Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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BOOK TWO INDIA to certain WW N

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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

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-- V-Y -..ai.-.......-an-4-:rs-gnaanau'--2.-: '- -'Q' 4' in. V. . -V-H., 1 .V-v , . v 'H 1, ,M-,,, .,..,,,:.:,. .Q . H, , x- V-.....m.-,......n- F all -the necessities connected with an institution of learning, the fac- ulty and the student body are recognized as being prime. In days gone by learning was dispensed in the fields, sans buildings, sans books, sans Endowment Campaigns, sans everything except faculty and students. Authorities differ as to whether the presence of a teacher in a community created a demand for him, or the demand in the community created the teacher. Let it suflice that when we first hear of the institu- tion of learning, both faculty and student body are there. By nature the faculty ranges all the way from an arm of the law to a big brother for perhaps a not-quite-so-big sisterj 5 and the student body keeps pace correspondingly across a Held that measures from miscreant and renegade to respector of persons, particularly teachers. Whether the miscreant makes the arm of the law, or the arm of the law brings the mis- creant into being, the authorities, including the arm of the law andthe miscreant, are again divided. A' 'H Ordinarily neither group is raved over by the other until the one has grown old and toothless in the service, and the other has come into its in- heritance. Uncommon indeed is the undergraduate who so far overcomes his stoicism fof this particular vintage and brandj as to bestow' upon those before Whose desks he absorbs any part of his three' R's CReason, Reverence and Rectitudej so much as a word of commendation 'and re- spect. And somewhat unusual is it, before that scamp, that varlet, passes away from the collegiateiworld and becomes governor of the state,-to hear of a unit of his faculty so far desecrating professorial dignity asito re- member that a rose to the living is more than sumptuous ,wreaths -to the dead. ' -