Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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HE NAUGHT-NINE GAL THE FACULTY AN APPRECIATION HE story of the founders of Knox College has been often told The tremendous sacrxfices, the mtense struggle agaxnst opposmg crrcumstances the ceaseless toll of those who planted the seed of the present college and who watched 1ts first tender shoots mark the devotlon of the early p1oneers to tl1e1r c..use The college smce 1ts mceptlon steadrly made progress The hves of those who followed the founders have gxven ample evrdence that thelr sp1r1t has remamed a vltal force In the past few years much has been added, both to the ma terral equrpment and the qual1ty of work untll now Knox IS recognlzed by the General Educatlon Board as a standard of the middle West It was drllicult for us when we entered college to appreclate the benefits whlch were ours The results of seventy years were that we began to apprecxate our advantages In the present faculty we have long slnce recogmzed an ex pressxon of the same all pervadxng splrlt of the founders We understand that some of them remam when they could obta1n better emolument elsewhere We now appreciate that we have had guxdmg us men of broad experxence and splendld equrp ment, men who are devot1ngthe1rl1ves for the sake of our college We have felt the personal mterest of the members of the faculty m each of us and thexr txmely assrstance or advrce has often been of utmost moment to us The Presxdent who at first appeared to us merely typrcal of authorrty, has come to be more and more respected as we learn the true mterest he has rn our welfare As we pass through college these thmgs come over us grad ually and wxth them a deep sense of responslbxhty which falls upon each of us We must prove ourselves deservmg of the efforts of our xnstructors I 3 9 . , , . ready for us and it was only as we lived in the new atmosphere , . . , ' - TWENTY-FOUR

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THE NAUGHT.-NINE GALE PRESIDENTS OF KNOX HIRAM H. KELLOGG . . JONATHAN BLANCI-IARD, D. D. . HARVEY CURTIS . . . DR. WILLIAM S. CURTIS . DR. JOHN P. GULLIVER . HON. NEWTON BATEMAN . JOHN H. FINLEY . . THOMAS MCCLELIIAND ERECTION OF 1838-1845 1845-1858 . . A 1858-1863 1863-1868 1868-1871 1874-1892 1892-1899 1900- COLLEGE BUILDINGS KNOX SEMINARY .Q . . BEECHER CHAPEL OLD MAIN .... EAST WING OF WI-IITING HALL KNOX OBSERVATORY . . ALUMNI HALL . .. . . WEST WING OF WI-IITING HALL GYMNASIUM .... TWENTY-THREE . 1854 2 1856 . 1857 . 1886 . 1889 . 1890 . 1892 . 1907

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'Ulmnsnlq me rn-wvwefv -mm 'vnr ww wrrwvwvwvmrnwfnum mrfvnnfm mf'-'ww WNW mount nrnmu. Ama mm THOMAS MCCIELLAND, A M D D LL D 656 N Pialrie t PRESIDENT A B Obcxlxn College Nl i A M 1 'l D F1101 ollege 1891 L D ni Vefslfy of Illinois 100: divinity student Oberlin, 18 1 16 Xssismnt 1'unup'il Den nnrk Xc'1c emy to student Union 1he010Rical Sennnwiy 1513 0 Andover 11160105-1143-Ill sunlnizny 1Sl0 80, gmclwite Andover 1880 Professor of Plnlosonlly 11. bor COHCSC 18930 ll President lwulic Uni V '5lYY 1801101111 Pitsirlciit Ixnox College 1000 THOMAS R WILLARD A M B D 104 N Cherry St PROFESSOR OF GERMAN DEAN OF THE COLLEGE A B Ixnoic College 1866 A M 1869 B D Andover, 1840 Instructor in Tatm and Greek- Ixnox Academy 1300 61 divnnty stu dent, Chicago Thcologiewl Seminary 1861-08' Andover Theological Seminmry, 1868-'40' Iu- structor in Rhetoric 'ind Logic, Knox College 1871-72: student of Greek and German Uni- versity Of Leipzig 1873- 75' Professor f Greek 'md German, Knox College 1875-190 ' Professor of Gcrnrm, 1003-. WILLIAM E. S1MoNDs, PH. D. 694 E. Losey St. r-Roresson or ENGLISH LITERATURE A- B., Brown University, 1SS3g Ph. D., Strassburg, 1888: Asistant in Providence CR. IQ High School, 1883-'SEQ student, Univer- Slfy of Strassburg, 1885-'8Sg Instructor in German, Cornell University, 1888-'80g Pru- fessor of English Literature and Instructor in German, Knox College, 1880-1903: Professor of English Literature, 1903-. T H E N A U G H T - N I N .' . '., . ., . . . ' ' S . - -. ' , JZ: . ., SS.: D-'.,'.1-C , gr.. .,U'- ' rr-'N g 1 4' -' . A f I 11 , TSN'-'TS: . ' ' ,. . N ,t H, W JT.: . ' , . ., . . N . - -, ' . ' , 3 . ., 9 l U ,,: . A . - , , ,I . . . A , . . U , 1 0 - . 3. TVVENTY-FIVE