Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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r --- | evils, or rather, the greater of two goods. You will at once see that we could not put in everything that has happened since 1901. We ; could not give special mention to each of Park’s children during that time. If you are not mentioned, consider yourself lucky in the es- S cape; and if you are mentioned, try to believe that our intentions ‘ were good, however dismally we may have failed. Of course we ; have given by far the greater space to 1906, simply because we wished to be up to date. I Respecting those who are of our own class and who have been our daily companions for several years, we have taken a much great¬ er liberty, and by due process of law have delegated to ourselves, as an unquestionable privilege, the right to say anything we please, at any time we please, and about whomsoever we please; and to use any one’s name, or picture, or any personal property of any sort, in any connection that it has seemed best to us. From this there has been no appeal. We have sought to tame the cruel tongue of the satirist, to catch the melodies of the nightingales, to confine the ethe¬ real spirit of the poet and to bind down the fire-shod words of the numerous sons of Demosthenes. If you have said anything cute, bright or funny, this year, look on page-and you will find that for once your voice was heard. If you have shed a tear or heaved a sigh be comforted by those who this year will find indelibly imprint¬ ed on their sheepskins the marks of each honest effort. If you have had a thought, forget it, as you should. Still it is in this book, and will’never leave you. If you fail to find here what you expected, it is too late to cry now. You should have spoken sooner. We wish here to express our appreciation of the timely help we have received, especially in our drawings and sketches, from Miss Ruth Thomson, ’09, and Mr. Albert W. Orr, ’08. Their drawings bear their marks (R. T.) (A. W. 0.). With these few scattering remarks, the book leaves our hands, and thus we bid it adieu: “Go, little booklet, go Until everywhere that you have went, They’re glad that you have came. ’ ’ —James Witcomb Riley. LOOKING NORTHEAST

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KMTORIAL Five years have passed since the publication, by the class of ’01, of the first volume of the Narva —five years in which no Narva has been published. And yet P ark has not ceased her activities along other lines. In fact, these five years have witnessed the growth and progress of our institution, as perhaps no other period of its history. The ’01 Narva was an experiment that proved emi¬ nently successful, and we have wondered that each succeeding class has not tried it. Looking, then, at the success which the pioneers attained and re¬ lying upon the support of Park’s sons and daughters, past and pres¬ ent, the class of ’06 have published this, the second volume of the Narva. We enlist the same hearty sympathy that was accorded the first publishers of Park’s Year Book, and our hope is that this book may prove as interesting as its forerunner and may come as near as possible to your ideas of what a College Year Book ought to be. We can not expect to please all, but it is our desire that by all means we may please some. It is altogether fitting that we here sincerely thank the ’01 Ed¬ itors for so plainly blazing the trail. Where they had often to make their own way thru difficult places we have found the road open. Profiting thus so greatly by their experience in all departments, we doubt not that our task has been much easier than that which was undertaken by them. We have not followed the plan of the ’01 Narva, tho we have worked with the same purpose in view. We have sought to reproduce college life at Park in all its phases as far as practicable, and to present to our friends and fellow students a book which will always keep fresh in their minds the memory of Dear Old College Days. As we have scanned the pages of many college year books and tried to catch the secret of this work, we would gladly have made our book the combination of all perfections. We know you do not expect this, and only in the hope that you will deal kindly with our efforts, have we found the courage to impose these pages upon you. Our task has been of different proportions from that of the first Narva Editors. They had to cover a period of twenty-six years, while we have only five years. Still our task has been large com¬ pared with most annual editors, for they cover but one year. The history and evolution of a college in the main should be entire in its college book. It has been our intention, therefore, to go back to 1901, and gathering up the ends of the yarn where the editors of the first Narva dropped them, bring you down by successive steps to 1906. Our work has been greatly changed. It was not that we could not find material with which to make up a certain number of pages, but it has been a never ceasing decision between the lesser of two

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MACKAYr BUILDING The Main Lecture and Recitation Hall