Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland House: Thomas G. Beveridge, Paul E. Freehling, Byron J. Johnson, Richard N. Levy, Robert W. McCarley, and John Noble...
...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...
Since he left few tangible achievements, there is little solid for biographers to fall back on. Those who knew him have called him "a Johnson who cried for a Boswell." Yet the anecdotes which do exist tend to distort the man, illuminating in thin shafts of light one side of his personality, leaving the rest in gloom...
...every listener was prepared for Copey's voice as if it were God himself speaking. Two famous Copeland stories involve his distaste as a public speaker for lateness and the imperious wit with which he could handle it. Three students knocked on the locked door as he lectured in "Johnson and his Circle." He ignored them. They knocked again. The door was unlocked and the three walked in and sat down. Copey glared. "All gall is divided in three parts," he remarked crisply, and then went on lecturing...
...Crimson nine plays its first home game this afternoon at 3:45 p.m. against Brandeis. Right-hander Byron Johnson is scheduled to start for the varsity...