Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, they found the old well in front of Hollis Hall the day before yesterday, and the yard pump, blown up by the Med Fac in 1901, will be restored...
...well, making connections with the city water system, and putting in a cement platform at the bottom of the spring. On this platform will sit an iron tank filled out of the city mains on a float system. From the tank water will be taken by a wooden pump, a replica of the old one. Pieces for this were purchased in various parts of New Hampshire, and the average age of the new water lifter should be 20 years...
...well is really only a matter of form and of curiosity, because when the new pump pumps water it will pump city water. A pipe-ditch stretching from the pit is already flirting with a fire-hydrant nearby...
This is a bitter blow to the old guard who remember how good the pump water was and how people came from all over Cambridge to get it. But the new guard maintains that water drawn from the ground now would not be as pure as it was then...
...well, however, and there may still be a use for student prospectors. Because they can't even find the old 30-foot brick well upon which the pump is to take up its stand. There are no old charts available, and so they can only go by photographs and by the knowledge that the concrete slab covering the old well is four feet below grass-level. Hours of poking with a crow-bar have failed to reveal any concrete slab...