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book used in his school a brief printed statement 

 of the physical and mental diseases produced in 

 the young by tobacco. That it is high time for 

 such information to be diffused, we learn, from his 

 alarming statement that of the fifty thousand pupils 

 of the city a large majority use tobacco, the 

 habit having rapidly increased since the introduc- 

 tion of the cigarette. 



" A Williams student reports that the greater 

 part of his class, on entering college, did not 

 smoke, but that, on graduating, the larger majority 

 had become smokers. They had in tutors and pro- 

 fessors the example ; why not follow it?" 



In Oberlin, in marked contrast with this tolera- 

 tion, no professor or teacher is employed who uses 

 tobacco, and it is strictly prohibited in the college. 



If a student uses it surreptitiously he is expelled ; 

 if he frankly states to the Faculty that he cannot 

 give it up, he receives what is called an honorable 

 dismission, accompanied with a statement of the 

 reason for this dismission, — which, being inter- 

 preted, is, that he is in bondage to tobacco. The 

 sentiment of the town is in accordance with this 

 course, and at one time, when the tobacco-habit 

 seemed on the increase, an enthusiastic meeting was 

 held to take measures against it. After dwelling 

 on the injurious influences, physical, mental, and 

 moral, a resolution was adopted that pastors be 

 requested to preach on the subject from time to 

 time, and that a committee be appointed to visit 

 those engaged in its sale, urging them to desist, 



