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  1. Faculty
  2. Cozy Campus
  3. Lifelong Friendships
  4. Academics
  5. Students
  6. Freedom to Flourish
  7. Old Main
  8. Free-thinking Atmosphere
  9. Met spouse at Knox
  10. Flunk Day
  11. Diversity
  12. Knox's History
  13. Study Abroad
  14. Athletics
  15. Fraternities/Sororities
  16. Ice Skating on the Gizmo Patio
  17. Creative Writing/English Department
  18. Financial Aid
  19. Learning Environment
  20. Seymour Library
  21. Choir
  22. Music Program
  23. Rep Term
  24. The Knox Family
  25. Roger Taylor
  26. Campus Life
  27. Green Oaks
  28. Knox's Reputation
  29. Pumphandle
  30. Student Clubs
  31. Coach Harley Knosher
  32. Galesburg
  33. Honor Code
  34. Squirrels
  35. Alumni Relations
  36. Art Department
  37. Catch
  38. Commencement
  39. Environmental Consciousness
  40. Exposure to big/new ideas
  41. Far from home
  42. Hard Knox Café
  43. Foreign Language Department
  44. Homecoming
  45. Independent Research
  46. Innovation
  47. International Students
  48. Lincoln Douglas Debate
  49. Famous Campus Visitors
  50. Old Main's Bell
  51. Politically Active Campus
  52. Springtime
  53. Staff
  54. Traditions
  55. Ultimate Frisbee Club
  56. 50 Year Club
  57. ABLE
  58. Admitted Student Day
  59. Alfano's Pizza
  60. Campus Art Installations
  61. Blue Books
  62. Knox's Mission of Access
  63. Campus Observatory
  64. Honking Canadian Geese
  65. Carl Sandburg
  66. Sidewalk Chalk Messages
  67. Chemistry Department
  68. Cherry Street
  69. Close to Home
  70. Community Service
  71. Dance
  72. Dixie Cream Donuts
  73. Double Majors
  74. Fencing Club
  75. Flunk Day Scares
  76. Brick Sidewalks
  77. First-Year Preceptorial
  78. Going to the movies for a dollar
  79. Old Mailboxes in the Mailroom
  80. Honor Guard
  81. Honors Project
  82. Isolated Campus
  83. Knox Bubble
  84. Knox Fox
  85. Late Night Walks
  86. Level Playing Field
  87. Stargazing
  88. Math Department
  89. Metal Cabinets in the basement of SMC
  90. Networking
  91. Old Siwash
  92. Parent's Weekend
  93. Parties
  94. Personalized Education
  95. Professors Who Smoke Cigarettes
  96. Quirkiness
  97. Ramadan
  98. Running into other alums
  99. Sciences
  100. Smoking Cigars with Professors
  101. Snow
  102. Sociology Department
  103. Sound of Trains
  104. Stairs of Old Main
  105. Student Teaching
  106. Sunsets from the windows in Post Hall
  107. The College of More Exceptions Than Rules
  108. Writing Requirement
  109. WVKC
  110. Xavier Romano
  111. Yoga
  112. Beautiful Campus
  113. Gizmo
  114. Music Program
  115. Theatre Department
  116. Commencement Speakers
  117. Broadview
  118. Homecoming Parades
  119. Traying in the Bowl
  120. Otto Harbach's Ghost in CFA
  121. Studio Theatre
  122. Thursday Jazz Nights
  123. Rootabaga Jazz Fest
  124. Frisbee Golf on the Campus Lawn
  125. Pinky Gibbons on her Harley
  126. Lincoln Chair
  127. Streaking during FP Lectures
  128. Caxton Club
  129. Bronze Turkey Game
  130. The Knox Bowl
  131. FYC
  132. The Goal Post
  133. The Knox Hymn
  134. Senior Research
  135. Concert on the Lawn
  136. Dinner at Faculty Homes
  137. Knox-Monmouth Rivalry
  138. Prairie Burn
  139. Scholarships
  140. Harley Knosher
  141. Downtown Lounge
  142. Gingko Tree
  143. Farm Term
  144. Field trips with Dewey Moore
  145. Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
  146. Knox Fight Song
  147. Fifty Year Club Bulletin
  148. Coney Island
  149. Honor's Offices in Seymour Library
  150. Beecher Chapel
  151. Jazz House
  152. International Fair
  153. I-House
  154. Being a Legacy Student
  155. Grab N Go Cart
  156. C Store
  157. Big Old Trees
  158. The Costume Shop
  159. The Scene Shop
  160. 1958 Choir Tour
  161. Being a Friar on Flunk Day
  162. Off Knox
  163. Fechtnerfest
  164. The Ghetto
  165. Green Oaks Term
  166. Whiting Hall
  167. Class Notes
  168. Human Rights Center
  169. Military Service
  170. The first snowfall on campus
  171. Terpsichore
  172. Craig Choma's Lighting Design Finals
  173. Alumni Hall
  174. Faces
  175. Lincoln Window

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