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Then after reading some "boners" with which freshmen at one of the great western colleges had answered their intelligence tests, Copey recited Kipling's "Truce of the Bear," and read Finley Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on Kipling" and Stephen Leacock's "My Financial Career...
Following his usual custom, Professor Copeland has not made public a list of selections which he will read. In the past he has read selections from the Bible, Thackeray, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, and many others. No matter what he reads, the audience is sure to be pleased...
...names of the selections have not been announced, but in the past "Copey," has read from Stephen Leacock, Rudyard Kipling, the Bible, and other sources. Until 1932, when his health forced his withdrawal, Professor Copeland live in Hollis Hall in the yard, and he still maintains a great interest in the undergraduates...
CHARLES DICKENS-Stephen Leacock- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Dyed-in-the-wool Dickensians may enjoy reading this new version of an old and favorite subject, but even they will not grant full marks to the Charles Dickens of Stephen Leacock, head of the political economy department at Canada's McGill University and oldtime popular humorist. Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens' books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero's private life. But he considers that Dickens never completely acquired good taste, thinks this lack and a kind of nervous egotism...
...when he was stopped in his tracks by the sight of an automobile in flames, in front of Leavitt and Peirce's, with a panicky woman-driver attendant. After watching the merry flames a while the Dean rushed into the Smoke Shop, and dashed out "in all directions," as Leacock puts it, with a fire extinguisher. After the Dean had doused all the innocent bystanders with his chemical contraption, some fine fellow came along and saved the burning car. Professor Hanford then cooly retreated, not a little stained with fire-fighting fluid...