Word: pump
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American Girl We Hear so Much About?" consists of imitations of the American girls drawn by different well-known artists, and the general effect is certainly striking. The third picture in the series "As Others See Us," shows a row of solemn-looking students marching up to the college pump, each one holding tight a copy of the "Voice...
...Harvard, looking through the west gate. On the Tree ticket is a view of the space about the Tree as it looked a hundred years ago. It is taken from an old engraving. The Memorial design is a group of sketches of Memorial Hall, the Gymnasium, and the pump...
...which the Yard is used in hot weather as a loafing place for young Cambridge "muckers," and still more the way in which the outside public almost monopolizes the College pump, is extremely offensive. There should surely be some means of securing to Harvard students the more exclusive enjoyment of the advantages of the Yard. As long as the public did not intrude too disagreeably, it may have been well to leave them undisturbed; but that point is now far passed. Students are repeatedly annoyed and decidedly inconvenienced by the presence of outsiders who have no right whatever of free...
...work. It is the story of a freshman of the class of 1798 who "with heavy reel on tipsy heel," staggers out from Boston to be enticed out of his room by grave yard spooks who lead him a wild dance and conclude by tumbling him into the pump trough "as limp as a lump," "while one young Vandal keeps plying the handle." The rhyme suggests in the epilogue, that when he was questioned by "Prexy" Walker next morning...
...coxswain's pump for the practice shell of the University crew has been put into practical use and its efficiency exceeds the most sanguine hopes of its inventor, Captain Armstrong. It throws about eight gallons of water from the shell per minute and interferes in no way with the motion of the boat. All the crews are on Lake Whitney practicing for the interclass races which take place on Wednesday...