The above quote is from Jim Glass (Class of 1977). Read the full memory below:

I was a German major and studied Swedish for two semesters when it was offered my junior year. During this time I had also become friends with a Swedish student who was attending Brown. One evening at the Rock I was writing an essay in Swedish and using one of the library’s Swedish-English dictionaries that I had checked out. My Swedish friend and I met on a break and as refreshment he offered me “snus”, the Swedish version of snuff, to put under my lip. Not being a smoker and feeling adventurous I tried the snus. I do remember feeling a tremendous nicotine rush and after that, I don’t remember a thing, except that in my nicotine haze I lost the dictionary somewhere in the bowels of the Rock and never was able to find and return it.