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Last week, Law School professor Paul Freund had occasion to recall his second meeting with Oliver Wendell Holmes. "We went up to the second floor study, where Holmes was seated, starched and stiffly erect in his ninety-third year, behind his desk. He wore a black cutaway and striped trousers, his skin was parchment, his hair luxuriant and silver, his cavalryman's moustachioes abundantly flowing." Freund remembered...
...Freund's companion. Thomas g. Corcoran, told Holmes that he was "the primal flame to which we come to light our torches." The justice replied. "There may once have been a little spark, but now all is ashes." Freund remembered a "deathly silence" falling afterwards...
Ronald S. Berman, chairman of the endowment, described Freund, who has taught at the Law School since 1939, as "an outstanding authority on the constitution and the Supreme Court. "Freund is currently working on "The History of the Supreme Court of the United States," commissioned by an act of Congress...
...group of about 200 or 300 cultural leaders throughout the United States offer nominations for the Jefferson Lecture. The National Council of the Humanities, composed of 26 presidential appointees, makes the final decision on the choice of a lecturer. At the time of Freund's selection, council members included Edward H. Levi, former president of the University of Chicago and present attorney general, Hanash Gray, provost of Yale, and Martin I. Kihon, professor of Government...
...Fellow and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Freund is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Law Institute, the American that Foundation and the Massachusetts Historical Society