Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heeding the complaints of residents in Dunster, Winthrop, and Leverett Houses, the Plympton Street Gate to the Yard is now left open after 6 o'clock...
Though there were pumps in the earliest days their positions are now unknown. A map of the college drawn in 1811 locates three pumps parallel to the stream which ran through the low part of the Yard and across the Square...
...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...
...Corporation voted "that a New Pump be procured for Use in the Kitchin & that a New Well be dug and a pump be put in it at the South East Corner of the Yard to accomodate the Students in Massachusetts College." The pump at the east end of Harvard Hall was done away with in 1885 as a test revealed the water was contaminated. The fate of the southernmost pump is unknown...
These pumps being the only source of water for both drinking and bathing, "it is easy to imagine the days when the only means of bathing in the Yard was to bend one's back under the spout of the pump, while a roommate vigorously plied the handle." In his "Harvard Memoirs" President Eliot wrote: "The students in my time--nineteen-twentieths of them--brought their water in their own pails from one of two pumps in the Yard, carrying it up to their rooms themselves. They had no hot water whatever, unless they heated a pot on their...