Word: copey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly so angry about this, however, as is that other champion of outworn traditions in spelling, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland (known as Copey, and to headline writers as Copy or Coppy...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, known to hundreds of Harvard alumni and undergraduates as "Copey," will give his annual Christmas reading at 4.30 o'clock on Tuesday, December 19. His selections have not yet been announced, but no matter what they are, a large gathering will certainly assemble to hear him read. His two readings last year, one of which was entirely from the King James version of the Bible, were attended by a large number of enthusiastic Freshmen who filled to overflowing the upstairs common room of the Union...
...were given in the living room downstairs. In the upstairs living room, at the far end of the hall, a series of informal talks by prominent professors on topics of current interest was sponsored by last year's Union Committee. It was in this room that Harvard's famous "Copey" gave his Christmas reading exclusively for the first-year men. The Debating Council also used this room for its meetings and forums...
...life of a college generation being only four years, the liaison of the Freshmen and the Yard has already begun to take on an aspect of hoary tradition. "Copey," Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, has reluctantly abandoned his famous rooms under the roof of Hollis Hall. But the cry of "Reinhart," (shocking to the decorous quiet of the House quadrangles) rings out all the more volubly from the throats of Freshmen...
Well over six feet in height and built to be a wrestler. Professor Merriman lectures in a deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat...