Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempt has been made to boycott a druggist in Oberlin, Ohio, for selling liquor. Yesterday the freshman class of the college called upon him, but were unable to effect a reform...
...Coming up, he asked me whom it was for. I would not tell him, whereupon he poured the ale out on the ground and broke the jug. Moreover, he reported me to the Faculty. F., by the way, when I managed to reach his room, without the desired liquor, kicked me downstairs, using very bad words the while. So to-day, when I refused to say more about the ale than that I had fetched it, the President pronounced a long polemic against the evils of intoxication and of disobedience, finishing with rusticating me until...