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Charles Townsend Copeland is 90 today. The letters that appear in this issue recollect Copey's era. They are fitting tributes, apt words to wish a Happy Birthday...
...Copey was loved and respected during the 36 years he taught at Harvard. Retired since 1928, his place in Harvard's history is now secured by those who credit much of their achievement to his tutelage. Copey's readings and individual instruction, in the classroom and in his residence in Hollis 15, imbude generations of Harvard men with his personality. He livened education with wit and personal color; yet he warned against the confines of University life, urged his students not to stagnate in the backwaters of undergraduate content...
...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...
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...