Word: copey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that it was given twice the following year. The year after it was first announced, English 33hf was joined by a third American literature course, English 45hf, "The Lives, Characters, and Times of Men of Letters, English and American." This was given by the beloved Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland...
...rather be expelled by him than be praised by anyone else," a nineteenth century undergraduate once commented. His testament, sincere if overstated, was a tribute to the greatness of the late LeBarron Russell Briggs '75, confidant of "Copey" and "Kitty" in the days of "too much teaching and too little studying" in Harvard College...
...after a faculty reshuffle in 1890 and elected Radcliffe president in 1902, where he remained for 23 years, "first tried to help offenders and then disciplined them", according to one biographer. Samuel Eliot Morison '08 writes: "He is the only teacher to be mentioned in the same breath with Copey. Briggs operated on the moral, Copey on the intellectual and aesthetic natures of young...
...bombshell arrived in mid-January when the great Copey--Charles Townsend Copeland '32--unexpectedly announced his plans to retire at the end of the academic year on the advice of his doctor. Luckly for the undergraduate, be planned to keep his famous Hollis 15 room and the equally famous discussion hours that passed behind its doors. For more than 30 years, the legendary figure had lectured from Harvard podiums, and it was all but impossible for many to imagine the University without...
...this mythical hero of two later generations of would-be revolutionaries. His career as a writer, his reaction against the World War, his associations, and inborn rebelliousness more surely led Reed to communism. For, to Reed, revolution was, as John Dos Passos '16 writes, "a voice as mellow as Copey's, Diogenes Steffens with Marx for a lantern going through the west looking for a good man, Socrates Steffens kept asking why not resolution? Jack Reed wanted to live in a tub and write verses; but he kept meeting bums workingmen husky guys he liked out of luck...