Posted by Jock on January 02, 2007 at 21:52:41 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Rowing posted by Andy Clayton on January 02, 2007 at 20:34:48:
Quoting 'navy style' implied that John was aspiring to high standards with his rowing.
Yes, of course. But I always took this to imply that John had been taught by his father to row.
Walker senior, as a young man at Dartmouth, would have had a fair number of Johnathan's yelling at him.