Word: copey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after two years even Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, beloved as "Copey" to generations of Harvard men and a fixture in Hollis Hall, had to admit that the Freshmen were as gentlemanly as their predecessors. Other observers noted that all the buildings were still standing...
From 1892 to 1928 "Copey" taught English at Harvard. Famed for his courses in English composition, he has influenced many graduates in their literary careers. He has written several books, two of which, the "Copeland Reader" and the "Copeland Translations" have been deemed most valuable contributions to American letters...
This year "Copey" has not carried out his annual custom of giving a Christmas reading to the Freshman Class, reading on Christmas Eve at the President's house, or spending ten Wednesday evenings with a few Yardlings at his Concord Street apartment, because of his doctor's orders that he should not have too many definite engagements. He will, however, give a Bible reading on May 4 in the upper common room of the Union...
...brilliant, hard-working student who finished his undergraduate course in three years, took an M. A. in his fourth. His interests were always violently eclectic, never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley...
...However "Copey," as he was affectionately known to a generation of students, will read at President Conant's Christmas Eve Party, and students of the Class of '42, keenly disappointed at the break in this tradition, are in hopes that he will come later in the year to the Union to deliver a reading from the Bible...