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...Weld Boat Club are finished, with the exception of rigging. Great care has been taken in their design, and the best possible material has been used throughout their construction in order that they may be thoroughly first-class boats. Their dimensions are as follows: length, 19 feet, 6 inches; beam, 24 inches; depth, 10 inches. They are the first boats of the kind which have been built for the Weld Boat Club, and since so much care has been taken in their construction it is expected that they will prove a valuable addition to the equipment of the boat-house...
...contracts for the concrete and beam work have, nominally, been given to the Aborthaw Construction Company and the Boston Bridge Works. A great deal of the work, however, has been done by the Engineering Department and by present and former members of the University. Professor I. N. Hollis is in general charge of the work and Professor L. J. Johnson is chief engineer. The architectural designs were made by Mr. Charles McKim, of McKim, Meade and White, and the consulting engineer was Mr. J. R. Worcester '82. In addition to the foregoing men the following men have served...
...University crew shell which has been built by Davy will be delivered at the boathouse on Monday. The shell is sixty-three feet long, three feet longer than last year's boat; its depth is nine and three-quarters inches and its beam twenty-three inches; it weighs 250 pounds. The shell, which is made of Spanish cedar, is fuller forward on the gunwale than last year's boat, and is a little wider on the beam to make up for the increase in length...
Davy has also nearly completed the Freshman shell, which will probably be ready for delivery next Thursday. This boat, which also is made of the Spanish cedar, is sixty-one feet long, nine and one-half inches deep and measures twenty-four inches on the beam. Except for the extra width, which has been added to make the boat as steady as possible, the shell is built like the one for the University crew...
...shell which is being built by Davy for the use of the University crew this spring will be ready for delivery early in May. The shell will be sixty feet long, as against sixty-three feet, the length of last year's shell; its beam will measure twenty-three inches; its depth will be nine and three-quarters inches, and it will weigh 250 pounds. The shell is of Spanish cedar and is fuller forward on the gunwale than the last boat. It will be filled out on the beam to make up for the decrease in its length...