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Copey was loved and respected during the 36 years he taught at Harvard. Retired since 1928, his place in Harvard's history is now secured by those who credit much of their achievement to his tutelage. Copey's readings and individual instruction, in the classroom and in his residence in Hollis 15, imbude generations of Harvard men with his personality. He livened education with wit and personal color; yet he warned against the confines of University life, urged his students not to stagnate in the backwaters of undergraduate content...
Harvard can seldom have boasted a more colorful, witty, individual, or idiosyncratic professor than Copey. He was a performer who had the gift of making a classroom seem like a theatre. He had not read Dr. Johnson in vain. Many of his remarks cried for a Boswell...
Copey knew good writing. He respected it. It was the passion of his life. Furthermore, student after student over many, many years left his classroom sharing both that passion and that respect. Though the title pages of books written by his former pupils may not mention his name, countless American writers could claim Copey as a collaborator...
...high-school classroom one night last week a group of Ottawa's retail store clerks listened attentively to the first in a series of lectures, sponsored by the Ottawa Board of Trade, on a delicate subject: how to captivate tourists. First lecturer was the mayor himself, portly E. A. Bourque. Ottawans in general, the mayor told the class, should cut their lawns, paint their houses and keep their garbage cans out of sight. Above all, they ought to take care when driving through puddles not to splash pedestrians. "The people you splash might be tourists," he warned, "and tourists...
...Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., T-Y-TY." The TYTY was a bit of Riley humor. Since schoolchildren used to spell by syllable (e.g., PURITY, p-u-r-PUR; iI; t-y-TY), the alphabet after the "perfesser's" name brought forth from Riley the old classroom response...