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Among the famous journalists whom MacLeish has invited are: Walter Lippmann, Alexander Woolcott, Henry Robert Luce, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and William Allen White...
Here since 1892 and active until 1928, "Copey" is perhaps the best known of these Harvard greats. The "cult of Copey" gained renown early. His method of teaching English composition, for the most part carried on in Hollis 15, once occupied by Emerson and Eliot, was described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch can wrestling match...
...Lippmann, writing in the special CRIMSON issue published on the occasion of Copeland's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested him." Two of his works, the "Copeland Translations" and the "Copeland Reader," were described by Robert Hillyer '17, present holder of Copey's famous chair, an "a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud...
From Paris, dispassionate Pundit Wal ter Lippmann set the next deadline September...
With time running out for fulfillment of many military observers' three-month-old prophecy of a Spanish Rightist victory before summer's end, Newsinterpreter Walter Lippmann wirelessed to the New York Herald Tribune from Paris that Great Britain and France had now decided that they want a "military stalemate" in Spain, feel that it offers the "best chance of a constructive solution of the Spanish problem." Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "Once it were made clear to both sides in Spain that neither would be able to conquer the other, an armistice might be arranged...