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Depression despair was abated in December as President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Almost a year later, however, the College was saddened when it was announced that Charles Townsend Copeland, the beloved Copey, was moving from his Hollis 15 suite to a new home on Concord Avenue in Cambridge. At the age of seventy-two, the man who had read his way4When the Class of 1933 entered Harvard, the wing was being added to the sprawling mass in the North Yard that is Langdell Hall, making it the largest law library in the world. Twenty-five years later, Langdell...
...What is your name?" asked Copey...
...transit gloria Mundi," said Copey. "Leave the course and never return...
...Copey was asked to broadcast his annual Christmas reading. He predicted that his first radio performance would be his last. As it turned out, he continued the custom and even allowed a movie to be made for future Harvard generations who would never see the master in action. Even in these operations, his sensitivity to the audience and himself was acute. At the end of his film, Copey remarks gravely: "Such thanks as a dead man can give you are yours...
...aura of ritual reserve carried over from the classroom to Copey's personal encounters. Physically...