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A "ringing appeal for patriotism in the present crisis" was given by Dr. Simonds during the Knox College Founders Day celebration held February 15, 1918.

William Ray Euard, second from the left in the back row, died in France on January 15, 1919.

William Ray Euard's entry in Knox College's yearbook notes his military aspirations. Euard died in France on January 15, 1919.

This page lists all the members of the Knox College fraternity Beta Theta Pi. Homer Sharp, at the bottom left of this picture, was killed in an airplane accident January 17, 1918, in Washington D.C. Sharp was a first-year stdent in 1917.

This page of Knox's 1918 yearbook (including the senior class of 1917) includes photographs of all the students in the Knox College fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon. William Ray Euard (second from right, bottom row) and Jared Smith (second from right,…

Knox College students Paul Sidney Smith and Louis Raymond Billett show that questions of peace and nationalism were very much on students' minds in 1918.

Jared Smith, on the far right in the second row from the bottom, was a future soldier and a member of 'The Knox Student' staff.

This portion of the "Freshmen" section of the yearbook deals with the creation of the 1918 Freshmen Follies. Two future soldiers who were killed in service during World War I, Jared H. Smith and Homer Virgil Sharp, lent their talents to the Freshmen…

The first-year class president for Knox College's class of 1920, Homer V. Sharp, served in World War I. He was killed in an airplane accident in Washington D.C. July 17, 1918.

This section of the 1918 Knox College yearbook recognizes student military service, mentioning William Euard and Homer Sharp by name. Both of these students were killed in the war, William Euard in France, and Homer Sharp in an airplane accident in…

Chloe Owings worked as assistant to the superintendent of a Red Cross hospital established in Paris.

"Military Training (for men)" is among the scenes listed as "familiar" in the 1918 'Gale.'

A notice in Knox College's 1918 yearbook reads, "Knox Cadets, Attention! Get the rest of your meals where you like, but Morning, Noon and Night eat at Hiles Lunch Room."

An ad for 'Intercollegiate Debates vol. VII' in Knox College's yearbook, The Gale, acknowledges the pressing nature of questions surrounding compulsory military service for men.

The introductory page of the 1919 Knox College yearbook (produced in 1918) sets the tone for the rest of the volume. It reads, "Foreward ... In presenting this, the twenty-ninth volume of THE GALE we have attempted, in its pages, to reflect the…