Word: copey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together in people's minds, and Harvard has more than its share of both, as is befitting its three centuries of existence. Some of these a serviceman who is completely strange to Cambridge can pick up as he goes along--but it's a good idea to know who "Copey" is, what "Rheinhardt" signifies, and who "Barry Wood" was, to cite a few examples...
Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...
Divorced. Robert Silliman Hillyer, 48, 1933's Pulitzer Prize poet, Harvard's successor as Boylston professor of rhetoric to the famed, retired Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; by Dorothy Hancock Tilton Hillyer, 36; after 17 years of marriage; in Reno...
...Copey fans all over the country have started to send congratulatory messages and gifts to the self-styled "champion survivor" of the Faculty, who will be 83 tomorrow...
...last of Harvard's living traditions, Copey expects to be around when students return to complete their interrupted education. The College will be unchanged, he predicts, but it will not include a great many men now expecting to come back...