Word: welter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expecting your Freshman Red Book to appear in your Yardling year has traditionally been like waiting for Lefty. Vociferous and overmanned staffs inevitably start the year in a welter of guarantees that this time the record of the first College year will appear in the same June. But athletics, examinations, and Wellesley inevitably take their tell of a personnel selected largely on the basis of high school record alone. Last Tuesday those Sophomores and Juniors in the Class of '49 were promised by a Student Council committee investigating the financial standings of the 1919 Book that they would undoubtedly receive...
Favorable opinion was very evident amid the welter of impressions and suggestions obtained in writing from students taking the courses. Views often clashed, however, and in certain cases, what one writer complained of or praised, others did not even mention...
With five Yardling clubs newly organized and one in the embryonic stage, the welter of Freshman activities lodged in the Union rapidly approaches full efficiency. The newest is a series of discussion groups which will be organized following an address by Benjamin F. Wright, chairman of the faculty committee on General Education, who will speak to the Class of 1950 on the General Education program Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Union...
...spacious Union Dining Hall, considered as a sure cure for tickets demands, is protected by such a welter of transformation difficulties that both Union officials and University Hall judge its use impractical. Possible damage to the newly varnished floors, the difficulty of restoring the tables for the next day's meals, and the scarcity of employees to complete the post-dance work all conspire to defeat the cause of the dance committee. Of the two remaining possibilities, Memorial Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building, Men Hall is already occupied by the Law School dance and the gym is committed...
Under the welter of Varsity publicity, Harvard's Jayvee football teams don't rate much attention in an average fall. That people are talking about this year's Junior Varsity is a reflection of an unusual team with an unusual record, and more than that, of a squad with a unique outlook on athletics in this professionalized world...