Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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Xu: O5 Z3 Mo ZQOBEIHZP-' I ALL IN! CENTRAL CHURCH, FEBRUARY 15, 1909

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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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K N O X cotuaca 138 E N D O W M E N T THE GALE NINETEEN-TEN FROM THE STUDENTS VIEWPOINT EVRING four years at Knox College there are many times when the greatness of the institution is borne in upon the student with overwhelming force. When alumni representing every generation of the students of half a century- many of them men whose names are household words from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific,-gathered in Central Congregational Church to do honor to the life and mem- ory of Professor Albert Hurd, the under-classman had a visionlof the splendid history of the college to which he had allied himself. When one of three hundred singing the Knox Field Song in honor of a victorious Knox orator or athletic team, the student feels the thrill of the Knox spirit of to-day in every fibre of his being. But never, perhaps, was the real greatness of the college made more significant than on the night of February 15 when the last ten thousand of the quarter of a million was contributed. The music, the cheering under-graduates, the vast assemblage faded away as the mere incidentals that they were. In their places appeared the homes in every part of the land from which money-much of it hard-earned money representing real sacrifice-had come and was coming. Men and women who had fought the good fight, others who are in the thick of it, others who have barely entered the fray were centering their hopes, and some of them their prayers, on the outcome of this battle. And the significance of it?-why, this was the real Knox College- its output for seventy years, 'its faculty and trustees, its student body, all imbued with the spirit of service and sacrifice of which the college was born, and which has been the breath of its life, and acting in accordance with this spirit! This was Knox College! It was the joining of the past, the present and the future-the future made possible by the past and the present. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars represents much in material things. Everybody knows that it means freedom from the yearly deficits which for years have made the business management of the institution an increasingly heavy bur- den: that it will provide and maintain the modern equipment required of the first class college of to-day. That it will put Knox on a firm financial basis is uni- versally recognized. To the student, the securing of the added endowment in the manner in which it was raised brings not only a glad vision of Knox equipped for greater achievements, but more strongly still gives to him a realization of the real greatness of his Alma Mater in the love and confidence of the people.