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...this description of Copey's teaching sounds a little mad, all I can says is that by the conventional rules it was mad, as genius is so often mad. But in these personal bouts, which were his substitute for pedagogy, miracles were occasionally performed that have placed him among the very great teachers of our time...
...inimitable. And yet, if I understand the new system which has revolutionized the method of instruction since I was at Harvard, Copey was one of its pioneers. Thirty years ago he was already acting on the assumption that teaching is not the handing down of knowledge from a platform to an anonymous mass of note-takers, but that it is the personal encounter of two individuals. Those appalling clinches in Hollis, those dreaded exposures in the class room, the searching intimacy from which all protection was removed, were in fact a continuing demonstration against mass instruction and the regimentation...
Elsewhere in the CRIMSON are far more eloquent testimonials than we could ever pen to one of Harvard's most distinguished and best loved figures. That his former pupils, writing years after graduation, still retain a vivid picture of Copey as an individual, and still appreciate his peculiar abilities as a teacher, is to those who know him praise more fitting than surprising...
Those who had the privilege of studying with Copey will long remember him as one of the greatest in a justly famous and fast vanishing group of humanists. While remarkably familiar with every nook and cranny of English literature. Copey was not--nor would he claim to be--a scholar in the strictest sense. But there is something in the fact that yearly the Harvard Club invites Copey to New York to give a Christmas reading; there is something in Copey's annual intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span...
...repeat, testimonials in addition to those written by Copey's pupils must seem futile. But the CRIMSON takes pride in joining the celebration of the birthday of a man who, despite the varied demands of an active career, has always given successive CRIMSON boards the benefits of his interest and advice...