Word: copey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean Pound from the Harvard Law School. President Lowell had made a stirring announcement about Harvard's eating arrangements. Leland Stanford's debating team was coming to Cambridge for a debate on Science. But none of these events could overshadow the fact that, after all these years, "Copey" had at last published his anthology...
...home of the legend that, is "Copey"-and no disrespect is meant by Harvard men when they thus nickname their Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratorv; but rather affection, for he would sooner be "Copey" than president- is up a high but never arduous flight of steps, on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall. Thither, every Monday night of college for some 33 years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be com- fortably disposed...
Freshmen inevitably hear of "Copey" within their first week .at Harvard, if not long before, but they may pass him many times in the street before knowing him by sight. There is nothing to notice about a little fellow of 66, as small, indeed, as the smallest freshman, in traditional oldtime professorial garb-old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia...
...reading, as non-Harvard men can discover in "Copey's" an- thology, may start off with something from the Bible-nothing dull like all those "begatters" (ST. MATTHEW,) but something with action like the Israelites' conquest of Canaan (JUDGES IV :V), something affecting like David's lament for Absalom (SAMUEL XVIII; XIX), or something portentous out of REVELATION. Or it may begin with so different a thing as Lewis Carroll's "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; " And yet you incessantly stand on your head...
...have occurred to "Copey" to acquaint his listeners with the writing of some Harvard man-the late Poet Allan Seeger, who was doubtless one of the hundreds of men-with whom "Copey" kept up a lively correspondence as his contribution to the War; or Funnyman Robert Benchley, of Life; or Heywood Broun, idly-ambling colyumist of the New York World...