Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Eternity Club.""We the undersigned hereby solemnly promise to abstain from the use - medicinal or otherwise - of all intoxicating liquors, meaning all liquors with any percentage whatever of alcohol; also from the use of tobacco, opium, and hot lemonade; also from all profanity and obscene conversation for all time and eternity." - Amherst Student...
...abolition of hazing than myself, for it seemed a brutal and senseless custom. But that I, a member of the class of '75, which instituted this reform, should suffer this humiliation at the hands of the haughty class of '77, - that I, who solemnly promised with the rest to abstain from hazing, should myself be roughed, - is indeed a galling thought! Perhaps, then, the Sophomore theory that "the conceit must be taken out of Freshmen" was not so absurd a one after all. Who knows but that the propensity to haze was a divinely seated instinct, created for good purposes...