Word: copey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kendric N. Marshall '21, assistant in Government, introduced Copey not as "the teacher and the man" but as "the tradition, known from the wilds of Arabia to the plains of China where mothers still their babes with the word that Copey shall read to them if they are good...
Then after reading some "boners" with which freshmen at one of the great western colleges had answered their intelligence tests, Copey recited Kipling's "Truce of the Bear," and read Finley Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on Kipling" and Stephen Leacock's "My Financial Career...
Later in the year the Freshmen may have an opportunity to hear Copey give one of his Bible selection readings, which he is at present compiling in a further anthology...
Following his usual custom Copey has not yet announced the selections to be read. For the meeting last year there was such a large turnout that literally dozens of Freshmen could not be admitted and had to be turned away...
Since the House was established. Copey, as he is known to his admirers, has annually read to its members at about this time. But contrary to his usual custom, this year he is announcing beforehand some of the selections which he has chosen. Among them are Browning's "Epistle of Karshish" and "Up at a Vills," Keate' "Ode to a Nightingale," and Tennyson's "Ballad of the Revenge." As Copey intends to read only poetry, he is especially cager that all those who have real interest in that field be present...