Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond has always retained a secret sympathy for the historic Charles Townsend Copeland. It must be disconcerting enough to be a "Character." It must be still worse to be a walking Harvard Tradition. As the time approaches for the perennial reading at the Union, the Vagabond realizes that a generation has grown up which knows not Copey, now grandiloquently Emeritus. Through the honeyed sentimentality of the Copy legend, there emerges from Hollis only a slight figure covered with a derby and an air of complete detachment. When the day arrives and the raw recruits upsurp the mellow places, the vagabond...
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, English humorous lecturer; Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus; Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History; R. P. Blake, Associate Professor of History; and George Russell, Irish poet, are featured on the Harvard Union program for the coming winter, it was announced last night...
...Fitzgerald, who studied, I believe, at Harvard less than ten years ago, has dedicated his book to Charles Townsend Copeland. "Gentlemen All", it might as well be said at the outset, is probably not the best book that has been dedicated to the professor of Hollis Hall...
...discovery of a white animal belong- ing to a species whose members are usually dark in color, calls forth a religious ceremony in savage countries, a news story in civilized countries. Last week, members of the San Diego Zoological Society ex- pedition to hunt the rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white...
...audit report. Arrested for complicity in the murder but free on bail is Dr. B. J. F. Westabrook of Indianapolis, President Williams' bosom friend. Arrested for the murder and still in jail is George Washington, Indianapolis detective.* Sought for extradition from Tennessee as accomplices are Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend, secretary of the Publishing Board, executive committeeman of the Federal Council of Churches, and his son Arthur Melvin Townsend...