Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, will receive $25,000 from the estate of Justice Holmes, according to announcements Saturday. The money is not restricted to any specific purpose, but the desire was expressed that it be given to the Law School. A similar amount was given to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
All last week there filed up the icy front steps of that house a procession of famed citizens. At 93 Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes lay desperately ill of pneumonia. To his solemn-faced physicians, nurses and friends, Mr. Justice Holmes growled: "It's a lot of damned foolery...
His longtime friend Professor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard emerged to report: "Mr. Holmes is in good spirits. He's kidding his nurses." Chairman Francis Biddle of the National Labor Relations Board, one of that long series of fledgling Harvard Law graduates who have been honored by one-year appointments...
Military burial has a certain dignity. But the final rites of a national citizen such as Mr. Holmes was do not need the suppressions dignity, do not need the trend of marching feet, the roll of drums, to call forth their just tribute from the nation.
HARVARD YALE Hallowell, r.w. l.w., Colby Holmes, c. c., Stoddard Hovenanian, l.w., r.w., Mills Watts, r.d. l.d., Wilson Brown, l.d. r.d., Robson Waldinger, g. g., Snyder