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...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 as the great jurist's secretary, reported that, catching Professor Frankfurter tiptoeing by his bed, Mr. Justice Holmes had merrily thumbed his nose...
...essayist. But the fame of his pioneer work in conquering the scourge of puerperal (childbed) fever will be fresh when The Chambered Nautilus and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table are moldering on scholars' shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into the law. At once creed, autobiography and epitaph is a passage from a speech he made to Harvard students years...
...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 as a man of blood. The paradox is not only ludicrous, but grim...
...sank into earth. It will be something to make the spine tingle, something to expand many young chests and straighten many young shoulders. It will be nothing less than the great man deserves. But there will be a horrible jarring note to anyone who thinks. Mr. Holmes was a jurist, a man who made his mark on the world through the power and justice of his intellect, through hours of painful and thorough work, through consistent disregard of self and consideration of first principles first; not through the seizing of a propitious moment for one rash deed of physical courage...
...stubs of the Morgan volume contain the names of a score of prominent Revolutionary figures, among whom are Andrew Craigie, apothecary-general of the Revolutionary Army; Edward Livingston, the distinguished jurist; Brockholst, Livingston, a prominent figure in American legal life and later Justice of the Supreme Court; Joseph Barrell and James Watson, noted New York merchants; Comfort Sands, founder of the Atlantic Magazine and co-editor with William Cullon Bryant; and John Pintard, a book collector who founded the Massachusetts and New York Historical Societies...