Charles Townsend Copeland '82, famed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, announced yesterday that his 41st annual Christmas reading, which was scheduled for next Wednesday, has been postponed until after the vacation for "unavoidable reasons."

Know as "Copey" to alumni and students, Professor Copeland has served the University in various Faculty positions since 1893. He was 84 this year. He is a member of the famous Class of '82, which included among other notables, George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature and famous Shakespeare authority, who died last year.