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Hace 2 días · Oliver Wendell Holmes, seated on the floor, plays the straight man beside Horton, who looks up with mock concern at Lanergan, who leans over him melodramatically. The names below are written in Holmes’ hand. Another photograph of the three is in the collection of Harvard Law School.
Hace 4 días · This Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson brings to mind two relatively famous quotes about the dangers of thinking too much about our “eternal house in heaven” (5:1) that is our resurrected bodies in the new creation. Oliver Wendell Holmes once reportedly said, “Some people are so heavenly minded that they are of no earthly good.” Johnny Cash…
Hace 1 día · An After-dinner Poem. (TERPSICHORE) Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at. Cambridge, August 24, 1843. IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse, In closest frock and Cinderella shoes, Bound to the foot-lights for thy brief display, One zephyr step, and then dissolve away! . . . . . . . . . .
Hace 1 día · A ceremonial groundbreaking was held on May 24 for the John Lewis Social Justice Academy at Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School. This new name will honor the late civil rights activist, ...
Hace 4 días · To Death 's dark caves and icy arms. Alas! one narrow line is drawn, That links our sunset with our dawn; In mist and shade life 's morning rose, And clouds are round it at its close; But ah! no twilight beam ascends. To whisper where that evening ends. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Hace 19 horas · I am proud to live in a state that cares about people. “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a former Supreme Court justice.
Hace 3 días · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had said: Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories,” the bench added.
