Student and professor pipe smokers say they love it all

[admin]

I love finding articles like this:
Nostalgia, stress relief, taste, culture

 

[collin]

Thanks for finding and posting that Kevin,....enjoyable read for sure.

 

[marmal4de]

Great read, wish I went to school there, I may have picked a pipe up sooner.

 

[pstlpkr]

There were a handful of pipe smokers at my first university (Universiy of Montevallo), including a couple of Professors. We used to have informal slow smokes and some straight liquor, and some of the "those" deep conversations would spring forth. Ahhhh those were the days.
Great read Kevin.

Thanks

 

[connolse]

I've always dreamed of teaching at Hillsdale, with its 'young fogey,' great books thing going, and reading this simply confirms all my instincts
Most places I have taught over the last ten years have banned tobacco of any sort outright, or banished smokers to second-rate citizen areas. I have a new teaching possibility at a school that seems wonderful in many regards, but I am somewhat ashamed to admit that their zero tolerance of tobacco on campus makes me question it, not because I somehow NEED my 'fix,' but because it says something about the attitude and values of a place of learning if they can't respect the smoking of a pipe on a bench in the quad, chatting with students and colleagues about all the deep and wonderful things in life
Reading what all of you have to say here reminds me I am NOT insane, just slightly out of touch with the fashions and trends of a society that cannot recognize the beauty of a good smoke. I take solace in knowing that the greats like Tolkien, Lewis, Chesterton, Twain or Joyce are with me on this, even if they have passed on to the great smoking room in the sky. . .

 

[unclearthur]

Super neat article Kevin!

 

[krgulick]

Great article. Thanks for posting it, Kevin.

 

[hilojohnny]

Are you sure this isn't an article from the college newspaper from 1957 ??....It's hard to believe that there is a college in this day and age that actually fosters using one's brain. Thanks, Kevin. This takes me back to my college years which actually did begin in 1957... :clap:

 

[brian64]

Thanks, great article. Makes you long to escape back to a time prior to the Orwellian nightmare we're rapidly descending into.

 

[porshcigar]

This is a lot like the colleges of the 1960's, when I went to college.

 

[faedother]

Wow, I wish my college was that open minded about smoking. Here, they want to and are about to institute a smoking ban for the whole campus. I mean I understand that people do not want cigar or cigarette smoke in the faces when they walk right out of the door of a building. But most smokers observe the "30 foot away from public doors" rule. I guess we, the smoking community, win some and lose some.

 

[classicgeek]

Great article. Thanks for posting a link.
I can't say that I've ever experienced a quality pipe smoking culture like that other than here and in books, but I can dream.
Simon

 

[cortezattic]

That was a very encouraging read, Kevin. Thanks for the link. ::

 

[lagavulin92]

pipes and fencing scars...two marks of college/university life.

Back in the old days you could take a course in tobacco consumption,

but then everything was in gods merciful hands.

 

[maineyachtie]

Very encouraging read.