Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Adams, 1758, John Quincy Adams. 1783, Edward Everett, 1811. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1821. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829. David Henry Thoreau, 1835, and Richard Henry Dana, 1837, were among those who delivered Commencement Parts in early years.
Fourteen years ago U. S. District Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes of Mississippi sentenced Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo to 30 days in jail for refusing to testify at the trial of his political mate, Governor Lee Maurice Russell, on charges of seducing a State Capitol stenographer. Last week Theodore Gilmore...
For five hours Senator Bilbo ranted, repeated verbatim a lengthy tirade he recently mailed to all Senators, in which the Judge was compared unfavorably to Lord Chancellor Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Those few Senators who stuck it out paid little attention. In cloakrooms they had previously settled the matter...
Park, Holmes Judge
Judging the speeches were the Reverend Dr. Charles Edwards Park, minister of the First Unitarian Church in Boston, Henry Wyman Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and Professor Newell Carroll Maynard to Tufts College.