Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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In this hectic period of the world’s history a new social order is arising and education must adapt itself or perish. In keeping with his ideas of world progress and education, Dr. William Lindsay Young has endeavored to keep Park College out of any social vacuum and to eliminate any tendency to “sit on the bank and watch the stream flow by.” We must get right into the middle of the stream. While keeping a keen eye on the future, Dr. Young hasn’t forgotten the essential element of Christianity which is necessary to undergird the strength of not only our school but our nation and world. In this swiftly moving machine when the aesthetic values of life are being forgotten, he has maintained the teaching of the finest of the fine arts—the art of living. While burdened with his many campus activities, Dr. Young found time this past year to act as leader of more than five million people of fhe Presbyterian faith in guiding them through one of the most try¬ ing periods in the history of the church. As modera¬ tor of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., he has brought the name of Park College to people in every corner of the U. S. and I.atin America. He has been a leader that the world admires because of his sincere convictions and fearless criticism of anti-Christian trends in this chaotic world. Admiration extended to Dr. Wm. Lindsay Young is also admiration for Park in hav¬ ing such a president. Yes, Dr. William Lindsay Young has been laying the cornerstone for a towering Park College of the future.