Some excerpts: On July 25—according to G. Edward White’s biography of Holmes—Roosevelt had a “secret meeting” with Holmes at Roosevelt’s summer home on Long Island. Roosevelt offered ...

I did feel compelled to write to say I’ve always disliked that TR quote, given he was referring to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who was wounded a number of times while serving as an officer in the ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who issued Old Ironsides from the ... to the University began with the moving in of Jonathan Hastings Jr., A.B. 1730, who was Harvard's steward for thirty years.

They include: Advertisement -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1841 -- Scientist Otto Hahn in 1879 -- Actor Louise Beavers in 1902 -- Actor Claire Trevor in 1910 -- Dancer ...