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Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, beloved teacher of generations of Harvard men who know him affectionately as "Copey," will give his annual reading on Tuesday, January 12, at 7:30 o'clock, in Emerson...
...Know as "Copey" to alumni and students, Professor Copeland has served the University in various Faculty positions since 1893. He was 84 this year. He is a member of the famous Class of '82, which included among other notables, George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature and famous Shakespeare authority, who died last year...
Professor Copeland, known and revered by countless alumni as "Copey", has become an almost legendary figure around Harvard. He has served the University in various faculty positions ever since 1893, when he started as a lecturer on English Literature...
...different generations, there were different men. First it was Billy the Postman, the first mail-carrier the Yard over 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 Dos Passos...
Another famed Harvard character is "Copey"--Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, the second in the immortal trio of "Kitty and Copey and Bliss." "Kitty" was Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, renowned Shakespearean scholar, who died a year ago, while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be 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." About each of these the legends are never-ending...