Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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in the Northern universities are sources of pride to the friends of the Baptist University of South Carolina. The present, then, is full of work, of energy, and of enthusiasm: there is pride in the past, glorious achievement in the present, and hope and ambition for the future. The Future Out of a struggling past, out of a present, as it were, pregnant with hope, Furman University will come strong-armed f r the future. Dangers gloomy and dark have lx-set her, but the crisis has been passed, and she lc»oks to the vears to come for the crown of glory that awaits her. First, there were school days, days of trials and difficulties and hopes and plans. Then came college-life, strong, brave. courageous, and the future will see Furman a university in fact as well as in name. In the young days of the present century new departments will l e added, the student-body will grow from hundreds into thousands, and the whole world will know Furman by her works. The dreams of the fathers will Ik realized when the university which they founded is hx kcd down upon by the mid-day sun of the twentieth century. And never once will it have turned aside from its purpose and end—the l etterment of man and the glory of God. The solution of the problems which are vexing the minds of the thinkers of the age is Christian education. and the day is riot distant when the great hosts of students will be turned into the walls of den: mi-national colleges. Then will Furman come into the light of her true day.

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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

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FACULTY Andrew Piiti.il Montague. A. M., Pm. D.. I.L. D. President and Professor of Latin Charles IIallot JuhSon, I.L. D. Deo it and Senior Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy Harvey Toliver Cook. M. A. Professor of Creek and Instructor in Latin William Franklin Watson. A. M. Professor of Chemistry and Biology Cordon Beverly Moore. A. B., I). D. Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and History, and Director of the Summer School Edgar Maximilian von Finoerlin. Pu. B., Ph. I. (University of Koine. I(Rly) Professor of Modern Languages Marshall Delhi Carle. M. A.. M. M P. Professor of Physics and Mathematics Bennettk Eugene Geer, M. A , M. M IV Professor of linglish and History Rev. I. W. Wikco. It. A.. D. I . Lecturer on Biblical Literature Processor E. L. Hughes Lecturer on Pedagogy Hugh Charles Haynsworth. B. A. Headmaster Purman Pitting School, and Instructor in linglish Columbus Ben Martin. B. A Instructor in Creek and Latin John Washington Moore. B. S. Commandant of Cadets and Instructor in Mathematics 2a