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Students in training at Knox College stand at "parade rest" with wooden guns on Willard Field, near the auxiliary gym.

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The S.A.T.C. created a drilling ground on Willard Field. This is the bayonet run.

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Men sit at tables during the first mess call in the new barracks constructed on the campus of Knox College.

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The S.A.T.C. band stands with their instruments on Willard Field outside the auxiliary gymnasium.

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This commemorative page from a Knox publication revisited Knox students' desire to "lick the Kaiser and 'make the world safe for Democracy.'"

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A picture of the S.A.T.C. of Knox College is featured on this postcard. Knox College's observatory is on the left side of the photograph. Old Main is at the center of the photograph. The barracks erected on campus are visible on the right side of the…

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Participants in Knox's division of the S.A.T.C. practice a voluntary drill on Willard Field. The auxiliary gymnasium is located on the left side of the photograph.

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Russell C. Hartman was a Knox student who served in the Naval Hospital Corps. This letter inquires about pathways for making up college coursework after he is released from active duty.

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Rubble, rocks and dirt.

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Many military vehicles are lined up next to a building.

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Knox student and Phi Gamma Delta ("Fiji") fraternity member Robert Sinclair served in the Ambulance Corps during World War I.

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Lt. Robert Midkiff in uniform.

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Dr. Simonds, in one of his letters to Robert Midkiff, refers to Midkiff's "smile that never comes off," and this photograph shows said smile well.

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Robert Clark takes advantage of his "first idle moment since Monday" at training camp to express "the feelings of the four Knox Betas who are here at camp" about the publication of a seemingly scandalous and unauthorized campus publication, 'The…

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Former Knox student Robert Clark writes to Dr. Simonds to thank him and Knox College for awarding him a diploma even though he didn't quite finish his studies, as he was called into military service before he had entirely completed his degree.
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