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the age between eight and fifteen, and gives the 

 results of his efforts against the evil. Out of three 

 hundred and fifty boys, he induced all but thirty 

 to sign a total-abstinence pledge for the year ; and 

 of these, fifty per cent kept their pledge. 



In the Latin School, one half of the upper classes 

 are smokers, many of them with the concurrence 

 of their parents. While a number of teachers do 

 all they can to banish tobacco from the schools, 

 the ignorance and indifference on the part of 

 parents, with the smoking example of some of 

 them and also of a portion of the teachers, are 

 almost insuperable hindrances to a thorough re- 

 form. 



In Barnard's Journal of Education, ten cities 

 are named, among which are Chicago, New Orleans, 

 San Francisco, and Washington, in which the use 

 of tobacco during school-hours or in school-rooms 

 is forbidden to both teachers and pupils. 



In Germany, the Minister of Public Instruction 

 has addressed a circular to the directors of all the 

 Gymnasia (higher classical schools), in which he 

 condemns in the strongest terms the practice of 

 smoking ; and students of these institutions have 

 been officially forbidden smoking in the streets. 

 And this in the very land of smokers ! 



The principal of Phillips Academy, at Exeter, 

 N. H., issued a circular to the parents of his stu- 

 dents, desiring their view as to the prohibition 

 of the weed, and received answers in favor of 

 this from quite a number of them. 



