Word: copey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever-growing hosts of Harvard students who look forward to Copey's Christmas readings are ample testimony to what these affairs have come to mean. The ties of the Boston Symphony to life in Cambridge are perhaps a little less obvious, but they are none the less substantial and real. The orchestra has, in its own way, become as much a part of undergraduate experience to many as have the time-worn benches in Sever or prescribed physical education...
...your roommate owns a record-player, you can hear Copey read the Sixth and Seventh Chapters of the Book of Revelation in the silver tones that have earned him recognition the country over. On hand also is a recording by Bliss Perry, who gives a literary talk on Emerson's "Last Days in Concord" and Thackeray's "Henry Esmond...
Kitty's death was almost the end of a great chapter in Harvard scholarship. Surviving him, but long since retired, are two other legendary professors of English at Harvard who were born in the same year (1860) as he: Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland and Bliss Perry. Kitty, the last to retire, stuck it out to 76 (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936). At his last lecture the room was crowded with reverent Harvard visitors. Kitty lectured as usual on The Winter's Tale. But he did not end his lecture as usual by marching up the aisle and uttering...
Expressing his appreciation that so many came to hear him, "Copey" said he believed it was far better to hear the Bible read aloud than to hear it in church with the accompanying drama and deep emotion. The Bible is part of a solemn ritual, according to Copey and should not be read with dramatic enthusiasm...
...Copey" to Be Honorary Judge...