Freshmen class oath to abstain from wine, ardent spirit, tobacco, and opium, 1830-1831
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A document in which some members of the freshmen class of Amherst College promise that they will abstain from wine, ardent spirit, tobacco, and opium while members of the College, except in the case of medicine. They state that this promise is made in consideration of a proposition made by an unnamed gentlemen that he will donate five hundred dollars for a philosophical apparatus. Twenty-five students signed their names: Orrin Gilbert, Walter F. Hill, Albert Clark, Plin B. Day, Nathaniel M. Dexter, William Thurston, Alonzo Sanderson, Henry W. Billings, Montgomery S. Goodale, Lemuel Leonard, John P. Foster, Benjamin F. Brown, Edmund A. Beaman, William Williams, John Haven, Henry Houseworth, Rufus P. Stebbins, Timothy Jackson, David L. Badger, Chauncey Howard, Thomas Taylor, Henry Ward Beecher, Rodney Smith, Ebenezer W. Bullard, and W.L. Williams.
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