Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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proximately 80 students. Now, instead of taking a large number of courses for vary- ing amounts of credit, most students were taking only three courses at the same hour of the day five times a week. There were no complaints that either the new system or the war-consciousness of the faculty re- sulted in the class-work being stiffer.H Meanwhile students had no trouble find- ing activities to occupy their free time. College hangouts like the Geep had pin- ball machines, as yet un-rationed cokes, and numbers like Kalamazoo and There Are Such Things on the juke-box. Col- lege students saw almost every movie that came to town. In general, however, there was less dating than usual on the part of the Knox men, the reason was never very well explained by local psychologists. Pin- hanging continued as a favorite indoor sport, nevertheless, and this side of college life was recorded faithfully in the longer and cleaner Knocks column in the Student. Although a special Student Council committee spent long hours eliminating Advanced students in biology ana' psychology study the growth of chicken embryo: in the bio-psychology lab. Dr. Kuo, visiting professor on the Honnold Foundation, was in charge of this new class. superfluous extra-curricular activities such as language and literary clubs, the major activities like athletics, publications, and the theater got off to an early start. One innovation was the fact that Kampus Kapers was prepared as one of the Home- coming events. Thus not only the college students but also the alums might see this outstanding theater production. Probably the biggest attractions in the Geep-besides the coed: -are the pin ball machines. N Much talent and' skill of the gl students are daily brought to 'll light by means of these intricate machines.

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on the campus were still a novelty last Septemberg and the life of the Civilian Pilot Training men preparing for Army and Navy service was not regimented. There were nearly a hundred of these CPT men on the campus fmost of them living in Seymour? at one time last fall, and Magazine late in the fall which used Knox as an example of what a small liberal arts college could do to make itself useful in wartime. At the beginning of the year the effects of the war were felt only in little, insig- nificant things. On the first day of school A group of frexlzman girls make merry-becoming acquainted with eacb other ana' ealing-at lbe annual freshman picnic. The fun fest this year look place on the lawn of Seymour Hall. this program served as a forerunner to the Air Corps invasion which was to come later. It is unfair to say that Knox was not conscious of the war last September. As a matter of fact, the college administration was doing its utmost to prepare itself for war service. But there was still confusion as to just what the place of a liberal arts college should beg and until time could straighten out this confusion, the college could only feel its way along, hoping and striving to do all it could. The fact that Knox was doing a better-than-average job of it was indicated by an article in Fortune lust a very, very :mall portion of the long make line at ilfe Pumpbandle. At the bead of the lengthy column are the faculty and adrninistrative members who :bare in welcoming the new and old students. the freshman class picnicked as was cus- tomary-except that transportation short- ages resulted in having the picnic behind Seymour Hall instead of at Lake Storey. The rest of orientation weelcn was filled with the usual items such as Mortar Board and Friars parties, the Pumphandle, and rush dates. The following week the regular class work got started in earnest. It was the first taste of the new quarter system sched- ule for most Knoxites. The Board of Trustees had decided to put the college on the quarter system the previous yearg the summer quarter had been attended by ap-

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HOMECOMING this year was not sig- nificant because it was particularly different from other Homecomings. It was sig- nincant because it was the one celebration which best typified the Mold college life which has disappeared from the American scene for the duration. On these pages we tell the story of what one Knox couple did at the last 'cold stylei' Knox Homecoming. The three charming belle: in the top picture, Brewer, Nortbsbield, and Bon, were the ballerina: of the Knmpu: Kaper: xbonf. In the lower picture Ia and Dick inspect the prizewinning Beta houre decorations. 12 Something new ana' diferent added to the Hornecoming festivities thi: year was the patriotirm pageant, prerented between the halve! of the game. Friday, October 23, 1942 This morning when we went to class at eight o'clock we found a strike in pro- gress. The freshman boys had engineered it because they didn't want to go to class- es the day before Homecoming. But the administration thought differently, so all we missed was our eight o'clocks. It was great fun while it lasted. There was a chapel and pep rally at 11:00, after which all the boys began to work like mad on their house decorations -or at least the pledges worked hard. Since there wasn't going to be any parade on Saturday, the girls didn't have to make any floats. Tonight was the Kampus Kapers. Everybody had been looking forward to True Ir Ts for weeks, and everybody got a big kick out of the Beta Omicron boys at Kenesaw College. There was a big crowd, and after the show we went out to the athletic field for the bonfire and pep rally. Prexy sang again-and so did everybody else. They announced that the Betas had won the house decora- tions with their Sighted Sub Sauk Same scene. It was a beautiful moon- light night, the kind you like to remem- ber when you think about college. Saturday, October 24 There were quite a few alums back for Homecoming, although not so many as usual, of course. Everybody spent the morning getting acquainted again. And