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...twenty-first annual Christmas reading of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, better known to thousands of his admirers all over the world as "Copey," will be given in the small common room of the Freshman Union on Monday, December 17. Only members of the Class of 1936 will be admitter, since the common room will seat no more than...
...venerable Copey, one of the better known of Harvard's traditions, has given a reading in the Union just before the Christmas recess each year since the building opened. Last year he read selections from the Bible, Thackeray, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley '12, one of his former students, to an enthusiastic crowd of Freshmen...
Renovation of Hollis 15 has put an end to the pilgrimages of famous authors, many of them former students of his, to the classic shrine and sanctuary of Copey. But the tradition is perpetuated by the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, with members all over the world...
...rheumy affection of the eyes which gave him the appearance of continually having tears running down his cheeks. ... He was negligent, even slovenly, in his dress." He was Harvard's first (1806-09) Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory, the chair so long held by Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland who last month was ordered out of ancient Hollis Hall by his physician (TIME, Sept. 12). Like "Copey," he could stir youth with his public readings; like "Copey" he was crotchety and cantankerous on the platform. Only President's son to become President himself, he was even less popular than...
...should the Vagabond, to whom, as to most Harvard men today, Professor Copeland is the most elusive of Harvard's sages, heard and seen once perhaps in the college year, take this exodus to heart? He might answer lightly that with "Copey" goes also the last hope of walking into the Yard to find the famous Boylston cow placidly cropping the lawn in front of Hollis: always a favorite, though remote, dream of the Vagabond's. For although any Boylston professor has the traditional right to pasture his hypothetical cow in the Yard, what person less venerable than "Copey" might...