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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...
HARRIS BURNS, JR. '54, colorbearer of R.O.T.C. Battery C, accepts a streamer for highest scholastic rating from Colonel CHARLES P. SUMMERALL, JR, professor of Military Science and Tactics. At far left is Major NEIL D. NOLEN, associate professor of Military Science and Tactics. The occasion for the presentation was the final review of both Army and Air Force R.O.T.C. units yesterday on the Business School field. Another streamer was awarded Battery B for the best disciplinary record...
...clerk in the Harris County Courthouse, Texas was startled when 59-year-old Longshoreman Nolen G. Fite belatedly applied for a birth certificate for his daughter, Mrs. Virgie McCagle, now 47. "Do you mean to say you're only twelve years older than your daughter?" asked the clerk. "That's right," said Fite, "but she's my second child. My son was born when...
Excused from their afternoon classes, over half the Medical School's 500 students jammed a State House hearing yesterday to throw their support behind the Nolen-Miles vivisection bill...
...Sidney Farber '27 yesterday lashed out against the Hearst-sponsored Anti-Vivisection campaign, terming the entire issue "journalistic propaganda." Farber, Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, stated that "newspapers have deliberately misrepresented the case for the Nolen-Miles bill...