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...Kitty's' board and 'Copey's' sponge...
These were the days when Copey's magnificent voice was holding students spellbound at evening reading sessions. Kittredge with his knobby cane and long white beard was prancing up and down classrooms making men memorize roams of Shakespeare. And unwanted Radcliffe was just beginning to infiltrate to the Yard. In 1922 no one worried about Harvard football. Everyone knew it was the best in the Ivy League...
...most famous of all emeritus professors is Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Today, at 91, "Copey" is a College legend. A teacher here from 1893 to 1927, Copey today just reads and takes occasional walks. On his 90th birthday last year, John Mason Brown '23, Walter Lippman '10, and many others paid tribute to him as their teacher and inspiration...
...Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a classroom. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested...
When I first came to College, the cult of Copey was already firmly established. He was already acting on the assumption that teaching is not the handing down of knowledge from a platform to an anonymous mass of note-takers, but it is the personal encounter of two individuals...