Word: copey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Townsend Copeland, "Copey" to thousands of Harvard alumni, ideal of the Harvard Club of New York, nationally known teacher and connoisseur of literature, editor of "The Copeland Reader", and, last but not least, high priest of the Yard, has announced that he will descend from the Hollis empyrean and give his annual Christian reading in the Union for members of the Freshman Class alone...
...author of two scholarly books on Puritan Increase Mather. He is an able executive, and (like most successful junior savants) he has eschewed the eccentricities which were once almost obligatory to fame. There have clustered about him no such legends as those relating to Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland or bushy-lipped Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department, who sometimes goes bicycling in Edwardian shepherd's-plaid knickerbockers. Professor Murdock, son of Boston Banker Harold Murdock, is pleasant, humorless, sometimes a bit too easy to convince. His campus nickname: "Cotton-Top." It is told how a student...
Once again the fellow sauntered in and out of the old dormitories in the Yard and sighed for days of other years when the Yard was populated by the knowing ones. Stoughton, Hollis, approved by Copey, his thoughts wandered and he glanced at the printed lists which advertise the names of former inmates of the old digs. Ah, here was a cousin of his father's, an old rogue's hangout. And the Vagabond wondered if the word hangout originated as a term for the age-old practice of hanging out one's window to watch parades, fights, riots, lovers...
...Much of Copey's hold over his audience comes from his distinct personality. His gestures, slight inflections, and side comments, which are all a part of this personality, give his reading its individual stamp. The microphone cannot pick up these essential elements...
However, those admirers of Copey outside of Harvard's walls, if no more enthusiastic, are at least more numerous; for since 1900 Harvard has graduated its yearly half thousand. In order that these old friends may hear Copey's voice and imagine his personal touch, one is inclined to endorse the Herald's suggestion and to hope that a broadcast may be arranged. The Harvard family to whom Copey each year reads Christmas stories would thus be united. A place in it would not be usurped, for only those who have known him will be listening to the real Copey...