Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...questions to be presented by the Executive committee to the Harvard Union tonight are: 1 Resolved, That the internal revenue tax on tobacco, and spirits used in the arts should be removed; 2, That the duties of the Supreme court should be lessened by the establishment of intermediate courts; 3, That a national divorce law should be enacted by congress...
...probably very few changes in them will take place here. It may be as well to make a few dogmatic statements concerning them. It has been shown beyond question by the experience of the great military schools in Germany, where supervision is perfect, that the early use of tobacco is altogether bad, though it has far less influence in some than in others. In regard to alcohol, German testimony is more conflicting; and beer is still given in the military schools, but there is little doubt that its effect is injurious rather than other wise. Before middle life...
Students who use tobacco in any form are denied admission to the University of the Pacific, at San Jose, California...
...habits of drinking. Since then, especially since the foundation of the Hemenway gymnasium, the vice has rapidly diminished. At present, Professor Shaler, whose acquaintance extends to perhaps half the students in the university, does not know of a single one who can be called a drunkard. The use of tobacco he also finds to have largely diminished, and even the use of tea and coffee is much less than formerly...
...Sever, show that the physical development of the Yale freshmen is excellent. There is a marked absence of men who are under or over developed. There are 326 men in the College and Sheffield School, a considerable increase over last year. Only 17 per cent, of the freshmen use tobacco, while 25 per cent. of the Sheffield men smoke. The heaviest man in the class of '92 weighs 200 pounds, against 192 1-2 pounds in '91 last year. The lightest man weighs 86 1-2 pounds. The tallest man is 6 ft., 1 5-8 in.; the shortest...