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...these days of wordy discussion over the relative merits of Concentration and Distribution, we tend to forge the Harvard of fifteen years ago, a university where students chose their courses not so much for the subject matter as for the teacher. It was the era of Kitty and Copey and John Livingston Lowes. Perhaps the greatest of them all was Albert North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, who is celebrating his eightieth birthday today...
Unlike the rest of the Faculty whose haughty dignity frosted anyone without at least a full beard and a full professorship, Copey, as he was soon known, became friendly with undergraduates of all sorts. His "open house on Wednesday evening after ten" became the forum of the College where Chaucer might rub elbows with Yale's star half in the discussion. And always, after a little urging, the golden-voiced tutor would read his favorite passages from the Bible, from Kipling, from the classics. The "Copeland Reader," an anthology of these favorites, is the most typical of Copey's books...
Today a poet has replaced Copey as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and the famous bath sponge no more hangs out to dry from the third floor of Hollis every Saturday night. Copey has ripened into a living legend which will remain a part of the college as long as tradition exists. Harvard will not forget the sympathetic mentor who first rubbed out the Harvard indifference between Faculty and students; the instructor of whom John Reed could say "He stimulated generations of men to find color and strength and beauty in books and in the world, and to express...
Tonight at 7:30 Copey gives his annual reading in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
Even though his eighty-first year will roll by this coming April, Copey's golden voice, which has flattered many a poem since his readings became famous, has never wavered. His custom of conferences with all who want to meet the famous professor, has kept him in constant touch with undergraduate life...