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Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) Mrs. Henry Thomas (Ella McBride) Rainey, wife of the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives ...... LL.D. Miss R. Louise Fitch, dean of women, Cornell University ....... Litt.D. Miss Caroline Palmer, dean of women, Biblical Seminary, Manhattan ...... Litt.D...
...Masters. Unlike his Illinois neighbor Poet Carl Sandburg, whose Lincoln biography is a labor of love, morose Poet Masters pictures the Emancipator not as a warm-hearted prairie prophet but as a cold, lazy fanatic. Kansas-born, Poet Masters spent his boyhood at Petersburg, Ill,., went to Knox College (Galesburg), grew up swaddled in the Lincoln legend which he now repudiates. His grandfather hired Lincoln as a lawyer in 1847. His father was for eight years the law partner of William Henry Herndon who was Lincoln's law partner for 18 years. Poet Masters says that Lincoln never addressed Herndon...
Knox College (Galesburg...
...blowy October day in 1858 a lanky, shambling, tangle-haired politician stood on the steps of a college building in Galesburg, Ill., and fervently shouted at a short, chesty orator, his opponent in debate: "He is blowing out the moral lights around us who contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them!" The lanky one was Abraham Lincoln, the other Stephen Arthur Douglas.("The Little Giant"). The building was Old Main of Knox College. Knoxmen may well be proud of her past. For Knox's 93 years have been as packed full of worthy happenings and worthy...
Founded by Universalists 14 years after Knox, on the prairie near the outskirts of Galesburg, stands Lombard. So militantly bitter was football rivalry between Lombard and Knox that six years ago the perennial game was discontinued...