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...pump without a handle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEGASUS IN A SICK-ROOM. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...immorality and intemperance will increase among the students if we don't have prayers," said the Pump with a sigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...those rascally students!" replied the Pump. "It's always my luck. I stand right on the way to Carl's; but the fellows never take any notice of me until they come back from there; and just now one of them took me for a Freshman, and began to haze me. O dear! dear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...pour cold water on the plan," said the Bell to the Pump. "What puzzles me is to know what to do with those worthy young men, the monitors, who'll lose their places if prayers are abolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...uncertain condition. There was one large room in the building, - the college building was really very fine, and a steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp's-nest presented by one of the students; on the third side was the library, consisting of about four hundred volumes, mostly publications of the American Tract Society; a large picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY I DON'T ELECT CHEMISTRY. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

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