SEATED: Composer Virgil Thomas, Boston College President J. Donald Monan, missionary Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Dr. Maxwell Finland, and zoologist Sir Peter Medawar. STANDING: Chemist John Charles Polanyi, Harvard Corporation member Francis Hardon…
The first published poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes were printed in the six issues of a monthly Harvard undergraduate student magazine, The collegian, from February through July, 1830. Some of his poems then appeared in Illustrations of the…
Holmes was born and grew up in the “gambrel-roofed house,” facing Cambridge Common, where the Littauer building now stands. In 1870, he and his brother sold the house to Harvard University and in—to use Holmes’…