ABSTRACT
When he arrives in Cambridge in the fall of 1906, Walter Lippmann was ready, or so he thought, to launch his new life as a Harvard gentleman. By the time Lippmann entered Harvard the legendary Samuel Eliot Morison was nearing the end of his forty-year tenure as president of the university. To tighten his prose style Walter signed up in his sophomore year for the advanced composition course taught by Charles Copeland (Copey). In college magazines like the Monthly and the Illustrated, Lippmann put into practice what he had learned from Copey. In typical Harvard fashion, he devoted one of his first published articles to an attack on a professor. Harvard's other great influence on Lippmann was George Santayana. From Santayana the poet he learned the importance of writing gracefully as well as clearly; from Santayana the humanist he learned to value the classical virtues of measure and restraint.
