Word: walking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...privilege of American citizens to despise all warnings to "Keep off the grass." It would not seem too much to expect that the students should do all that is in their power to make the Yard look well, especially when all that is required of them is to walk only in the paths and to be careful not to drop papers and other rubbish out-of-doors. The "landscape-gardener" has enough to do with his force without setting them to work at gathering up the rubbish which thoughtless students scatter about...
...sure, been a few who have been in training for the races, and they may have made better time than before; still the improvement is confined to a small number. An easy saunter to Porter's or Mt. Auburn is what most men still mean by "taking a walk," and any one who has walked to Belmont or Arlington or the Waverly Oaks considers that he is quite justified in boasting of his prowess to his friends. Not that we mean to say that ten or twelve miles is not a good walk, but it should be taken oftener...
When the veil is drawn for the last time, and the sound of the harp, sackbut, and psaltery has ceased, tarry not, but hie ye quickly to your domiciles, lest after too great indulgence ye become unable to walk upright, and being unsteady in both extremities, ye act in a riotous and unbecoming manner and excite the wrath of the custodians of the highways, who will quickly deliver ye to the judge, and the judge will deliver ye to the officer, and ye be cast into prison. Verily, I say unto you, ye shall by no means come out thence...
Three-Mile Walk. - Livermore, '75; Kittredge, '76; Taylor, '77; Legate...
...Mile Walk. - Livermore, '75; Kittredge, '76; Green, '76; Taylor, '77; Legate, '77; Sherwood, '78; Curtis, '77; Upham...