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...John Keast, Yale's veteran boatbuilder, has just completed a fine eight-oared barge for the class of '97 of Wellesley College. The barge is forty-five feet in length and three feet beam, and is constructed throughout of Spanish cedar...
...connection with the recent accounts of the Yale crew in the Boston Herald, the following from a New Haven correspondent of the New York Times may be of interest: "Their new shell has been built by Keast, and fully conforms to Yale's new scheme of making quick strokes to win. It is of cedar, and 72 feet in length. . . . . It is believed that under the new plan the whole race cannot be rowed in good form. It will be suicide to attempt a four-mile pull with a bunched or crooked back or an uneven slide. Here...