Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Board of Trustees Rev. D. M. R «sev. President. Charleston. S. C. Mr. A. G. Furkan. Secretary. Greenville. S. C. Mr. H. P. McGee. Auditor. Greenville. S. C. 1905 Rev. J. H. Boiomoos. Lancaster H. J. Hay.nsworth. Eta.. Greenville Rev. L. M. Roer.R. Spartanburg Rev. D. M. Raxsey. D. D.. Charleston Rev. A. C Wilkins. D. D.. Batesburg 1904 Mr. R. J. Aloerxan. AIcolu Rev. E. P. Eastehuno. McColl Hoh. W. H. Lyles. Columbia J. W. Shelor. Esa.. Wathalla W. H. Hunt, Esa.. Newberry 1905 1906 Mr. J. A. Carroll. Gaffney Hon. J. H. Huoson, Bennettsville Rev. W. J Lanoston. 0. D.. Greenville Mr. H P. McGee. Greenville Hon. S G. Mayhelo. Denmark Mu. w. F. Cox. Anderson Dr. J. B. Earlii. Greenville Hon. J. A. Fant. Union W. C. Miller. Esa . Charleston Rkv. W E Thayer. Rock HiU 190? Mr. L. F. Dorn. Parksvii'.e Mr. C. K. Henderson. Aiken Mr. A. G. Furxan. Greenville Mr. J. J. Lawton. Hartsville Dr. Brooks Rutlsook. Florence EXEC I 77 E ( Omi Z TEE Mr. H. P. McGee, Chairman Mr. A. G. Furxan. Secretary Dr. J. B. Earle H. J. Havnswoktm. Ess. Rkv. W. J. Lanoston. D. D. H J Haynswortm. Eva- Treasurer o the University B. E. Geer, M. A . Assistant Treasurer H. T. Cook. M. A . D. Lilt. Proctor u

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answerable arguments which are more tangible than granite walls a noble incarnated purpose which neither poverty nor age could turn aside. Dr. Manly was the teaching president. He was relieved after his first four years from travelling in the merest of the school by the financial agent. R. H. Griffith. Under him the first growth after the war began in the increase of students and erection of buildings. The short term of Dr. Montague was a lustrum of intense activity, and in toils that wasted health and that disturbed the equanimity found in more quiet stations. He was the first president that was supreme in the faculty and preeminent among the trustees. He was unselfish in financial matters but ambitious to succeed and large success in getting students and in raising needed buildimgs marked his career. Dr. 0. H Judson was the power behind the throne from 1869 to 1897. The chief events of thoscyears were largely due to his fertile planning, excepting the mistake made in 1870-75 when the free tuition programme was adopted against his judgment. The nom-:nation of professors, the opening the school to women, the declin-: o endowment income and a dominant influence over the trustees may be put down as plus and minus quantities in estimating the sum total of the weight of his great natural abilities and unsurpassed power to make small bodies see as he did. Clear thought and clear character and unquestioned loyalty to the school, were the foundations of his influence. In 1905. when Joel I. Allen was nearing the ond of his race for the $100,000 endowment. Dr. Judson put up l his offer of $20,000 in the even , the general effort succeeded. In Dr. Furman's regency, he had a 6pecia! regard for the trees on the campus. The rusticity of the situation was preserved in such a way that one who drove along the winding wagor. roac could not see the various buildings nestling here and there until ho was near them. When he was superseded by Dr. Manly, he felt that it was a notice of age and infirmity served upon him by the trustees and he bore himself as it became one of his high type: but one day when the faculty was summoned to meet or. the campus to select a spot to be cleared for a game ground he listened until he discovered that the meeting was to select the spot and not to consider the propriety of digging up the pets he had nourished and protected for 29 years. Then he quictlv withdrew, unobserved by those who were the busiest in locating the spot. Dr. Furman was a tall, wiry, dyspeptic man. so graceful as a speaker that words came out like coins from the mint. His whole body was expressive and it was impossible for him to be two-faced. As he walked off from that meeting, crest-fallen, one of those present ga?.cd at him. read ■'.is thoughts, just as he afterwards related them In private, and followed in full sympathy. Dr. E. M. Potoat entered on his term of office under better prospects than his predecessors. He found last November fewer student than usual, a still smaller endowment and tuition income, but the hopes for an enlarged endowment soon became a fact: and his work in the school ar.d in the State are intended to be like lines converging toward one point more and better students. l

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F A C U L T V. COLLEGE. EDWIN McNElL POTF.AT. D. D. President, and Professor of Bible and Philosophy. CHARLES HALLETTE JUDSON, LL. D. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. HARVEY TOLIVER COOK. M. A.. D. Lin. Professor of Latin and Greek. WILLIAM FRANKLIN WATSON. M. A Professor of Chemistry and Biology. CHARLES MASSEY LONG. Pmd. Professor of Political Science and History. MARSHALL DELPH EARLE. M. A.. M. M P Professor of Mathematics and Physics. BENNETTE EUGENE GEER. M. A . M M. P. Professor of English. HUGH CHARLES HAYNSWORTH. 13. A Professor of Modern Languages. PROFESSOR E. L HUGHES Lecturer on Pedagogy. FITTING SCHOOL. COLUMBUS BEN MARTIN. B. A Headmaster, and Master of Latin and Greek. SAMUEL ALEXANDER MOORE. B. A. Mathematics. History, nr d Physical Culture. ALLISON W. HONEYCUTT. B. A. Secretary of Faculty. Master of English and Geography. MISS HARRISON. Librarian. 13