop H. Wade '81, will receive the congratulations of his associates today on his 90th birthday. Wade, who has practiced law in Boston for 66 years, still commutes once a week from his home in Dedham to his office on 50 Congress Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oldest Harvard Law Grad Is 90 | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the Rev. Bernard R. ("The Glacier Priest") Hubbard disclosed that the U.S. Air Force recently took a "fix" of the North Pole with loran (longrange navigation) beams aimed from Alaska to intersect at the 90th meridian. Father Hubbard, who is serving as an Arctic consultant to Colonel Bernt Balchen's 10th Rescue Squadron, said that U.S. Air Force planes had circled the North Pole 300 times, taking photographs of the spot marked by the crossing electronic beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Poles Apart | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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