XXX TOBACCO. 



the use of alcoholic drinks and of tobacco, in case 

 they were willing to forswear that also. 



It was the president's custom to invite the fresh- 

 men, on entering college, to his house, when, after 

 a talk on the subject, he would unfold his roll and 

 give them an opportunity to add their signatures. 

 After a long period the society was given up to 

 the entire control of the students, and a few years 

 since "it died of inanition."' 



"At the present time/' writes Professor Hitch- 

 cock, "more than twenty per cent, of our students 

 enter college with the tobacco habit. And the 

 only power I have against it is that men in athletic 

 training cannot use it." 



But the Anti-Venenean, otherwise Anti-Poison- 

 ing Society, deserves warm mention as being one of 

 the earliest protests against nicotine, and also for 

 what it accomplished through its honored founder. 



I cannot resist the temptation to quote here a few 

 passages from President Hitchcock's "History of a 

 Zoological Convention held in Central Africa in 

 1847 : " 



"After protracted discussions, as the sessions of 

 the convention were drawing to a close, a committee 

 appointed early in the deliberations came forward 

 and through their chairman, the Asiatic Leopard, 

 reported the following resolutions." Of these res- 

 olutions I can give only one : 



" 6. Jtesolved, that we now pledge ourselves, by 

 touching noses, that we will entirely abstain from 



