Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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K Farkas angina SN N I-IILE in attendance at the University of Chicago last summer, I was thrown into contact with a young man who was just completing work on his doctor's thesis. Falling into conversation, one day, regarding my own plans for Winning a degree, I remarked that while my major subject would be Education, as his had been, my minor would in all probability be Philosophy, Philosophy,U he exclaimed, why waste your time on anything so dry and un- productive as that? lNIy reply was to the effect that I was far from agreeing that Philosophy is either dry or unproductive. Then,l' said he, you must have studied an entirely different brand of Philoso- phy than I did, for I cannot remember having made any practical use of the subject upon which I spent so much time in collegef' How widely different was my own case. So intimately had the results obtained from my own college work in Philosophy interwoven themselves into my daily life, I had instance after instance to show what it had menat and means to me. In the very week in which this conversation took place I had completed a term paper, which was so nearly an outline of my college course in logic as almost to make me feel a plagiar- ist. Another example was iiot far to seek. On the preceding Sunday I had given the morning address at a Chicago church, choosing for my subject the difficult ques- tion as to why evil exists in the world. My senior college course in Philosophy supplied the material for the entire argument. My friend was not yet convinced. That is all very well, he protested, but Philosophy as taught in our colleges has nothing to do with the facts of life. On the contrary,', I rejoined, that is precisely what it does have to do with, for Philosophy is nothing more or less than a scientific study of those facts. VVhere did you find courses to make you feel that way about it? he asked. In addition to my undergraduate work, I have attended three of our largest uni- versities, and I have yet to find a Philosophy course that is anything more than a fruitless discussion of unsolvable difficulties. If there is a teacher of Philosophy who offers anything more than this. I wish that I might have taken work from himf, I-Iow proud I was that I had had such a teacher in Dr. VVilliam Raub. I would need to offer a most sincere apology for the intimate personalities of the foregoing paragraphs, were it not for the fact that I find it impossible to write of Dr. Raub without being intimate and personal. To those who come to know him he ceases to be a teacher and becomes a possession. It is not only that he makes the subject which he offers his students interesting or, what is more, makes them inter- ested in the subject, but he supplies the stimulus which makes for mental and spir- itual growth. The kindly personality that again and again has quickened into life minds hitherto passively receptive, that has made the searching out of truth the most important factor in so many young lives, how could one regard him from an imper- sonal point of view? The broad scholarship, the unfailing courtesy, and gentle dignity of such a man as Dr. Raub could not fail to leave indelible impressions on the hundreds of young men and women who have known him as teacher and friend. If we grant George Eliot her contention that immortality consists only in the im- pressions which our personalities leave upon the hearts and minds of others, then indeed will Dr. Raub never wholly cease to be, for the influence he has exerted upon hundreds of young lives, and the influence of these in turn upon others, will be everlasting. ZENS L. SMITH M N I N ET H I-I Ni S lr-I V ll N T li .PL N TATP -A i i Five

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Kifarrsfae of-ALQQX Foreword HIS is the twenty-seventh volume of the GALE. The college activities it chron- icles, the institution's achievements to which it gives record, the notes of some of the prominent alumni and the many pictures it contains-all bear witness that this, the season of 1915-16, has been the most significant in the history of Knox College. That Knox maintains her position as among the foremost American colleges needs no heralding within the pages of this book. Consequently we have not attempted to sing praises, but have rather endeavored to review for you the events and hap- penings of the school year just going out. lVe have attempted to maintain the traditional loyalty and fairness for which this publication has always stood. We beg of you, when you have scanned its pages, do not put this book aside for all time. The GA LE functions best with age and years hence you will better take it down from its shelf that you may live this one big year of Knox life over again. That is what the GALE is for-let it inspire your pipe dreams and serve to renew your college associations and friendships. In our endeavor to make this book the bearer of good cheer and the true ex- ponent of Knox spirit we may have fallen short. If it does not come up to your ex- pectations we pray you be considerate. We have done our best. YVith this last word we place before you the 1917 GALE for your kind approval. ARMAN L. NIERRIAM Editor-in-Chief VVILLIAM J. BAKER Business Maizager .mf - 2 --- - - 5 - 'fff A NINETEEN SEVENTEEN Six