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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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UN [VI KM i \ OF ILLINOIS ity t hold a pi] between the teeth or I puff at a cigarette does n t make you more of a man even in a college community, and the fact thai you do not smol brings you into no discredit. N o one need to say that he was forced into smoking in college or that he was made uncomfortable by refusing* to do SO, [f you find, therefore, that smoking is injuring your temper and your pocketbook, and your studies, give it u p : you will he quite as popular as you were before, and may be more of a man. If you have come from a healthy home where you have been taught by a good mother to live a clean life and to respect all women, you may be shocked at first by some of the views which are presented to you, and later you may even come to the point of asking yourself if perhaps you have not been a trifle prudish in your ideas, and if the other fellow may be right in his views. T h e r e will be those who will try to teach you that it is not only not necessary for you to lead a chaste clean life, but that it is positively not a healthy thing for R e s p e c t for you to do so. They will teach you that if W o m e n and you desire to gain your highest physical Clean Life Best development you must gratify your physical desires, and such men are only too willing to show you how this may be done. T h e statements of thousands of reputable physicians are to the effect that no young man suffers physically by living a lite of chastity, but on the contrary he gains in strength and endurance by such a course. The young man who allows himself to be led into the associations of lewd women either through curiosity or the desire to know something of "real life" is running the gravest sort of danger. Most men who submit themselves to such temptations fall a prey to them, and the result in most cases is a weakened will, a lowered moral tone, disease, a wrecked body, and eternal regret. Only a few months ago I stood beside the operatingtable where a young college student was about to submit to a critical operation to alleviate a disease which he had infracted from a prostitute, l i e was thinking, I know, of
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