Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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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

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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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K N O X conuzcz 20 T H E F A C U L T Y THE GALE NINETEEN-TEN THE FACULTY 4' OUR faculty is the most remarkable thing I have seen about Knox Col- lege, said a trained observer who spent some time in sizing up the college recently. In the first place, it is unusual to find so many men who are so highly trained in their respective subjects working in any college of this type. In the second place, they seem to be men of big. broad characters and practical common sense as well as highly trained specialists. But the best thing about it is the relation they seem to hold to the college and to the students personally. It is unique. This observer went right to the center of one of the most striking character- istics of Knox. lt is only necessary to glance through a catalogue or a GALE to see that the department heads are men who are authorities in the subjects they are teaching-men of thorough training and broad teaching experience in the foremost educational institutions of this country and Europe. To appreciate the observer's second point, however, one must know the men personally. And this is not hard for the student to do. Indeed, he can hardly escape it, for at Knox so much emphasis is laid on the personal relation existing between student and pro- fessor that before he knows it the former feels that he is understood and really liked by at least one member of the faculty. The start once made, he is soon in a position to receive the benefits of one of the most effective means ot develop- ment that any educational institution can offer--the friendship of a body of broad- mindecl, Christian teachers, well trained for and deeply devoted to the work they are doing. What does it mean when Knox professors refuse from colleges and univer- sities East and West greater remuneration than they are receiving at Knox? This has been done throughout the history of the college, and is done now every year. Those in a position to know say that it is because the professors concerned believe that they can be of more real service and accomplish more real good at Knox and under Knox conditions than they can in any other field. This has been true for so long that Knox has come to draw men of these high ideals-and Knox scholastic standards are so high that no man without the highest professional ability can make good. The founders have passed away, the first great group of teachers, represented by Hurd, Comstock, and Churchill, is no more. But in the faculty of to-day we find the character of these joined with the modern efficiency and progressiveness which is to be a distinctive characteristic of the Knox of the future.