Emphasis Preaching Journal

Charles Townsend Copeland, beloved Harvard University professor of English, was well known for his excellent translations of the classics. For many years he used a couple of cramped and inconvenient rooms on the top floor of Harvard's Hollis Hall. Time and again the university administration offered, and tried, to move him to more accessible and spacious accommodations. Copeland replied that the top floor suited him wonderfully. He said, "It's the only place in Cambridge where God alone is above me.