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...Copey fans all over the country have sent congratulatory messages and gifts to the self-styled "champion survivor" of the Faculty, who was 84 yesterday...
...different generations, there were different men. First it was Billy the Postman, the first mail-carrier the Yard ever knew, who made the sagging wooden steps his lecture platform, and the students, then upperclassmen, his audience. Then Copey captured the imagination of the literary community with his intimate soirees in 13-15, gatherings that were to be the inspiration for men such as Reed, Lippmann, and Des Passos...
...together in people's minds, and Harvard has more than its share of both, as is befitting its three centuries of existence. Some of these a serviceman who is completely strange to Cambridge can pick up as he goes along--but it's a good idea to know who "Copey" is, what "Rheinhardt" signifies, and who "Barry Wood" was, to cite a few examples...
Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...
Divorced. Robert Silliman Hillyer, 48, 1933's Pulitzer Prize poet, Harvard's successor as Boylston professor of rhetoric to the famed, retired Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; by Dorothy Hancock Tilton Hillyer, 36; after 17 years of marriage; in Reno...