Word: pump
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily exercise of their powers of locomotion and speech. Is there no other grass in the city? or no other pump? If we could stop this invasion for a week or so the habit would be weakened, and we should all get better marks in our examinations...
LOST.- An unbrella. Left at Hollis pump probably. Address, 61 Thayer...
FOUND.- At the pump in front of Hollis, a tennis racket which the owner can have by calling at 26 Hollis and identifying the property...
...would respectfully call the attention of the authorities who preside over the college yard to a little matter which is under their jurisdiction. We wish to enter an emphatic protest against the water which the pump near Matthews supplies to thirsty students. This water is, and has been for a long time, totally unfit to drink. We have been told on good authority that the water has been analyzed and found to contain impurities to a large amount. Now whatever the cause of this pollution is, it seems to us that the water ought not to remain in this condition...
...that the well may be cleaned out as soon as the warm weather permits and that it will again be restored to its proud superiority as of old - when it was said that the best water in Cambridge was that which splashed from the nozzle of the old college pump into the battered tin dipper hanging at its side...