Tarkio College - Tarkiana Yearbook (Tarkio, MO)

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., . if , .. .ra .W ..,. .-... ..sfzim:fsz1s- :L- the campus where the bricks of the sidewalk roundly slopingl' have given place to solid concrete. It will delight you in the increased expanse of velvet turf and in the shady walks where we were bidden to keep off the grass. It speaks in the great clock which tells the perspiring student of to-day when the Philosophy hour is half gone. Within the college halls material advancement is written everywhere. Every available foot of space is in use, and full rooms are crying out for new buildings. The library is running over its I-It y , .lll. I ' ' U- I ... iv- , L ,,.. L, -. , 1... V fait' y V bounds. The laboratories are crowded in twice the space they once had. Even the chapel is used for class work and the music department fills in all the chinks. The men's hall will not hold the applicants nor the '04 chairs the Faculty. CThis refers only to numbers., There are a hundred small improvements which indicate a broadening in- Huence. But there is something beyond these visible and tangible evidences of growth. College requirements and college standards are more appreciated and more honored than they once were. The Habby and irresponsible student is still with us, but in diminishing number, and the student body is developing a little further each year into the dignity and self-reliance which by right belongs to them. In fact, fratres sororesque alumnorum, they get on remarkably well without us. An interesting race is on between the student body and the Alumni, as to numbers. With a varying but never failing annual increment the Alumni roll has grown to 227, but still the student enrollment Hutters on ahead. Wonderfully scattered, these 227 young people are watching their college with friendly and expectant eyes, and after a gridiron or a platform victory here, pyramid and iceberg serve as sounding boards for Tarkio cheers. Even our Alumni who belong to the ancient history of the eighties are still young and active. The class of '87, which went into politics, is being mentioned for mayor of our city. The class of '88 took up banking. The scientihc member of this class has recently been honored with the cashiership of a Western bank with near half a million deposits and almost as much loans, while the classical half has just been elected second vice-president of the State National Bank of St. Louis. Two of our mediaeval members have followed this lead into responsible cashierships, and we hope more will followg we are looking to the bankers to increase our endowment. The class of '89 divided. Two men took the ministry, two the law. These professions have had popular followings. We have law- yers galore while fully a fifth of our Alumni have gone into different lines of religious work. This does not include those who have married into the ministry. The '89 girls all married save one who pioneered the teaching profession and brought in the first lVlaster's degree, holding an assistant professorship to-day in Lawrence University. The mediaeval history of the nineties follows on in much the same lines, but we find among these prob' ably our wealthiest representatives-the farmers, and with them a, number of doctors and a few merchants. The modern history of the twentieth century is too recent to cover. A large per cent of the Alumni have done graduate work. From far and near they join in respects to their Alma Mater and good wishes to Tarffiana. CARO LYNN, '95, -71-

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FROM EGYPT. A heartfelt good-bye to the home land, a long, long ocean journey, bright glimpses of Oriental life in Southern Europe, the placid waters of the Great Sea in whose bosom are mirroredall the glories of the starry heavens and Egypt meets our view. Egypt, the land of a long dead past, around whose name cling memories sacred to us all. A land of the past, yet one which is destined to rise as steadily as Christian civilization finds its way among her peoples. And you are from Tarkio, too? was the greeting most often received from fellow workers in thisdistant land. And truly, Tarkio College has had no small share in furnishing men and women for this great work. Sixteen of those who are connected with her as graduates or as former members of the Faculty are now in this landg nine as regular missionaries and seven as missionary teachers. To state briefly, one is located at Luxor, Miss Alda B. Atchisong seven at Assiout, Prof. and Mrs. Robert McClenahan, Mr. Beveridge Moore, Miss Myrtle Wilson, Miss lrene Struthers, Miss Mary Pattison and Miss Berta C-ibsong at Cairo, Miss lda Vifoodsg at Zagazig, Mr. Alvin Godfrey: at Mansoura, Miss Helen ljerrier, and at Alexandria, Rev. W. l... McClenahan, Miss Minnehaha Finney and the writer. Working among a people, who have been oppressed for centuries by foreign rulers and who are held, still, by the iron chains of a false religion, the missionary finds a difficult yet most needy task. The people are hard to reach on account of their filth, degradation and self-satisfaction. Yet already the leavening influence of the religion of Jesus Christ has found its way into many lives. A To have a part in this work is a credit to any institution whose aim is character building and the extension of Christian citizenship. Tarkio College has had workers on the field for twelve years. l-ler representatives are scattered from north to south. Yet time nor distance has not dimmed our love for our Alma Mater. Like sweet music is the memory of our college days and the standards set before us there will ever spur us on to nobler duty. -May her past be but an earnest of the future and no sea nor clirne set boundaries to her influence for right and good. ANNA B. CRISWELI., '04. AN ASIATIC COGITATION. Tarkio's goodly representation in foreign lands is said to have called forth a remark from a Monmouth professor to the effect that a man who could live in Tarkio could live in any old heathen country. We of India can give assent to that statement. A man who has absorbed the sights and teachings and experiences of Tarkio College and community for three or four years is eminently fitted for the experiences andsights and teachings of these more Eastern suburbs. A man who has witnessed the effusion of Freshman and Sophomore class spirit with its accompanying effusion of paint on pavement and stand pipe and live stock is inter- ested in but not surprised by the feast that is celebrated here early in Ma1'ch, when paint throwing is the chief feature and the good citizens vie with each other in making a noise and covering each other with gallons of red and green dye. They literally paint the town red. Moreover it is usual to see an otherwise plain white hen or sheep, gayly decor- ated with pink or green spots and stripes. And the old men instead of trying to conceal their gray beards under a dye of the natural color, dye them a brilliant red. Une who has spent his vacant periods in the reading room of Tarkio College dur- ing even one winter term, will recognize the same sensations in the marrow-piercing chills that perambulate his spinal column during lndia's winter rains. -73-