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whom you arc likely tO meet at those places is not such as 1 college student will he hel] 1 by k n o w i n g , and the time S] Kit in their society is not usually spent in such a way as to make you a better eiti etl It is a fact, Eilsi that p r a c tically all tin young fellows I have k n o w n w h o sp« <o the

harmles ness of "taking a glass of beer occasionally" at OIK

time or a n o t h e r t a k e m o r e than they can carry and a r e the

worse for it. The loafing about saloons and drinking place will almost invariably develop in you lazy, shiftb habits

will lower y o u r m o r a l tone, and will injure your studies. Only t 13 as 1 have been a t t e n d i n g to my oihcial duti« I v called \\\n^\\ to talk to a y o u n g fellow about hi work He hail been cutting classes badly, his g r a d e s w e r e r u n n i m d :i. and he cmed intellectually t<> be g ung to pieces, l b h. I all MIS of e x c u s e s to give, but before he left me it all cam OUl thai he had been drinkin instead o\ studying, and he had been c u t t i n g classes to sleep off the effects of his distil tion. The tfest plan if you a r e g o i n g to liege with the idea of d o i n g honest, s a t i s f a c t o r y work is to leave the d r i n k i n g c i n t o x i c a t i n g liquors to those w h o have no real int est in the development of their m o r a l and intellectual

power . f r the drinking habit will invariably pla\ havoc

with r college work, not to speak of yonr m o r a l s . Sm< ' ing, tOO, a l t h o u g h it can scarcely be called an im-

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1 habit, has upon IKT\ US and growin

young fellow

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Smoking Dulls the Brain

bad HO t. It is 1 iK ly t<> de\ elop 1 tl< tn< and indigc MI with the 1 mlt that 3 ur p o w e r of c o n c e n t r a t i o n is weakened,

>ur brain dulled, and the likeliln I y ur doing p I w rk very much I ened, The hal t 1 < u ing toba( is In tin . da} 1 immon and so httl tb ught of among young men thai il seems almost a waste of time t spcal in t it. I have, however, seen too mam m tns v ncd b\ it use, and the \\ork t id t mini I irreparably, not to Uttci a word warning a it it. rhougli tin* numl i ol youn fellow -;

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