Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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Eeoicatory. S OUR frontispiece, we present a group of views of Alumni Hall. This handsome structure, erected at a cost of over ii550,000, stands a monument to the devo- tion of Knox Alumni. The commodious assembly hall, the convenient apartments of the literary societies, the cheerful library and reading room, constantly remind the students of to-day of their predecessors' loyalty to their Alma Mater. Knox may justly feel pride in her alumni. In science, art, journalism, law, medicine, the ministry, in every walk of life throughout the country and in foreign lands, her representa- tives may be found. And go where they may Knox men are still acknowledged as leaders. It was a Knox man, our own Dr. Finley, who demonstrated that the youngest college president in America could be one of the foremost in advanc- ing the interests of true education. It took the honest little peddler who had worked his own way through Knox, to successfully inaugurate the era of popular priced magazines. In the number of her representatives in Congress Knox stands fourth among American colleges, though in enrollment she stands only fortieth. Such facts as these emphatically en- dorse the time-honored proverb, 'tKnox blood will tell. On the opposite page we give the portraits of several repre- sentative alumni. In John P. Wilson '65, and E. A. Bancroft '78, Chicago recognizes two of her ablest and most successful lawyers. S. S. McClure '82, has, through the medium of McC71z7'c's Ml.Q'llZI.IlC, made his name a household word throughout the land. S. V. White '54, has a national repu- tation as a financier and banker, and has in numerous ways both materially and otherwise, shown his interest in the college. In praise of President J. H. Finley '87, we can add nothing. The loyal affection of hundreds of students is a higher testimony than words can give. In such men Knox has enriched the world. Her history, written in hundreds of similar lives, is an endowment richer than wealth can provide. It is a guarantee of more than scholarship, though it includes this. It is, above all, an evi- dence of an atmosphere in which strong character, true man- hood may develop. To her alumni Knox College points as the strongest argument for her perpetuation,-in that cloud of witnesses, the students of to-day may find their most potent inspiration.

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