Word: pump
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many minds "tradition" means sitting on a fence and spinning tops, or ducking some insubordinate Freshman beneath the cooling influence of a town pump. But such a conception is extreme...
Under the command of Captains Canfield and Fuller, 40 volunteers went out to Fresh Pond yesterday afternoon and did some repairing to the trenches. Much work was impossible because the trenches were so flooded with water that the pumps lent by the Wentworth Institute were in most places inadequate. Today, a pump will be borrowed from the Cambridge Electric Company which will probably be able to complete the work before tonight
...have always believed the drainage and purification system to be extremely well attended to; that a large quantity of fresh water was pumped into the tank each day; and that a proper amount of chemicals was regularly placed in the tank to destroy, possible germs. I verified this through the Y. M. C. A. and learned, furthermore, that they had, as an experiment, attempted to flood the tank, but failed to pump water fast enough to overcome the displacement of the drainage tubes, which, incidentally, were neither broken nor in the habit of becoming stopped up. R. A. WHITING...
...work to date has been somewhat hampered by the ground water which is encountered at a depth of 10 feet, this offering the most serious obstruction at the corner of Linden and Mt. Auburn streets. At that point an electric pump is in operation, which has a capacity of 700 gallons per minute, and it is there that the "sump well," or permanent drainage pump, will be placed at the completion of the subway. It is expected that the work will be finished about August 1, in ample time to be ready for operation when College opens...
...year we are congratulating the class of 1915 for raising its predecessors 29 on the first allotment, and overflowing into South Matthews. Time was, not long ago either, when the man who took up an abode in Mathews expected to face death by freezing, and ablution at an outdoor pump. But even the terror of this building is dying now. If a few more men "get wisdom" and apply for rooms on the second allotment, electric lights will be extended to its south entry. 1915 has done well...