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...succeeded to the Governorship when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last year and black-jacked California's influential Republicans into nominating him against Sinclair by threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...
...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylton Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory emeritus, is seventy-five today. Since 1906 he has regularly attended the birthday dinners held by the Charles Townsend Copeland Association at the Harvard Club of New York, but this year he will remain in Cambridge, where he is working on his new book, "The Copeland Classics." For his next birthday, however, he will travel to New York, where friends and former pupils will gather for the occasion...
...Copey to New York to give a Christmas reading; there is something in Copey's annual intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span of years, is some thing which should give the present administration pause. Men such as Charles Townsend Copeland, Bliss Perry and LeBaron Russell Briggs cannot be selected on any single standard. No rigid standard could be devised to comprehend such outstanding individuals. Copey embodies, as do few other men, all the intangible qualities which go to make up the great teacher...
Announcement was made yesterday of the appointment as Associate Professor of English of a man who perhaps more than any other stands forth as an example of what a college professor ought to be. Charles Townsend Copeland '82, completes this June the 25th year of service to his University. This appointment is a token of recognition which has long been accorded him by a host of graduate and undergraduate friends. To those who, beside the fire in Hollis 15, have taken part in his genial friendship "Copey" stands out as one of the best influences at Harvard...
Speaking informally to the Harvard Memorial Society, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, read Tennyson's "Ulysses" and gave his reminiscences of well-known Harvard figures. The meeting was in honor of Professor Copeland's coming Seventy-fifth birthday...