Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That seems early enough. In fact, I think Cowan is a little too strong in his statements. Burned my cigarette papers, gave away my pipes, and swore never to use tobacco again. Never! I am also going to Commons. I think the plain but nutritious food will be beneficial...
There's wealth of tobacco, and surely no lack...
...suppose that the more demonstrative take a step farther, which brings them at once to the point reached long ago by the author of "Fair Harvard." What wonder that, beyond the vicinity of Boston, a college room is never thought of without the accessories of a cloud of tobacco-smoke, the remains of a dozen of champagne, and a crowd of students in the hilarious prosecution of a frolic...
...Monmouth College, III., we should judge that institution to be a sort of overgrown Sunday school. A poem entitled "The Drunkard's Soliloquy," which would serve as ballast for half a dozen numbers of an ordinary college paper, is followed by a choice little essay on "A Chew o' Tobacco." Did space permit, we should be only too happy to quote it for the edification of our own readers. Knowing that this College is a "mixed" college, we are not surprised to learn that such a subject as "Wife, Man's Best Treasure," is a favorite one for essays...
...blandly would he sometimes come into my room, take off his rubbers and overcoat, and pleasantly inform me that he had no more recitations for that day! I knew what this meant, - a straight loaf till tea, and a steady drain on my cherished tobacco. He made fair promises of buying the next, but the next for him never came...