Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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THE GALE 1 The Great Year In the hrst announcements made by the GALE last sprmg we made use of the phrase lt n1ll be 11 great 5ear and a great GALE Llttle d1d we real1ze how '1bu11d1111tlw tl1e hrst part of that prophecy would be tulhlled and httle d1d we reahze 11 hat ne assumed IH tl1e second But tl1e students tl1lS year haxe seemed to '1pprec1z1te that theg VK ere hxmg a xear that 111ll be honored as long as Knox endures Alxvus before the college tlns year l11s been th1s great celebranon of nts '1111111ers11rx and lt l11s spurred the students on to make 21 record of 3Cll1CWCl'l1Cl1tS sc1rcelx mwtched 111 1118 l7I'6X10L1S xear of the school s hfe Startmg the xelr 111th '1 ch11 11p1o11 football te'1m 111e11t ot her 'lktllltleb been successful to '1 I'6l'l'l'l.I'lx'1lJl6 prues that 1re open to 1111 colleoe of 1111 SIZC She H011 as usual, hrst the it 1te lntertolleeute Or1tor11'1l 'xssoklqtloll She contest 11 Inch she entered tlllb xe1r the l11tercolleg1'1te Pewce OfHtOT1CHl tlilll shc non txxo deb1tes ln u11'1111111ous Cl9Llb1OIlS on the same mght took hrst place rn rxnox has 1n ex ery depart degree 111 takxng the lughest place ln the new ASSOCIZ and her b1seb1ll md LS1HLkl'lllX her tr1ck tewm one pro1111se of bemg able to contmue this splcmlul record llut her neu md sutcesstul 'lLtlXltlCb hue not been conlmed to contests Wlth other snllools lllILl l1 1llx shc l1 lb '1lso been lllilLlStI'lO1.lS 'md effectue The greatest 11 1t o1 the NK 1r 11 IN IlCI'll1DS tl1e kI'C'll10l1 by the stude11ts through tl1e new Dra Old N 1111 111to 1 most Ilbtiflll lllil UlLllll ltE' l1 Ill 111th Z1 seatmg capacxty of two ndrul md 1 The old Obscrx xtorx xxlmh H19 1 lL 1tcd '1t the LOl'l'l17l9t10I'l of the Sclence Hall s 1td 1 1111 the X Nl L X They haxe l1tted It up w 111 Ill!! tLXt books llkflllillk 1ls 'md remodeled xt 111to '1 ple'1s1nt and h11b1t11ble Club Tlllllll Stltfll 11111 orl' 11111 ll.lllllN h ue sprung mto bemg 'md ll'lN6 flourished througl K tht XL Thc college lblllll IS prob1bly the most ll'll17OI't mt of these, 1t as bun put upon 1 s hd l!lSlS lllll IQ one of the useful 111st1tut1o11s of the sc 1ool The l uhts I lu club l1 lS 1lso completed 1 succcsstul se 18011 'md the Lonsumers le lfllll 115 scrxu 1 usa ll murmose lt l1 IS 11111eed been 1 QLFLII ye11r lumen cc1t:1111ly hm .1 most 111111111116 111tcrp1et.1t1o11 of the Sc11pt11res cc 77 1 p -1 1 , 1 y K . ' . 2 Y . v ' -' 1 1 ' '1 ' ' 1 , .' ' ' - .I A I K K .7 Y U L 'V . . v y Q . c 1 ' f 1 . ' . ' ' ' if 1 1 1: v' 1 1' ' 1 5 ' ' ' .xg I .1 yz vi: x I w 1 '. V v V - matic Club. of the Grace CllZlllllJEI'l?LlIl Hall. This Il'ZlI'lSfOl'l'll6ll the third floor of . l1' ' 1 Q 1 ' ' 1 1 ' 1 1 . ' ' ' l111 ' 1 l'lty. llilf been 116011117 by tl c 1 -1 of '. . . 1 ' ' ' ith 21 '1 , Y - ' 1 1 ' ' 1 1 1 - -' 51 3 1' 3 ' 1 1' ' 1- on - 1' 111r. - 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 ' ' l1 H 1 SU. I .K N . L. . I h ',1 ZH' Zflf ' ' 1 f' 5' 1: .1 ' ' nz'-l1: '-l1 5-fll lr. 1 1 12

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KNOX COLLEGE lf' . L V --5-,N ,N-Xgrrrs' x 'Vf.1.,, 9,X H Xqaxv 'tiff 1 'P.V. f ,1. '15 .f Vlo AMERICA IDEALS AND E ERGY day of that surgmg eager ClCll'l0kl ltlC hfe that Lll'1I'lLtCI'1!CS tlllS co1n111u111tv ll wl11ch It 15 sltuated So Ixnox stands she has reached that ment of those forces less env1ron1nents and Vlllllell are COllSt1lILlCllt parts of her substance These ele ments of strength are 'as potent to day 'ls they haxe been 111 the p lst they w1ll be as potent to morrow Abundant as the ugor of the M1ss1ss1pp1 Valley lS the v1gor of Knox Ixnox has tl1e same power of dex Cl0DlIl6llt the same llflgllt future as thls splend1d xallex becluse 1t 15 so mherently 1 part of It No wonder on th1s seventy hfth '1nn1xers'11y we dehght to honor those dex oted men who left the1r home 1n New l':IlUl'1IlCl to cnme here to tlllS tl1en desolltc pra1r1e to erect a college Wl'l1Cl'l should ex er st md for the noblest m shapmg vounv hxes for careers of usefulness 1n the world NX e who hftxe l6'1DQCl the rexx 'lrds of to day among the xery hrst of the colleges of l1er tvpe and place of honor md nnportance through tl1e n 1tur1l dex elop of sterhng worth Wlllkll haxe been draxxn fro1n her mwtch lfllell' toll and pr1xat1ons are elger to do them rexerence md to repwy 1Il hoxx ex er small '1 measure the debt we owe to the1n We are glad for those men of the past that the work of llllell' hands has en dured for three quarters of a century We are thankful for the sn1 1ll p 1rt we 111 1y have had 1n the strengthenmg and tl1e perpetu'1t1ng of llS hte and work The seventy hfth anmx ersary celebr1t1o11 IS properly ter1ned '1 jl1lJ1lCC yet It IS a Jubllee not unmlxed wlth sadness We tannot forget the Cl1S'1DDOl!ltlll6IltS the struggles the anxc1et1es of those hrst years of lxnoxs hfe wl1en growth was slow and pamful NVe cannot forget the hues whuh haue been gwen oxer utterly and freely to the l,1DlJLlllCl1I1g of the 1nst1tut1on Yet we know those men and women who suhcered for Ixnox would feel that the1r sacrmces were not xam could they see lllell' college 1l'1 the flush of 1tS v1gorous matur1ty lf they could see the1r college the ell'll7OflllllCIlt of pr111c1ples truly Ameruan tramlng l1undreds of young people each year for l1x es of strength and pur1ty we beheye that they would feel the1r sacnhces were not mm So lt IS Wlth proud heartmess that we conxene th1s SDI'1Ilgt1lll6 to I'CCOgIl1ZC tl1e sex e11ty hfth annxwersary of lxnox s lJ1I'tl'l Our 1dea of nothmg Pra1se f od Vl1N1x s exer ready storx ', 1 V W 1 W 1 Z' '. 'Y l 7 , - V ' - - ' 1 , , . V 1 , , , V V - - 1 1 c ' 1 1 ' . '. . V V A V 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 . - ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 V ' - Y. 4 W .... . . 1 V 1 V . ' . 1 , ' K V 1 1 , ' V c ' 1 1 . V - V Y - V ' 1 .1 , , 4 ., , V 51 , 1 V V .. 1 1 - C ' , 5 ' V ' V ' V V . V , f - ' 1 c 1 , ' V ' V V V s . ' V V, 1 1 1 1 1 ' . ' 1. 1 V V 1 e 1' ' 1 . ' 1 ' 2 1 ' 1 U A . .. Y Y c c 1 , . . . . . U. . ,, . ' 1 , 1 V . . 1 V . . . Y , . Y . V V V . V 1 , - 1 ' 1 , ' 1 V V . - ' , 1 1 1 V' - - - V ' V V 1 . , . . . V .K . . . W v c Y - . , , . - - 1. -I 3 .V V V. Y L Y.

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KNOX COLLEGE e Foundzng of Knox The th rd decade of the last century vxas a per1od of great rehgxous furore and emotxon The struggle over slavery and the rlght f free speech produced deep convxctlons on moral quesuons It was the age of evangehsts Central New York was then peopled by a sturdy c1t14ensh1p wh1ch thought and acted for ltself Among these people was Rev George W Gale a graduate of Prmceton a ret1red m1n1ster who was then teachlng 1n the Onexda Instrtute To h1m came 1 NISIOH of great sig mhcance He dreamed of '1 c1ty on the wes tern pra T168 of a college fully endowed of a church 1n the center of the commumty of a C1t1ZCY1Sll1p of the c1ty to be made up of chosen f?lll1ll1CS from the east of 4 beacon hght that would radlate the hght of learn1ng and rel1g1on throughout the west And tl'l1S IS how the dream came true After many d1S3.ppO1l1tl11CUtS and reverses the plan of xenturmg mto thc west was at last nnanced by Sylvanus Ierrxs and a purchasmg commlttee consrstl 1 cf George W Gale Sylvanus FCTTIS Nehemiah VVest and 'Il1011121S 511111110115 was all polnted by the subscrlbers to the project Th1S commlttee came down the l'1l es to RAY M MRNOLD 07 Detrolt where Geo W Gale was taken srck but Ferns West and Snnmons push cl on to Chlcago to Ottawa and hnally to Ixnoxulle Here to the1r delight they found the ldeal locatlon one that combmed the advantages of praxrle t11nber fuel water and bu1ld1ng 1TlHtCll3l The COI'I1l1l1ttCC mrmedxately hastened to the nearest land Ol'flC6 at Qumty and entered 10 746 acles mn the west half of Galesburg townslnp contammg land ew tend1ng north south and west of Galesburg for about three m1les Tor th1S they pald 14 821 at the rate of S125 per acre In addltlon they bought three 1l'1lDI'OX ed farms where the colomsts mrght go on the1r arru al Hastenlng home they' made the1r report and on Jan 7 N37 at VVl11l1E'SlJOI'O New York the subscr1be1s olganlzed the1r college under the name of Pralrle Col lege The town was named Galesburg after George W Gale The purchaslng CO1'UI'l11tt6C was honored by haymg streets named for them Land was set aslde also for the college the church and other Dl,1lJl1C 1ITlpI'OV6I'I16!'lfS The Sprmg of 1830 saw the colonlsts preparmg to moxe Thls was no temporary gypsy hke xenture Home t1es were severed farms sold busmess FLYNN IH chapel Xou look at vour pre ldent and say Vkhat a fine lookmg man he rs here he looked for hnnself and abruptly chan ed the subJect 7-71 ' .1 ' V ' , I O 7- C 1 T .N . . . C - - . v I C Y C - ' . 4 V c ' .J ' . 1 A V V v A 1 f L ' J ' .. ' y I . . v I - - x C - I . 8 . . . .PU 1 - 'cw l 4 . . , . V Q - 1 y , , ' ei X . . . Q HY . . . 1 - . , . . .K , c . , . , v 1 v 1 y v C 1' . Y I . 4 . , . . SS , , . . . - - f - - L v v , - KW' ' I ' V I . C , . - ' ! v 4 ' u v V t , . . , 3 , 5 . l ' ,-- , o ,G .