Oglethorpe University - Yamacraw Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Bam . This book is an historical account of the years spent here. We were particularly active in athletics, scholarship and debating. We were repre- sented in football by such notables as Cy Bell, Firpo Coffee, Amos Martin, Asa Wall, Lindsey Vaughn, Hoke Bell, Curry Burford and Monk Clements. In basketball, we had Cy Bell, Lindsey Vaughn, Banty Eubanks and Monk Clements. In baseball, the standards were carried by Martin, Wall and Vaughn. For two years, Banty Eubanks, the most famous one-man track team in the South, represented Oglethorpe on the track and in the tield. Harold Coffee, Eloise Tanksley and Bryant Arnold were given the Coat- of-Arms and elected to Phi Kappa Delta for high scholastic attainments. We had our share of members in Boar ' s Head, Le Conte and Blue Key. During our senior year, more intercollegiate debates were held than in any year since 1924. The Orchestra, Players ' Club and the Follies claimed a number of our classmates. We sincerely hope our Oglethorpe has benefitted as a result of our labors in these and many other activities. We hope it has grown and prospered with honor to itself and glory to its founders. We hope we have been able to perpetuate the heritage of those who breathed the breath of life into the old Oglethorpe and the new. The spirits of Woodrow, Le Conte and Talmadge, coupled with that great emancipator, Oglethorpe, have led us ever forward to the goal which will be attained by our progeny — to the goal which will make of our University the Princeton of the South and the pride of the nation. The companionship of our fellows, the helping hands of our profes- sors gave us four happy years. We, at least, go so far as to say that the comraderie of our campus proved that Oglethorpe is the second best col- lege or university in the world. So many colleges claim first place until we hesitate to enter the fight for the right to control that throne and be the monarch of all we survey; we take the rostrum of the second place, secure in our opinion that we belong there, and rightfully. A number of us returned to school each succeeding September for one reason: com- radeship such as cannot be found elsewhere. So, as we leave our school, the school into whose rock and granite we ' ve blended heart ' s blood and the soul ' s hope, we repeat the words writ- ten by Dr. Jacobs for the marble slab at the railway station: Coming, I go, and yet I know that I remain. Going, I come, to whatso home with loss or gain. Meeting, I part, yet in my heart I take with me All that befell, or ill or well, eternalhj. HISTORIAN.

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mm u t J a The Years in Retrospect In the following Senior Class section of this book, the reader will find pictures of sixteen Seniors who matriculated at Oglethorpe in 1926 along with a hundred and seven other freshmen. The remaining Seniors joined us as we proceeded along the way to graduation and happy are we in having them; they are a part of us, helping us to make the whole. Many, therefore, enter into the gates of college education, but few emerge from the fertile pasture wherein are fed hungry minds into the open fields beyond. We are fortunate in realizing the goal of our endeavors, but un- fortunate in not being accompanied to the heights by our classmates. To our absent men and women we send this message, and hope, by some means of mental telepathy, that it reaches them : the spirit you helped to found as freshmen, sophomores and juniors remains with us yet, and as we get our diplomas, we get them not as individuals, but as a group for all of us, for you, the departed, as much as for us, the graduates. The most prized of all the many gifts of Oglethorpe: freedom of thought, word and deed. We entered with the knowledge that we could think as we pleased. But, coming from many sections of the country where academic freedom is hardly tolerated, we did not take much stock in it until we sat at the feet of our professors and learned from them the truths of life without the limitations of the sectarian college or univer- sity. As a result, our minds have been broadened and enriched by the true philosophy of our being. We have not had to check the reins; we have not had to cut and injure our minds; we have given our minds with their thoughts the proper outlets; investigations. Yet, the most of us reach the same conclusion as that of our fellow-graduates from the sec- tarian schools, although we have trod a different and harder path. We know why we return to the faiths of our fathers yet we cannot say how our minds made the journey. But they were guided aright by some Pow- er. We began a journey to we knew not where, but like the world-voy- ager, returned to the home-port, happier for the beauties seen in the far- off crevices of human knowledge. Perhaps all of us can echo the words of Omar Khayyam, the friend of Nizam ul Mulk and of Hasan Ben Sabbah : Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about; but evermore Came out bi the same Door where in I went.

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, lam a c r a to Officers of the Glass of 1930 W. Bryant Arnold Pyesideul Amos Martin Vice-President Robert M. Benson Secietatu-Treafnu-er REPRESENTATIVES AT COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES W. Bryant Arnold Valedictorian Fred R. Snook Salntatorian