Not Well Informed

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 36.

Not Well Informed.

WHEN the subject of education was before the M. E. Conference at its recent session, Mr. Lasher, of Napa College, spoke as follows concerning that institution: “The trustees at their last annual meeting voted not to permit any one to enter as a student who will not pledge himself not to use liquor or tobacco during the course.” After stating that this provision is effective, he continued: “We believe that we are the first institution on the Coast to take this course.”

If the speaker had been thoroughly posted in educational matters, he could not have made his last statement. Healdsburg College has been in operation four years, and in that time no liquor or tobacco-user has had anything whatever to do with the institution; from the first, the use of these has been strictly prohibited. We are glad that Napa College is following this example.