Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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Glnntvntn BOOK I 'PRADITION BOOK II IEXPEDITION BOOK III ERUDITION BOOK IV CONDITION BOOK V A1mI'1'1ON

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The usual experience of the new student is that he is prone to be a little too careless about details, or in the professor's words, He does not grindihis grist fine enoughf, Such a fault can be overcome by careful reading between the lines and by allowing one's self to get shot thru and thru with the stufff' Now, some people probably think that a history professor should be the acme of conventional conservatism. VVell, friends, your idea may be all right, but the history professor at Knox College is not that type. He does not wear a rusty long coat, neither can you find any cob-webs in his brain. Just step into his class room when a good roadis calnpaign is on in full blast, and your superstitious conceptions of professorial dignity fly to the winds. Professor Conger is one of the busiest men in Galesburg. His time is divided between his family, his home, his class and the lecture course. Odd moments are taken up with judging contests, going on trips to conventions, and in striking up acquaintances among interest- ing people. He gets tl1e friendship of the student early in the fall by giving him a good job at peddling bills for the lecture course. It is not such a hard matter to sell tickets after his tempting description of the course. Professor Conger can paint a lecturer in such glowing terms that an eager student will go without a meal to buy a ticket for the course. Those who ought to know say that the professor could pick up a tramp out of the gutter, brush him off, and after five min- utes' talk have a crowd the size of an election rally out to hear that tramp give a lecture on Italian Art. It takes the average student just a short time to learn that these stirring ucallingsi' in class are for his own good after all. It often happens that the stiffer the medicine, the quicker the curef, If the enraged Sophomore doubts the sincerity of the professor, let him go around after class for a little talk about his g1'ades or about woman suffrage or any other topic. Then where there are no Mothers who need the waking up too, the professor chats quietly and earnestly with the bewildered pupil and his gray eyes twinkle with a peculiar kind of interested humor. First impressions are not always lasting ones. Listen to your surprised Sophomore say to the inquiring Fresh- man, get all of Conger you can, lad.

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