Coined "Parking"

Seldom does an undergraduate's slang outlive his generation, but to Edward Gray Griffin '10 his home town, Albany, N. Y., is posthumously giving the credit of coining the nowaccepted sage of the word "park" as applied to automobiles.

Back in the summer of 1909, young Griffin and a friend, out for a spin in the family's Stanley Steamer, were desirous of listening to a band concert. An out-of-the-way spot in Albany's Washington Park was found to be the most suitable and safest place to leave their car. As they walked toward the bandstand, Griffin's ]ack-o-Lantern affiliation challenged his wit. "Now, that's what you call 'parking' your car," he remarked.

Today a world, unaware, does honor to the memory of a Dartmouth undergraduate on its traffic signs and even in its "slanguage," where a well-known member of the amusement sphere calls himself Parkyakarkus.