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Harvardmen were unimpressed. New college tutorial plans and reading periods (before examinations) have cut into the crammer's trade. And Harvard's most famed crammery died with William Whiting ("Widow") Nolen in 1923. Graduated from Harvard in 1884 (summa cum laude), "Widow" Nolen left to Harvard his fine collection of Lincolniana, as well as $36,000 to a Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written...
...influence of parkways on land values and social values will be studied by the Harvard University School of City Planning and the Graduate School of Business Administration, in a joint research project conducted by Mr. John Nolen, city planning consultant, and Associate Professor Frank D. Wash burn of the Business School. Various outstanding examples, such as the parkway systems of Boston, Kansas City, Missouri, and Westchester County, New York, will be studied: reasons for success or failure will be determined and the findings stated so that they may be of value to other communities throughout the country...
...City Planning reveals that several of America's most noted city planners and landscape architects will lecture at the school this year, among them A. C. Comey '07, whose work in the past has gained him the position of city planner for Milwaukee and St. Paul, and John Nolen, who drew up the general plans for the Babson Institute and for Smith and Bates Colleges...
...present Manter Hall School was founded by W. W. Nolen '84 who, immediately on his graduation, embarked upon a career of tutoring college students. Dubbed "the Widow" by some facetious student, Nolen became the pillar of support to countless members of many college generations. His success was such that his followers increased yearly in numbers and soon he was compelled to assemble a corps of assistants. He moved into Little Hall and maintained his quarters there until the end of his life...
...present Manter Hall School was founded by W. W. Nolen '84, who while in college showed his ability as a tutor. Soon after his graduation he gathered a number of men around him and started his schol which took on the nick-name of "The Widow...