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Old Governor Stoughton seemed to resent this affront. Although his spirit remained quite for some years, it had an insidious effect on the occupants of the new hall. The two historians Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott both later went blind, and Richard Henry Dana had to go off to...
Meanwhile, the taxpayer, seeking to avoid Professor Bowling's tag of infantilism, will take what comfort and maturity he can find from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's remark that "taxes are what we pay for civilized society." In the contemporary scene purchasable civilization means, mostly, defense against...
Now a Harvard Law School professor has made a start at filling the gap. Lanky balding W. (for Walter) Barton Leach, 55, brigadier general U.S.A.F. Reserve knew much of his broad subject firsthand. A onetime secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lawyer Leach became an operations analyst for...
Played less as a comedy than other Guinness films of this type, The Detective makes up in clever dialogue what it lacks in suspense and visual gags. Anyone who found The Lavender Hill Mob enjoyable should like this only a little less. It just seems a shame that the fine...
Harvard President James Walker first suggested a monument in 1863, and an alumni committee, including Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, some set to work on the details. The group declared that the planned memorial "must ever prove an unfailing source of inspiration and elevated sentiment ... to...