Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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H. A. DURFEE Asst. Professor, Philosophy DOROTHY S. STEINMETZ Asst. Professor, Speech ELIZABETH CAMPBELL BEN W. FUSON Asst. Professor, English Assoc. Professor, English ADOLPH MANOIL Professor, Psychology ORENE YOWELL Instructor, Music JEANETTE ROBBINS Asst. Professor, Spanish BLANCHE N. GRIFFITH Asst. Professor, Voice HERBERT L. SWAN Asst. Professor, English 21

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ETHEL LYON Professor, English Chairman of the Division the Division of HumnniTiES The Humanities Division is central to the program of a Liberal Arts college. Entering Freshmen are required to take a survey of this important field to become acquainted with the development of the art, architecture, philosophy, music, and literature of the western world. This forms a general background for the work of the depart¬ ments in the division: Bible, English, art, music, philosophy, lan¬ guages, and speech. The division is responsible each year for the several plays presented, the music recitals, and Fine Arts Week. CHARLES GRIFFITH Professor, Music W. O. JOHNSON Assoc. Professor, Bible Determination: Mrs. Manoil, Mrs. Steinmetz. ELSA GRUENEBERG Professor, Languages Despair: Elsa Grueneberg. RUTH BUNKER Professor, French 20

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Campus Belles —1890 Many things change in seventy-five years: the campus is different, the buildings are different, the administration is different—and the student body is different in some ways, too. The first students were under a strict theocrat- calvinist rule, and they submitted to discipline without question. They were almost without exception religiously inclined, and went to their twenty-three chapel services each week with willing and eager hearts. But they were not so different from us.at that. They were a happy and quick-witted bunch: one chapel speaker complained th at he had to hurry through his jokes lest the students catch the point before he got to it. Though we think of them as austere, our forerunners indulged—though under threat of expulsion—in practical jokes, dormitory feeds, and forbidden nocturnal adventuring. Above all, they had that valuable spirit that we try to make a real part of our own generation—a family spirit, which gave them a common loyalty and an educational experience not to be duplicated anywhere else then or now. 22