Education: A Great Event

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare.

Over the tomb of James Edward Oglethorpe, British general and philanthropist, died 1785, runs no such ultimate appeal. Therefore there was nothing to dissuade Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, founder and President of Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.), from seizing last week the fruits of a search to which he has devoted two years of his time.

When the tomb was finally found under the floor of the parish church in Cranham, in the hills of Essex, England, Dr. Jacobs sent for sharper tools, sped the...

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