Word: weldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every afternoon at about 5:30 o'clock a traffic jam occurs in Weld Boathouse which would make Harvard Square on the night of a College riot look like a picnic. Of the 2500 men who use Weld every week, some 200 students late each day busily enter and leave single sculls, "comps," and wherries at one end of the float, while at the other end approximately 16 House crews struggle with each other to get their shells in or out of the water. The rest of the float is well taken care of by around 50 potential rowers...
...main reason for all this is, of course, that many of the rowers are majoring in a scientific field. Not being dismissed from their various laboratory courses until 5 o'clock, they all rush down to Weld at the same time, and all arrive within five or ten minutes of each other. There seem to be but two solutions to this problem: one technical, the other general. The technical answer is that men make an effort to tow away from the float as rapidly as possible, not stopping until they are perhaps 50 yards away from the Boathouse. The general...
With a greater number of participants than ever before, House Crew really swings into action this week preparing for the first races barely two weeks off. Fourteen to 16 boats are leaving the floats of Weld Boathouse every...
Andrew Baggaley, of Shaker Heights, Ohio and Hollis Hall, swept through the Freshman ping-pong tournament without losing a single game to cop the championship last week. Baggaley defeated John White of Andover and Weld Hall in three straight games to take the final match and the title...
While the House is a good ten minutes' walk from the New Lecture Hall, it is but a step from the House Squash Courts, the Indoor Athletic Building, and the Weld Boathouse. With compulsory physical education at Soldiers Field. Eliot men will save several minutes over the other Houses...