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...Alexander Meiklejohn, La-Follette of college presidents, there is balm in Galesburg, Ill. Last week, the young men and women of Knox College stuck placards about their campus, issued a statement: "We believe Mr. Meiklejohn to be the exponent of the liberal college and believe he is indispensable to Knox if Knox is to maintain the leadership of liberal colleges which she has attained through the activities of preceding administra- tions...
Edgar Addison Bancroft, 66, born at Galesburg, Ill., now living at Chicago, is a descendant of the New England Bancrofts, including Aaron, biographer of George Washington, and George, diplomat and historian. Educated at Knox College and the Columbia University Law School, he has been counsel for the Santa Fe Railway and the International Harvester Co. In the great railway strike of 1894, he obtained the first injunction against the strikers and later helped to send Eugene V. Debs and others to jail for six months. Nevertheless, he is regarded as a liberal in labor matters. He is author of three...
...Several organizations had separate votes on their own account?including The Workers' Party and the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, both communistic. In the general mass of delegates were representatives of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (the only large union represented), the Woman's Shelley Club of North Dakota, the Galesburg Musical Club, the Negro Tenants' Protective League, the People's Voice Culture Club, the Housewives' Protective League, the Workmen's Gymnastic Association, the National Woman's Party...
...near Valparaiso. He got some education. He tried school teaching three times and quit from boredom. He became a printer's devil and learned to swear. He became a butcher and failed in business. He became a teamster on railroad construction work, and went to Knox College at Galesburg...
...exchange professor of history from the University of Illinois, will give a short talk on the general Democratic situation and the possibilities of the Club. Professor Conger, a graduate of the University of Nebraska, has been since 1907 Head of the department of history and government at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. Lately he has served as professor of American history during summer sessions at the University of Illinois, Michigan and Washington. He is also a member of the American History Association...