Word: copey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has a considerable capacity for self-celebration. University chroniclers manage to narrate two centuries of picturesque student shenanigans (to set against the serious troubles of the 1960's) or to commemorate fabled teachers, such as the Mr. Chips-like "Copey." They do not recall how before American entry into World War I, Charles Copeland, who lived his adult life in an undergraduate dormitory and never traveled in Europe, unremittingly goaded his comely, impressionable students into volunteering for often lethal service in rickety biplanes and ambulances in France...