Charles Townsend Copeland is 90 today. The letters that appear in this issue recollect Copey's era. They are fitting tributes, apt words to wish a Happy Birthday.
Copey was loved and respected during the 36 years he taught at Harvard. Retired since 1928, his place in Harvard's history is now secured by those who credit much of their achievement to his tutelage. Copey's readings and individual instruction, in the classroom and in his residence in Hollis 15, imbude generations of Harvard men with his personality. He livened education with wit and personal color; yet he warned against the confines of University life, urged his students not to stagnate in the backwaters of undergraduate content.
Perhaps most significant of all the memories is that of Copey's intimate contact with his pupils. He personalized Harvard education. In an expanded and often impersonal College, recollection of Copey's era are indeed pleasant ones.
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