Dr. Wendell Hughes: Grafting Greatness

Dr. Robert Hughes Parry

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1

The life of Oliver Wendell Holmes was selected as the subject for a lecture in the 1974 History of Medicine series at Yale University School of Medicine because, as the Latin subtitle of the essay suggests, he represents a fortunate and uncommon, but by no means unique, synthesis of the practical and aesthetic, of science and the humanities. An attempt has been made by the lecturer, employing f...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Visits Yale

Sir William Osler said that Oliver Wendell Holmes "was the most successful combination which the world has ever seen of the physician and man of letters," and so much has been written about Doctor Holmes it may seem futile to try to add anything, but, as Holmes himself wrote about Carlyle, "He remains not the less one of the really interesting men of his generation, a man about whom we really w...

Outskirts Hughes

This paper offers an analysis of the representation of Aboriginal mothers in Jane Harrison’s play, Stolen. It argues that the Aboriginal mother characters in Stolen endeavour to engage in maternal practices even after their children are taken from them. The act of a non-Aboriginal person speaking about Aboriginal representation is acknowledged as problematic. Further, this paper proposes that i...

A Facet of America's Greatness

inerica has been called a nation of joiners . We are. I don't know that anyone has ever made an exact count of all the voluntary organizations and associations in the United States, but my guess is that there must be a million or more . Upon coming to Norman a few years ago, I learned that there were over two hundred and fifty organizations in this community of modest size . I was particularly ...