Tarkio College - Tarkiana Yearbook (Tarkio, MO)

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India may have her coral strands, but here in Pindi we are more impressed by the huge ice covered peaks of the Himalayas lying to the north. Yet here we merely see the snow at a distance of forty to one hundred milesg in Tarkio we might watch Colonel shovel it. There is something of interest in a bazaar scene with its crowds of jostling, chatter- ing people in brilliant hued attire, with its vendors of sweets and tea and fried cakes, but the interest is but finite to one who has attended a Marshall Hall reception. And a gala day with its jugglers, and image-sellers and buffoons, and merry-go-rounds run by hand, and fakirs and trained animal shows and wayside begging lepers-almost pales beside a Tarkio Street Fair. To be sure there are many things in different proportions-here are camels and zebras and long-haired goats and fat-tailed sheep and parrots and buffaloes by the hundred, but what enterprising Tarkio boy hasn't seen these things or something better for half a dollar under Wallace Brosf huge canvas. And, on the other hand. these poor people never get to use a telephone or to go bob-sledding or to eat from china dishes with nice silver spoons. Unless a boy,s father is a farmer or gardener, he never gets to pitch hay, or milk cows, or pick apples, and, so far as I know, there isn't a HD. R. or shredder in the whole Punjab. Now and then a man is allowed to pick out his own wife, not usually-and never does he go with the girls and spoon on the back steps of the college, like-but Why men- tion names? This slight difficulty is obviated by bringing a girl out with you who is used to these things. A man who has passed in Tarkio Latin and German is prepared to undertake the mastery of this tongue, which is a choice mixture of Persian, Hebrew, Arabic and Hindi. A man who has learned the meaning of sinisira and nadir and arzifpodes, isn't at a loss when he sees a man begin to read from the back of the book, motion to his friend with his hand palm down instead of palm up, turn to the left instead of the right in driving, when he sees that he is the boss in his own home and expects his wife to do what he says, that he wears his shirt outside of his trousers and uses more cloth in his head covering than in his clothing, that there are crows instead of blackbirds and tulips in place of dandalions, that there are roses and violets in January instead of June. All this doesn't startle him, for he remembers he is just half way round the world. It might be a shock to find that the mathematics professor actually works the examples and solves the problems on the board while the class sits and takes notes. A glance at Tarkio,s representatives in Asia might not be out of place: Miss Laurella Dickson, B.S., '96, came in '97 and is now at home on furlough far from the myriad smells and tinkling temple bells. Mr. William E. Nicoll, B.A. of '96, who came out in '0l, is the general secre- tary and treasurer of the India Mission. He has charge of Rawal Pindi District and is overseer of a leper asylum, besides putting in several hours a day in the study of the language. Mrs. Blanche Dickson Nicoll, BS., '97, is sewing on his buttons and helping an ayah to raise two sturdy boys, William and Lorimer. Rev. E.. Everett Campbell, B.A., '00, came out in '04. He has the district work in ,Ihelum District. He does his Alma Mater proud in the way he handles the language. - Rev. A. McArthur, BS., '01, came out in '04 also. He is touring Gurjan wala District with the veteran Miss McCullough. He savs she takes him over the district like Daniel's goat. John has the finest whiskers in the Mission. W. Lorimer Porter, B.A., '96, came out in '05. He is studying a little and teaching a little, soaking in the Orient and soaking out the Occident. ' W. L. PORTER, '96.

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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-

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A uv 4 Y. W. C. A. OFFICERS: President ........ . . .MARGARET GIFFEN. Vice-President. . ...... . . .JENNETTE MURCHY. Recording Secretary .... ..... C LYDE. DUNLAP. Corresponding Secretary ......... ..... M ARY MOORE. Treasurer .......,............. . . .EATHEL WOODS. Chairman of Nlissionary Committee... .... EMILY PORTER. Chairman of Social Committee ........... . . .ESTI-IER RANKIN. Chairman of Membership Committee ............... LAURA BOYD. Chairman of Room and Library Committee ...... l'lINDA STEWART. The Young Woman's Christian Association of Tarkio College is an organization ol young women, who have as their aim the deepening of the spiritual life of the school and the emphasizing of the spiritual development as well as mental and physical. The association has been greatly blessed, both in a spiritual and financial way. The enrollment of the past year has been about sixty, whilethe budget for the year has been one hundred and twenty dollars, divided among these respective parts of the work: Fifty dollars to State workg twenty-five dollars to missionsg thirty dollars to conference fund, and twenty dollars to incidentals. p During the year the association girls were given a room in the College building which they have furnished with mission furniture and arranged as a rest room, where committees may hold their meetings and where girls may study when they have hours to wait in the college building. ' Early in the year a birthday party was given the room at which time the girls gave small gifts to add comfort and homelikeness to the appearance of the room. Last summer three girls, former members of the Y. W. C. A., went out to represent the association in the foreign field. ' We have been represented at four conventions during the year: at the missionary conventions at Detroit, at Monmouth and at Nashville, Tenn., and at the annual student's summer conference at Waterloo, Iowa. The delegates from each of these conventions brought back inspiring and enthusiastic reports which we hope and believe will help us in our work in the future. The Bible class, under the leadership of Mrs. Adair, has been doing good work. During this year we have been studying the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. A series of evangelistic meetings were held in February, conducted by Rev. W. M. Jackson, of Clarinda, Iowa, a former student of Tarkio College. These meetings greatly benefited and strengthened the spiritual life of the students.