Word: copey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They are Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, President of the University from 1910 to 1933; George Lyman Kittredge '82, indisputably the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and much else of English literature; Charles Townsond Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetorie and Oratory, emeritus, the "Copey" who has been literary father of many American writers; and Alfred North Whitehead, the brilliant mathematician and philosopher...
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Here since 1892 and active until 1928, "Copey" is perhaps the best known of these Harvard greats. The "cult of Copey" gained renown early. His method of teaching English composition, for the most part carried on in Hollis 15, once occupied by Emerson and Eliot, was described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch can wrestling match...
Lippmann, writing in the special CRIMSON issue published on the occasion of Copeland's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested him." Two of his works, the "Copeland Translations" and the "Copeland Reader," were described by Robert Hillyer '17, present holder of Copey's famous chair, an "a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud...
Once or twice a year Copey gives a reading to the Freshman Class in the Union. His Christmas reading is a highlight in Yardling life. From time to times he sees a few members of each new class, selected by their English teachers, in his Concord St. apartment...