Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Methods of teaching teachers how to teach were warmly debated yesterday at the annual meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, attended by President Conant and Dean Henry W. Holmes '03 of the Graduate School of Education.
Dean Holmes, who has just been appointed chairman of a new University Committee on Educational Relations, discussed the problems facing the Graduate School of Education.
At first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring...
One day the late great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes twirked his sweeping cavalry mustache, drawled to his chubby Irish protege, Tommy Corcoran :
In pre-New Deal days, Justice Holmes, reading an 8-to-1 decision holding constitutional a Virginia law requiring sterilization of third-generation defectives, dryly noted, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Justice Butler dissents."