Word: welds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other eights was thereafter instrumental in causing Dunster to be left behind. Because of their semi-varsity standing the Brooks crew were using a varsity shell, and had the advantage of varsity coaching and of better medical supplies while the other outfits were using equipment from the Weld boathouse. But they showed that such attention had been justified by doing the Henley distance, a mile and five-sixteenths, in seven minutes and ten seconds...
...that rare season in Cambridge when Sunday afternoons are also pleasant afternoons, it is grievously unseasonable that Weld Boat House should be kept under lock and key. There are many whose only opportunity to seek the upstream zephyrs comes upon the Sabbath. Others who find themselves free to go a'rowing are turned away, and instead of gliding upon the surface of the river, must content themselves with running around it. The Charles, when it might be covered with graceful cedar craft, maintains an austere and puritanical state of isolation...
Certainly there is no moral or religions reason why Weld Boat House should not be open Sunday. Rowing is the most wholesome and celibate of sports--it inspires the contemplative mood. Nor is there firm foundation for the assumption that most students spend their week-ends at Bar Harbor. The financial consideration, ever present, would be solved by those who, having no participation tickets, would have to stand the fee. But rather than attempt to belabor this sabbatical restraint of navigation on logical grounds, it is better to regard it as one of those conditions which are unsupported by rational...
When they reached the second bridge it was decided that they'd gone far enough, and the command was given to make for the Weld Boathouse. But the three untutored souls upset all the plans by refusing to turn around. Twice the order was given, and twice the shell refused to turn...
...close battle yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Weld Wildeats downed the Thayer Tigers, 4-3, for the championship of the Yard. Kid Gibson, Wildeat pitcher, opposed Blondy Cornell, masterful Tiger hurler...