The Washington times., 1922-01-01
bARNARDC0-EDS.
InCENSEDAT BAN.
On SCENTED FAC.
Undergraduates Refused Use Of
Weed, But Elders Are
Allowed It.
400 sUB-DEBs ARE AROUSED
Tobacco Fumes Found camou-
tagged by Clever Use Of
Incense.

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-How old
must girl be before she should
Be permitted to smoke?
This is the question that is puz-
king authorities at Barnard Col
lege, Columbia University's school
for women.
Two Girls Suspended.
Cause for the question happened
recently. A monitor in Whittier Hall.
. dormitory of Teachers College,
scented an unusual amount Of incense
smoke emanating from a tra1som in
girls room. This aroused her sus-
picions, and upon investigating the
source of and cause for the aroma
she found a barrage fit to smother
the breath of Lady Nicotine.
The Student Board was informed of
increase. 1t became so indignant that
Il informed the Dean, and in less time
than II takes to tell of 1t two young
women were suspended for smoking.
This action affected not only the
suspended students but the whole 400
occupants OF the Hall. Little these
400 cared whether their careless col
leagues got their Christmas vacation
euriy, but when Institutional authori-
ties swung their wy it was quite
different.
Hardly had they reco- I'D from
the suspension of the two students
when a taboo order issued from the
Student Board. All incense burning In
Whittier Hall was henceforth and for
ever on the list of don'ts."
Well, the rumor passed from mouth
to mouth until the scandal reached
Furnaid Hall, where only graduate
, students are housed. BY this time the
original two had doubled at each
verbal pass" becoming four students.
eight students and so on, and finally
II was reported that Whittier Hall
might be closed.
Az o. X. for Older Ones.
'Why, that's funny" one pretty
grad" said yesterday. There are no
rules in Furnald Hall against smoking.
In fact, the great majority Of the girls
here smoke. And no one in charge
ever has said anything against it. The
only person who makes any kind of a
complaint is the ianitor because he
has to clean up the 'ciggy' tips every
morning.
you know" she whispered, shyly
land don't you dare tell this-the
girls have seen little filmy smoke
clouds coming from the transom of one
of the women in charge of this hall.
That Is just a tip. But, you see. some
of the authorities don't think smoking
II such an awful, awful thing for
girls"
The welfare directors, officials in
charge of the social management of
the dormitory buildings, did make
rules that there should be no smoking
IN Brooks Hall and Whittier Hall, be-
cause In these halls the undergrad
uate students live, and the college of.
ficials believe smoking is really a lit
tie harmful to the younger girls: but
to the younger students such d thing,
the authorities admit, only makes
them want to smoke because their
elders do.
Miss Lucetta Daniel. welfare direc-
tor In charge of Whittier Hall. con-
firmed the suspension of the two stu
dents and said they were eligible to
readmittance to the dormitory at the
beginning of the second half of the
school term, February 1. Undergrad
yates In Teachers College, she said,
must live with relatives in the city
or in the college dormitory. Both of
the girls suspended were from New
York. One had relatives here to
whom she could go and was continu.