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5 days ago · Written by a Baptist minister, Samuel Francis, and set to the tune, ironically, of God Save the Queen, the song was first performed on July 4, 1831 at Park Street Church in Boston. Near the end of his life, Francis was proposed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, for an honorary degree from Harvard. Harvard turned this proposal down on the grounds ...
3 days ago · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes infamously called that portion of the Constitution “the usual last resort of constitutional arguments.”. The fault lay in the Court itself for so diminishing the...
4 days ago · As when their locks were brown! With ears grown dull and eyes grown dim. They greet the joyous day. That calls them to the fountain's brim. To wash their years away. What change has clothed the ancient sire. In sudden youth? For, to! The Judge, the Doctor, and the Squire. Are Jack and Bill and Joe! And be his titles what they will,
4 days ago · A Memorial Day Address, 1884 Commissioned an officer in 1861 at just 20 years of age, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., saw action in several Civil War battles including Fredericksburg and Antietam, suffering serious wounds three times.
3 days ago · THE SOLUTION: There's a quote sometimes attributed to the late Supreme Court judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; others attribute it to his father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. In either case, here it is:
4 days ago · The suet is hard as a marrow- bone, And every plum is turned to a stone, But there the puddings lie. And if, some pleasant afternoon, You'll ask me out to ride, The whole of the story I will tell, And you shall see where the puddings fell, And pay for the punch beside. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
5 days ago · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841 - 1935) Home State: Massachusetts. Education: Harvard, Class of 1861. Command Billet: none. Branch of Service: Infantry. Unit: 20th Massachusetts Infantry. Before Antietam. Wendell, as he was called, attended Harvard College beginning in 1857.
