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The first general order of the superintendent 

 succeeding Commodore Parker forbade the use of 

 tobacco in every form. Unfortunately, however, 

 the habit is such a tyrant that, "in spite of the sys- 

 tem of daily inspection, strict bounds, military pun- 

 ishment, and the fact that all supplies are bought 

 from the Post Commissary, it is not entirely sup- 

 pressed." Such is the testimony of a graduate, 

 now a professor in one of our colleges. 



The classes in Yale College are graded accord- 

 ing to their scholarship, the best scholars being in 

 the first division, and the poorest in the fourth. 

 From the Yale Courant we learn that in the first 

 division only twenty-five per cent use tobacco ; in 

 the second, forty-eight ; in the third, seventy, and 

 in the lowest, eighty-five. 



It is asserted that during the last fifty years no 

 devotee of the weed has graduated from Harvard 

 at the head of his class, although above eighty- 

 three per cent of the students are addicted to 

 its use. 



We also learn that in Oxford and Cambridge, 

 England, nine tenths of the first-class men are non- 

 smokers. 



It is humiliating to state that at Amherst College 

 the average number of tobacco-users anions: the 

 students for the last fourteen years has been nearly 

 twenty-nine per cent, while in one of the gradu- 

 ating classes at Princeton it w r as fifty per cent. 



In addressing the Graduating law class of the 

 Wisconsin State University, ex-Senator Doolittle 

 remarked : — 



