How did Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. view legal education at Harvard Law School?

During his time as a student at Harvard Law School, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. experienced a sense of restlessness. He found the school's curriculum to be uninspired, stagnant, and overly focused on narrow legal precedents.1

Holmes felt that the law was being taught without sufficient regard for its broader philosophy, science, or history. He was particularly critical of what he termed the "small change of legal thought," preferring instead to explore the deeper intellectual foundations of the profession.1