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From 1892 to 1928 "Copey" taught English at Harvard. Famed for his courses in English composition, he has influenced many graduates in their literary careers. He has written several books, two of which, the "Copeland Reader" and the "Copeland Translations" have been deemed most valuable contributions to American letters...
...brilliant, hard-working student who finished his undergraduate course in three years, took an M. A. in his fourth. His interests were always violently eclectic, never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley...
...However "Copey," as he was affectionately known to a generation of students, will read at President Conant's Christmas Eve Party, and students of the Class of '42, keenly disappointed at the break in this tradition, are in hopes that he will come later in the year to the Union to deliver a reading from the Bible...
Lippmann, writing in the special CRIMSON issue published on the occasion of Copeland's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested him." Two of his works, the "Copeland Translations" and the "Copeland Reader," were described by Robert Hillyer '17, present holder of Copey's famous chair, an "a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud...
Once or twice a year Copey gives a reading to the Freshman Class in the Union. His Christmas reading is a highlight in Yardling life. From time to times he sees a few members of each new class, selected by their English teachers, in his Concord St. apartment...