298 TOBACCO. 



"3. Xo user of tobacco is considered a candidate 

 for membership in this school." 



President Eliot, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

 October 16, 1802 : "The latest statistics as to the 

 use of tobacco by Harvard students which I have 

 seen are those relating to the class which took the 

 degree of A.B. in June, 1891. This class num- 

 bered 293 members. To the question, 'Do you 

 smoke?' 125 replied, 'Xo;' 123, 'Yes;' 19, 'Oc- 

 casionally,' and 13, 'Rarely.' 



President William De W. Hyde, Bowdoin Col- 

 lege, Brunswick, Me., October 2, 1892: "In 

 reply to your inquiry, permit me to repeat what I 

 have said in a little book on ' Practical Ethics.' 

 1 The use of tobacco is the exception with scholars 

 at the head, and the rule with scholars at the foot, 

 of the class. Shortly after we began to take statis- 

 tics on this point, I asked the director of the gym- 

 nasium what was the result with the freshman 

 class. 'Oh,' he said, ' the list of the smokers is sub- 

 stantially the same as that which was reported the 

 other day for deficiencies in scholarship.' . . . Xo 

 candidate for a college athletic team, or contestant in 

 a race, would think of using tobacco while in train- 

 ing. Every man who wishes to keep himself in 

 training for the highest prizes in business and pro- 

 fessional life must guard his early years from the 

 deterioration which this habit invariably brings." 



President Franklin Carter, TTilliams College, 

 October 3, 1892 : "I believe that the use of tobac- 



