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coolest advice I ever heard concerning the use of 

 tobacco." 



Yet five-sixths of the Harvard students are ad- 

 dicted to this habit ! Would that the old order 

 issued by the overseers of the University in the 

 time of President Dunster could be revived ! — 



"No scholar shall take tobacco, unless permitted 

 by the President, with the consent of parents 

 or guardians, and on good reasons first given 

 by a physician ; and then in a sober and private 

 manner ." 



Speaking of another of our leading New England 

 colleges, a writer recalls the past, when " no student 

 could have maintained his character for scholarly 

 instincts who should have smoked on the public 

 streets, or at an Alumni dinner or supper." " Now, 

 however," he adds, "the modern student, with no 

 more sense of propriety than the Irishman, puffs 

 in public places, and forces his foulness into the 

 presence of the older graduates at Commencement- 

 dinner and other college festive occasions. Such 

 rudeness is bad enough anywhere, but it is simply 

 unpardonable in men who claim the refinements of 

 good learning and of gentle manners." 



An alumnus of one of our highest New England 

 colleges, in speaking through the press of a recent 

 Commencement, tells us that at the business- 

 meeting of his class a great many smoked, the 

 cigars being furnished and distributed by one of 

 the professors : and that, at the Alumni dinner, 

 presided over by the college president, many 



