Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Ibistor? of '01 “ARCKLY four years ago the Class of 01 crept into cxistenec. Through college life's stages ami experience , this class now stands almost at the terminal point of it career. Looking hack memory display to our minds the failuns and sue-cease which have attended our effort . Kver struggling toward the goal, encouraged and spurred on by aspirations instilled bv thought of progress made toward the fund mark, the Senior Class of 1901 appears in full view of that toward which four long year of toil has been directed—graduation. Does clearer vision of the end satisfy our exalted expectations? 1 the end what we anticipated when we, as Freshmen, stopped to contemplate the future? It may Ik- confidently said that the goal which then appeared as a crowning star of life’s ambition now shines but to point u to the real goal yet in the dint and |uivcring recesses of the future. We realize that we are only on the mountain side catching the glimmering light of successes which only now l om up over the craggy peaks of toil and endeavor vet to be scaled. And. a forcibly as did we four years ago, so do we now realize that we are Pmhmcn-Freshmen then in the college realm, Freshmen now in the world-college. The University register told of a large class of Freshmen in ' 7 With crowded rank and confident hearts the struggle began. Hut, a the year have glided by, a change has taken place, a thinning-out has liccn in proce . Some with false conceptions of the work to lie accomplished, have fallen by the way. Still other through the force of necessity. Other disheartened and catching at the three-year degree, B. Lit., a a drowning man, with deep icgrct departed from our ranks last June. What i« the result of the action of these various force upon our once crowded cla s? Only ten survive to reach the final victory. And who are they? -Brake.” the influential matt among the students: Little Dave. with a recordWare,” our ladies' man; “ Taylor, the photographer and musician ; “Chiny,” our orator and parliamentarian ; •'Mack,” who is all right; Mr. Newby, the oldest Senior: ■•George, the honor roll man; Jacob Aquilla, a future politician. and Samniie,” the color bearer, is as bright and as modest as his college girl.” The cla « is small, but what of its record ? Through it entire career it has I icon a noted one. In the Literary Societies and in the public meeting of these, the 1901 class hat. takeu an eminent stand. In athletics