Word: nolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Widow" Nolen's on Sale...
...Nolen, "the Widow", was beyond a doubt the king of tutors--and in a country as full of universities as is the United States, this is no small attainment. What he told them to do, his students did; knowing that they could make no great mistake, and many there were who by this means achieved the coveted passing-mark. But some time ago the cry went up that the king was dead, and his successor has yet to appear...
...Nolen's policy, as outlined by one of his associates, was always: "play the game square". And although tutoring schools in general were often denounced as inventions of the evil one, and worse, "the Widow's" was always let alone. Campaigns were carried on against the distributors of printed notes, but not against him. For his school never sold notes. He obtained his success by his skill, shrewdness, and power of teaching,--openly and without any suggestion of "intellectual bootlegging...
With spirited bidding on every number, 10,000 volumes from the library of the late W. W. Nolen 'S4, affectionately known as "the Widow" to generations of Harvard undergraduates, have been sold this week in the auction rooms of William K. MacKay in Boston...
...largest price brought by any single volume so far was that of $70 for Lyon's "Colonial Furniture of New England" from Mr. Nolen's famous collection of books on old silver, china, and furniture. A bid of $1.25 took a collection of photographs of instructions and buildings of Harvard College, and several old volumes of the Harvard Lampoon, bound in half morocco went for fifty cents...