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...Copey has been at Harvard since 1892 and was active in teaching until 1928. Previous to his career at Harvard, he served six years on the staff of a morning paper...
Until 1932, Copey lived in the College Yard, the last twenty-eight years of this time in Hollis 15, a room already made famous by a year's residence of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Charles William Eliot's residence here, and by that of Morris Copeland, author of the first book on landscape gardening in this country...
From the windows of this room, a friendly beacon gleamed through the night to seven generations of Harvard men. Since leaving the Yard, Copey has lived at his apartment on Concord Avenue...
Nearly thirty years ago when I first came to college, the cult of Copey was already firmly established. It is more vigorous today than it ever was, and to the devotees now scattered throughout all the communities of Harvard men, his seventy-fifth birthday provides a most convenient excuse for a celebration...
...seem like to those who have never come within the circle I do not know. To convey to them the quality of the devotion which his pupils feel is like trying to explain to one who never heard him the spell which Garrick cast upon his audience. For the Copey of his pupils is not to be found in works of art, in books that anyone may read, in contributions to knowledge which all can share. He is a teacher who has drawn out of a long succession of pupils whatever native gifts they had for writing in the English...