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...artery disorder that was never properly diagnosed. But he had a living to make, and he set out to make it. The Northern victory had wiped out his $20,500 in Confederate and Carolina bonds. His lot in Washington had been sold for taxes in 1864; his estate at Arlington had gone the same way; the $40,000 due his daughters from the Custis estate could not be raised. So the old soldier took on the job of president of Washington College in Lexington, Va., where he had an offer of $1,500 a year, plus the use of house...
...land he ignored it with the remark: "Damn the oil. I need water for my cattle." Eight years later he uncovered the great North Texas oil field. With a fortune estimated at $100,000,000 he amused himself in later years by building the $3,000,000 Arlington Downs race track, breeding horses, erecting Texas skyscrapers...
...Roger D. Brown '35, West Bedford, Massachusetts; Thomas G. Curtis '36, Minncapolis, Minnesota; Garrow T. Geer, Jr. '37, New York City; C. Colmery Gibson '37, Atlante, Georgia; Robert W. Lovett '35, Beverly, Massachusetts; Leslie G. Mitchell '35, Harrington, Maine; Richard W. Philbrick '37, Winchester, Massachusetts; Robert S. Playfair '36, Arlington, Massachusetts; and Herbert S. Wallis '36, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William H. Robinson '36, of Arlington, the Richard H. Nichols Scholarship, "for a scholar who excels in the study of English literature...
Edmund S. Morgan '37, of Arlington, Mass., Byron W. Moser, Jr. '37, of St. Louis, Mo., Carl T. Nelson OcC, of Providence, R. I., Thomas L. Perry, Jr. '37, of Ashville, N. C., Alfred Pope '36, of Milton, Mass., Frank L. Prins, Jr. '36, of Kansas City, Mo., William F. Read, 3d '36, of Villa Nova, Pa., William F. Renner '37, of Dorchester, Mass., Warren M. Rodgers '37, of New York, N. Y., Harry J. Rosen '37, of Boston, Mass., Walter B. Rosen '37, of Katonah, N. Y., Leo Rosenfield '35, of Chelsea, Mass...