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...tidewater Virginia. In England he had a year at a private school, afterwards prepared for Harvard at the Choate School. At Harvard, where he was in the same class (1916) with Authors Robert Nathan and Robert Littell, he wrote for the literary magazines but was distinctly not one of "Copey's" (Professor Charles Townsend Copeland's) boys. Dos Passos was constantly on the point of leaving Harvard but never quite got around to it. Though he graduated cum laude, he thinks he got little out of college, regards his four years there as largely wasted. Like his father...
...with his knowledge. Only a flesh and blood individual, trained by flesh and blood teachers, can knead the plastic and indigestible thing called knowledge into beneficial roughage. His skill is acquired through an active mind as well as learned lessons. Because of deficiencies in the English language which even Copey has been unable to rectify, this part of a Langer must be described as personality, inspiration, genuineness. When it is missing, students might just as well forsake the classroom for the printed page...
...October, 1920, and was buried under the Kremlin. "In America the revolutionary movement prepared its tributes. Even the kept press that he hated praised John Reed now that he was dead. Friends stopped each other on the street and talked about him. To the students of English 12, Copey, cursing the Bolsheviki, praised the courage and loyalty of his Jack Reed. There were many who talked about wasted talent, and some whose pat phrases concealed relief. But in Atlanta and Leavenworth, in Sing Sing and Cook County Jail, in hundreds of prisons, and in the hiding-places of an outlawed...
...When "Copey" reads, the Bible draws an enthusiastic audience. A maximum quota of fifty hearers was easily filled last night at the Union as "Copey," who recently celebrated his 76th birthday, sallied forth once more from the seclusion of 5 Concord Avenue to entertain his first love, the Freshman class...
...care of an ample bodyguard "Copey" arrived on time to find a waiting capacity audience, carefully adjusted the light, as is his custom. Read Kipling's "The Sergeaui and the Pharaoh," extracts from the Book of the Ruth, and the story of the Prodigal...