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To most laymen, a pathologist is either a Sherlock Holmes type called in to study a corpse and solve a murder mystery or the man in the laboratory at the end of the corridor who reports to the surgeon, "It's all right to close up that patient-the...
In the end, a publisher is judged by the durability of his geniuses, not by the health of his balance sheets. There are no comparative statistics on these matters, and perhaps the native geniuses who made Boston's James T. Fields the most influential American publisher during the middle...
Voltaire said, in essence, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"; but Mr. Justice Holmes added that the right of free speech ends when a man falsely cries "Fire!" in a crowded theater. How should good guys apply these...
The annual Radcliffe Government Association Cedar Hill Conference, held Sept. 13 and 14 in Holmes Hall, this year took the form of a symposium on "The Pressures of Radcliffe." Elaborating upon a major topic of that meeting, Mrs. Bunting yesterday discussed the college pressures created by women students' uncertainty about...
Before the development of intravenous embalming in mid-19th century (probably by Thomas H. Holmes, who made $400,000 embalming Civil War dead), the dead man laid out in the parlor was a corpse, and there was no doubt about it. But embalming made it possible to mitigate many of...