Word: pump
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hard to find the merit by which the cover sketch deserves its place. The first-page drawing is a little better, showing some individuality of style. There are several minor sketches, on the other hand, especially one in regard to the Pump, which are apt and amusing...
...wish to protest against the recent destruction of the Yard pump. Such an act is directly against the spirit of manliness at Harvard. It lacks both ingenuity and daring and causes a feeling of disgust against the man and principle involved...
...wish the man who blew up the pump to realize that he has been guilty of an act so small and mean as to arouse the contempt of the body of undergraduates. Signed, J. LAWRENCE, JR., H. B. KIRTLAND, W. T. FOSTER, W. T. REID, Jr., WADDILL CATCHINGS, DAVID C. CAMPBELL, J. W. HALLOWELL...
...should like to say a few words in regard to the removal of the college pump. Just why the pump was removed is not very clear. The pump was not blown to atoms as reported in the newspapers; the damage was comparatively slight, and could have been easily repaired. We suppose, therefore, that the College authorities removed the pump as a matter of discipline. Granting that the attempt on the pump was a malicious one, the removal is hardly a punishment to the perpetrators. It is only causing very great inconvenience to those rooming in the yard, and others...
...boat, gilded and finished at either end with a carved scroll. The machinery equipment consists in a Seabury patent safety water tube boiler of about 100 horse power, and a Seabury triple expansion condensing engine with an 8-inch stroke of 75 horse power, independent air and feed pump and copper outboard keel condenser. She has steel coal-bunkers on each side of the engine and a boiler running fore and aft, capped with wood. The boiler is fitted with a double stack, the outer stack being polished brass, and fits over a nipple on the boiler, the stack being...