Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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The Seniors Class of 1906 Officers President Vice-President Secretary- Treasurer Harry A. Phillips Zora M. Wilson Belle Lasley Arthur F. Riddle Class Colors Cream and Olive Green. Motto AapnrdSia. ovtcs 8ia.8c ra(i«v aXXVjXets) Class Yell Rah Rah, Rah Rah, Rah Rah Rix! Who, Rah Rah Rah? Park—0—6.

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Mrs. Dr. John A. McAfee. Died February 6, 1903. Rev. E. B. Sherwood, D. D. Died August 19, 1905. All three for many years members of the Board of Trustees. Mrs. McAfee and Dr. Sherwood were two of the founders of Park College. J “!Y7T trx

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The Metamorphosis of the Class of 1906. “Ornne vivum ex ovo” was the decree of scientists centuries ago. And the class of 1906, cognizant of established laws, and im¬ bued with the prevailing spirit of the age, would divide its own “life history” into periods the basis for which lies in that very dictum of previous thot. Advisedly, then, does it call this first year of its his¬ tory, characterized as it is by rudimentary development and incip- iency, the EGG STAGE. It was a heterogeneous collection which presented itself to the various departments of the institution in the fall of 1902. All could be placed un¬ der one Order, yet there were numer¬ ous genera and a still greater variety of species. These species were of all sizes, shapes and colors; there was the large McAfee or Stiles type, and the diminutive Bernheim; the semi-spherical Frye and the elongated Phillips; the pale hued Youngman and the very dark Mitchell; while anon appeared a variegated or speckled one. And perhaps it was the variety of characteristics indicated by the divers appearances which enabled the collection in the aggregate to evade, escape, or overcome, as the case might be, sundry injuries which certain ones intent upon investigation or ex¬ periment were wont to perpetrate. These injuries were administered in different ways; now bv invading armies of the Hannibal or Has- drubal type; now by the insidious appearing, tho in reality, compar¬ atively mild, “sythe bearing chariots” of the “well greaved grubs”. At one time the collection was cast into a veritable heap of “logs”; and tho unable to effect an escape for several months, yet none came off the worse for the experiment, despite the fact that it was attended by all manner of “sweeps and slides, bends and falls.” Many of these fellows were exceedingly precocious. Indeed scarcely ere the close of the winter season of 1903, and long before the allotted time for the casting off of shells, did the Myers, War- nick, Zion species break forth, and with premature loquacity, prove to the contending Order of Sophomores in public debates the erro-