Knox College (Illinois)
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The Knox College is a private liberal arts college in Galesburg, Knox County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Currently, 1,407 students are enrolled. It can be acquired after four years of study of the Bachelor of Arts (BA ) and the Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.).
History
The Knox Collge was founded in 1837 by social reformers and abolitionists as Knox Manual Labor College. The college was thus, as one of the first to open in the United States, men, women and all ethnic groups with the foundation. 1857, the name in Knox College, changed according to the location in Knox County.
Study
At the University of 39 majors and 51 minors can be studied leading to a bachelor's degree. The yearly tuition is approximately $ 32,000. The university is a member of the Midwest Conference. Your mascot is the Prairie Fire (German prairie fire ).
Famous people
Lecturers
- Lloyd Burdick, coach of the college football team in 1934
- William Ernest Castle, geneticists
- James L. McConaughy, President of the College, former Governor of Connecticut
Graduates
- Amy Carlson, 1990, actress
- Job Cooper 1867, 6th Governor of Colorado
- Lloyd William Daly 1932, classical scholar
- Jack Finney 1934, writer
- Robert Hanssen in 1966, a former employee of the FBI, agent for the Soviet Union
- John L. Kennedy in 1882, politicians of the Republican Party
- Ismat T. Kittani 1951, former Secretary of State in the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President of the 36th UN General Assembly
- Thomas E. Kurtz in 1950, co-developer of the BASIC programming
- Bishop W. Perkins, politician of the Republican Party
- Donald Robert Perry Marquis, writer, poet and journalist
- Edgar Lee Masters, author
- Albinus Nance, 5th Governor of Nebraska
- James George Needham, entomologist
- John Podesta 1971, 23, chief of staff of the White House
- Hiram Rhoades Revels in 1857, the first black man was elected to the U.S. Senate
- Margaret A. Ryan, Judge
- Samuel Rinnah Van Sant, 1901-1905 Governor of Minnesota
- Samuel S. McClure (1857-1949), founder and editor of McClure 's Magazine