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Hace 9 horas · The era also produced the Fireside Poets (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and William Cullen Bryant), Southwestern humorists (including George Washington Harris and T. B. Thorpe), and accomplished novelists such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ...
Hace 3 días · In 1886, Oliver Wendell Holmes, lecturing at Harvard Law School, spoke of the opportunity to “live greatly in the law.” It was, and is, an admirable aspiration — to transcend the everyday limits of legal practice, to make a lasting contribution, to earn respect and approbation that endures. Steve Pollak did not merely live greatly in the law.
Hace 3 días · Brandeis is a character in the play The Magnificent Yankee, about Oliver Wendell Holmes. In the 1950 movie he is played by Eduard Franz. Namesake institutions. Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Several awards given at the school are named in his honor.
Hace 4 días · There has long been what I call a “traditional” approach, embodied in the work of judges like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and Louis Brandeis, and professors such as Henry Hart and Albert Sacks. It sees legal interpretation as pragmatic, undogmatic, and adaptive.
Hace 1 día · His friendship with fellow Harvard classmate and Union veteran Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (who would become a Supreme Court justice) featured prominently in The Metaphysical Club.
Hace 5 días · The ship was scheduled to be destroyed in the years after the War of 1812, but a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes built up public sentiment for the old warship and encouraged Congress to act to protect the symbol of American might.
Hace 1 día · THE fount the Spaniard sought in vain. Through all the land of flowers. Leaps glittering from the sandy plain. Our classic grove embowers; Here youth, unchanging, blooms and smiles, Here dwells eternal spring, And warm from Hope's elysian isles. The winds their perfume bring.
