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Oliver Wendell Holmes High School is in another year of excellence as a comprehensive secondary school of scholarship and activity. | Namesake | General
Info | Accreditation | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a noted poet, essayist and physician, and Amelia Jackson, a daughter of a chief justice of the Massachusetts Judical Court, was born on March 8, 1841. Educated at Harvard, holmes was graduated and commissioned a lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry in June, 1861. He was wounded three times in three famous battles of the Civil War: Ball's Bluff, Anietam, and Fredericksburg, and was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. On leaving the army, Holmes entered the Harvard Law School and took his L.L.B. in 1866. In 1870, he became the editor of the American Law Journal. The following year, Harvard appointed him university lecturer on jurisprudence, and in 1882, he was awarded a professorship in the Harvard Law School. For twenty years, Holmes served on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachussetts, and was chief justice the last three. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Holmes an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt had hoped to put Holmes' rather "liberal" mind to work for his administration. He was proven wrong in this as Holmes demonstrated his independence of mind in many dissenting minority opinions. This led to his title as "The Great Dissenter." Until his retirement in 1932, he continued to demonstrate his originality of thought, his legal scholarship, and his mastery of pungent style. From the Holmes High School Student Handbook General Information The initial construction in 1964 accommodated twelve hundred students in three circular buildings. The fourth building was built in 1970 to accommodate twelve hundred and thirty more students. Two vocational buildings have been added along with the new boys' gym and math building. Library, homemaking, cafeteria and administrative offices renovation has also taken place. In 1993, the new Fine Arts wing was completed. It houses the band, orchestra, drama, and choir departments. Holmes High School can now accommodate approximately 3,000 students. With the passage of the 2001 Bond, a new classroom/office building has been constructed, along with renovations to the science labs, B building and library. Accreditation Curriculum Community Composition Graduation
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Testing Calendar Students attend 7 forty-eight minute classes each day (plus lunch). Students have the opportunity to earn seven credits per year. Image:
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