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...Copey, most venerable and most beloved of Harvard's institutions, is seventy-six today. His birthday will be celebrated at the Harvard Club of New York, where the famous teacher will give one of his annual readings to members of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association. Tonight's reading will mark the thirtieth of a series which began in 1906, the only break in the chain having occurred last year, when Copey passed his birthday in Cambridge...
Because his undergraduate idol, "Copey" (Professor Charles Townsend Copeland) told him he must "see life" if he wanted to write. Reed made his first trip to Europe on a cattle-boat, then discovered that Paris was the greatest place in the world. Back in Manhattan, Lincoln Steffens got him a job on the American Magazine. Soon it began to look like Harvard all over again. He was taken into the Dutch Treat Club, was spoken of as a coming man by many a highly-paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running...
...presentation of Cambridge and Harvard, replete with old anecdotes and mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...
Professor Copeland's reading will begin at 7.30 o'clock tonight in the Upper Common Room of the Union, following the Freshman Christmas Dinner. This will mark over four decades of Harvard readings by Copey, who started the series years before the Union was built...
Kendric N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government, who introduced Copey last year as "the tradition, known from the wilds of Arabia to the plains of China, where mothers still their babes with the word that Copey shall read to them if they are good," will preside again...