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...Copey" has resigned. To many Harvard men throughout the country and to some in distant corners of the earth, this is sad news. "Copey" is an institution, as much a part of Harvard as Hollis Hall in which he has so long lived. To the undergraduates of the present and succeeding years the loss is greatest, for there is none to play his special role. His old "boys", who number many of the leading writers in the country and not a few bank presidents, Government officials and great lawyers, will be glad to learn that he is to retain...
...travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn the Cornucopia. Irrelevancies aside, Professor Copeland, whether in Sever 11, the Union, or vibrating the crisp winter air above a million houses is still Copey...
...home of the legend that is "Copey"--and no disrespect is meant by Harvard men when they thus nickname their Boylston. Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; but rather affection, for he would sooner be "Copey" than president--is up a high but never arduous flight of steps, on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall. Thither, every Monday night of college for some 33 years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be comfortably disposed on furniture...
Freshmen inevitably hear of "Copey" within their first week at Harvard, if not long before, but they may pass him many times in the street before knowing him by sight. There is nothing to notice about a little fellow of 66, as small, indeed, as the smallest freshmen, in traditional oldtime professorial garb--old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia...
...that Dean Briggs is gone, "Copey" is the last of a vanished style in Harvard professors, in professors anywhere, for that matter. He himself is Dickensian, with his piercing glance to identify a caller or passery, his two bachelor rooms in the garret of old Hollis, his quick replies which from a less amiable nature might be crabhed but from him seem way and sprightly, and his remark in the introduction to his anthology: "As for Christmas Eve, it won't seem like itself if Mrs. Lowell stops allowing me to bring my book...." Time...