For Oglethorpe

"Father of Wisdom, Master of the Schools of Men . . . grant . . . that there may be no stain upon my stones, forever."--The Prayer of Oglethorpe University.

In one glorious afternoon last fortnight, Oglethorpe had the rare pleasure of wiping two hated stains from its pretty blue granite stones.

It was mid-afternoon when a street car rattled out Atlanta's Peachtree Street, stopped at the rolling campus which William Randolph Hearst gave to Oglethorpe (TIME, Aug. 6). The slender young man who stepped off was Nathan Yagol, instructor in Chemistry at neighboring Emory University. Instructor Yagol started across the campus toward the auditorium. Invited to address the International Relations Club, he had small idea how the rest of Oglethorpe felt when he trod the campus. Two things are hated by all good Oglethorpe men and Instructor Yagol represented both of them. One is Emory University, which Oglethorpe's ebullient President Thornwell Jacobs once accused of running an "Al Capone racket" to keep Oglethorpe graduates out of teaching jobs in Atlanta schools. The other, thanks largely to Hearst beneficence, is Communism. Nathan Yagol, imprisoned ten days last autumn for attending a Communist meeting, was coming to lecture on Russia.

Stepping meditatively into the auditorium, Mr. Yagol started, popped his eyes. Of the International Relations Club, he saw no trace. His audience consisted of 100 brawny youths in football togs. And promptly it attacked him.

"Get off the campus!''

"We don't want your Communism!"

"Scram!"

The footballers formed a block about the trembling instructor, rushed him to the edge of the campus. A trolley car was hailed and Nathan Yagol scrambled gladly aboard. Then the Oglethorpe University football squad trotted off to Hermance Stadium to resume spring practice.

Of all the men of Oglethorpe, none was more delighted than its Hearstling President. Said Thornwell Jacobs: "It was a most refreshing exhibition of good, old-fashioned Americanism."

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