Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday "at homes." In the evening Mrs. Holmes would sometimes read to her husband while he played solitaire. Now it is the Young Fellow who reads. When Justice Holmes was stronger there was daily at 5 p. m. a 40-minute walk, Young Fellow and tall, fine old jurist flourishing his Irish blackthorn stick, talking of all things, drawing out his young protegee...
Harvard awarded him an honorary LL.D. degree at the Commencement in 1927. In conferring the degree, President Lowell said concerning him. "A jurist consult eminent by his writings, powerful by the weight of his opinions on public and international affairs." He is editor of the "Europaische Gesprache", and of a series of war documents, "Dio Auswartize Politik des Deutschen Reiches...
...Supreme Court was 90 in years, in spirit 30. Over the radio great men led by Chief Justice Hughes praised this famed son of a famed father as few living men are praised. They reviewed his long career-thrice-wounded Union soldier, Harvard scholar, Massachusetts judge, senior jurist of the nation's highest court, liberal dissenter from conservative majorities. Said Dean Charles Edward Clark of Yale's law school: "So often has he been ahead of his generation in scholarship as well as opinion that we may well hesitate to differ with him for fear he but expresses...
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Sankey, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, W. A. Jowett, Attorney General of Great Britain, Benjamin N. Cordoza, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Frederick Pollock, eminent English jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey...
...years, graduating in 1861. He served three years in the Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War, and was wounded three times before being discharged with the rank of captain in 1864. Returning to Harvard. Holmes graduated from the Law School in 1866 and began his distinguished career as a jurist when he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar the following year. During the next fifteen years Holmes practiced and taught law at Harvard, delivering his famous lecture on common law at Lowell Institute...