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They are Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, President of the University from 1910 to 1933; George Lyman Kittredge '82, indisputably the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and much else of English literature; Charles Townsond Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetorie and Oratory, emeritus, the "Copey" who has been literary father of many American writers; and Alfred North Whitehead, the brilliant mathematician and philosopher...
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Here since 1892 and active until 1928, "Copey" is perhaps the best known of these Harvard greats. The "cult of Copey" gained renown early. His method of teaching English composition, for the most part carried on in Hollis 15, once occupied by Emerson and Eliot, was described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch can wrestling match...
...Copey will read from the King James Bible and from Kipling. Owing to the limited capacity of the Upper Common Room, it is asked that only Freshmen attend...
Heaping honor upon fame, the International Mark Twain Society has recently made Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, an honorary member. "Copey" will be surrounded in the Society by such famous names as the Honorable Winston Churchill, England's representative, and Andre Maurois, French author...