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Charles Townsend Copeland, "Copey" to thousands of Harvard alumni, ideal of the Harvard Club of New York, nationally known teacher and connoisseur of literature, editor of "The Copeland Reader", and, last but not least, high priest of the Yard, has announced that he will descend from the Hollis empyrean and give his annual Christian reading in the Union for members of the Freshman Class alone...
...even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled from the Stock Exchange. He jumps out of an office window so high in the empyrean that he must have been antique when he reached the sidewalk. Thus, only sorrow dogs the successful manipulator. As for the unsuccessful, their troubles are indicated by frequent mention of "bucket shops." The play itself suffers from diffusion and repetition, though, like the stock market, it has its moments...
From the cerulean empyrean* - a bolt. Liberty quivered, stood shaken but still unconquered, undamaged, poised on the golden dome of the Capitol...
Advertising copy for a new cinema production known as Grass, released last week, furnished glimpses of the empyrean to which the imagination...
...chosen, wisely, to attack his problem from the philosophical standpoint, not, you understand, of abstract, empyrean, philosophy, but of that system and ordering of daily life that is in truth the most immediate concern of the more human letters--the Litterae Humaniores of the Scots Universities. "The Achievement of Greece" is, in fact, a study in the humanities. We cannot ask every man to be a Leonardo da Vinci...