COPEY READS FOR 1938 IN UNION COMMON ROOM

In his fourth annual Christmas reading in the Union to Freshmen yesterday afternoon, some 300 members of the Class of 1938 were introduced for the first time to Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus.

Kendric N. Marshall '21, assistant in Government, introduced Copey not as "the teacher and the man" but as "the tradition, known from the wilds of Arabia to the plains of China where mothers still their babes with the word that Copey shall read to them if they are good."

Standing on a speaker's platform placed there for the occasion, Professor Copeland could be plainly heard to the farthest corner of the well-packed upper Common Room of the Union.

For his first selections he rendered "A Parting in April," written by Robert S. Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English, in memoriam to LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, and his own "Tribute to Dean Shaler."

Then after reading some "boners" with which freshmen at one of the great western colleges had answered their intelligence tests, Copey recited Kipling's "Truce of the Bear," and read Finley Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on Kipling" and Stephen Leacock's "My Financial Career."

Later in the year the Freshmen may have an opportunity to hear Copey give one of his Bible selection readings, which he is at present compiling in a further anthology.