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...bombshell arrived in mid-January when the great Copey--Charles Townsend Copeland '32--unexpectedly announced his plans to retire at the end of the academic year on the advice of his doctor. Luckly for the undergraduate, be planned to keep his famous Hollis 15 room and the equally famous discussion hours that passed behind its doors. For more than 30 years, the legendary figure had lectured from Harvard podiums, and it was all but impossible for many to imagine the University without...
...this mythical hero of two later generations of would-be revolutionaries. His career as a writer, his reaction against the World War, his associations, and inborn rebelliousness more surely led Reed to communism. For, to Reed, revolution was, as John Dos Passos '16 writes, "a voice as mellow as Copey's, Diogenes Steffens with Marx for a lantern going through the west looking for a good man, Socrates Steffens kept asking why not resolution? Jack Reed wanted to live in a tub and write verses; but he kept meeting bums workingmen husky guys he liked out of luck...
...greats" of Harvard. Among its alumni, the Hall can number Emerson, Thorean, Santayana, and President Eliot. But perhaps the best loved in the College was Charles T. Copeland, who as an instructor in English was one of the first faculty members to cultivate a wide undergraduate friendship. "Copey" kept open house Wednesday evening in Hollis 15 for many years. The most distinguished students, however, has passed almost unnoticed from College history; he had only one asset. His name was William Shake Speare...
Perry was the last survivor of the University's famed literature-teaching triumvirate; the others were C. T. Copeland '82, former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and George L. Kittredge '86, Gurney Professor of English. The three were linked in the famous poem "Kitty and Copey and Bliss" by Lawrence McKinney...
Through the pages march dilettante students, crusty old tutors, Boston Brahmans, and grand old men like "Kitty," "Copey," and Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs, of wrinkled but beloved visage. The succession of university Presidents appear too, with Jared Sparks in 1849 politely refusing a female applicant ("the time may come when female claims will be more justly valued"), or Thomas Hill, in 1862 warning Abraham Lincoln about the behavior of his son, or Eliot, Lowell and Conant striving eloquently to define the meaning of Harvard...