Word: nolen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines. Nowadays, when Girard boys graduate, most have learned a trade, go straight to work. And some go to the top of their professions; e. g., President William H. Kingsley of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., President John Albert Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., famed Landscape Architect John Nolen...
Harvardmen were unimpressed. New 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...
...Nolen puts you through; But gratitude takes early wing when...
...Nolen's bill...
...influence of parkways on land values and social values will be studied by the Harvard University School of City Planning and the Graduate School of Business Administration, in a joint research project conducted by Mr. John Nolen, city planning consultant, and Associate Professor Frank D. Wash burn of the Business School. Various outstanding examples, such as the parkway systems of Boston, Kansas City, Missouri, and Westchester County, New York, will be studied: reasons for success or failure will be determined and the findings stated so that they may be of value to other communities throughout the country...