Word: copey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their year at Cambridge. Last week Harvard invited MacLeish back for life. The Harvard Corporation picked him for the 178-year-old Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first held by John Quincy Adams and later by such great teachers as LeBaron Russell Briggs (1904-25) and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland...
...pair tells it, a 3 a.m. awakening found Copey even more irascible than he was in class. "Boys, go away," he growled. The crestfallen postulants departed, but they left the stein on his doorstep "as a mute offering of respect and friendship...
...pewter beer stein with a clear crystal bottom, left on "Copey's" door mat 35 years ago this month, came home to 14 Plympton Street yesterday...
Yesterday a little brown package arrived at the CRIMSON from John P. Brown '14, one of the two perpetrators. He supplied the stein's biography as far as Copey's door mat, but he preserved in secrecy the rest of the saga...
...Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that...