Education: Harvard Yard’s Man

Harvard Yard’s Man

Harvard men throughout the world, dismayed by news that Professor Charles Townsend Copeland (“Copey”) had resigned, took heart again last week. For a quarter century the light in Hollis 15 was a signal to Harvard generations that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture—will inevitably “read aloud from a book.” Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: “. . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance can only be official.”