Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common propensity of early students seems to have found expression in the form of destruction to property. The breaking of windows headed the list, while damage to pumps was indulged in long before "Med Fac" days. In 1660 numerous exploits resulted in the following statement of the Overseers: ". . . where any damage is done to ye Edifice of the Colledge (excepting by the inevitable providence of God) to any vacant Chamber of Study, the Colledge fences about the Yard, pump, or clocks, etc: the same shall be made good again by all Students resident in the Colledge at the Time when...
Sentimental graduates, remembering with a time hallowed fondness chill mornings, icy water, and a sticky-cold pump handle or an occasional hilarious nocturnal dousing, advocate the "restored pump" as a Tercentenary memorial to a Colonial Yard cluttered up with pumps, no less, "stacks of firewood, beer barrels, and outhouses...
...President Kirkland in the first artistic landscaping undertaken in the Yard eliminated the beer barrels and the untidy wood yard, but the pump remained as a gathering place for students and an object of hilarious pranks, until 1901, when it was destroyed, an easy target for a "Med Fac" exploit...
...completion of the old Hollis Hall, the only building north of Harvard Hall other than Holden Chapel, made necessary a pump in this vicinity. This was the famous Yard Pump which remained in service until 1901, long after city water was introduced in the College buildings. After several times being damaged and repaired it was demolished by a "Med Fac" bomb, which nearly carried with it the front of Hollis Hall...
...General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents of the Bank of France, potent oligarchs of orthodox finance, soon took...