Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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ing, but more questions of statecraft and high finance have by this time been settled than Bible or Patterson ever dreamed of. And they are all at it. Inter-collegiate material fills the cup and spills over the brim. In the event of an inter-collegiate debate, by way of doing the opponents scant justice, the choice of a team is made by lining up all the men of the student body and delegating a cross¬ eyed young lady of the Sophomore Class to throw stones at them with her left hand. There is more science and art at every turn. And more artful¬ ness? Well now, that is a different matter, perhaps. Carlyle main¬ tains that there is strict democracy among artists of all periods. Artfulness does not admit of comparisons. Greater dexterity in these latter days? It was only remarked that there are better tools. A more sturdy bending to the race and a more sinewy knotting of the muscles? A smoother course to follow, that is all any one was saying. A truer devotion to God and fellowmen? The only hope is that some of the cobwebs may through the years be swept away to afford a clearer vision of God, and that the zeal of human fellow¬ ship shall be tempered by a fuller knowledge. No, no! Park Col¬ lege will never run clean away from its past. It scorns to run any new year in the old ruts, but it lives each year to bring its past to fruition. The sons are proud to reap where the fathers have sowed, and to sow again in their turn. J. E. McAfee. ’89. Heating and Mackay Lighting I lant Snyder

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three hundred and fifty thousand dollars invested now and if they are not doubled before long it will not be because hard work is lacking. Inside doors everywhere the reformation, revolution, reconstruc¬ tion, rejuvenation, wrought by the heating plant has already been referred to. Business always proceeds regardless of the weal her. More women singe off their eyelashes in the laboratories, and more men burn holes in their vest fronts than ever before, because eye¬ lashes and vests and corrosive acids are more plentiful than ever. The next Narva published will tell of the erection of a building for the Science Department fully equipped with the best now a-going in that line. Professor Findlay’s year of furlough in study and travel filled his head fuller of trilobites than ever and Professor Dean is soon to be off for his year. Dr. Wolfe brought back from his study and travel abroao all sorts of new tricks for making the Freshmen wonder whether it was a cyclone or a page of Livy which struck them, while art enthusiasm now being cultivated, needs only a water color thrust into the field of vision to tilt every other head on the campus to one side. Professor Mattoon, after pumping clean dry two departments of learning in Cambridge University, returned to spill liquefied star dust about the place until it trickles through the cracks in the sidewalk, and, as Cy Creighton would put it, two whole classes in college are out rubbering for total solar eclipses three nights out of the week. Dr. Burt brought back with him great chunks of enthusiasm straight from the factories where history is made. Since that year in the German beer-gardens he walks down the street more unmistakably than ever, like a coming event, cast¬ ing his shadow before. There is no telling what will come of Pro¬ fessor Magers’ present year among the Greeks at Harvard and elsewhere. No one will be surprised to see his Beau Brummel nose masked as puggy as Socrates’ and his Adam’s apple rounded off to furnish a collar button for his tunic. It is understood that the twins already address each other as Castor and Pollux. Everybody is learning everything better and more of it. Music is booming, — which does not imply that base drum artists alone are being produced. If any student does not know how to read music now, it is because he has spent the study hour forgetting. The Glee Club sings better and looks handsomer than ever. The Band gave a splendid concert this year. The Orchestra of this year is the largest which has ever been seriously attempted, and has contributed good music . Four or five instructors are pushing along the musical inter¬ ests and others are giving substantial boosts. Oratory is flopping its wings and soaring. Barnes, ’04, won first place in the state. Newell, ’04, won first in the state and lost rst in the inter-state by the wink of one judge’s eyelash. Murphy, ’05, won second in the state. Zion, ’06, has won first in the state and by the time this is printed will be grooming for the inter-state. And Debates,—bless your heart! you should hear these later generations debate! Those were thought to be glorious days when the first Narva found its t e-

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“ Howard l:. I To A fee A. B. Paris. ’80. Secretary of Board of Trustees. Treasurer and Business Manager of Park College Family. HOARD OF TRUSTEES Officers A. G. Trumbull, President Rev. Wm. Carter, Ph. D., Vice-President Charles L. Brokaw, Treasurer H. B. McAfee, Secretary Board George A. Lawi ence, Mrs Ella Park Lawrence, R«-v Henry Bullard, D. D., James T. Marsh, M. D., Howard B. McAfee, A. G. Trumbull, Rev. Cleland B. McAfee, D. Jas. B. Welsh, Lowell M. McAfee, LL. 1)., Rev. Wm. Carter, Ph. D., W. S. Wells, Rev. Wm. H. Mason, Chalmers Ralston, Charles L. Brokaw, J. V. Kindall, Mrs. M. C. Findlay, J. E. McAfee, D. Galesburg, Ill. Galesburg, Ill. St. Joseph, Mo. Liberty, Mo. Parkville, Mo. Kansas City, Mo. , Brooklyn, N. Y. Kansas City, Mo. Parkville, Mo. Kansas City, Mo. Platte City, Mo. Chicago, Ill. Topeka, Kans. Kansas City, Kans. Kansas City, Mo. Parkville, Mo. Parkville, Mo. f « , ' -f! Fp Ir. and Mrs. Geo. ¥ p m A. Lawrence , ' f ' , 4 iii . .-W IMS V