Word: copelands
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...like Walter Lippman grew steadily more reactionary. He was the only one of the brilliant New York group of pre-War liberals who actually went whole-hog for the Soviet experiment. His old mentor Lincoln Steffens bailed out on him, and at the news of his death Charles Townsend Copeland lamented his association with those awful Bolsheviks. John Reed is a legand, a fascinating legand. His story can stand retelling many times...
...thrilled Harvard in James Conant's own undergraduate days -William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland- most are now dead or retired...
...more important to Harvard's perpectual growth than carefully selected contributions is the continuance of a spirit of intelligent inquiry among her graduates. Only insofar as this exists will Harvard's future sons be prepared to receive instruction and her professors stimulated to give it. Such organizations as the Copeland Alumni Association show that this spirit is vital, that the big men continue to attract their listeners long after the prescribed period of study has run its course. Harvard University is fortunate to be supported by a wide awake, interested body of students of all ages and walks of life...
...fall Harvard opened its new and magnificent set of Houses for the upperclassmen of the College and took the Yard from the Senior Class to hand it over to the Freshmen. At the time, it was done with fear and trembling and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked, up on the invasion of the first-year class as the approach of doom. For with 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, to bellow "Reinhart" the prospect was not too pleasant...
Freshmen will particularly use the 20,000 volumes in the Union, a collection which has been designated by Professor Copeland as the finest gentleman's library in the United States, and the Boylston Hall reading room for history, government, and economics. Fine Arts students will use the 10,000 books on that subject kept in Fogg Art Museum, while the science concentrators will spend much time in the various laboratory collections...