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|Headline= | |Headline=Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA | ||
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|State=MA | |State=MA | ||
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|Text=<p>"[At Phillips] Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentary form of base-ball and the heroic sport of foot-ball were followed with some spirit." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Cinders from the Ashes," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Works of Oliver Wendel Holmes</span> Volume 8 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1892), page 251. He went on to recollect visiting the school in 1867, when he "sauntered until we came to a broken field where there was quarrying and digging going on, our old base-ball ground." <em>Ibid</em>, page 255.</p> | |Text=<p>"[At Phillips] Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentary form of base-ball and the heroic sport of foot-ball were followed with some spirit."</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p> Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Cinders from the Ashes," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Works of Oliver Wendel Holmes</span> Volume 8 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1892), page 251. He went on to recollect visiting the school in 1867, when he "sauntered until we came to a broken field where there was quarrying and digging going on, our old base-ball ground." <em>Ibid</em>, page 255.</p> | |||
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<p>This essay originally appeared in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Atlantic Monthly</span> Volume 23 (January 1869). page 120.</p> | <p>This essay originally appeared in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Atlantic Monthly</span> Volume 23 (January 1869). page 120.</p> | ||
|Comment=<p><strong>Note:</strong> see item #[[1829c.1]] below for Holmes' Harvard ballplaying.</p> | |Comment=<p><strong>Note:</strong> see item #[[1829c.1]] below for Holmes' Harvard ballplaying.</p> | ||
|Query=<p>Are we sure we haven't got Holmes <em>pere et fils</em> confused? OWH Sr (1809-1894), the poet and novelist, attended Andover and Harvard in the 1820s. OWH Jr (1841-1935) attended Harvard in the 1850s, served in the Civil War and became a justice of the US Supreme Court.--WCH</p> | |||
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| Text | "[At Phillips] Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentary form of base-ball and the heroic sport of foot-ball were followed with some spirit."
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| Sources | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Cinders from the Ashes," The Works of Oliver Wendel Holmes Volume 8 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1892), page 251. He went on to recollect visiting the school in 1867, when he "sauntered until we came to a broken field where there was quarrying and digging going on, our old base-ball ground." Ibid, page 255.
This essay originally appeared in The Atlantic Monthly Volume 23 (January 1869). page 120. |
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| Query | Are we sure we haven't got Holmes pere et fils confused? OWH Sr (1809-1894), the poet and novelist, attended Andover and Harvard in the 1820s. OWH Jr (1841-1935) attended Harvard in the 1850s, served in the Civil War and became a justice of the US Supreme Court.--WCH Edit with form to add a query |
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