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...practically every conceivable outfit in the Service. Some news of Harvard crept in, and, as the war neared an end. Harvard news took an equal share of the paper. Twice, the Service News announced the birthdays of Charles Townsend Copeland, his eighty-fourth and eighty-fifth, once announcing Copey as a "Champion Survivor", and twice describing his intention to see the war through.2
...Spencer, Zechariah Chafee, Perry Miller, and Raphael Demos--was increased by one with the death last Friday of Professor G. Wallace Woodworth. He was--and preferred to be--known, however, simply as "Woody," just as another Harvard giant, Charles T. Copeland, had been universally known to earlier generations as "Copey...
Died. Robert Silliman Hillyer, 66, winner of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and from 1937 to 1944 occupant of Harvard's prestigious Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position previously held by such notables as John Quincy Adams and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; of a heart attack; in Wilmington, Del. A prolific novelist, essayist and critic, Hillyer was most at home in verse where he deftly combined elegance and gentle irony...
...predecessors have been John Quincy Adams, later sixth President of the United States; Edward Tyrell Channing, founder of the North American Review; Francis James Child, who introduced the study of English literature in America; LeBaron Russell Briggs, a great Dean of the College; and Charles Townsend Copeland, the renowned "Copey...
Another living legend--Charles Townsend Copeland--had already left the Yard two months before. No less esteemed than a president, "Copey" had climbed three flights of stairs to his Hollis 15 room for twenty years during which time he made magic of rhetoric for several thousand College men. He still read to freshmen for several years more, but his active teaching life was over...