Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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, H l l-. , l lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllll Illll' ll! Wlllllllll lllllll Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllll President James L. McConauqhq, Ph. D. A. B., Yale, 19093 M. A., Bowdoin, 19114 Dartmouth, 1917, Ph. D.. Columbia.. 1913, Y. M. C. A. Secretary and Instructor in English, Bowdoin, 1909-1911g Assist- ant Professor of Education and English, and Acting Dean, Bowdoin, 1912-19134 Professor of Education and English, Bowdoin, 1913-1915g Professor of Education and Executive Secretary of the Committee on Admission, Dartmouth, 1915-19183 Acting Secretary of the College, Dartmouth, 1918, President, Knox, 1918-. 20

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-. -- . , , . - -u V . . l tacultv SCHOOL SPIRIT! What is it? When the football team giving the last ounce of reserve puts the ball over for the winning touch down-that's school spirit! When the grandstand and the bleachers and the sidelines are packed with eager, fluttering, expectant, yelling humanity cheering the team on to un- heard of efort-that's school spirit! When the cheering crowds still cheer the losing team that gamely fought-that's school spirit! When lessons are learned well and examinations passed-that's school spirit! When the chance to win is passed by because honor and winning don't go hand in hand-why, that's School spirit! And when school is done and we face the long., hard pull of life with cheerfulness and hope, when defeat can't dishearten, nor failure dismay, nor illness discourage, when even death can't frighten-that's still school spirit-the one great lesson that any school must teach to be worth the name, that Knox, thank God, has taught. VVhere does it come from? Not from buildings nor from campus, not from libraries, not endowments, but from men, men of the past, whose life and teaching are the tradition of the present, living yet in memory, inspiring still in retrospect, men of the present and women, too, whose gracious lives and force- ful words and wise counsel weave hope and courage and patience and knowledge into the very lives of the students, changing into character the formless aspirations of youth, in line, from the Faculty. The College is in truth its Faculty. They are the guardians of the spirit and from them if anywhere it must come. From Grant and Curtis and Bascom through that matchless trio, Churchill, Comstock and Hurd, guided by that Patron Saint of education, Newton Bateman, handed on by Griffith, p1'eserved to the present by Simonds and VVillard, whose proudest titles must be the Billy and 'Tommy' that the appreciative love of thousands have bestowed, it flames in our present Faculty a fire to light the spirit torch of every Knox student. Worthy successors of a noble past-part of which you are since it is a living past forever lengthening out into the future, we of a generation past look on and praise because in you we see that the spirit of the past has been carried on, that still Knox shall be the Mother of men and women, who shall in all the vicissitudes of life have the school spirit, that in them VERITAS shall live and reign, thanks to you- the Faculty of Knox. GEORGE CANDEE GALE Class of 'DJ I9

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l Ab 1::se:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::---:::::-gsmaszsss ::::::::::: ::::1:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ' 1 NVILLIAM EDVVARD SIMONDS, Ph. D., Litt. D. Dean of the College Professor of English Lilerafure A. B., Brown University, 18833 Ph. D., Strassburg, 18884 Litt. D., Brown University, 1911, Assistant in Providence QR. I.j High School, 1883-85, student, Uni- versities of Berlin and of Strassburg. 1885-884 Instructor in German, Cornell University, 1888-89, Professor of English Literature and Instructor in German, Knox Col- lege, 1889-19035 Visiting Lecturer at Harvard, 191-1-15g Professor of English Literature, 1903-. L....,. GRACE A. STAYT Dean of Women Ph. B., University of Michigan, 1891, Instructor in Eng- lish, Logan College, Russellville, Ky., 1891-19034 Instructor in English, Princeton QIll.j High School, 1893-973 graduate student, University of Chicago, 1897-99, Instructor in Eng- lish, Davenport flag High School, 1899-1903, Dean of Women and Instructor in English, Knox College, 1903--. 21