Word: pump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Various obstructions have been removed from the Square at different times by order of the court after a protest from the people. The hay scales and the town pump were removed in 1830. But does this prove that the present edifice is illegal, especially since the Elevated must have received a legal permit to put it there in the first place...
...buildings, such as the Freshman Dormitories, these seem to have been fairly recently printed; but as the undergraduate moves into less modern abodes, they grow older and dingier; until in the Senior Dormitories in the Yard he finds them in company with regulations about carrying water from the common pump; use of kerosene lamps; and other subjects of historical interest. Wherever and whenever he reads them he is amused--by the prohibition of his mad desire to play ball in the Yard, or to beat upon drums; the designation of the days upon which he must remove his small stock...
...past four weeks contractors have been at work night and day pumping water from the foundations of Claverly Hall. While attempting in July to connect Claverly Hall. Dunster Hall, Apley Court and Holyoke House to a central heating plant in Randolph Hall, the contractors met an unexpected obstacle in a steady flow of spring water. This subterranean stream was formerly the source of the water that passed through the ancient pump, once a traditional landmark in the Yard. When the Yard buildings were connected to a single heating plant, the same difficulty with this underground water was experienced. The present...
...College Pump Included...
...historic college pump appears in several pictures, and in one, taken in 1900, is seen alone. Another series of pictures shows Jarvis Field, which was the athletic field of the University till 1901. The earliest of these dates...