Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard did some pump priming of its own yesterday morning as the Maintenance Department worked feverishly over the Yard pump. After half an hour's labor its efforts were rewarded; pure water from the Cambridge Water Works gushed out at exactly 8:45 o'clock...
...previous day workmen had primed the pump in vain. For the pump handle had not been attached to the connecting rod, and no amount of priming could remedy such a fundamental error...
...original pump was constructed in 1764 over a 35 ft. well to accomodate students in Hollis Hall. But so many others took advantage of it that about 35 years ago it fell into the last stages of decay. Several sporadic attempts to blow it up in 1904 and 1905 did not remedy the situation and the University was finally forced to remove...
...over thirty years the Yard struggled through an unnatural existence without its pump. Finally in 1936 the University took action; a new pump was resurrected for the Tercentenary Celebrations and was duly christened and primed with a silver-plated dipper before an enthusiastic delegation of old graduates...
...pump was made of an old log piling from a Boston wharf. It was "turned" by the Maintenance Department and provided with a modern drinking fountain...