Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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MACKAYr BUILDING The Main Lecture and Recitation Hall

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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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What Was Not for the First Narva and Is for the Second. There is the Heating and Lighting plant: that is the latest and biggest; some are disposed to think it the best. One of the old fogies heard afar of the innovation and wrote that he feared for the temper of student life at Park College, now that there is no incentive to chop up an armload of green wood on the flat by the old well, struggle with it up the hill to Copley and, out of one corner of his eye, watch the sap fry on the end of the stick, while he occupies the other three corners in an encounter with trigonometry baked on one side and frozen on the other. The good fellow cannot under¬ stand how much more wholesome is the modern trigonometry done through and through by steam. Depend upon Professor Mattoon, anyway, to see that trigonometry is warm material. In contributing to activity of mind, health of body, and sane and wholesome religion able to rise above stove-pipe connections and smoky furnaces, the heating plant leaves nothing to be desired. And the light puts the Standard Oil company well nigh oat of commission. If it were not for the night-watch’s lantern Mr. Rockefeller might take his pro¬ posed vacation in Europe with his mind free from care. Now that your attention is fixed upon houses and such like, there is the Labor Hall, which makes it a deeper joy every day to serve God and one’s fellowmen. Everybody has heard what the house is for, but nobody knows who has not seen it and used it. It is to dignify labor and keep the laborer clean and : earty. The inst ; - tution is in large part bath appliance. There are showers and tubs, and a swimming pool, for which latter the severer weather has proved too much, but it is a great boon through all the warmer sea¬ son, and will eventually be provided with warm water the year round. The gymnasium in the building will sometime be equipped for the use of the office men and anybody else. Offices and tool and repair shops provided in the building are important new facilities of the work department. There is the President’s residence, nearing completion as this is written. The President and his family will probably be securely housed in it by the time this is in the hands of its readers. It is