PROFESSOR COPELAND UNDERGOES OPERATION

Going from the observational care of his own physician, Dr. W.B. Breed '15, C.T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will tonight submit to an operation at the hands of Dr. A.W. Allen it was learned at a late hour last night. The operation will be performed at a Boston hospital, the name of which, at Professor Copeland's wish, will not be divulged.

Prior to the decision of Dr. Breed that an operation was necessary, Professor Copeland had been under his observation for a period of ten days.

He will be confined for three weeks or a month, toward the end of which period he may be able to correct the papers of his students, but he will not be able to conduct any more classes this year.

As a result of this illness, Professor Copeland will for the first time in 22 years be unable to give his annual reading at the Harvard Club of New York. On the first Friday of March, each year, the Charles Townsend Copeland Association attends a reading by the man in whose honor the association was founded. The reading which was to have taken place in the Nicholas Biddle Memorial Room last night, would have been followed by a banquet this evening.