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Kendric N. Marshall '21, assistant in Government, introduced Copey not as "the teacher and the man" but 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...
Following his usual custom Copey has not yet announced the selections to be read. For the meeting last year there was such a large turnout that literally dozens of Freshmen could not be admitted and had to be turned away...
Since the House was established. Copey, as he is known to his admirers, has annually read to its members at about this time. But contrary to his usual custom, this year he is announcing beforehand some of the selections which he has chosen. Among them are Browning's "Epistle of Karshish" and "Up at a Vills," Keate' "Ode to a Nightingale," and Tennyson's "Ballad of the Revenge." As Copey intends to read only poetry, he is especially cager that all those who have real interest in that field be present...
...twenty-third annual Christmas reading of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, better known to thousands of his admirers as "Copey," will be given in the Common Room of the Freshman Union on Friday afternoon, December 14, at 4.30 o'clock...
...venerable Copey, one of the better known of Harvard's traditions, has given a reading in the Union just before Christmas every year since the building was opened. The 75 year old Professor has announced his intention of continuing his readings in the Union until he is well past the 100-year mark. He has also started the custom of giving a reading in Kirkland House each year, and he is planning to do the same this winter...