Word: knox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football pictures are shown on the screen, Coach Knox of the scrubs, will comment on the way the plays are run off, and point out what should or should not have been done. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...have been retained on the first squad have been put through their paces twice daily behind the closed gates of a newly fenced practice field behind the Stadium. At the same time more than twice as many black-shirted athletes have reported to Coach Knox in an effort to win places on the second squad...
...educational field, shooting off for a space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for three millions with the aid of friends (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq; Sept. 15, 1924). At one point, the students of Knox College informally extended a bouquet to the buzzing one, in the shape of their presidential chair (TIME, Dec. 29), but the circling continued, not only because the Knox trustees were silent but (thought the public) because the "independent college" was still in the making. Evidently it is still in the making...
Last winter the students of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) placarded their campus: "We want Meiklejohn." They meant Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, revolutionary deposed President of Amherst College. They wanted Dr. Meiklejohn for President of Knox to succeed Dr. James L. McConaughy who last January shifted to the chair of Wesleyan University (TIME, Dec. 29). They thought Dr. Meiklejohn and his liberalism were "indispensable." But Dr. Meiklejohn was planning an "independent" university of his own (TIME, Sept. 15) and the students' placards faded, wilted...
...until last week did the Knox trustees find a man to fill the shoes of Dr. McConaughy. When they did he turned out to bo Albert Britt of Manhattan, for 14 years editor of Outing, for the past year and a half an editorial standby of Publisher Frank A. Munsey. Thus it came to pass that there was another editor-president.* President-elect Britt's qualifications were enumerated: his age, 52; his Illinoisian background-born in Utah, Ill., schooled in Galesburg and at Knox itself; his wide experience and acquaintance in business and literary circles; his "unusual sense...