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Dedicated to Senior Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, "greatest American jurist," at the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, the March number of the Harvard Law Review will appear today. The issue includes tributes and essays about Justice Holmes by leading judges of England and the United States, as well as the usual sections devoted to comments on recent decisions and specialized branches...
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...
Actually this title needed qualification. A magistrate is as different from a Supreme Court judge as an ordinary bank officer from a financier. And in Ohio that learned, grey-haired jurist. Florence Allen, had be come a justice of the Supreme Court. But what matter? Jean Norris had no grey hairs and was certainly somebody. She loved her work-being called "Your Honor," and tartly telling this male he was overruled, or wisely bidding that bad girl to be good...
When the committee, headed by Chair-man Borah, finally strolled in and sat about the table, Jurist Root began a three-hour exposition of his handiwork. Reviewing the World Court's history and its relation to the council of the League of Nations, he detailed his objections to the Senate's rigid reservation against the Court's rendering an advisory opinion on any question in which the U. S. has or claims to have an interest. Under the Root formula, views are to be exchanged first between the U. S. and the Court on the question...