Word: copey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Copeland, known and revered by countless alumni as "Copey", has become an almost legendary figure around Harvard. He has served the University in various faculty positions ever since 1893, when he started as a lecturer on English Literature...
...different generations, there were different men. First it was Billy the Postman, the first mail-carrier the Yard over knew, who made the sagging wooden steps his lecture platform, and the students, then upperclassmen, his audience. Then Copey captured the imagination of the literary community with his intimate soirees in 13-15, gatherings that were to be the inspiration for men such as Reed, Lippmann and Dos Passos...
...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 Freshman who is completely strange to Cambridge can pick up as he goes along--but it is a good idea to know who "Copey" is, what "Rheinhardt" signifies, and who "Barry Wood" was, to cite a few examples...
Another famed Harvard character is "Copey"--Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, the second in the immortal trio of "Kitty and Copey and Bliss." "Kitty" was Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, renowned Shakespearean scholar, who died a year ago, while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be 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." About each of these the legends are never-ending...
Charles Townsend Copeland's method of teaching English composition was once described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch-can wrestling match." Anyone who interested him was entitled to enjoy "Copey's" friendship and genius. Once or twice every year Copeland still gives a reading to the Freshman class, a highlight in the student's first year at Harvard...