Word: pump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent attempt to blow up Memorial Hall is a revulsion against the better felling at Harvard. Attempts like this and the blowing up of the old pump are not the kinds of thing that appeals to the average Harvard...
...these same graduates are often the leaders in the widespread criticism of American Colleges, because the good old days of the Harvard pump and coal grates are passed. In a similar tone newspapers dwell on "the strange sumptuary regulations forbidding, not the keeping of dog or gun in a student's room, but the bringing of a student's automobile within the classic shades...
...critics are right. Undergraduate life is more complicated than it used to be and there are more opportunities for wasting time. Yet the same can be said for New York or Timbuctoo. The Harvard pump is not the only one that has disappeared. The critics are wrong only in lamenting the change...
...young people are studying the piano or taking vocal lessons these days. It is so much easier to wind up the talking machine or pump the automatic piano...
...college,--it is possible to "sit like a pensive bucket and be pumped into" by an enthusiastic but sometimes tiring professor; and it is equally possible although more difficult to wrestle with the hands of the pump and get the benefit of the exercise...