Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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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.

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

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THE GALE NINETEEN-TEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THOMAS IVICCI.El.L.XNI'J, D. D., LL. D. CHAIRMAN GEORGE A. LAWRENCE, ESQ. HON. CLARK E. CARR BENJAMIN F. ARNOLD, ESQ. HON. ALFRED M. CRAIG J. THOMAS MCKNICiII'l', ESQ. GEORGE W. GALE, ESQ PHILIP S. POST, ESQ. I CHARLES O.- LEWIS, ESQ. ALVAH S. GREEN, ESQ. STUART M. CAMPBELL, D. D. THOMAS MCCLELLAND, D. D.. LL. D., PRESIDENT, GALESIIURG GEORGE A. LAWRENCE, ESQ., VICE PRESIDENT, GALESBURG PHILIP S. POST, ESQ., SECRETARY, CHICAGO HON. CLARK E. CARR, GALESIIURG EDGAR A. BANCROFT, ESQ., CHICAGO REV. JAMES A. ADAMS, D. D., CHICAGO SAMUEL S. IWCCLURE, ESQ., NEW YORK CITY ROBERT M ATHER, ESQ., NEW YORTC CITY J. THOMAS M'CKNIGI'I'I', ESQ., G-NLESIZURG FLETCHER C. RICE, ESQ., CHICAGO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ARNOLD, ESQ., GALESRURG CHAUNCEY H. CASTLE, ESQ., QUINCY JOHN B. BROWN, ESQ., ROSEVILLE JOIIN I-I. FINLEY, LI.. D.. NEW YORK CITY WILLIAM C. BROWN, ESQ., NEW YORK CITY GEORGE W. GALE, ESQ., GALESRURG HON. ALFRED M. CRAIG, GALESRURG I-ION. FRANK O. LOWDEN, CHICAGO CHARLES O. LEWIS, ESQ., GALESBURG ALVAII S. GREEN, GALESBURG JOI-IN P. VVILSON, ESO.. CHICAGO VICTOR E. BENDER, ESQ., COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA I STUART M. CAMPBELL, D. D., GALESIIURG REV. J. PERCIVAL I'IUGlE'l', GALESDURG ALBERT J. PERRY, TREASURER MISS IYIARY SCOTT, ASSISTANT TREASURER K N O X COLLEGE ,1.,.- ..,.-- 19 ,-...-.- ,....1- T H E T R U S T E E S