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...College Pump Included...
Student life was both Spartan and Puritan in the early days of Massachusetts Hall. The students performed their ablutions in the chill New England air at a pump in the College yard. The regulation College breakfast was "a cue (mug) of beer and two sizings of bread." Students were up at daybreak and were kept at their studies by candle-light. If the frequent verbal admonitions of their tutors failed to keep them at their books, a stout stick was resorted to. One unfortunate youth, on being chastised by the Reverend Nathaniel Eaton, first President of Harvard, cried aloud...
...many minds "tradition" means sitting on a fence and spinning tops, or ducking some insubordinate Freshman beneath the cooling influence of a town pump. But such a conception is extreme...
Under the command of Captains Canfield and Fuller, 40 volunteers went out to Fresh Pond yesterday afternoon and did some repairing to the trenches. Much work was impossible because the trenches were so flooded with water that the pumps lent by the Wentworth Institute were in most places inadequate. Today, a pump will be borrowed from the Cambridge Electric Company which will probably be able to complete the work before tonight
...have always believed the drainage and purification system to be extremely well attended to; that a large quantity of fresh water was pumped into the tank each day; and that a proper amount of chemicals was regularly placed in the tank to destroy, possible germs. I verified this through the Y. M. C. A. and learned, furthermore, that they had, as an experiment, attempted to flood the tank, but failed to pump water fast enough to overcome the displacement of the drainage tubes, which, incidentally, were neither broken nor in the habit of becoming stopped up. R. A. WHITING...