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Edmund Stofft's yearbook note reads, "Our pride and joy with the slick pompadour. One of the few color sergeants who gave his best to Uncle Sam."

In James Watson's yearbook biography the editors note, "Watson came to Knox to enter the S.A.T.C. and liked the place so well that he stayed. We are glad we made a good impression upon 'Jimmie.'"

Members of the class of 1920 who entered service before September, 1918 are singled out for special recognition in the Knox College yearbook.

Clearly, some members of the Knox College S.A.T.C. were more zealous than others!

Newlon Tyner's debate topic, "The Price of Democracy," reveals what was on the mind of many Americans throughout the nation.

The Red Cross auxiliary at Knox College, despite only meeting "about six times," produced 1,581 articles for the troops. The Hostess House provided a place where S.A.T.C. members could "meet their relatives and friends, especially on Sunday…

Prof. Louis Allard was the visiting professor on the Harvard Exchange in 1919, and taught Knox students about "The French National Spirit." Allard served in the French army during World War I.

"Hershel" and "Scharfenberg" are mentioned as bickering in the barracks in 'The Gale's' "Sparks," a page detailing humorous anecdotes about life at Knox College.

The Knox College yearbook section detailing the activities of Beta Theta Pi states, "We've always been patriotic, fought in all the wars, subscribed to all the thrift campaigns, bought bonds when we couldn't even buy a needle for the Victrola, have…

Six women are listed as student assistants in "War Aims," alongside student assistants in chemistry, biology, and physics, in the Knox College 1920 yearbook (produced in 1919).

Instead of promising to reveal more about the war, the 1921 Gale promises to "combine feminine taste with masculine aggressiveness." The war was truly over.

Private Carpenter writes in his letter, "…I am glad to learn from some thing about your institution. But now I am a soldier boy serving my country."

This document expresses Knox College's desire to do its part in the movement to produce more food. Thus, students assisting in an agriculture-based program were to "receive the same treatment as those enlisting in the military service" in terms of…

This newspaper clipping discusses the lecture given by Dr. W.E. Simonds about the national populations involved in the war and the German mode of government.

Ray H. Hurlbutt, Beirne H. Coffman, Robert Elwood Sinclair, William N. Ferris, Charles W. Haynes, and Ralph Noble are all mentioned by name in this newspaper clipping discussing a memorial service held at Beecher Chapel in Galesburg, Illinois to…