Word: welds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Together with Prof. Rand, Reginald A. Daly, Sturgin Hopper Professor of Geology, a nationally-known scientist who received an honorary degree here last June, became emeritus yesterday. Also retired were Eldon R. James, professor of Law, Joseph Warren '97, Weld Professor of Law, Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, and Edward S. Thurston '98, professor...
Before the present building was built, the old Weld Boat Club existed on the same site. In those days, the dam below the Charles River Basin had not yet been built and the Charles was a muddy, tide-water river, which overflowed its banks into the swampy land around...
...boats at Weld are used about 26,000 times a year, on an average of 360 a day for 180 or 190 rowing days. There are 21 wherries, 24 comps, and 25 singles, all of which receive about the same amount of use. The sculls are used only by undergraduates now, excluding Freshmen, but Weld is still overcrowded on some days...
Sculling coach Blake Dennison, who came to Weld in 1923, has seen sculling grow from a mere 85 rowers a day to the present 360 average. In the past, 100 scullers was a big number, but today 530 is the record. Dennison states that the Weld Boat Club has probably taught more people to row than any other place in the country...
...past summers, the Weld Boat Club has been open to all Summer School students and nautical females were allotted lockers at the east end of the building, for 200 to 300 different girls used to row during a summer term...