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...Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers used the brushy island and the shelter of its huge old sycamores for a refuge. After that it was divided into small farms. In the 20th Century bootleggers made it a hideout. When he was a boy, Amos Kilgore Gordon of Parkersburg, W. Va. used to visit his grandfather's farm on Blennerhassett Island. He remembers swimming out into the river with his brother to collect driftwood logs washed down by the Johnstown Flood. When he grew up, he went to work for Standard Oil, is now vice president and treasurer...
...Arlington, and to M. L. Eaton 3G, of Strawberry Point, Iowa. Two fellowships in music have also been awarded, the John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellowships in Music. One has been awarded to D. J. Grout 3G., of Cambridge, and the other to S. D. Tuttle 3G., of Parkersburg, West Virginia...
...Saranac Lake, N. Y.; Bayard Cutting Fellowship: L. T. White, Jr., San Anselmo, Cal.; Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowships: Derk Bodde, Rochester, N. Y.; R. K. Reischauer, Tokyo, Japan: L. C. S. Sickman, Denver, Colo.; John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellowships in Music: R. L. Kirkpatrick, Leominster, Mass.; S. D. Tuttle, Parkersburg, West Virignia; Rogers Fellowships: F. E. Manuel, Roxbury, Mass.; Sumner B. Myers, Boston, Mass.; Sachs Research Fellowship in Fine Arts: C. K. Hersey, Portland, Maine; Saltonstall Scholarship: L. C. Keating, Syracuse, N. Y.; Philip H. Sears Scholarship: Howard Trivers, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Special University Fellowship: H. A. Rigg, Jr., Wayne...
...following first year Law School students: J. P. Blaisdell, of Claremont, California; E. A. Haight, of Rockford, Illinois; J. F. Harding, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; R. A. McLaughlin, of West Roxbury; J. M. Murtagh, of New York City; C. F. Steele, of Buffalo, New York; P. W. Steer, of Parkersburg, West Virginia; and Nolan Thorpe, of Brooklyn, New York...