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Apr 14, 2021 · Excerpted From: Thomas Halper, Justice Holmes and the Question of Race, 10 British Journal of American Legal Studies 171 (Spring, 2021) (220 Footnotes) (Full Document) Born into a life of intellectual and social privilege, where “the flowering of New England was almost a family affair,” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., as a young man was a bit ...
On Nov. 10, a hundred years ago Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes issued a remarkable opinion that gave birth to our modern understanding of free speech. It was a...
A lifelong skeptic, he disdained all individual rights, including the right to express one’s political views. But in 1919, it was Holmes who wrote a dissenting opinion that would become the canonical affirmation of free speech in the United States.
May 31, 2016 · New England is not dead yet. She still is mother of a race of conquerors--stern men, little given to the expression of their feelings, sometimes careless of their graces, but fertile, tenacious, and knowing only duty. Each of you, as I do, thinks of a hundred such that he has known.
Oct 7, 2020 · Harvard Medical Society Renamed in Honor of First Black Tenured Professor, Physician ... the Holmes Society bore the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Class of 1829, a writer, physician, and ...
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Aug 28, 2020 · Holmes was also a superb literary stylist and the author of hundreds of poems, essays and stories under the byline “the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.”. In 1846, he coined the word ...
