Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Furman University

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MAIN BUILDING Lecture Room . I’ll jri leal and Chemical Uteniorln, Library and Heading Room

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Furman Th As early as the loginning of the nineteenth century the leading Baptists of the State saw the need oi an educated ministry. With this need in view they began to plan. 'I'he result was the establishment » f the Furman Theological Institute on the high lulls about the Santee. Shortly afterwards the school was removed to Winns-lx ro. in Fairfield District. At the same time an agricultural department was added and the literary department broadened. From here, more than half a century ago, it was transferred to Greenville, it' name having been changed to Furman University. The institution was widened in every rcs| ect and. despite the thickening shadows of the war. never was there such a bright prosj ect for the future as now. With a faculty composed of young men versatile in talent, noted for their depth and breadth of learning and jx sscssiug rare mental vigor and acuteness. Furman University promised to lie at once the foremost college of the South. The student Ixxlv grew larger and larger every year and the dawn of Furman’s history was bright indeed. But clouds l cgan t gather. The blasts of the war trumpet and the thundering of cannon called the two hundred and sixty, who had gathered within her peaceful walls, to lay aside their lxx ks and march to battle for the cause espoused hv their State. University e Past Four years later, when the battle llag was furled by a people. defeated and cast down but not destroyed, tltc first thought that nine to the battle-scarred heroes was to re . ] en the school. What devastation filled the land! For years it seemed as if failure was inevitable. The era of Reconstruction hung like a pall over all her fortunes. but with a courage, true and sublime, these men brought Furman safely through. To write the present history of a school such as Furman is no mean task. Though in the past her progress has lnreu great, never in her history has it l ccn wlrt it is to-day. New buildings arc constantly being added, the student Itodv increasing, and now the endowment is being added to. The present administration has been very successful, indeed, in its effort to put Furman prominently Indore those whose duty it is to support it. To-day she is more widely and better known titan ever before. The Baptists realize that it is their school and are proud, and justly so. of the work which it is doing. The faculty stands for all that is 1 est in lw ili the old and the new methods of teaching, and nowhere will you find a more thorough system of instruction. The work of Furman is well known throughout the Southland and recognized by the older and larger institutions of the North as the equal of any. 10