Word: copey
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Professor Copeland, "Copey," was witty and knew it. Harvard anecdotes about him, like Lincoln stories, are legion and legendary. But the reason for the stories, both true and apocryphal, is that they perpetuate the personality of a truly unique teacher who left no other significant relics. As an English instructor, and later as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, he taught two famous courses; an advanced writing course and a course titled "Johnson and his Circle." He wrote only one book, compiled two anthologies, and allowed a short moving picture to be filmed of himself reading aloud...
...fact that it was given twice the following year. The year after it was first announced, English 33hf was joined by a third American literature course, English 45hf, "The Lives, Characters, and Times of Men of Letters, English and American." This was given by the beloved Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland...
Wendell and "Copey" continued their trilogy alone until 1911, when the second great name in the teaching of American Literature at Harvard, Bliss Perry, began teaching a graduate course on Emerson. This was the first non-survey U.S. literature course to be offered and one of the few non-survey courses in the department. Survey courses, " in outline," were "the norm for college literature courses in that day," Murdock explains, adding, "I wouldn't be caught dead giving one like that...
...rather be expelled by him than be praised by anyone else," a nineteenth century undergraduate once commented. His testament, sincere if overstated, was a tribute to the greatness of the late LeBarron Russell Briggs '75, confidant of "Copey" and "Kitty" in the days of "too much teaching and too little studying" in Harvard College...
...after a faculty reshuffle in 1890 and elected Radcliffe president in 1902, where he remained for 23 years, "first tried to help offenders and then disciplined them", according to one biographer. Samuel Eliot Morison '08 writes: "He is the only teacher to be mentioned in the same breath with Copey. Briggs operated on the moral, Copey on the intellectual and aesthetic natures of young...