Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 12, 1914, at the height of a party, two CRIMSON editors filled the mug--originally the property of Albert V. de Roode '04--with punch, and bore the libation across the Yard to the Hollis Hall apartment of Professor Charles Townsend Copeland...
...became the darling of the Townsendites (though he nimbly avoided endorsing the Townsend Plan). He got on the chicken a la king and mashed potatoes circuit: Kiwanis, Rotary, the Elks. Then, at 31, when the time looked right, Humphrey plunged into politics, aiming high. He ran for mayor of Minneapolis, came in second in a field of ten. In the runoff he lost out by only 5,000 votes...
...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will again be the honorary judge of the contest...
January. Near Winchester, Ind., a bull gored the auto of Jack Townsend, the county's artificial inseminator...
...caustic Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland was a mere "elocutionist" who provided a "spiritual debauch [for] many well-disposed waifs at Harvard." Copey's well-disposed waifs felt otherwise. A shrunken little man, with an actor's sense of staging, he brought literature to life for thousands of students. When the announcement went up for one of his readings, students would line the streets outside his hall. Then Copey would enter, order the doors to be locked, spend minutes adjusting his lamp, listen disdainfully for the audience to swallow its coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings...