TRADITIONS OF COLLEGEMANY

Somehow "ivy-covered," and "ancient traditions" seem to go together in people's minds, and Harvard has more than its share of both, as is befitting its three centuries of existence. Some of these a serviceman who is completely strange to Cambridge can pick up as he goes along--but it's a good idea to know who "Copey" is, what "Rheinhardt" signifies, and who "Barry Wood" was, to cite a few examples.

To start with, anyone who calls the elmshaded area where the University lives and moves and has its being a "campus" is likely to be shunned by the knowing ones from that point forward. Because it was once a cow pasture, it is now and forever shall be known as the "Yard." Through the rooms in the Halls (not dorms, please) the cry of Rheinhardt has echoed for years. In "them good old days" it was "Rheinhardt" that signified "riot" to the lowly Freshmen Yardlings, and many were the strife brought on by that call to arms, strife that often carried over to the Square and wreaked destruction on the fair city of Cambridge.

Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more.

And so the list goes on but it is too long to relate here. Each man will have to absorb and learn it for himself. But to help him, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, wrote a book called "Three Centuries of Harvard.