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...Copey" is seventy today; and wherever there are Harvard men that means rich memories. There may be those who can speak of "Professor Charles Townsend Copeland"; to his students he is forever "Copey," one of the greatest teachers who ever walked across Harvard yard. For nearly half a century "Copey" has been scolding his students and cantankerously teaching them to write good English and to love good writing: and though they never knew a more crotchety professor, they love him for his every absurdity...
Other men have had more academic degrees and more academic distinctions. "Copey" never got beyond the A. B. degree. He never wrote a learned thesis for the Ph.D. parchment. And, Harvard, foolishly enough, penalized him for it. "Copey" was fifty before he was granted even an associate professorship; sixty-five before the grudging doctors made him a full professor. But the men who met him in his classroom in old Sever Hall, or climbed the stairs to his bachelor's sanctum in Hollis, and the hordes who poured into the Union whenever it was announced that "Copey" would read knew...
...essayist (The American Mind), biographer (Walt Whitman, Whittier), he is a sparkling ingredient of Boston's erudite Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Teuraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul," and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman sports a dinner waistcoat of distinctive color...
...American Mind), biographer (Walt Whitman, Whit tier), he is a sparkling ingredient of Boston's erudite Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Touraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul." and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman sports a dinner waistcoat of distinctive color...
This just means that Copey counts in the life of Harvard men because undergraduates have always counted in his life...