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...program of readings to be given by Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, tonight in the main dining room of the Union at 8.30 o'clock, will include "The Man Who Was," by Rudyard Kipling, and poems by Professor R. S. Hillyer '17, according to an announcement made yesterday by Professor Copeland...
...announcement that "Copey," alias Prof. Emeritus Charles Townsend Copeland, 'is to read at the Harvard Union next Tuesday, and that late comers will be given the privilege of gnashing their teeth at the closed door, does not go far enough. Is the radio audience not to have the joy of listening to him? He has more friends outside the academic grove than in Cambridge, and it is debatable whether the under-graduates appreciate good reading. Nobody can read the Bible like him. Nobody knows what Kipling's verse is until "Copey" reads it. In the days when folks used...
...previous years, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will again give a Christmas reading at the Harvard Union. The reading this year will take place in the main dining room, Tuesday evening, December 16, at 8.30 o'clock sharp...
...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will give his annual Christmas reading at the Union on Tuesday, December 16, at 8.30 o'clock in the Main Dining Hall. No late-comers will be allowed to enter the room. Due to the excessively large number who usually attend Professor Copeland's readings, the attendance will be limited to the capacity of the Dining Room. Tickets will be given at the news stand beginning a week before the reading. Professor Copeland has not yet announced the titles of his reading...
...Vagabond has always retained a secret sympathy for the historic Charles Townsend Copeland. It must be disconcerting enough to be a "Character." It must be still worse to be a walking Harvard Tradition. As the time approaches for the perennial reading at the Union, the Vagabond realizes that a generation has grown up which knows not Copey, now grandiloquently Emeritus. Through the honeyed sentimentality of the Copy legend, there emerges from Hollis only a slight figure covered with a derby and an air of complete detachment. When the day arrives and the raw recruits upsurp the mellow places, the vagabond...