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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes DOCTOR, PROFESSOR OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1809 August 29, Tuesday: Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in the center of the universe, in a nice house just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a member of the “harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy” of the “Brahmin Caste of New England,” that is, merely the richer part of the community, that live in the tallest houses, drives real carriages (not “kerriges”) ... and have a provokingly easy way of dressing, walking, talking, and nodding to people. He was and never would forget that he was descended from the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet — who was descended from William the Conqueror (known on the continent as William the Bastard). Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 3rd day 29th of 8 M 1809// Was instructed this morning in reading the 39 Chapt Gen, how when he (Joseph) was tempted he HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES nobly withstood & tho’ he was imprisoned & suffers for a while yet the Lord wrought for him & for his faithfulness raised him not only to the second in the kings house, but Second in the Kingdom — Thought best to go again to Town meeting, there is no solid satisfaction gotten there, but from my present views it seems best upon occasions to attend - Father return’d this afternoon from Narragansett Mother & Niobe went Yesterday & he went to accompany them Set the eveng at home & read the Scripture - ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1817 The final hanging in Cambridge, Massachusetts took place on the town’s Gallows Hill or Jones’s Hill just off the Great County Road, which sloped north of Linnaean Street in easy walking distance of Harvard College, a location that is now registered on the map as the “Stone Court” private parking lot (the address that now corresponds most precisely to the location of the original gallows tree would be 15-19 Lancaster Street). The hanging was witnessed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 8 years of age, who brought along with him 5-year-old brother John Holmes — and when his parents found out about this lark they surely gave them the best of scoldings. The name of the person the boys witnessed being hanged, and the nature of his offense, are not part of this record. The earliest execution to take place on this spot had presumably been that of Goody Kendall in about 1701 (no precise date is given), she having been convicted of “bewitching to death” a child of Goodman Genings, probably named Robert or Samuel Jennings. Two better-recorded executions that had taken place at this locale had been those of the slaves Mark and Phillis for the alleged poisoning of their owner Captain John Codman of Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1755. Mark had been hanged and his body put up in irons on a gibbet along what has become Washington Street in Somerville, near the Charlestown line, for some two decades. Phillis, per custom, had not been hanged but strangled, and then her body had been burned as it would have been considered unseemly to have placed a female body on display in such manner. HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1821 Doctor John White Webster put out A DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF ST. MICHAEL, a definitive mineralogical and geological survey of this island in the Azores. Upon the recommendation of Doctor George Parkman among others, he was chosen as a Harvard Medical School lecturer at a salary of $800 per year.1 1. After the murder of Doctor Parkman, Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes would visit Professor Webster’s prison cell as he awaited execution. The fact that Harvard was a bastion of white righteousness has it goes without saying nothing whatever to do with these sad events. HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1823 Margaret Fuller was attending the school of the Misses Prescott in rural Groton, Massachusetts, where for a time she would be sitting next to a child named Oliver — Oliver Wendell Holmes. HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1826 Fall: Oliver Wendell Holmes matriculated at Harvard College. HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1827 Oliver Wendell Holmes became a member of a predecessor club (under another name) of today’s Hasty Pudding Club. HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1829 Benjamin Peirce and William Henry Channing graduated from Harvard College. NEW “HARVARD MEN” Oliver Wendell Holmes graduated from Harvard as Class Poet, and went into the study of medicine — for many years afterward he would congratulate each graduating class by means of a poem. Dr. Charles Follen became, in addition to the Professor of German Language and Literature, an instructor of ethics and history at the Divinity School. Horatio Wood entered Divinity School. Among his classmates would be his lifelong friend the Reverend Andrew Preston Peabody, the Reverend Charles Babbidge of Pepperell, and the Reverend Henry Adolphus Miles. The Reverend Wood would afterward write of this period as follows: My mind was taken by the first movements of Rev. Dr. Tuckerman among the poorest, the most friendless, the most neglected, the most exposed to sin and ruin of our fellow-men. It struck me like the dawning of a new day for the Unitarian Church if it would be not only doctrinally, but practically, truly Christian. Rev. F.T. Gray, Rev. C.F. Barnard, Rev. J.T. Sargent, Rev. R.C. Waterston, I saw step forward, one after another, and put their hands zealously and vigorously to the plough of Christ in the new field, and my heart went with them. On a Saturday of my last collegiate year, in 1827, I went alone and spent a day in visiting the crowded rooms, cellars and attics of Broad Street [in Boston], where there was a stifled mass of HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES degradation and woe. I let nothing escape my eyes, heard all tales, sat down and talked familiarly with many till they unburdened themselves and turned themselves inside out, letting me know all that was in their hearts. I carried away knowledge and lessons which were never to leave me.... LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote “Old Ironsides” to arouse public sentiment against destruction of the USS Constitution, an American fighting ship that had seen service in the War of 1812. (He was studying law, and deciding to give it up in favor of the study of medicine.) HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES September 16, Thursday: In Vienna, Aloys Fuchs, a collector of musical manuscripts, presented his new friend Felix Mendelssohn with the “Wittgenstein” sketchbook of Ludwig van Beethoven. This contained drafts of the Piano Sonata op.109, the Diabellis Variations, and the Missa Solemnis.2 Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 5th day 16 of 9 M / Attended Meeting in Town Wm Almy & An old friend from the eastward by the name of Crowell preached - it was however no time of elevation to me, tho’ not so poor as sometimes — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “Old Ironsides” appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser. Aye, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon’s roar; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! Her decks, once red with heroes’ blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o’er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor’s tread Or know the conquered knee; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea! Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!3 2. In this period Ludwig van Beethoven was beginning to score for the flute in his musical creations. 3. The poet who wrote this grand national chauvinistic stuff, it must be pointed out, was more interested in law-n-order than in abolition. He had the habit of referring to abolitionists as “philo-melanics,” a term which one presumes he meant to be freely translated into the vernacular as “niggerlovers.” He was in favor of the welfare of black Americans of course (at a first approximation everyone wants what’s best for everyone) but their needs had inevitably to be subordinated to the needs of white citizens simply because they were racially inferior beings. At that time, although thankfully no longer, it was considered natural and therefore right that “our sympathies” should be extended primarily toward “our own color first.” HDT WHAT? INDEX OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1831 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noticed that: [I]t is expected that a person who has distinguished himself in one field ... will not ... venture into one entirely unrelated. Should an individual attempt this, no gratitude is shown.
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