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Miss Spencer's style is as surely feminine as was Elinor Wylie's in her novels, and, to pay a high compliment, it resembles considerably the fine writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner, eminently finds Lawrence a highly original and perfectly sincere genius without a prototype in literature. Perhaps it is sufficient to say that those who have a knowledge of Lawrence outside of the police court will find her observations among the most sympathetic and appreciative that have been written
Birthday. Charles Townsend Copeland, A. B. (his only earned degree), Harvard professor of English, bachelor, given to mustard suits, to scolding, to reading-aloud (Kipling, Dickens) to two generations of devoted undergraduates. Age: 70. Date: April 27. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The men . . . knew that 'Copey' was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. . . . How the man could teach...
...match was hotly exciting. For five sets, less one point?a point that was never played?Berkeley Bell, agile, 125-lb. player from Dallas, Tex. had run after the hard forehand drives of Francis Townsend Hunter, longtime Davis cupman, No. 2 ranking player. Hunter lost the first set, but took the next two. Bell was coming up to the net in the fourth?hazardous tactics against anyone so accurate as Hunter?and even in the backcourt his legs pumped so fast that he made gets that seemed impossible. For such short legs, the pace was hard, and while Hunter...
...Copey" is seventy today; and wherever there are Harvard men that means rich memories. There may be those who can speak of "Professor Charles Townsend Copeland"; to his students he is forever "Copey," one of the greatest teachers who ever walked across Harvard yard. For nearly half a century "Copey" has been scolding his students and cantankerously teaching them to write good English and to love good writing: and though they never knew a more crotchety professor, they love him for his every absurdity...
...same meeting there were also several nominations to the Board of Governors. This list included Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, lsaac Goldberg '10, and R. Dana Skinner...