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...does once a year, out from his Cambridge retirement crept crotchety, cantankerous Emeritus Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland, 80. to read to 400 Harvard freshmen. He asked some questions about Gulliver's Travels and Henry Esmond. The students' replies showed that they did not know very much about either Swift or Thackeray. Moaned "Copey": "Gentlemen, I pray...
...young fellow from Maine graduated with honors from Harvard College. The next year he tried Law School but research through musty legal tomes held little attraction for a lover of good company, good conversation, good wine. So Charles Townsend Copeland turned to journalism and worked on most of the Boston papers of his day. Finally, ten years after his graduation, Harvard called him back to become an instructor in English literature and composition...
...house on Wednesday evening after ten" became the forum of the College where Chaucer might rub elbows with Yale's star half in the discussion. And always, after a little urging, the golden-voiced tutor would read his favorite passages from the Bible, from Kipling, from the classics. The "Copeland Reader," an anthology of these favorites, is the most typical of Copey's books; for he never intended to be a profound scholar, a footnote machine. Copey only wanted to become a good teacher. He became a great one. But Harvard, measuring achievement by output of fine type rather than...
Charles Townsend Copeland, known affectionately among generations of Harvard men as "Copey," will give his annual reading of selected English and American verse, Wednesdaynight at 7:30 in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
...annual reading by Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until after the Christmas vacation, the Union Committee announced last night...