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...venerable Copey, one of the better known of Harvard's traditions, has given a reading in the Union just before the Christmas recess each year since the building opened. Last year he read selections from the Bible, Thackeray, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley '12, one of his former students, to an enthusiastic crowd of Freshmen...
...Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, "The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; and A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association," February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Cohen '32, the death of Socrates, from Plato's "Phaedo", translated by Banjami Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, selection from a speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, selection from "The Decline of the Drama", by Stephen Leacock...
Selections from Thackeray, Kipling, O. Henry and Leacock will feature the thirty-second reading of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, tonight in the Upstairs Common Room of the Freshman Union at 8 o'clock. Professor Copeland, who has given a Christmas reading at the Union yearly since its initial year of existence, will face, for the first time, however, an all-Freshman audience. Only first year men will be admitted, and as the Upstairs Common Room has a limited capacity, a great many of the members of the Class of 1935 will probably...
...tutorial system, the separate "house" system, the system that substitutes guidance for dictation, and mastery of the art of how to seek out knowledge for the injection of knowledge by the lecture system. But there are inevitable disadvantages. The informal English university system, which consists, as Mr. Stephen Leacock puts it, by having a small group of students sit down with an instructor and smoke at each other, requires for its success an adequate supply of good tutors. When you add the requirement of tutor-specialists you reduce the available supply of fine leadership still further...