Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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EDITORIAL In offering this Narva to the public, we do so, hoping that the many-sidedness of our College and campus life may be understood better and appreciated more than it ever has been since the College was founded. We understand that the Faculty, the students and their surroundings are the College. We have presented each of these, both by picture and by write-up. In our limited space we could not treat fully any one of the thirty-odd depart¬ ments or organizations. But things have been said in these articles that are worthy of the consideration of all. To know Park as it really is, is to become associated with representative elements of its life. The contents of this little book are rep resentative. Some things are over-emphasized, but all the elements of our Park College life are here accurately set forth. We have taken special pains with our Trip Across the Campus,” and we hope it will be as interesting to others, and recall as fond memories to them, as it has to us. We are indebted to Miss Frances Wolfe, ’15, who has acted as our guide on this little trip; and also to Fred L. Brown, ’14, whose untiring efforts have insured for this feature such good pictures. Too much cannot be said in appreciation of Miss Meta M. Oelfke’s work as our artist. There were others who contributed, but to her is due the credit. Those marked L. G. are the work of Louis Galbreath of the Academy. Those marked R. H. K. are the work of our Artist Censor. The Indian head on the cover page is his work. We wish also to thank those members of the Board of Trustees who, by their encouragement, have shown confidence in and sympathy with our undertaking. Although nominally the Junior Class has compiled this Narva, it would have been an impossible task had not mem¬ bers of the Faculty and students through their organizations and classes heartily co-operated with us. Now, we have done our best, and we hope our best will be considered worthy to be the first of Park’s Annual Narvas. The book is forth, and it is no longer ours, but yours.

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WHAT THE PUBLIC EXPECTS OF THE COLLEGE GRADUATE By Frank S. Arnold, D. D. What does the public expect of a College, and up to what standard is a Student expected to measure, with spe¬ cial reference to Park and its graduates? What the populace expects is wide of the mark, for the untutored world has many vagaries on matters educational. But, in general, the thinking, reading public seems to have decided on about three definite lines of measurement for a graduate—he must have a certain amount of book knowledge, a good deal of character, and a large portion of common sense. People will even forgive the evidence of the lack of the first; they will not forgive lack of the other two. The man who measures up to a marvelous height in the languages may achieve a reputation—and be a joke. The public wants more evidence of a career than a subjective knowledge of vocabulary and syntax. That is, people expect College Students to be Men and Women. They think learning ought to be the instrument of personality; that education i s a means, not an end. Person¬ ality can use knowledge, but learning without personality is like Saul’s armor on David—out of proportion. Students should get the idea that they are expected to lead, and should learn to fit into the environment. Conceit is a poor thing, but a sense of responsibility with the conscious¬ ness of a fair equipment tones the mental life, and enables a man to take his rightful place at the front. Park Students have made their way, and will continue to do so. In general, the discriminating mind that knows the Park environment will expect its students to be religious and sterling men and women with a worth-while ring. If they achieve the honors of learning, that will be incidental. What is expected is the bone and sinew of vital moral and religious force, the stuff that makes good among the seething masses of mankind. Not specialties and fads, not cloistered knowl¬ edge, nor pranks of genius, but sensible, well-equipped, well- balanced leaders in the great world’s work—this is what is expected of the graduates of Park College.