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Show I' I O 1 L 1 L ,-T- , v -v - park College Faculty Makes Every I J jj Student Labor Several Bouts a. Day. ; IH m the International Harvester I Company shops at Chicago there is p a workman who is a young college ' graduate. named Brown. This ' workman comes to the shops every Horning and is on hand to begin I, when the whistlo blows Just like i J every other workman. '' J Tho main point of difference Is J that he comes from a home of lux- ji "ry. His father is one of the of- II fleers of the company and his grandmother is Mrs. Nettle F. Mc-liCj Mc-liCj Cormick. a wealthy stockholder. J A visitor to the harvester works M upon hearing of tho story of the !! M young workman, asked why he did , M not choose an easier occupation in ; the office, as his other relatives U had done. I "Brown's different," said tho 1 v man showing tho visitor around the' plant. "Ho was educated out 1 at Park Collego and learned to !k I liko to sweat. When ho quit col li f le&e le camo here and announced jf 1 "Is ambition wus to be a workman I until he learned the rudiments of I 'harvester manufacture. HIa am- 1 bltion now Is to bo a salesman I and I can assure you he will makd X a good one. Ho knows all about a harvesting machine" Brown was not always cnthusl-j cnthusl-j astlo about hard work. Brought up in luxury h0 had not cared If much about labor until sovcrul li years ago when he becamo old B enough to go to college. His V father thought a long time about I whero to Bend him and finally de- elded on Park College. Parkvillc, F Mo. At Parkvillc everybody has to work-. They don't play football r there, and thoro is no such thing I- as Inter - collegiate athlotics. Brown's father was attracted to the 'i place through his wife's mother, Mrs. McCormick. wlio had given i large sums of money to the en dowment fund and had also given a' college building to tho lnBtltu- tlon. . When Brown reached tho place he was Informed he would have to j Arc furnaces so many hours each morning. He was given as a room -;, 9 mate, a son of a farmer, and was h ' treated Just liko tho rest of tho : students. After ho had been at the institution a while he learned to liko work and pitched In with I &H Ms might. Tho result Is ho Is X I a Eood Avor.kman with high idealB .4Ji and ambitions. He, wants to un- derstand machinery so he can lm-7j lm-7j ' Prove the present methods of hnr- jn - vesting. Ho want3 to learn about Slf working conditions so he can get W the viewpoint of mon ho some day - Iflt wlU bo called upon to command. . -bfl Brown is only one of many men -'la who have sone through the mill at tt&' Park Collcse Te Institution is ' unique in many respects. It was k. 'tX founded in 1S75 by Gcorgo F. Park, ' th an abolitionist editor, and John A. 'iuj McAfee, who becamo its first presl- f-iffc dcnt Theso men wanted to open ' ' 'f a college for poor boys who had yf no means of winning (a college ed- th.r ucatlon without somo ' help. Col. ,g Park, founder of Parkvillc, had'. I, tA started . the town hoping It would "fchj bo tho metropolis of the West. Ho 1 w-a3 disappointed, however, for Kansas City grew up ton miles to li10 south and Parkvlllo remained a village. Then camo McAfee, McAfee had worked his own way through college. Ho decided work. was good for a young man and bo- I e.Idea ho realized a working col- I f lcSo would be a good placo for I Poor boys and girls. 1 PARK MAKES I . FOIST DONATION. Jji! He asked Park to give a big farm v: for the college campus. Colonel Q Park offered Dr. McAfee tho use.. of an old stone hotel building on I tho Missouri River fron,t of tho I town for his first college classes. '. . jS Ad "0 gavo him a garden patch. ! With these h0 bade tho educator .k create a college, agreeing that In ca3c of a good show of success ho . I would after nvc years donate to the school the hotel building,' twen-BPP twen-BPP ty acres rising up tho bluffs behind ' -a tho hotel for a campus, and a farm I of eighty acres farther "inland" for II Dr. MAfcc did not live to sco fWSfei his school on what could bo called W$&W4$$WM a arm foundation. At his death mlmS in 1S90. only a few of the score of SfW buildings now used by the college corn fields and garden the provision provi-sion for the winter following. APPLES WIN FAIR PRIZES. Agricultural work is not the only available occupation for these . earnest boys by any means. There is a splendid orchard of 16,0 acres where they grow and gather wonderful won-derful fruit. A barrel of. apples which students picked and packed in this orchard in 1D03 was kept in cold storage and opened at tho World's Fair at St. Louis the next summer. Tho Judge an expert of high degree examined each separate sep-arate applo and found not a visible visi-ble flaw in one. He graded the exhibit 10 6. saying It could be no better. There aro quarries on tho farm, and the students quarry stone and dress it for Park buildings. build-ings. They cut oak troas In tho college forests, saw the logs in tho college sawmill, and kiln-dry tho boards and plane them In tho collego. col-lego. planing mill. Oak floor Is cheaper than pine floor in a Park Collego building. The students can make brck. as they did ihe brick in McCormick Chapel, and cun lay up walls as straight as the best masons. Students run thu waterworks plant, which the college col-lege owns and supplies both college col-lege and town. They aro running tho new electric light and steam heating plant. 'They dig trenches and lay pipe and Install electrical apparatus. They operate tho collego col-lego print-shop, tho blacksmith shop and the harness shop as well. And so on through an almost Interminable In-terminable catalogue of the things that aro needful Jn a community of people with average human wants. The young women naturally havo most of thoir duty Indoors. Thoro aro no. hired cooks, waitresses or chambermaids. In the Park College limits? all tho domestic drudgery requislto In any of tho ' dormitories or dining halls is discharged by students all but tho hcavv Janitor QCJHNES and activities! about Park College .-"campus. Center McCormick McCor-mick Chapel, donated by Mrs. Nettie F. McCormick. Lower left Building donated do-nated by alumni. Lower right -Copley Hall, donated by Mrs. William Thaw, mother of. Harry K. Thaw. work by tho young women. GIrl9 find employment also In the laundry laun-dry and In the canning factory." And, of course, nobody considers domestic seoicc disgraceful- at Park. 13ut Inasmuch ns Park' as already al-ready explained Is aiming to 'afford 'af-ford an Intellectual and not industrial indus-trial education, the management must be careful not to demand of any student enough manual labor to prevent his studying and 'reciting 'recit-ing effectively. The requirement of tho curriculum Is for seventeen hours of recitation weekly about the average of all - colleges. Tho' work period daily must therefore oo no longer than a proper tlmo of physical recreation from mental activities. This period has been fixed at-three and a,'half hours for academy students and three hour 3 for collegians, tho hours being assigned as-signed in different parts. of the duy to different relays of students so that necessary work may be ke.pt in constant progress, OWX EXPENSES PAID, ip POSSIBLE. Students coming to the collego pay their expenses If they can "afford "af-ford to do so. All students aro- cx- peeled to pay as much as they can. The college Is not a charitable Institution. In-stitution. Everyone is given an opportunity op-portunity to earn all he can and pay all he can to make tho collego as nearly as possible self supporting support-ing At the same lime no one" is refused admission If he Is unable, to. pay anything. All students llvingj, on the campus must work. There" aro a few living In town who are" not subjected to the law of- work but as Parkvillc Is a small collego. lown there Is little room off the campus for students and nearly everyone works. Among the students who have McCormick of Chicago, and Copley Cop-ley Hall, to which the largest donors don-ors were 'Mr. and Mrs. William Thaw of Pittsburgh, were finished, and tho main collego building named Mackay from tho chief contributor, con-tributor, Mr. Duncan Mackay of Morrison. III. wa3 partially completed! com-pleted! while other powerful and liberal friends had been enlisted heart and soul In the plans of the Institution. And tho Idea had been placed above tho scoffing of the scornful, for ten classes had of the scornful, for ten classes had then already been graduated, and there wag no gainsaying the quality of tho product that had coma forth from the process. Park I3 not an Industrial college. col-lege. It docs not teach trades. It carries on no work for work's sake. The activities of the "family" "fam-ily" aro for Its own support and aro shaped to produce what tho community needs within Itself. Nothing Is sold oxcont the accidental acci-dental surplus of an extra good crop. And It is surprising to see how near the student body of Park docs come to furnishing Itself with sufficient food and shelter the raiment rai-ment Is a different problem. Tho college now owns 1,200 acres of land in the Immediate neighborhood neighbor-hood of Parkvillc, and half of this is under high cultivation. The rest Is In pasture and timber. Young men and women attending a collego col-lego of tho conventional typo aro frco from school when commencement commence-ment is over, but to the Park "family" "fam-ily" tho students "belong" straight through from matriculation to graduation. Tho school ternu cover cov-er ton months complete, and the two months of the summer are harvest har-vest time. In order that parents at home may not wholly be deprived de-prived of their children, half tho student body Is allowed to be away In July and half In August,- -but tho contingent remaining at Parkvlllo Park-vlllo In either month Is dally busy gathering in from wheat Holds JL added fame to Park College Is Con-I Con-I grcssman Pearl Dcoker. Decker entered en-tered Park College In the early I nineties. While there he won tho State collegiate oratorical contest for his college and also -won the interstate oratorical contest, being the champion orator for ten States In tho Middle West. After leaving Park ho bocame a lawyer at Jop-lin. Jop-lin. Mo. V ' 7 , Decker was a magnetic orator. While practicing law In Joplln an attempt was made to lynch a man. Decker wont to the door of tho Jail and addressed tho mob gathered there to lynch tho prisoner.' Ho painted a vivid picture of tho shame Joplln would undergo should they lynch a man. Hc begged Joplln men to let the law take Its course and save the name of Joplln from disgrace. Tho mbb at first was angry." Won by his. oratory tho people finally broke Into cheers. From that day Decker was n. leader In Joplln and. was finally sont to Congress where hc 1h now serving. Among the men students." was Texas BJll, who arrived In Kansas City one day on a. stock train from Texas, hoping, to go to college. " lio walked into Parkvillc from Kansas City and matriculated without a cent of money. Later he, went to a theological seminary . at Princeton, having been graduated from Park! and is now a. missionary to Porto" Rico. Thero he' has founded an Institution similar to Park College He Is the president 'arid Ms' known In' Porto Rico as Dr, J. William Harris. Har-ris. -. - . Charles A. Lokcr Is another of' the graduates whq cajn.e to Park Col-' lege and matriculated w,Itho'ut owning own-ing any money. Leker's father was a wealthy farmer but did not be-llcvo be-llcvo In college education. Lnkcr Insisted-hc wanted to go to school, however, and offered to work his own way. Ho heard he could do so . f- . at Park College and went there. He became a loader of his class, was director of the band, a member of the orchestral and glee club and was- entered -In five public debates and throe college oratorical contests. con-tests. Hc Is now principal of Kidder Kid-der Institute. Ills father was so pleased with the results of the education of his eldest son he sent his brother to Park College nnd paid tho tuition. ' Altogether there havo bocn S42 graduates of Park College. Of that number fifty-one per cent entered the ministry. The student body there this year represents forty-one States and twenty-ono countries. One of the foreign students was H. K. Tong. a Chinese boy. He was told of Park College by a' missionary. mission-ary. He went to Park, where ho was admitted in spite of his color.' After being graduated from Park College he went to Now Xork and took a course ln a school of journalism. journal-ism. 1 Going to China be becamo editor of 'the Pckln Daily News. He has been secretory' of the 'chlnoso Senate. Another foreigner was Stephen Momchilqfr. a Bulgarian. To escape the cruelties of tho Turks and to seek freedom and fortune, he. fled to America. His memory of Turkish Turk-ish atrocities is most vivid. In ono of the horrible massacres of about thirty years ago he saw many of his own. relatives cut down with the sword., among whom were his own father and mother and an uncle. A Turk was about to, cut him down with a sword when an officer down with a sword when an officer said. "He Is an attractive little fellow." and pulled him up on. his saddle, and took him home. There, to his surprise, he found hs old nurse. Together they wandered over Bulgaria, fleeing from the" officer of-ficer who has' saved him. and living liv-ing with friendly Turks. Finally he took passage for America and landed n New York City. For some months ho worked here and there many times half starved, and finally' wandered o"ff to Massachusetts Ho worked there on a." farm 'for a while, and having lala by a little money he went to Chicago. Day after day he. searched for employment,, employ-ment,, but could, find none. ' At la"st his money was gope. and for.-manv hours he was .without food.. u"0 walked Jpto a saloon and the saloon sa-loon keeper gave him something to eat, and a (good deal more to do Because he did not work io snli the oVcr-oxoctlng saloonkeeper he was kicked out, Into the streeT, lt Chleago. homeless, . hungry and - desperate. He had about decided to j kill himself, when a clergyman, jj seeing the look of desperation on his face, spoke kindly to him. In a. little while, they were talking, to- 'jj settlor about Park .College. Within )jj a week or ton days, the homeless, k suicidal Bulgarian was in Park Col- Ij lege, where he finally was gradu- ated, and after a thologlcal course jj in Auburn Spminacy, he rMurned jjj to his native land as a missionary. Is : : : . |