Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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l -n-int me iw Ji W 0 'wx M gf' fi G11 wr? es 9M DL' 9: ,f .yr f ,jf ll fl fi, Ebenezer Bouges Kennedy EV. E. B. KENNEDY, now Professor of Latin and French in Erskine College, was born in Abbeville Co., Nov. 2, 1871. His boyhood days were spent in historic Due West where he received his elementary education. At an early age he entered Erskine College, from which institution he graduated in 1889, leaving behind a fine record. After graduation, Prof. Kennedy taught school for four years in South Carolina and Alabama. In 1892, he was elected to the chair of Greek and German in Erskine College which position he filled for two years. Having determined to take a course of study in Yale, he entered that university in the fall of 1894 and received the degree of Master of Arts the following year. A year later he entered Erskine Theological Seminary where he took the B. D. degree in 1898. For the next fifteen years, he labored as an efficient minister. His first pas- torate was at Bartow, Florida, where he was very instrumental in the building up of that congregation. ,From Bartow he was called to Abbeville, S. C., at which church he was the beloved pastor for eight years. ln the fall of 1913, the chair of Latin and French falling vacant, he was elected to that position which he at present occupies. Since coming to Erskine his scholarly attainments, gentlemanly manner. and friendly courtesy have won for him the esteem of the students, and they feel that in him they may find a true friend and helper. 7 ?'w ' ' '

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Erskine College-A Characterization Nm MAG ' 92 1? Q 9 ni 6' REV. G. G. PARKINSON. D. D. of a century of lift and service According to the purpose of the foundeis that service has been iendeicd in large measure to and thiough a Church the Associate Reformed Synod. And in this way doubtless the largest possible service has QYTZ Sffq' OR Erskine 'College the present year rounds out three quarters 'YH wr' A -' i - ' 1 E ' ' V Q, W . , -. , a - , V cies: tw-S5 been rendered to the world. For, like most of the older colleges of our country. Erskine was founded to meet the need of Christian education within a denomination, and. more specifically, to provide for that denomination a trained and loyal ministry. Erskine has lived up to the ideals of her founders. Her quest has been for men: her finished product men fitted to serve. She has believed that service is a matter of the heart as well as of the head, of character as well as of culture. The means she has used have been a faculty and a curriculum that have not blinked one half of man's nature and one whole realm of truth. Her motto is, Knowledge and Character in Union. In cultivating this field Erskine has not offered an education that is narrow and sectarian. The type of culture that is demanded for a Presbyterian min- istry is suited to all. And yet, in pursuing her ends, the work of Erskine has been intensive rather than extensive. Many courses could not be offered. but rather thorough culture through one or two. To be a small college doing a great work-such has been the aim. To accomplish this. material equipment is necessary: and there are buildings and libraries and laboratories. But these are sufficient rather than showy. There must be a facultyg but this has never been large-save in character and scholar- ship. Its men have never been of the cloistered type that would rather discover a dead fact than a living soul. There must be students: several thousands have enrolled, eight hundred have graduated. llut there have never been more than two hundred at any one time, and some of the best work has been done in years when the graduates could be counted on the fingers of one hand. There have been six administrations, but such a unity and continuity of spirit and aim as have made the college ever the same. There have been struggles-with poverty. on account of the results of war. llut Erskine has used what she has had and has developed character by what she has lacked. It might be well, perhaps, to give a catalogue of facts :-founded in IS3o. the second, if not the first, denominational college in the South: first building erected in 18433 burned and rebuilt. 1892: to call the roll of presidents: ljressly. Grier, Patton, Grier. Pressly, Moffatt: to speak of endowments and of dis- tinguished alumni. But this is much like giving a physical description of a man -it does not reveal the inner spirit. .Xnd with Erskine the spirit has been the 9