EFFECT OF THE TOBACCO HABIT ON STUDENTS.
DR. HERBERT FISK, of the Northwestern University, believes he has gathered statistics which prove that the use of tobacco is incompatible with the use of brains. He declares that among his students scholarship is in adverse ratio to smoke, and adds: The students who get low marks of course say it is not due to tobacco. A somewhat careful observation of facts has convinced us that it is tobacco. Last year not one of the boys who used tobacco stood in the first rank of scholarship. This has been the usual rule. One year, out of the thirty-three pupils in the first rank of scholarship, there was one user of tobacco. The largest percentage of tobacco users is found in the fifth rank of scholarship.