Word: nolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Whiting Nolen '84, head of the Little Hall Tutoring School and for 40 years most intimately connected with the scholastic life of the University, died shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home, 1352 Massachusetts Avenue. The funeral service will be held at Christ Church at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, and the burial will take place at his private estate near Forest Hills...
Death was caused by heart failure, but for several years past Mr. Nolen has been sinking slowly until, a few weeks ago, physicians considered that the end would be only a matter of time. Refusing to let his weakened condition interfere with the few classes which he still had on his schedule, he spend a portion of the last few days teaching from bed, keeping his engagements up to noon yesterday. It is thought that the unusually hot weather of the past week was largely responsible for the suddenness of his collapse...
WILLIAM WHITING NOLEN...
...With the death of William W. Nolen, a personality familiar to a host of Harvard men passes out of college life. Nolen was a member of the class of 1884 and from his undergraduate days took a keen interest in young students. His attempts at academic teaching soon after graduation were not wholly successful, but he soon found himself in an endeavor to give personal help to those who he believed were in danger of failure because the over-burdened college teacher had not time enough to help them...
...life of Mr. Nolen has been one unbroken record of service in the field of private teaching at the University. Born at Philadelphia July 16, 1860, he attended the Central High School, Philadelphia, graduating in 1878. He entered Harvard in the fall of 1880 and graduated "summa cum laude" in 1884. During his college course he was connected with the Regent's Office, having as his duty the keeping of records of the various dormitories. For two years he filled the position of an assistant in biology, securing his master's degree in 1886. Then followed two years...