Word: leacock
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Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82 will give the first of his readings for the season 1919-20 in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. This Christmas reading will include selections from Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. Any member of the Union may obtain admittance upon showing his membership card. As is customary, the doors will be closed as soon as the reading begins, and those who arrive late cannot be admitted...
...first of his winter readings tomorrow Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will render selections from Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. All members of the Union are invited to this meeting, which will take place at 8 o'clock in the living Rooms of the Union...
Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will deliver the first of his 1919-20 readings on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union. He will read selections from Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. This is practically the first public reading for University students which has been delivered by Professor Copeland since pre-war days...
...fact," he continued, "I am strongly tempted to send my son, Stephen Leacock, Jr., to Harvard if for nothing else than for the advantages he would gain by living in those dormitories. In Canada our universities have no such community buildings and I have never been more strongly impressed by our loss than today when I first saw the dormitories here...
Asked as to whether he favored the system of having dormitories for all the classes, Professor Leacock replied that strongly as the dormitories impressed him, he could never support any plan that endangered the freedom of the individual. "We have seen the effect of the Prussian system of compulsion in the universities," he went on, "and we must be careful that we do not lose that freedom which has always characterized British and American university life...