Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are cons to this discussion and even the non-resident undergraduate can offer certain of his views. Boston has these in its favor: the Charles River, the State House (architecturally speaking), the Public Gardens in the spring, an excellent array of burlesque houses, beans, the intersection of Boylston and Tremont streets on a windy day, an interesting and odiferous market section, an Irish aristocracy which came over on the Mayflower, an English aristocracy which came over so long ago that it has forgotten the exact era, a charmingly decrepit business district, and good train and boat connections elsewhere. There...
Professor C. T. Copeland '92 Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory will give his annual Christmas Reading a the Union on December 19 at 8.30 o'clock. Members may apply for one ticket only. As there are only 300 tickets available, men who wish to hear Professor Copeland read should procure their tickets at the Union today...
Despite his leave of absence for the current academic year, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will again this winter give a Christmas reading at the Union...
...Bridge after a big game and still retaining sufficient composure to philosophize may well compare the scene before him to certain similar parades in the French Revolution. What modern panorama is so much like the march to Versailles as the sight of those crowds which billow and surge down Boylston Street, filling every square, inch of the lane between Smith Halls and the subway walls? Thousands mill around thousands and the vista as far as eye can reach in November dusk is one of bobbing heads and shoulders...
Other traditions have been allowed to die. Professor Copeland, as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, is allowed to keep a cow in the Yard; but unfortunately he does not do so. To serenade the Professors' daughters and pretty girls of Cambridge is no longer an fait. Still other customs remain in altered from. There is still a tree orator on Class Day, though there is no tree. And the confettl battle in the Stadium on the same day is but the mild aftermath of the great struggle around the tree. In the space which now composes the Bollis-Harvard...