Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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THE NAUGHT-NINE GAL garded as the finest quality of yeast in the country. Every Knox man who swallows it is bound to rise. Every fall some prep student walks into town and every spring some alumnus comes back to commencement in a private car. It is generally an alumnus who walked into town, too. This concludes the tour, friends. I regret that I cannot show you the brass plate whlch marks the spot where S S McClure once debated the question of pure milk wlth a cow o the spot where John Fmley once sawed into lns thumb 1nstead of into a hickory knot the hall where Robert Mather once re cited Spartacus or the lunch counter where Ed Bancroft fed on blueberry pie every night after hterary society You must hunt these out for yourselves All out' X A li' gi, ICH . . . L Q 'S' is 1- l,Q 'N eff 'r t Fil. .f ,. yr l , ' I y ,E Ag, Q A , Bl RR CHAPEL A TWELVE

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THE NAUGHT-NINE GAL educational. Yes, ma-am, a. good many ofthe students mar1'Y each other-after they are graduated. That is one of the great- est advantages of the system You get an education and an alma mater and a Knox gxrl for a wrfe and all for S50 a year tuztron The bllllfllllg ahead of us which xs makmg a no1Se like an explosxon lll a prano factory IS Whrtmg Hall the home of Kn0X grrls It IS also the home of the 'Q 'N lg Knox Conservatorv In thls I, Qi burldmg one hundred girls hve :fu All.-v F ' and practlce upon twenty five P' 2,-Asxnlfil lr ' l ' anos The burldmg rs so full of gil 'QW ' PX ' 1 Q7 lTlL'lS1C that the fllaldb lJrL1Sll ,Mfg F E peggros msteacl of cobwebs Off Z A-1 of the cexlmgs The awful CW W shrlel s you hear are not alarm mg Some soprano ns l1lClClX clawmg for a lugh note It rs 1m possxble to escape from Ixnox wlthout learmng to smg The man wxth the perpendlcular smrle just ahead of us rs Professor Bentley who has made more good WOICLS out of no VOICLS at all than any man rn Al11CFlC3 The ex church bulldlng to the left of Xfvllllflllg' Hall 15 Beecher Chapel It formerly had a line tower but thls was worn off by the freshmen and 90lJllOlllOl6S on Waslungton s b1rthdaY mghts The good natured ClflZCll passmg on our rlght 19 Albert Iacobr, who has for years held the chan' of applied dressing' for Knox students Knox College lad ICS and gentlemen Qgg IITI1 um I -hi' was founded seventy 44 , 1, ,M 1 mm one years ago Gales M, ff burg was afterwards Ululwflla-M I I ,hmm bu1lt to accommodate the needs of the col lege The school contams m all departments over srx hundred students These students are taken at an early age bY expen enced mental chemlsts and are combined wrth books musxc de batmg soc1et1es foot balls and chapel exercises After ferment mg four years, the nnxture IS turned out rn the shape of alumni Thrs last product rs nn great demand all over the country bemg used to run rallroads and great corporatnons, head colleges' edlf magazlnes and govern the country A Knox education IS YC nw' :iili WRITING HALL ! Y , ' . XL 1 4- 5 ' . n U Q . , ll air? - - '- ri ,FJ l , -Y-Q, V' , 2 14-1 vqllll f l , ' ' ' 2 - '.:Q.f if-T ' - L5 . ' 'fb' it A ,MLA 1...3fm,Q,J' F ' . ' - ar- m- sf P-wi f' ll - -.zz Efll - hlrsv 4, - . - P 31, . 'K -.H lvggqlwl . - ,wg-.-L, V' L 'f ew .. 4, - r - . ' Q. ' I . . ., g , I 7 - l l . . . . . ' , , - v ' 1 . X 4 ' , . n 3 ' X ' ,...J.Li:.A ,,,,..:.,,. gl. . ' - TRI Wil -Q A? E. :I ' , I E Tig H' on . -1-l. I n n , . '. - ,gal A - .ll n ' 1, - 7 ' .nil ll A if W 1 - ' m Hill'-.Svei'1 - '+ Q r :ggln ll :Ig ET Lmln.rs.g-. gilfjw I ly I Q ,J ,,,5..,. 4. g L xg-A law, , . il-E5 J. ,silt M--g 'A - ,F e-9: A l V . v . . . , , - r 1 ' , . . , ELEVE N

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THE NAUG-.HT-NINE GAL HISTORICAL STATEMENT WITH APOLOGIES T0 THE Knm College Catalogue EFORE Knox College was founded the Black Hawk War was the only thmg of mterest rn Northern Ill1no1s Black Hawk was a thorough behever rn the doctrme that xt pays to ad vertlse and by purchasmg two columns on the front page of every dally paper 1n the East rapmdly became a desperate char acter The youths of Whxtestown N Y were accustomed to buy all the dlfferent papers and hold secret sesslons every Sun day afternoon out behmd the barn Foxy Grandpa and the Katz enjammer Klds looked tame when compared wlth Black Hawk and h1s bxaves and even the p1nk sheets of the Sunday edrtlons were passed by unnotlced After reading these thrrllmg stories for several weeks, an afternoon extra brought the startlmg news to the young Amerlcans that the blg chlef had taken n1nety slx more scalps Thzs was too much for the young mhabltants of the Emplre state The same afternoon the whole group declded to move West and enter mto competltxon wxth the famous red man Some of the more busmess hke Juvenlles had even declded to meet the expenses of the trtp by sellmg alummum cookmg uten s11s to the unsuspectmg red men along the route Others had already laxd 1n a supply of Success Magazmes and stereoscopes for the same purpose The determmatlon of the young adventure seekers was genume and on the next Wednesday evenxng a band of youthful adventurers dressed llke Sunday Amerzcan Ind1ans s1lently made the1r way Westward down one of the sxde streets of Whltestown Each youth carrled a pack contammg a change of clothmg three pocket knlves two toy p1stols, a rmg of bologna, four boxes of Shredded Wheat B1scu1t and one or two packageS of smokmg tobacco so you may Imagine that the event had been planned wxth great care But lol they were d1scovered by the1r fond parents, who were just return1ng from Wednesday evenmg worshrp The next scene IS not recorded m hxstory, but lt rs generally understood that drasnc measures were taken to drnve out of the youthful adventure seekers any deslre to help the course of emplre mOVC Westward . . . . . .I . . - - 9 - -1 . . . , , .. x . . .. - . u 1 a u ' ' u l ' . . . u 1 I c ' . . . - . . s I ' ' , s . . . . . .. . . . . . 9 2 5 . . . 1 . . . . .. . . TH IRTEEN l