Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Upon the seventeenth of October, 1883, the centennial anniversary of the Harvard Medical School, the new building upon the Back Bay was dedicated. The fine, commodious structure...

In _Pages from an old Volume of Life_, one of the latest books published by Doctor Holmes, we have a collection of most delightful orations and essays. Some of them we recognize...

"The works of other men live, but their personality dies out of their labors; the poet, who reproduces himself in his creation, as no other artist does or can, goes down to post...

As the seventieth birthday of Doctor Holmes drew near, the publishers of the _Atlantic Monthly_ resolved to give a "Breakfast" in his honor. The twenty-ninth of August, 1879, wa...

Doctor Holmes has two sons and one daughter. Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, his eldest child, was born in 1841. When a young lad, he attended the school of Mr. E.S. Dixwell, in B...

"We always welcomed Professor Holmes with enthusiastic cheers when he came into the class room, and his lectures were so brimful of witty anecdotes that we sometimes forgot it w...

It was not until the spring of 1886 that Doctor Holmes made his second trip to Europe. A whole half century had elapsed since his return home from the three years spent abroad w...

"What decided me," says Doctor Holmes, "to give up Law and apply myself to Medicine, I can hardly say, but I had from the first looked upon my law studies as an experiment. At a...

The _Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ was followed in 1859 by _The Professor_, a series of similar essays, in which we are introduced to "Iris" and "Little Boston," and begin to...

"The burden of years sits lightly upon me," he remarked to a friend that day, "but after fourscore years the encroachments of time make themselves felt with rapidly increasing p...

It is city-life, Boston-life, in fact, that forms the fitting frame of any pen-picture one might draw of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and yet even his prose writings are full of all a...

After a year's study of law, during which time the Muses were constantly tempting him to "pen a stanza when he should engross," young Holmes determined to take up the study of m...

In a quaint old gambrel-roofed house that once stood on Cambridge Common, Oliver Wendell Holmes--poet, professor, "beloved physician"--was born, on the twenty-ninth of August, 1...

"Like other boys in the country," he tells us, "I had my patch of ground to which in the springtime I intrusted the seeds furnished me with a confident trust in their resurrecti...

In a curious little almanac for 1809 may still be seen against the date of August 29, the simple record, "Son b." Twice before had good Parson Holmes recorded in similar manner...

In the year 1857, Mr. Phillips, of the firm of Phillips & Sampson, undertook the publication in Boston, of a new literary magazine. They were fortunate in securing James Russell...

When Doctor Warren gave up the Parkman professorship at Harvard, in 1847, Doctor Holmes was appointed to take his place as Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. For eight months...

"_The Negro Plot at New York_," he says, "helped to implant a feeling in me which it took Mr. Garrison a good many years to root out. _Thinks I to myself_, an old novel which ha...

In 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes took his degree of M.D. The following year was made sadly memorable to the happy family at the parsonage by the death of the beloved father. He ha...

_Currents and Counter-currents_ was published in 1861, and _Border-lines of Knowledge_ in 1862. The two latter books deal with scientific subjects, but are written in such an at...

In 1839, Doctor Holmes was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College, and pleasantly describes in _The Professor_, his "Autumnal sojourn by the Connecti...