Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, criticized the Supreme Court for its resistance to trade unionism prior to the Roosevelt administration, in the second of his series of lectures on "The Court and Mr. Justice Holmes" in New Lecture Hall Monday night.
During the whole of Holmes' thirty years on the Supreme Bench, every variety of legislative endeavor to subject economic power to social responsibility encountered the courts' judicial veto, and in every significant instance over his emphatic protest.
In the 1790s some Harvard students met on Saturday nights, held mock trials, wound up by slapping together a mess of corn meal and molasses called hasty pudding. Named after the mess, the Hasty Pudding Club went on holding mock trials for 50 years, then in 1844 launched its first...
Not so golden, this voice? Ah, no! But now the truly golden voice seemed less reassuring. On it went, delightfully smooth, wonderfully resonant; but the flames, still fluttering, still dancing, slowly died out. Thus rudely brought back to April, 1938, the Vagabond let them die. Time enough to rekindle them...
For that reason, the Committee on Extra-Curricular Reading in American History, should be heartily congratulated for their services in securing Professor Frankfurter for a series of three public lectures upon so important and timely a topic as "The Court and Mr. Justice Holmes." The publication of the notable Reading...