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Associate Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82 was given the degree of Doctor of Letters from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, at the Commencement exercises last spring In conferring the degree Profesdent Sills of Bowdoin described Professor Copeland as "a loyal son of Maine, inspiring teacher of literature, patriotic member of a patriotic family...
...number of men who have listened to Professor Atwood's remarkably graphic and comprehensive lectures, and the unusually large group of students who have invariably clustered around the desk at the lecture's close to put every sort of question to their sympathetic teacher, are telling evidences of the hold Professor Atwood exercised over his pupils. In the undergraduate's eyes, his departure leaves a serious gap in his department; and many students who, in selecting their courses of study, seek "the man rather than the course," will no longer thumb carefully the pages on which courses in Physical Geography...
Just so long as the teaching profession was every season flooded by hordes of college or normal school graduates, with only a modicum of experience and un-handicapped in most cases by family or dependents, so long was the teacher of more advanced standing held down to a state approaching penury. It was always simpler to replace with new material the teachers who could no longer make shift with the inadequate returns of the profession than it was to raise salaries...
...place left empty by Mr. Laski's resignation cannot easily be filled. A profound student of economics, an able teacher, and an intellectual genius, he has at the same time shown himself to be an inspiring tutor and a warm friend to those with whom his life at Harvard brought him in contact. Slandered, misquoted, and often misunderstood by those who knew him least, his keen wit and his strong personality have won for him scores of staunch friends, who, while they could not always agree with his political principles, nevertheless found his influence stimulating and in spiring...
...truly lamentable that Harvard should have lost so promising a teacher. There are those who had hoped that with the accomplishment of the Endowment Fund, it would become possible for the University to retain its most eminent instructors, and to maintain a staff of professors second to none in America. To such, the departure of Mr. Laski will prove a double blow...