Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hilles Library is holding an exhibit of Photographs by Paul Bonnell. She calls it "Eight Series," and examines Women, children, animals, West Texas and four other subjects. They're good photographs -the West Texas ones show Bonnell's own close connection with the state. But they lack something-a sense of visual interest or some art-historical esoteric term like that. In short, they're dull. On the second floor...
Holmes read extensively throughout his life, but bad his clerks read to him after the death of his wife. "Do we have to improve our minds today? Can't we have a little murder" he pleaded with Hiss one day. The exhibit contains Holmes' diary listing every book he ever read: ironically, the last entry in Thornton wilder's Heaven's My Destination...
Holmes had vowed to write a book before he reached 40 and fulfilled the promise with several weeks to spare. The exhibit contains an autographed, first edition copy of The Common Law, the book which earned him a Law School professorship. A collection of lectures originally delivered at Boston's Lowell Institute in 1880. The Common Law is now a classic legal text which contains the famous dictum. "The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience...
...School acquired the Holmes papers in 1968, after the death of Mark DeWolfe Howe, Holmes' official biographer. Howe was also a Holmes clerk and a Law School professor. Chadbourn has been planning the exhibit since 1968 but felt compelled to present shows on Roscoe Pound and learned Hand firs, since their respective centennials have occurred in the past few years. The subject of her next presentation will be Felix Frankfurter...
...exhibit--not even one that is accompanied by the vivid recollections of those who knew the subject best--can bring a man back to life. But the exhibit at the Law School does succeed in giving a clear impression of what Holmes must have been like. Each item has been carefully selected, and the show progresses in a thoroughly logical fashion. This exhibit leaves you with a definite feeling for Holmes' depth of character, his awesome accomplishments, and his profound wisdom...