Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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The Past Furman Fifty-one years ago it was decided by the Baptist hosts of South Carolina to establish Furman University at Greenville. .A dusty old room, a few rickety wooden benches, three instructors, and sixty students were present at the oj»ening session. What a Faculty ! Iiut these men were the greatest of their day. They placed their ears dose to nature and caught the sound of rumbling, rushing progress. They served well their own generation and won the gratitude of posterity. They dreamed and planned and acted. The dawn was bright and hopeful, but soon the shadows came. Where is that Southern school that did not feel the rude shock of the war trumpet’s blast? After a decade of growth, the school closed its doors, and two hundred and sixty young men went forth to the bitterest conflict ever waged. When the battle dag was furled by a broken-hearted and desolate people, the first thought of the maimed heroes was to re-open the school. For years the way was dark and failure imminent, but with sublime courage these men brought Furman safely through. The character of the men who founded the institution is stamped forever on its work. Other colleges may become tainted with modern materialism, but this one. never! Students will continue to l e taught University to walk in the footsteps of the lowly Xazarcnc. and following this pathway in the search after truth, they will comeat last into the light and life of eternal day. The Present It is hard to write of the Present of an institution which advances as rapidly as Furman. To-dav has not what to-morrow will have. Every year thousands of dollars arc expended in new buildings, new schools and departments are added, and the student-body grows year by year. The first effort of the present administration was to place Furman prominently Ik fore those whose duty it is to give it their hearty support. This effort has produced fine fruit, and to-day every lisping Baptist child knows and loves Furman University. The Baptists have been taught that it is their college and they arc justly proud of the work which it is doing. The Faculty have assimilated all that is best of the old and the new methods of instruction, and the thoroughness of the course is unexcelled. No other institution in all this Southland is better known than Furman University. The larger and older colleges of the North recognize her degrees at their face value. The records of Furman students 2i