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...which the Yard is used in hot weather as a loafing place for young Cambridge "muckers," and still more the way in which the outside public almost monopolizes the College pump, is extremely offensive. There should surely be some means of securing to Harvard students the more exclusive enjoyment of the advantages of the Yard. As long as the public did not intrude too disagreeably, it may have been well to leave them undisturbed; but that point is now far passed. Students are repeatedly annoyed and decidedly inconvenienced by the presence of outsiders who have no right whatever of free...
...work. It is the story of a freshman of the class of 1798 who "with heavy reel on tipsy heel," staggers out from Boston to be enticed out of his room by grave yard spooks who lead him a wild dance and conclude by tumbling him into the pump trough "as limp as a lump," "while one young Vandal keeps plying the handle." The rhyme suggests in the epilogue, that when he was questioned by "Prexy" Walker next morning...
...coxswain's pump for the practice shell of the University crew has been put into practical use and its efficiency exceeds the most sanguine hopes of its inventor, Captain Armstrong. It throws about eight gallons of water from the shell per minute and interferes in no way with the motion of the boat. All the crews are on Lake Whitney practicing for the interclass races which take place on Wednesday...
Ninety students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in shifts of thirty each, helped to test the new 21,000,000-gallon pump at the Chestnut Hill pumping station Wednesday. The first crew went on at eight o'clock in the morning and stayed until five in the afternoon; then they were relieved by a crew which stayed until after midnight, when the last shift went on until morning. Most of them were stationed in the engine room, where every part of the engine and boilers was thoroughly tested. Readings were taken from all the gauges every fifteen minutes...
Captain Armstrong of the Yale crew has devised a pump by which the coxswain can bail out the shell in rough weather...