Word: nolen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge James R. Nolen of the Ware District Court lashed out at the Harvard Law School in a speech delivered Wednesday night, accusing it of "foisting on the American people a philosophy that is neither Christian, American, nor decent...
Addressing the Boston University Law School Association's annual dinner in the Parker House, Nolen vigorously attacked "a competitive Law School." After his speech, however, he admitted to reporters that the Law School to which he was referring was Harvard...
...Nolen appealed to graduates of the Boston University Law School to "help restore the real philosophy of America." He added that "I don't know of a single Boston University graduate who is so embedded in this new philosophy that he would dare to enter a court as a character witness for Alger Hiss...
Originated in 1886 by William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen '84, the tutoring business grew up rapidly. In the early 1930's, half a dozen cram bureaus vied for the Harvard trade from their quarters in the Square, dishing out a New Deal in educational methods. The genteel monopoly established by the Widow was transformed into a sharply competitive business whose practices were often quite unethical. A number of devices were used: ghost-writing papers, spotting or stealing exam questions, recommending "gut" courses, bribing monitors for class lists, hijacking lecture notes, and summarizing texts in violation of copyright laws...
Wolff had become something of a legend, like the Widow Nolen, a quarter of a century before him. A magna graduate in Anthropology, he employed 21 assistants in his high-pressure parlor and tutored up to 500 students...