Word: nolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little Hall, the present site of William W. Nolen's tutoring school, is to be a Freshman dormitory next year it was announced yesterday through the Bursar's Office. This famous tutorial school, which since its establishment in 1886 has occupied a unique position in the life of the University, will move its offices to Manter Hall...
Traditions and landmarks are no longer as enduring as in the sleepy Cambridge of an earlier century, and their passing is often but of momentary interest. The removal of Nolen's Tutoring School from the old familiar premises, however, will cause more than one pang of sentimental regret; but the announcement that Little Hall is to be converted into a Freshman dormitory will take the sting out of this momentary grief. Although it will accomodate but sixty men its acquisition comes in the light of a gift from the gods...
Questioned by a CRIMSON reporter regarding the reported sale of Nolen's, an instructor who requested that his name be withheld from publication denied that the famous tutoring school had changed hands. "There have been so many rumors regarding the proposed disposition of the school, that it might be well to state the case correctly in the CRIMSON since no Boston paper has printed an accurate account...
...Nolen's will, he stipulated that the school should be offered for sale to the present instructors. The value that he placed upon it was outside of all proportions we were willing topay, for we maintain that the only assets in the school are books and furniture, and that the good-will the legatec seeks to capitalize is something we instructors have shared with Mr. Nolen in founding. "We have offered a sum we consider commensurate with the value of the tangible assets, but it has been rejected...
...present "offices of William W. Nolen will be vacated in July and taken over by the college authorities who in tend to renovate it into a dormitory where men in the University will be quartered. This work is expected to be completed in September...