Word: weldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once every afternoon a small elderly man pushes off from the float of the Riverside Boat Club and heads his narrow single up past the Weld and Newell boathouses to Browne and Nichols...
...John Weld-Scribner ($2.75). John Weld's novel recounts the ardors, agonies and occasional pleasures of a wagon train in its ox-paced procession, in the year 1846, from Independence, Mo. to California. The collective difficulties stack up, in the course of nearly 500 pages, into considerable pain and narrative power. The troubles of the naively conceived individuals are considerably less impressive...
Harold N. Arrowsmith '43, owner, and Marshall Dyer '43, his pilot, were testing a new type of sailing rig for a faltboot, the folding boat that goes into a suitcase. After a precarious voyage around the basin in front of Weld Boathouse, they found themselves dead in the path of an informal crew race. Tacking madly to avoid the onrushing eights, Pilot Dyer shattered his mast in the middle of the course...
...tremendous volume of participants in rowing is handled by Weld efficiently because of strict limitations on the time for which a boat may be used; 45 minutes is the longest. By enforcing several simple rules, the coaches are able to avoid accidents and collisions with eight-oar crews and with the other individual boats to a great extent...
Another activity which contributes to the bustle at Weld is fifteen House crews that keep their boats at Weld and row from there in the afternoon...