Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers were chattier than the Boston College men, strayed from the microphone more often and, in a commendable effort to be chummy, unacademic and pretty understandable, did not hesitate to employ terms which would have horrified the late Messrs. Barrett Wendell and Adams Sherman Hill, dismayed the chaste Charles Townsend Copeland and disturbed the poise of Dean Briggs. Boston Herald...
These prizes are usually in charge of the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Since this position has been left vacant by the resignation of Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, the management of the Competition has been placed in the hands of Professor F. C. Packard '20. Professor Copeland, who twice took part in the competitions while in college, has this year consented to be one of the judges...
...officers and directors of the corporation include the J. P. Morgan & Co. Partners Thomas Cochran (hospital president) and George Whitney; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co; Frederic William Allen of Lee, Higginson & Co.; Percy Avery Rockefeller. The doctors on the directorate are Albert Richard Lamb, Alexander Lambert, Alfred Townsend Osgood, Joseph Storer Vheelwright...
...House), essayist (The American Mind), biographer (Walt Whitman, Whittier), he is a sparkling ingredient of Boston's erudite Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Teuraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul," and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman sports a dinner waistcoat of distinctive color...
...American Mind), biographer (Walt Whitman, Whit tier), he is a sparkling ingredient of Boston's erudite Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Touraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul." and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman sports a dinner waistcoat of distinctive color...