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William Whiting Nolen, Harvard '84, and nicknamed "The Window," founded Manter Hall School, where for 38 years he tutored students so they could pass Harvard courses. "The Window" died in 1923, but his school still functions. Its promotion literature, left in dormitories and its advertising in The Crimson stress the founders success, and tell present-day students to "ask Dad--Ask Grandad...
Most Harvardmen agreed that such action would not have been necessary in the days when Cambridge tutoring was in the hands of William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen. A summa cum laude graduate of the class of 1884, "Widow" Nolen kept tutoring a genteel monopoly until his death in 1923. Today there are five bureaus in sharp, noisy competition...
...lines. Nowadays, when Girard boys graduate, most have learned a trade, go straight to work. And some go to the top of their professions; e. g., President William H. Kingsley of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., President John Albert Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., famed Landscape Architect John Nolen...
...Nolen puts you through; But gratitude takes early wing when...
...Nolen's bill...