Knox College News

Christmas carols have a delightful way of bringing back good memories. Whenever I hear "O Little Town of Bethlemen," I am whisked back in time to Dec.

Knox College Chapel was filled to the brim last Friday as five ensembles offered songs to satisfy every musical taste.

A tiny item in last Wednesday's USA Today caught my eye. The three-sentence story said the city of Galesburg, Ill., had designated Nov.

To Bill Strong Jr., his father was his hero. And many in the Ottawa community share that sentiment.

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Did you know that every one of the American colonies profited from the slave trade? Did you know there were special breeding camps in some states where 12- and 13-year-old girls were impregnated to produce future slaves? Did you know the story of quilt squares identifying “safe houses” for fleeing slaves is a myth? Did you know the ...

Entry from November 23, 2009 "First draft of history" Entry in progress - B.P. Wikipedia: Phil Graham Philip Leslie Graham was an American publisher and businessman.

A western Illinois college is racking up Fulbright Scholar grants. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released its list of national leaders in Fulbrights.

Walt Stinson, founder of ListenUp. Q: Your induction into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame was partly based on your pioneering insight to the future of the compact disc.

Wheaton College's abolitionist origins are a matter of historical record. No one doubts that the school's founders were adamant in their opposition to slavery; the written record of the time bears it out.

Open Cloud on Ulitzer Yahoo! has made its second major Cloud Computing announcement in five months, announcing an open-source version of its Traffic Server at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA.

By Bobby Wilson One of my companions on an art and architecture tour of Europe in the early '80s was Liz Clark, who at that time was an art teacher by day and a chef by night.

With the growth of the use of social media National Services Te Paerangi, a team at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has organised a workshop in Dunedin to assist the region's museums in their use of digital technologies.

The Young Survival Coalition will host In Living Pink, a fundraising party and auction, at Worthington Hills Country Club at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.

Photo by Andrew Mitchell Protestors from Lewis University display their homemade signs outside the State Capitol Building on Oct.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited students at Knox College the other day and took a few swipes at the media : "When Social Security or Medicare were being debated there wasn't all of the background noise you have now," he said at a presentation to students at Knox College Tuesday.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is pointing to the transportation industry as being one of the engines that will help the nation's economy recover from the recession.

Harvey Lipman enjoyed all sports, but it was soccer that became his passion. He played at his high school in Evanston, Ill., as well as at Knox College.

A third study of college students explored the possible causal role of activism by measuring well-being after subjects either engaged in a brief activist behavior, a brief nonactivist behavior, or no behavior.

We've grown used to hearing that ours is an age of political apathy, but it hasn't felt like it recently.