Word: copey
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...back as any undergraduate or "middle-aged" graduate of the College can remember, Copey's readings have been an essential part of the life of the University. Through the trying years of the war we were able to struggle along without sugar and coal, we willingly gave up our afternoons to close order drill, and even renounced our hereditary privilege of beating Yale on the gridiron. But exist without readings from "Copey" we could...
...that he is really a part of the University until he has heard "Copey" read. And once having been present at one of the readings he follows the path to them, beaten by the countless footsteps of men in former years, as often as the privilege is given, which, like all desirable events, comes far too rarely...
...boys, Copey, have done remarkably well. I am with the French and I know how the French feel. We have bragged a lot about what we should do, and the best of it is we are going ahead of what we really thought we were able to do. The American is no longer a curiosity on this side. We see hundreds of them every day, and it is wonderful to see the way they are pouring...
...Well, Copey, my twin brother was killed in France last week. You never knew him because he went to Yale, but he was a fine fellow. He would have been manager of the football team there last fall if he had stayed in college, and he was president of Scroll and Keys when he left for France. That is not an infallible proof that he was all right, but it shows what his own class thought of him, and you can take my word for it anyway, that you don't meet a man of his ability and kindness...
...This is an era of camouflage. These sagacious upperclassmen will walk into Smith Halls Common Room tonight in the guise of Freshmen. They are powerful men, so we should like to give a word of advice to the Freshmen. If you wish a seat or even a place at Copey's reading tonight, be there early. Otherwise your big brothers will be in your appointed places...