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Knox College, Illinois

Knox College
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Motto Latin: Veritas
Motto in English
Truth
Type Private
Established February 15, 1837
Endowment US$ 127 million (31 March 2015)
President Teresa Amott
Academic staff
120
Students 1,420
Location Galesburg, IL, USA
Campus Small city
Colors Purple and gold
        
Athletics 21 varsity teams
NCAA Division III
Midwest Conference
Mascot Prairie Fire (nickname), Fox (mascot)
Website www.knox.edu

Knox College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. Knox is classified as a more selective institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is ranked 75th among liberal arts colleges by the 2013 edition of America's Best Colleges in U.S. News & World Report. It is one of 40 schools featured in Loren Pope's influential book Colleges That Change Lives.

Knox College was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale. Many of the founders, including the Rev. Samuel Wright, actively supported the Underground Railroad. The original name for the school was Knox Manual Labor College, but it has been known by its present name since 1857.

The college's name came about through a compromise among its founders. Though founded by a colony of Presbyterians and Congregationalists, the county in which the college is located was already named Knox County, after Henry Knox, the first United States Secretary of War. Arguments have been made that the college was named for Calvinist leader John Knox, but it is not certain for which Knox it was named (if not both). George Candee Gale, a great-great-grandson of two of the founders, explains that

"contrary to general belief, Knox was not named for either General Knox or the Scottish Presbyterian Knox, according to my father ... Some wanted the college named for one Knox, some for the other; so they compromised on KNOX. Certainly most of them were pious enough to want the churchman and fighters enough to want the soldier as well."


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