Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-27
Colleges of Mid
West Set Against
Girl Students Smoking

BY co-eds simply isn't being done"
IN educational Institutions of the
midwest.
And the time never will come when
1t will be tolerated, much less permit
ted. is the positive chorus of educa =
tors In reply to Bryn Mawr's action
In setting aside smoking rooms for
women In each dormitory. There is
even contemplation of Bryn Mawr.
Nothing has occurred in higher
education that has so shocked our
sense OF social decency as has the
action of Rryn Mawr," says w. A.
Brandenburg, president of the kan
sas State Teachers College at Pitts
burgh.
Where no regulations expressly
prohibit smoking. official opinion and
student sentiment is against 1t. Some
school heads admit there may be
smoking, but offenders are seldom
caught.
There are no rules agaist it at
Northwestern University and the
University of Chicago. but 1t is
frowned on by both. Ii is the under
standing at Northwestern that mice
girls do not smoke. says Dean Win
fired Richardson.
Smoking Is matter of taste at
Chicago. but faculty members con-
slider 1t Is not good taste and 1t is
not countenanced publicly.
The University of Illinois prohibits
/ putting on the campus and tradition
Is against It In, sorority houses. Nine
other Illinois institutions either have
rules against 1t, Or student self
government bodies are opposed.
Some girls do, not want to smoke,
say deans of small colleges where no
action has been taken.
Co-educational schools of Iowa do
not countenance smokes. Regula-
tons against 1t are included in DOR
nitory rules at the State University,
where drastic action has been taken
against too frequent offenders. Wom-
en- at Grinnell are almost unanimous
opposed to 1t. Drake has no ukase
against 1t. but requests girls found
smoking to leave school.
Never" is Minnesota's declaration
to any likelihood of following Bryn
Mawr's example, E. z. Nicholson.
dean, admits he Is old fashioned In
his stand against it. Carleton College
of1icialdom says it could never hap
pen there and st. Olaf says it is out
of the question.
Wisconsin has given the subject
scant thought. 1t hasn't been neces-
sary, says deans of women. Downer.
exclusive girls school in Milwaukee,
votes against the practice as very
unwomaHiy." Miss Anna v. Day, Mill,
waukee Normal School dean, says
students there think 1t Is poor taste;
Marquette girls think 1t unwise. The
State University forbids 1t by rule.
N - rff M that women
must not smoke in Ohio institutions.
The State University thinks girls
may smoke among their families,
says Dean Elizabeth Conrad. but not
|, at school, A poll of co-eds reveals
| that -oneethird have smoked, but all
deny smoking Every many, parents
miEht objectrif, IL they knew. they
admit. Cases of smoking are so IN
frequent at Ohio Wesleyan no rules
are needed. The practice has never
prevailed at Cincinnati. Miami or
Western College for Women.
Indiana school authorities do not
find IL necessary to lay down official
taboo. Indiana and Purdue have no
rules against 1t. Few girls have the
habit and those who have lose IT, says
Dean Agnes Wells of Indiana: Depauw
and Butler bar smoking on the camp
uses.
Some liberation of girl student
smokers lis current in Washington
University, st. Louis, Nebraska ana
Emporia. Kansas. -
washington permits smoking in
girls dormitories. Dean Armanda
Heppner of Nebraska thinks the prac-
tice is silly but ''as long as men are
not prohibited from smoking why
should we prohibit women? 1t Is not
q question Of morals.
L. w. Butcher, president of the EN-
poria, Kansas, Teachers college. says:
.The girls have as much right to
smoke as the men, But say the state
~ Kansas Is not ready for It, Our
college has a tradition against even
men smoking on the campus.
Elsewhere in these states, as IN
Oklahoma, smoking is thumbs down..
|. Most Missouri institutions. inciud-
ing the state University, do not ma
Il problem. Decided Opposition
comes from the Kansas state Ieacn-
ers, College, which can see onIy one
POSSIBLE good which might come OUT
Of Bryn Mawr's action-"Ihe poldness
and suddepness of the thing may De
suf1icient to arouse the apparens
drowsiness of the great womannooa
of our nation to the periis "hicn
threaten It," o,,.
IN. In the OKLAHOMA College Tor
Women and probation is the result OF
oklahoma A. and NJ. Oklahoma CITY
rYniversity. has never passed a RUE
hacouse It feels no need for 1t.
Helpful indication
nor,-Henry. dear, do try TO DC