HISTORICAL SKETCH. XXIX 



tific Temperance Instruction in Schools and Col- 

 leges." * 



I have only room to say that, as the result of 

 her indomitable efforts with our legislators, in 

 thirty-six of our states, all the territories, our 

 military and naval academies, and the Indian and 

 colored schools under federal government, educa- 

 tion as to the evil effects of alcoholic drinks and 

 other narcotics is now required ; thus bringing 

 more than twelve million children under temper- 

 ance education laws. And in twenty different 

 countries interest has been awakened in the work 

 of this education of the young. Who can predict 

 the result when the children of every land are 

 thoroughly instructed in the evils and the perils of 

 the drinking and narcotic habit, and when anti- 

 alcoholic and anti-narcotic societies girdle the 

 whole earth? 



THE ANTI-VENENEAN SOCIETY. 



Although this society, in its birth, preceded 

 by many years that of George Trask, yet as it re- 

 lated more prominently to the drinking than to the 

 tobacco habit, and was moreover limited to Am- 

 herst College, the mention of it comes later. It 

 was formed in 1830, by President Hitchcock, a pro- 

 nounced temperance man, for the purpose of pledg- 

 ing its members during their college course against 



♦Obtained by addressing Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, Hyde Park, Mass. 



