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Balliol Boats. Mendenhall returned to Yale, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Welsh wool trade in the 16th and 17th centuries, receiving his Ph.D. in history in 1938. As a graduate student, he rowed on the
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Paintings from Smith alumnae collections; an exhibition presented in honor of Thomas Corwin
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Mendenhall's collection of his correspondence, research materials, and writings on the history of collegiate rowing (24 feet or 7.3 meters) is deposited in the G. W. Blunt White
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