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Most undergraduates will have their first opportunity to hear a tradition-bound "Copey" reading tomorrow night when Charles Townsend Copeland '82 Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will come out of retirement to give his first Christmas recital since 1941 over the Crimson Network at 8:30 o'clock...
Along with his Christmas recitals, an endless chain of anecdotes have sprung up about 86-year-old Charles Townsend Copeland. There is the unauthenticated tale of his becoming eligible for a professorship only to be stymied by the fact that he had no Ph.D. Faced with the problem of locating someone who could give Copey an oral examination, the board gave up in despair and waived the requirement. To this day he holds only a Doctor of Letters award...
...position it commands in the scholastic community. College anywhere is an experience of youth that is cherished in the memory the majority and buried away by the hypersensitive few. But memories of attendance at Harvard are enriched by the intellectual imprint of such greats as Charles Townsend Copeland, Barrett Wendell, Santayana and others. Therein lies a great measure of lasting loyalty. Pure nostalgia often plays a part in bringing men back to Cambridge and thus exposing them to the initial taste of alumni activity. But perhaps the strongest drive among the forces behind the alumni is that of pride...
Loaded with goalie talent, the team boasts John Lavalle, former tender of the nets for St. Paul's School, and two Freshmen, Copeland Draper and Bill Yetman. The latter is a Nova Scotian and former Junior Olympic star...
...Wallace Stegner's disappearance is to raise the shade of one of the oldest and heariest problems in the Department's history, the issue of whether or not creative artists have a rightful place on the Faculty. Stegner occupied, while he was here, one of the Briggs-Copeland instructor must go elsewhere after his appointment is completed. As a result, other colleges have represented on their faculties such outstanding men of letters as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and W. H. Auden, while Harvard undergraduates must get along on a starvation diet of composition courses and depend for the inspiration...