We should cultivate “brave spaces,” where students are instructed in how to think, not what to think, by engaging in all the ...

Twenty-five years ago Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 took his place on the Supreme Bench of the United States, in that room of the Capital which had been the meeting place of Congress during a century ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, poet, soldier, barrister, and justice of the Supreme Court, retires from the bench tomorrow on his eighty-fourth birthday. His life has been intimately connected with ...

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“In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,” Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v. Bell, the state could—and should ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling Boston's elite families "the Brahmin Caste of New England." The Boston Brahmins have long held the interest of casual and ...

after her beloved poet Oliver Wendell Holmes. After its incorporation in 1903 many more businesses and people moved into ...

It has considerable historic interest since both poet Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Supreme Court Justice, his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., owned and appreciated the place, their home still ...