Morris Harvey College - Harveyan Yearbook (Charleston, WV)

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THE 1923 JWrft of (trustees C. W. Thornburg, President Huntington, W. Va. Lee A. D. Tate, Vice President Huntington, W. Va. C. L. Harshbarger, Sec. -Treasurer Milton, W. Va. Rev. H. L. Clay Barboursville, W. Va. M. F. Conley Louisa, Ky. Dr. R. J. Yoak Barboursville, W. Va. Dr. W. 1. Canter Clarksburg, W. Va. Bruce McDonald Logan, W. Va. Rev. J. Frank Baker Parkersburg, W. Va. L. V. Koontz Clendenin, W. Va. Rev. B. M. Keith Fairmont, W. Va. Rev. C. A. Slaughter Ashland, Ky. Rev. O. F. Williams Charleston, W. Va. R. A. Watts Fairmont, W. Va. James Brady Barboursville, W. Va. Page II

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PRESIDENT CHARLES SEMPLE PETTIS Page 10

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THE 1923 J 1-LLLL1- I 1 l.rU rear 1 =L Izh tin rial HE feeling that inevitably accompanies the completion of any work of love is the depressing one of failure. While we have our work it keeps us up, and spurs us on to highest endeavor, and in the mere working and labor the result is, for the time, lost sight of, we are satisfied; but when that work is com- pleted and we have its companionship taken from us, then standing face to face with the result attained, we feel that the work has fallen so far short of what we would have it that it seems to us even a greater failure than it really is. The great love which prompts the work, the higher ideal which inspires it, — the more sickening and absolute must the failure seem to the loving worker. So we, the editors of the second edition of The Harveyan, come before you, feeling, because our hearts are so full of the Alma IVlater love, which has ever been to all her sons so high a source of inspira- tion, because we have striven with the best in ourselves to make this work worthy of her, that now, when we stand face to face with the result of our labors, so much we would have done has been left un- done, so much we would like to see more perfect has been marred in the making; that the result is to us a disappointment. Feeling this dissatisfaction with our work, we trust that there will be something in it that will redeem it from absolute failure and make its perusal a pleasure to you. In this work we have endeavored to make it a true picture of college-life at Morris Harvey in all its various phases. Where we have fallen short we ask your indulgence with our mistakes and shortcomings; where we have succeeded we ask your heartiest con- gratulations for our successes and attainments. To the students, we would have this volume be a constant re- minder of your college days, an open Sesame, which will carry you back to the days of college ideals and high enthusiastic endeavor, of friendships wrought in work and play; that Sesame, which will un- lock for you the richest treasures of memory to strengthen and sus- tain you, comfort and cherish you, when the scenes that are now so familiar to you become far-distant memories. Sometimes when you Page 12