Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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then at two o'cloclc came what everybody had been awaiting-the football game with Beloit. The weather was perfect again. So was the game. We won 13 to 7, and it was a real last-minute thriller. Between the halves there was a swell his- torical pageant which Mr. Biddle and his band had prepared. The Phi Sigs won the traditional pumpkin race. Then there was a tea in Old Main- mostly for alums and not students. But students, parents and alums all turned out for the banquet at Seymour that eve- ning. A couple of Army and Navy ofhcers spoke about colleges and their relations with the armed services. It was at this banquet that Mort Monson was awarded the Hunter Trophy. Ir was a great night again. Along about midnight everybody-well, almost everybody-went out west of town to see the Phi Gam pledges pull the Beta pledges through the creek. As we said before, it was the kind of week-end you like to remember when you think of college. Top: Goodnight at Bottom: Fiji: win Wbitifzg Yearfr bigger! football crowd didn? cheer in vain

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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

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Back in the stacks at Seymour Library Shortly after Homecoming, the war ten- sion began to increase slightly. There were two problems in particular which formed bases of discussion and rumor. One of these was: how soon will the reservists be called out of school? The other: what is going to happen to the college itself? By this time nearly every Knox man was a member of some reserve program. The flow of rumors as to what was to happen to them seemed never-ending. There were reports that they would leave before the end of the quarter, at the end of the quar- ter, or before January 1. All this made it difficult for the boys to put their minds Studying in the library Standish room to their studies. Finally, at chapel the clay before fall quarter exams, they were told they would be called during the Christmas vacation. When Washington changed its mind on this subject again, the college notified the men to return for the winter quarter, after all. Most of them did, and the enrollment for this term was about 500. With the advent of the winter quarter there was a number of new courses, such as stenography, map reading, navigation, and Russian. The Honnold Lecturer for the year was Dr. Zing Yang Kuo, who was on the campus throughout the entire win- It seem: hardly credible that .ro many .ttudents could actually be studying in the reference room here-and at night, too. Photographer Landon muff bave had an inspiring effect on them.