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Show I WHO SAID j 1 People that make puns aro lik I wanton boys thai put coppers on Hie railroad tracks. 1 This was Oliver Wendell Holmes' opinion of people who Improve every opportunity to make trifling witticisms. Oliver Wendell Holmes was a physician phy-sician by profession. Few people remember re-member him as a doctor, however, his, claim to fame resting upon his work! as an author. Holmes was boin in Cambridge in 1809 (the same year as Abraham Lincoln) and received his education ed-ucation at Harvard university He decided de-cided to became a lawyer, but shortly short-ly relinquished his law studies to enter en-ter the medical profession- in 1S3'i Holmes w ;in made professor profes-sor of anatomy at Dartmouth college, but he resigned this position two years later in order to devote hlmsolf to his practice in Boston. In 184 7 he was appointed ap-pointed to the chair of anatomy at .Harvard and he hold that position un-' un-' til the year 1S82. f the written works of Oliver Wendell Wen-dell Holmes it need only be said lhai they covered a wide range of subjects and Included poetry as well as prose. He also remembered ae one of the prominent figures of the group ot American writers who contributed to 'h Atlantic Monthly In tho early days Of that magazine. Of the prose work of Holmes It ls safe to say that his "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" Is perhaps tho beet known. He wrnt many delightful poems which are familiar to every' schoolboy. Holmes died October 7, 1S94. -Wayne D. MoMurray. |