Word: lincolniana
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...college tutorial plans and reading periods (before examinations) have cut into the crammer's trade. And Harvard's most famed crammery died with William Whiting ("Widow") Nolen in 1923. Graduated from Harvard in 1884 (summa cum laude), "Widow" Nolen left to Harvard his fine collection of Lincolniana, as well as $36,000 to a Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written as it was of him: Dead...
...recent issues the revered Atlantic Monthly published three articles on the life of Abraham Lincoln by a Miss Wilma Frances Minor, based upon hitherto unknown Lincolniana in the possession of Miss Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle...
...Passed a Senate bill appropriating some $50,000 to purchase from O. H. Oldroyd the house in which Lincoln died and the Lincolniana now housed there. (Bill went to the President...
Abraham Lincoln comes in for attention even in academic circles. No amount of searching for dates can account for the recent burst of Lincolniana. Professor Morison is not to be outdone by the Chicago bard, and he will talk of Lincoln and secession in History 32b at 11 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall Aesthetic vagabonds who dread facts, and even I often do, can go to Fogg instead and see the Van Eycks in all their glory, for Professor Edgell is talking at the same time in Fine Arts 1d on Flemish painting of the fifteenth century...
...Library recently acquired a large addition to its Lincolniana when the late "Widow" Nolen bequeathed his famous collection to the University. This remarkable collection consists not only of a large number of books, but pamphlets, magazine articles, and a very complete collection of busts and statuettes. It is still lying in the basement of the Library awaiting an inventory, but as soon as this is made, it probably will to be on exhibition...