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On this page of the Knox College yearbook, it is noted that Robert F. Midkiff, a junior participating in Sigma Delta Chi (the professional journalistic fraternity at Knox), was then part of the armed service.

In 1918 Knox College's juniors patriotically forfeited their prom and instead organized a dance to benefit various war-oriented causes.

The selected debate topic shows that military matters were on everyone's mind - at Knox, and at other colleges.

The proceeds from Knox's senior play, 'Breezy Point,' were given to the thirty-six men at Knox who had joined the armed forces.

Private Venn's military ineptness is amusingly recounted.

Included in this edition of 'Famous Sayings' in 'The Gale' - an assortment of regularly-repeated phrases heard around campus - is: "Sharfenberg - Now listen, Captain Spake, I don't feel good and I think you ought to excuse me from drill." Perhaps not…

The advertising section of the 1919 'Gale' yearbook featured this photograph with the text "One example of the martial spirit at Knox."

In this photo inset in the Knox College yearbook, a photograph of S.A.T.C. students is captioned, "Yes, they sometimes work at drill." (It also features a student kneeling next to a squirrel with the caption, 'Careful, Hinman - He'll bite you.')

The editors of the 1919 issue of Knox College's yearbook 'The Gale' state that the next issue will be 'The War Issue Complete.' The 1919 yearbook was produced in 1918.

The 1919 yearbook of Knox College (produced in 1918) featured a notice by the Illinois State Council of Defense, asking high school students to continue their education, "that the country may not lack an adequate supply of trained men and women."

The foreword for this edition of Knox College's yearbook 'The Gale' expresses the desire to record the events of the war and Knox's patriotism accurately and completely. The yearbook was produced in 1919.

This edition of the yearbook was dedicated to the men of Knox College who were killed during World War I.

This picture, with the caption, 'Lest We Forget,' is immediately opposite the dedication page for 'The 1920 Gale.'

This page of the Knox College yearbook lists the names of men affiliated with Knox who gave their lives during World War I.

The first section of the Knox College yearbook is always dedicated to photographs of the buildings on campus, but an artist added sketches of, among other places, war-related locations and objects to the usual spread of pictures.