Knox College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Galesburg, Illinois. Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellows and still are in some places. ... Galesburg is a city located in Knox County, Illinois. ...

Knox College
Established	February 15, 1837
School type	Private
President	Roger Taylor
Location	Galesburg, IL, USA
Campus	Small Town
Enrollment	1,205 undergraduate
Faculty	119
Mascot	Prairie Fire
Homepage	www.knox.edu
The seal of Knox College, featuring the school motto, Veritas

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History

Knox College was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale. One founder, Rev. Samuel Wright, actively supported the Underground Railroad. The original name for the school was "Knox Manual Labor College", but has been known by its present name since 1857. 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... A monument celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, erected in Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, Westminster, London Look up Slavery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Enslaved redirects here. ... The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Old Main

Knox was the site of the fifth debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. The "Old Main" building is the only site from the debates that still exists today. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1012, 342 KB)A picture of Old Main, the central campus building at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1012, 342 KB)A picture of Old Main, the central campus building at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813–June 3, 1861), American politician from Illinois, was one of the Democratic Party nominees for President in 1860 (the other being John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Author George Fitch (graduated 1897) wrote a series of popular stories set at fictional Siwash College, based on Knox. "Old Siwash" became a popular nickname for Knox College. George Helgesen Fitch (1877-August 9, 1915) was an American author, humorist, and journalist perhaps best known for his stories about fictional Siwash College. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

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Students and faculty

Student Profile

• Size: 1,205
• Points of Origin: 46 states; 41 countries
• Credentials: 66 percent graduated in the top quarter of their high school class; 32 percent graduated in the top tenth.
• Diversity: 55 percent women; 45 percent men; 15 percent students of color (5 percent African American, 5 percent Asian American, 5 percent Latino, <1 percent Native American); 8 percent international.

Faculty Profile

• Size: 119 (91 full-time, 28 part-time)
• Student-faculty ratio: 12:1
• Qualifications: 95 percent have Ph.D. or equivalent degree
• Average Class Size: 17

Fraternities A fraternity is an organization that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood. ...

• Beta Theta Pi
• Phi Gamma Delta
• Sigma Nu
• Tau Kappa Epsilon

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• Delta Delta Delta
• Pi Beta Phi

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Alumni

• Amy Carlson—former star on the weekly NBC television series Third Watch, currently a cast-member of Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
• Ethyl Eichelberger—famous drag queen.
• John Huston Finley—former editor of The New York Times.
• Jack Finney—author of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
• George Fitch - author, journalist, and humorist
• Robert Hanssen—FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
• Bob Jamieson—ABC news correspondent.
• James Kilts—former CEO of Gillette.
• Ismat Kittani—former United Nations Ambassador of Iraq and U.N. Secretary-General who also helped start Knox's Honor System.
• Edgar Lee Masters—author of The Spoon River Anthology.
• S. S. McClure—muckraking journalism pioneer, founder of McClure's Magazine.
• Ander Monson—novelist and poet, author of the novel Other Electricities, and Vacationland, a collection of poems.
• John Podesta—Chief of Staff for President Clinton.
• Rose Polenzani—independent folk musician.
• Gene Rayburn— Announcer for the Tonight Show, host of The Match Game and other game shows.
• Hiram Revels—first black U.S. Senator.
• Barnabas Root (also known as Fahma Yahny)—probably the first black man to receive a college degree in Illinois.
• Ellen Browning Scripps—newspaper magnate, philanthropist. Scripps College named in her honor.
• Joseph J. Sisco—former diplomat under Henry Kissinger.
• Mimi Smartypants—Internet personality and author of The World According to Mimi Smartypants.

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Facilities

Knox College has 42 academic and residential buildings on its 82-acre campus.

The college also has the Green Oaks Field Study Center, a 760-acre ecological field station and nature preserve located roughly 20 miles northeast of campus. Students can also participate in the "Green Oaks Term", an interdisciplinary off-campus program that is offered biennially. A nature reserve is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ...

Libraries

Seymour Library

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• 185,923 books, serial backfiles, and government documents (titles)
• 1,037 current serials (titles), including periodicals, newspapers, and government documents
• 96,952 microforms (titles)
• 6,336 video and audio titles

T. Flemming Field-house and Fitness Center

Knox has a sports complex complete with a gymnasium, a swimming pool, and a state of the art field-house. A brand new fitness center addition with weights, cardiovascular equipment, aerobics rooms, and climbing wall is being built for a spring 2006 finish date.

Computer laboratories

Four public computer laboratories are accessible to students, with several more departmental labs available and a dedicated language laboratory. A computer is device or machine for processing information according to a program - a list of instructions. ...

The largest, Founders Laboratory (a converted smoking lounge from many years ago), which is located in the student union, is open 24-hours a day throughout the year. Scanning (including film-scanning and OCR), printing, faxing and are available freely to student users, and copy services are available for a small fee. A students union, student government, or student council is a student organization present at many colleges and universities, often with its own building on the campus, dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body. ... OCR can mean: Optical character recognition. ...

Addressing the issues of paper waste and in a move to become more environmentally friendly, beginning fall of 2005, recycled-content paper is solely being used in all of the college printers in addition to the presence of a dedicated previously-printed recycle printer. The international symbol for recycling. ...

The Honor System

Knox College introduced the Honor System by students in 1951. All students are held responsible for the integrity of their own work, and students are required to abide by the system. Because of this unique policy, tests are not proctored, and in many cases students may take their exams in any open, public place within the same building. Any cases of students caught disobeying the system are evaluated by their peers through the Honor Board, a committee consisting of two seniors, two juniors, two sophomores, and two faculty members. 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... A committee comprises a mechanism of bureaucracy or of proto-bureaucracy whereby a limited number of people receive delegated functions of government or administration. ...

References

• Knox College 2004-2005 Catalog
• Knox College Student Handbook 2004-2005

External links

• Knox College official website
• WVKC, Knox College radio station official website
• Knox College English Department
• Knox College Math Department
• Knox College Department of Anthropology and Sociology