Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It's hard to conceive of Mr. Holmes over attaining the prestige that was his if he had continued being a soldier. It's hard to believe that the jurist who had the world at his feet a few short weeks before his death would like to be thought of...
The picture was pretty. Military escort, solemn dirges, jaunty stopping soldiers paying a farewell tribute to a men of the nation, and finally the solemn salute, fired as the casket sank into earth. It will be something to make the spine tingle, something to expand many young chests and straighten...
Ralph L. Kirkpatrick '30, leading harpsichord artist of the country, will appear as a soloist to play music by Bach on the stringed instrument for which it was written. As conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will wave the baton.
Dean Pound's characterization of Justice Holmes:
"By general consent, Oliver Wendell Holmes will be ranked high among the ten greatest judges in American judicial history. Indeed, he is recognized throughout the English-speaking world as one of a handful of leaders in Angio-American law. We commonly hear of him as a great dissenter. But in...