Word: walks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...walks in the Yard have apparently been suffered, during the vacation, to take care of themselves. Whether they were looked out for or not, they are certainly now in a disgraceful condition. On Monday the slush could have been easily removed, and the fact that it was left to freeze takes away from the force of the argument that to chop so much ice would be a task of great difficulty. Our tiles, secured after so much exertion, might have been left in the beds where Nature put them, if they have been brought here merely to be imbedded again...
...Dana "coached," while they pulled four hundred strokes. The "time" was rather poor, and as there was too much pressure on the machines, the stroke "dragged." The men of course manifested some awkwardness after their rest, but did as well as could reasonably be expected. The run and walk was a mile and a half in length. The streets were "heavy," but the men got more work on that account...
Tuesday, Jan. 9. - Eleven men were present. The Captain "coached." Four hundred and fifty strokes were pulled. A run and walk was taken on Main Street, where the ground was found in capital condition for this exercise. Distance two miles. The men got better together in their pull, but the time was still poor. The stroke was livelier, as the pressure had been taken off the "Hydraulics." It is evident that the men must pay strict attention to the "coaching...
Before concluding, I must walk on more dangerous ground; dangerous both from the nature of the soil and the scantiness of my information. To what extent the men use such appliances as rowing-weights, I am ignorant. For exceptional cases these weights may be essential, but I have grave doubts as to their universal application. It seems to me that the effects of such galley-slave work, eliminating, as it does, all that is agreeable in rowing, must be depressing, - a result to be deplored, seeing that the spirits of a crew should be raised by all legitimate means...
FEELING sociably inclined, the other evening, I descended from my room in search of some one to smoke with, talk with, or walk with, it mattered not which, provided I could only gratify my longing to be with my fellow-men. One room after another I tried, where congenial souls are wont to congregate, but dark windows or unanswered knocks told the same story for all; and, at length, I found myself in the Yard, as companionless as ever. "Why, O my chum," I groaned as I gazed at the gloomy window-panes of my room, "didst thou avail thyself...