Word: welter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...England boxing championship tournament will be held under the auspices of the Boston Athletic Association at Mechanics Building on March 20. There will be 8 events in all: bantam-weight (108 lbs.), feather-weights (118 lbs.), special-weight (128 lbs.), light-weight (135 lbs.), welter-weight (145 lbs.), middle-weight (158 lbs.), light heavy-weight (175 lbs.), and heavy-weight (over...
...receive in their Freshman year destroys their preconceived ideas. And henceforth they suffer most from a lack of knowledge, not only of the nature of various occupations, but also of their own special aptitudes. They flounder about from one study to another, immersed at the same time in a welter of distracting undergraduate activities, with no guiding purpose. On graduating some, merely following the line of least resistance, become teachers, without regard for the special qualifications needed for high success in that profession. Others drift into business positions, in which they are dissatisfied; and frequently they lose several years...
...welter of evening lectures, concerts, and meetings which the myriad interests of Harvard offers, there is much confusion. The music-lover who is anxious perhaps to hear a famous statesman lecture loses an opportunity, because he cannot miss his Symphony; and the member of many clubs and organizations frequently finds himself swamped with their meetings when distinguished world authorities to whom he would like to listen, are talking three blocks away in Emerson J or the Union...
...entries from the University wrestling association are: welter-weight class, W.D. Wile 2L.; middle-weight class, T.L. Cooper 2L.; R.M. Page 1L., G.D. Osgood...