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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...
Holmes dissents carried as much weight as his concurring opinions and, as a later Supreme Court, Justice, Fells Frankfurter commented they often "shaped history."
The learned scholar was not without a wry sense of humor. When Law School professor Austin Scott, then just a student, and a roommate named McNeil visited the Justice at his home, they followed the traditional procedure of sending their calling cards up to him beforehand. Holmes came lumbering down...
The Law 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...
No 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...