Word: copey
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...Copey will make his traditional Christmas reading to undergraduates for the first time in five years from a plastic disk tonight at 8:30 o'clock as the Crimson Network presents a half-hour transcription of a recital by now-legendary Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus...
...legend of the Copey readings is a part of the Kitty-Copey-Bliss tradition well remembered by latter-day Harvard men. Of the other members of the trio, George Lyman Kittredge '82 is gone, and Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus, is inactive...
...endless chain of anecdotes have sprung up about 86-year-old Charles Townsend Copeland. There is the unauthenticated tale of his becoming eligible for a professorship only to be stymied by the fact that he had no Ph.D. Faced with the problem of locating someone who could give Copey an oral examination, the board gave up in despair and waived the requirement. To this day he holds only a Doctor of Letters award...
...artist rather than a scholar," says George Santayana '86 in his book, "The Middle Span," harking back to the nineteenth century days when, as a member of the University, he had joined the throng at Copey's reading...
...world, he is always "Copey," although he has written the CRIMSON not to use that term anymore. "The name," he said, "is Copeland...