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...Widow Nolan, a summa graduate, opened Manter Hall. Until his death in 1923, he maintained a quiet, unobjectionable tutoring business. His name and work developed into something of a legend, and it was not long before his successors at Manter Hall could advertise: "Ask Dad, ask Grand-Dad, about the Widow...
...tute school" system began in 1886 after William Whiting "The Widow" Nolen '80 opened the first Manter Hall school and began to relieve students of their curricular worries. Starting slowly, the system mushroomed after the turn of the century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that...
...those tutoring who use only prepared notes 54 % Percentage of those tutoring who use only oral reviews 31 % Percentage of those tutoring who use both reviews and notes 15 % % tutored by C.T.B. & U.T. 38% % tutored by Fairfax 25% % tutored by Wolff 16% % tutored by Parker-Cramer 14% % tutored by Manter Hall 5% % tutored by all others...
Institutionalized advertising takes its form in such ads as Manter Hall saying, "Ask Dad, Ask Grand-dad About the Widow's." A University Tutoring School ad deplored the oppressiveness of college work as follows; "midnight oil; loathesome toil." Wolff's displays a robed Senior with the caption; "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...
Since William Whiting "the Widow" Nolen '84 started his Manter Hall School in 1886, the extent and influence of the tutoring schools have gradually grown. According to the Student Council report, they have "grown out of their proper place" to a degree unique in American universities...