Education: Mellon Stain

On the face of its new $6,000,000 Parthenon-like building, the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh last week found painted in letters six feet high the New York University-Carnegie Tech football score: N.Y.U. 18. C.T. 14. The fan who did the job, a New Yorker but no N.Y.U. alumnus, was soon discovered, but Pittsburgh police could not extradite him for malicious mischief. Meantime, the institute’s scientists in whom U.S. tycoons have invested $11,478,406 for industrial research, notably into paints and chemicals, threw all their resources into removing the black asphalt paint. In the end, they could think of no better means than to set stonecutters to work laboriously chipping away one thirty-second of an inch of the 300-ft. surface.