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...funny porous thing Hanging by a bit of string Ever there from fall to spring Decorating Hollis Hall. Copey, Copey, don't you remember Where you left it last December Or have you become a member Of the never wash...
Visiting hours were regulated with the finality of a drawbridge. A freshman who unwittingly bothered Copey in the afternoon was told to come back at "9:15 punct." His weekly evening readings, however, required a more delicate sense of propriety. Copey never told anyone to leave directly; there was an unspoken understanding that visitors were not welcome after eleven. "Nobody comes much after ten and nobody stays much after eleven," said Copey...
...When Copey moved from Hollis, the press treated the event with as much sorrow as if he had died. The "light in Hollis" has been put out, they said. There had to be assurances form Professor Copeland himself that he had not wanted to move. "I had expected to stay long enough to come out feet first" said Copey, and the sanctity of Hollis 15 remained intact. Possessing the mystery which makes biography difficult, Copey made himself attractive, inspiring, and great...
...class or in public lectures, Copey's small size made him self-con-scious about reading or speaking standing up. A letter in a recent Alumni Bulletin describes his in sistence on a table and chair that would fit "a boy five feet, five and one-half inches tall" and a cloth long enough to hide his legs. Once these details were disposed of, Copey's classroom manner was awe-inspiring. George Santayana wrote, "Copeland was an artist rather than a scholar; he was a public reader by profession, an elocutionist." A green bookbag and a glass of water always...
...this time, every listener was prepared for Copey's voice as if it were God himself speaking. Two famous Copeland stories involve his distaste as a public speaker for lateness and the imperious wit with which he could handle it. Three students knocked on the locked door as he lectured in "Johnson and his Circle." He ignored them. They knocked again. The door was unlocked and the three walked in and sat down. Copey glared. "All gall is divided in three parts," he remarked crisply, and then went on lecturing...