Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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K N O X COLLEGE 16 E N D O W M E N T THE GALE NINETEEN-TEN THE GEGRGE DAVIS SCIENCE HALL By DR. H.. V. NEAL LL alumni and friends of Knox College will rejoice in the official announce ment that ground will be broken during Commencement Week for a new Science Hall, costing 350,000 It has been only three years since the movement was begun, which has resulted in this most welcome announcement. In 1900, Mr. Carnegie made the conditional offer to the trustees of 350,000 for a Science building in case the trustees raised EI550,000 for its maintenance. This offer has since been changed as a result of the campaign for aquarter of a million for en- dowment to 350,000 for endowment, and the science building will be known as the George Davis Science llall, in honor of a former treasurer of the college through the gift of 325,000 by Mr. Thomas J. Mclinight of Galesburg. During the past decade and a half since the Science courses in Knox College were placed on a laboratory basis, the scientilic departments have been compelled to occupy quarters quite unsuited to their needs. Moreover, the growth in size of the college classes and of interest in advanced courses in science has made the need not only of more adequate facilities and equipment but also of larger quart- ers, an imperative one. The new Science I-Iall will therefore mean much to the college, much more than a new and stately building to adorn the beautiful Knox campus. It will mean accommodations for a larger number of students in the lab- oratory courses and provision for the storage of apparatus and equipment-in fact modern conveniences instead of the crowded and inconvenient rooms now used. Moreover, it will mean much in improving the content of courses in science, more especially in those advanced courses where the conditions required for experimen- tation could not be met in the old laboratories. In place of crowded, ill-lighted, ill- ventilated and poorly heated rooms, the new building will be carefully built with these needs in view. Furthermore, the modern lecture rooms, well ventilated and equipped with projection apparatus, will mean much not only to, the college but to the city of Galesburg in supplying places for public lectures, and Knox College will be able to perform more completely its function as an educational factor in the community. Space does not permit a detailed statement of the de- tails of the plans of the building. Suffice it to say here that in the new George Davis Science I-Iall Knox College will have equipment for college courses in science second to none in the educational institutions in the middle west.

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THE GALE NINETEEN-TEN As the closing day of the campaign drew near the interest became intense. On the morning of the 15th of February 535,000 remained yet to be raised. Some Dart could be counted upon from large givers who had given assurance of their intention to subscribe, but who had not yet actually done so. But the rest must come from Galesburg. All day pledges, large and small, were secured. 1-lour by hour the amount still required grew smaller. llut when the last grand rally brought the friends of the college to Central Church in the evening there was still 37,542 to be raised. The scenes and events of that evening are historic. They will not be for- gotten by any who were there. Songs, cheers, speeches and pledges mingled in strange but stimulating confusion. The Class Scholarships were completed. Other scholarships were founded. Big gifts and little followed each other. The night wore on, but the day was won. For at eleven o'clock President McClelland announced that the s250,ooo had at last been fully pledged. Then, while the big bell in the church tower sent the news ringing over the city, the Galesburg Musi- cal Union sang the Hallelujah Chorus and the New Era for Old Knox had begun. K N 0 X conuzcr: 15 E N D O W M E N T

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