Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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Gymnasium HALF A MILLION the salaries of professors. The salaries at Knox have not by any means been raised in proportion to the rise in the cost of living, lout the time has 'come when larger salaries must he paid in order to secure and hold the quality of men needed. All these facts malte the increase of endowment imperative. The half million dollar fund will add to the equipment of the College a much needed Men's Building at a cost of seventy- five thousand dollars, and to the permanent endowment four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. This sum will not provide for any large amount of expansion, hut it will malte it possilole to carry on the College on its present basis without a A 0

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r-W.,-.r---,-.,nf--V --ev---fu,---v -'---'W Davis Science Hall THE CAMPAIGN FOR were also a much larger number of special and irregular students than at present, many of whom were taking a considerable part of their worlc in the Academy. Ir will be readily understood that the cost of the secondary school worlc given in the 4Academy was very much less than of that given to an equal number of College students. This growth in the regular College classes has been gradual and continuous since the abandonment of the Academy. In the third place, the same condition exists in the College as exists in all industries and in private affairs to-day. The cost of every item that goes to make up the annual budget is much higher than it was a few years ago. This is especially true in

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Tennis Courts THE CAMPAIGN FOR HALF A MILLION deficit, and to include in the annuai Ioudget certain greatly needed items. Indeed, it cannot Izze emphasized too strongiy that tI'1e success of time campaign for adding a half miIIion to the resources of the College must Ive realized if Knox is to Iwold Imer piace in time Hrst rank of American Colleges. I qu ,gf- cf: 'QA M CJ Wyvi. - , .:MM