Show I I I Women's omens V Smoking Considered As Problem by Univ Universities By N N. S. S N. N S. S Do college women smoke If so how much Christian Education sent these questions to twenty-five twenty endowed institutions selected at random Twenty-three Twenty responded Three colleges report smoking among women students a serious problem Smoking among women has greatly increased during the last few years Colle College e women of I course share the characteristics I fashions and customs of or the rest of their sex U The increase is only a reflection of the general increase of the habit among women throughout the landWe land We UWe have a rule forbidding smoking smoking ing within the on of the college laws I know however that a considerable le number of our students do smoke when outside this jurisdiction Two colleges report feminine use of the weed on the wane while four merely state their belief that the practice is not increasing Fourteen colleges report that smoking by women students is a minor matter that few cases have been discovered during the past few years that it gives them no present concern While the testimony indicates that many do not yet find smoking among women a serious problem they re recognize recognize recognize re re- cognize a new social attitude un n n the air a change of standards outside outside out out- side the colleges Says one president president president dent The general attitude has changed very much in the last half dozen years It is no longer as either cither immoral or common Another at the present present pre pre- sent time it is a problem that might become acute in any colle college e. e Another Another An An- other CI Smoking amon among women in the state institutions is common compared with the independent colleges col col- leges Another My observation in hotels in cities in the Middle West is that the practice of smoking among women is increasing Much disagreement is noted as asto asto asto to the method of coping with the sit sit- One president writes Very few women students habitually smoke in New England Colleges The practice is discouraged discouraged discouraged dis dis- by all college officers and teachers and in halls of residence is absolutely forbidden It is far better however to rely not upon printed rules but ut upon the good taste and good sense as applied to social custom The president of a college ge in Minnesota disagrees I ul Ido Ido do not agree with that the problem can be handled without further rules If an institution does not wish to have its women smoke I am convinced that the simple and direct method of gaining t this is end endis is to have a definite college rule against the custom |