Know all men by these Presents that we, the Junior Grade
members of this Academy, in solemn conclave gathered, hereby
declare and resolve that all men are created free and equal;
that the custom of shacking so long extant in this institution
is unjust, unwise and degrading; that said custom or practice
is a base survival of an undemocratic custom pertaining to the
educational institutions of Great Britain, whose yoke we so
gloriously renounced in 1776; that hereafter shacking shall be
abolished in this school.
For the support of this Declaration we mutually pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes and our Sacred Honor. God defend
the right!
ALBERT PAYSON BRYANT,
LANSING STONE GREY,
THOMAS KIRKWOOD FRYE,
JAMES FAIRCHILD.
P.S. After this when you fellows want anything done you’ll have
to do it yourself.