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Show "Some Women in Every Age Drank Liquor, a Few Even Enjoyed a Smoke " By DE. CHARLES J. SMITH, President Roanoke College. Some women in every age drank liquor, a few even enjoyed a smoke, many of them threw away their honor, but the world has never known the turning loose of such an army of hard-drinking, cigarette-puffing, licentious licen-tious Amazons as walk our streets and invade our campuses today. There are three things in college social life that bother us most drinking, dancing and social impurity. We are prone to take them too seriously, especially if our college is a church institution. They exist in the world everywhere, and I have personally known them to exist in our own theological seminaries. What can we do when the daughters of the so-called "best people" come out attired scantily in clothing, but abundantly in paint; with a bottle of liquor, not on the hip, but in the handbag; dance as voluptuously as possible in order to be attractive enough to be spoken about every other step, so as to appear popular, call for frequent intermissions to give them opportunity to quench their thirst from the bottle, and with the man of their choice engage in violent petting parties in the luxurious retreat of a big limousine ? |