Word: waban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peace once again abounds at Waban; the Wellesley owl has been returned...
...Waban, Mass...
Jesse Turtelotte has been a fixture of Wellesley crew a lot longer than seven years. He's been taking Waban boats in and out of the water for thirty-four years now. But at the age of close to 70, he's had to leave off for awhile because of a heart attack...
Crew started even long before Jess. Founder Henry Durant felt it was "Attractive and beneficial to the girls' health." But the first crews' chief function, other than mastering the elementary principles of rowing, lay in entertaining distinguished visitors. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once took a spin on Lake Waban; it is said he never came back to Wellesley...
...teapots at Wellesley were laid end to end, the results would stagger anyone observing the Waban Wonderland...