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Edwin Winfield Bowen
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" Thus the boy was repelled rather than attracted to the ministry by a well-meaning clergyman, and did not yield to his father's wishes. Upon his graduation from Harvard, in 1829, Holmes felt some inclination to the law, but he pursued it only a short time when he discovered that he had not yet "found himself, " and that law was not to his taste. He then addressed himself to medicine, which he felt to be his calling. After the comple- tion of his medical course, which he pursued mainly in Paris..., he returned to his native State of Massa- chusetts and began the practice of his profession. In 1838 he was called to a professorship of anatomy in Dartmouth College, and a few years afterwards he was called thence to Harvard, his alma mater. Here he remained and continued to lecture till his 268 MAKERS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE resignation of his professorship in 1882. The even- ing of life he devoted exclusively to his literary pursuits. The Little Man of Boston, as Dr. Holmes was familiarly called, enjoyed an enviable reputation as a raconteur and wit and became a familiar figure upon the lyceum platform.
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