Evening star., 1927-10-16

"a highly creditab,e college magazine,
containing ESSAYS and verse, with
barely discernihle sophomore tint, a S
well as the news of the month-ap-
peared this solemn warming
CIGARETTE SMOKING.
, "A Fatal Mania-Argument Against
the Use of Cigarettes.
Lately a mania for cigarette smok
ing has developed itself. Formerly
the fashion was confined principally
sto boys and Cubans, but within the
past wear or two 1t has been adopted
by all classes, and now the paper
cigars are seen on the street and on
the front platforms of cars. These
breeders of disease frequently are COM
pounded of refuse tobacco, cut up
from old butts of cigars that are
picked up on the street. There are
instances where sore mouths and even
worse complaints have been caused in
this way"
In the words of the estimable Quin.
tus Horatius Flaccus, so popular at
the Georgetown of that day. Ami
labuntur fugaces.
That Spring a bold student pur-
chased a bicycle, and after practicing
about the campus ventured outside
the gates on this curious locomotive
device.
"Hoodlums at the outer gate" says
the Journal, gave the happy posses
sor of the machine an enthusiastic re-
ception and suddenly presented him
with cold collation. of cobblestones
and clubs. But they will get used to
the bicycle by and by
" X y y
loot BALL had a late start in 1874,
and was crowded off the campus
by base ball with the first robins. The
last base hall game of the Autumn of
1875 was played on November 13, and
week later is recorded the first
actual foot ball contest ever held at
Georgetown. 1t was between the
juniors and seniors, and was, saws the
Journal. "a most exciting game. and
lasted nearly an hour before victory
perched on the banner of the seniors
Despite odds against them. the juniors
fought, or rather kicked, nobly."
The game remained in the anemia
of interclass contests until 1881. when
the college was challenged by Alex
andr.a High School. Eleven men
selected, but at the last moment
the Virginians refused to play. Pop,'
lar sports of that Winter were tug-t
war. potato races. hopping races
creased pig, A bit of real twentie
century collegiate atmosphere ev
IDENTIFY was affecting the college. TIL
students were decorating their rooms.
The Journal describes a youths bed
Of the day as ''coverlets of pink alter
mating with light blankets of yellow
and blue hung in graceful folds"
The next year foot ball had a big
boom. The Georgetown team PLAYED
two games--the magazine consider
ately refrained from mentioning the
scores-with the Veneb!es, an eleven
OF town boys. 1t was challenged by
Johns Hopkins University of Bait
more for game on December Is. but
could not accept, since there were
classes that day."
Ey this time. we may presume, the
bicycle had become commonplace of
college life. and the hoodlums out.
side the gates had ceased to stone the
daring riders. But that secret and
dangerous vice. cigarette smoking,
was on the increase.
THE use of the cigarette is growing
quite general" says the learned Jour-
nal. from the supposition that it is a
harmless form of tobacco, but the doc
tors say it is pestilently injurious
worse, even, than the cigar or the
p.pe. Those who indulge in the prac.
tice are easily excited. and have