Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once a staple of well-accessorized Harvard gentlemen, pipes are returning as a popular alternative to unhealthy cigarettes and stinky stogies for some retro students. A private habit for some, conspicuous consumption for others, pipe-smoking is uniting tobacco lovers Square-wide...
...definitely a machismo thing," says one junior, "and it's calming. Doing something [like smoking a pipe] helps stop what's stressing...
...Paul J. Macdonald, whose family has owned the historical establishment Leavitt and Pearce (est. 1883) for the past 15 years, says that "every fall, a fresh batch of freshmen come in," many with the assumption that a Harvard man smokes a pipe. (Not all of his customers are male, of course, though his female customers are mostly European women.) Macdonald sees it as a rite of passage, one that is often quickly discarded due to the amount of patience and work one must put into his or her pipe. It's amusingly easy, after all, to spot a novice pipe...
...Even harder than packing a new pipe can be finding a place on campus to smoke it, since College policy prohibits smoking in both common areas and student rooms of all Houses. While it's not entirely convenient for cigar or cigarette smokers to go outside to get their fix, it's particularly difficult for pipe smokers, who must carry more paraphernalia than will fit into a carton of cigarettes. The above-mentioned junior admitted that he smokes infrequently because of the hassle of finding a proper location. St. John says that he "tough[s] it out with the rest...
...since the council's constitution would need to be amended to reduce its size, three-quarters of the members must approve such a measure. Thus a smaller council has remained a pipe dream of its leaders...