Word: copey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cent jump over last year's figure, nobody knows. Back in the tinselled 'twenties, when Economics, Communism, and Astrology were relegated to the same class as occult sciences, English was a perennial favorite. Who wanted to learn about money? Everyone had plenty. And there were Bliss Perry and Copey and Kirsopp Lake and Kitty and John L. Lowes bubbling over with words of wisdom. They played to standing room only...
...went for a walk, an eternal walk, up and down, around, through the Yard, constantly smoking but never inhaling, smiling, chatting, examining the same buildings and paths, finding something old to chuckle over. He spoke precisely, in balanced periods, and his stories all had rhythm and fetching climaxes. How Copey served caviare to the general of the Salvation Army, how an English A student described the "chaste palpitation" of a snowbank, a priceless story about George Eliot, what Henry James said to the goody--this was his discourse...
...does once a year, out from his Cambridge retirement crept crotchety, cantankerous Emeritus Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland, 80. to read to 400 Harvard freshmen. He asked some questions about Gulliver's Travels and Henry Esmond. The students' replies showed that they did not know very much about either Swift or Thackeray. Moaned "Copey": "Gentlemen, I pray...
...these days of wordy discussion over the relative merits of Concentration and Distribution, we tend to forge the Harvard of fifteen years ago, a university where students chose their courses not so much for the subject matter as for the teacher. It was the era of Kitty and Copey and John Livingston Lowes. Perhaps the greatest of them all was Albert North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, who is celebrating his eightieth birthday today...
Tonight at 7:30 Copey gives his annual reading in the Upper Common Room of the Union...