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...them from the inside. Between these two flies science recognized no kinship, but the Smithsonian Institution's Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between botfly and parasitic fly, a hitherto unknown phenomenon, a botfly with bristles. Entomologist Shannon's find, enthused Entomologist Townsend, is "the most important oestromuscoid discovery of the 20th Century...
...twenty-first annual Christmas reading of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, better known to thousands of his admirers all over the world as "Copey," will be given in the small common room of the Freshman Union on Monday, December 17. Only members of the Class of 1936 will be admitter, since the common room will seat no more than...
Renovation of Hollis 15 has put an end to the pilgrimages of famous authors, many of them former students of his, to the classic shrine and sanctuary of Copey. But the tradition is perpetuated by the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, with members all over the world...
...rheumy affection of the eyes which gave him the appearance of continually having tears running down his cheeks. ... He was negligent, even slovenly, in his dress." He was Harvard's first (1806-09) Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory, the chair so long held by Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland who last month was ordered out of ancient Hollis Hall by his physician (TIME, Sept. 12). Like "Copey," he could stir youth with his public readings; like "Copey" he was crotchety and cantankerous on the platform. Only President's son to become President himself, he was even less popular than...
...continued to give annual Christmas readings at the Union, until last year open to the whole College, but then closed to all but Freshmen for lack of room. In addition, he is accustomed to give readings at the Harvard Club of New York as the guest of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, made up of his former students...